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Kottke points to anamusing set of logic questions posted by “3 Quarks Daily” with the (silly – you’ll see why) suggestion that it might make good dinner table conversation this Thanksgiving (in the US , of course 🙂 I won’t repeat Kottke’s ...
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Yes, every year some wag writes a funny article about carving a turkey, but this one is really funny! Among the many chuckles: > All conversation dies when he picks up his weapons. The festive warmth that filled the room moments earlier is replaced by a merciless judgment that records every failure of knife work like points lost in a troubled double axel at the winter Olympics. From the Boston Globe: Carving out his niche – The Boston Globe
Came across Jonathan Coulton, the songwriter who embarked on a ridiculous challenge to write a song each week, for a whole year. Quite a crazy thing, but he pulled it off. > “Thing a Week is a project I’ve been working on since September 2005 in which I record and post a song a week as a podcast....
Read more →This just struck me as curious:“Letters to God end up in ocean, unread” > “The letters â_” about 300 in all, sent to a New Jersey minister â_” ended up dumped in the ocean, most of them unopened.” (from AP) powered by performancing firefox
For those of you who avidly follow Curaçao politics, yes, all two of you, and I know who you are, do you think this is a good thing? I am not so sure… > “The Dutch government has signed an agreement granting qualified autonomy to the territories of Curacao and St. Maarten, paving the way for the formal end of the Netherlands Antilles.” (from Radio Jamaica) We’ll see how it develops.
If you were intrigued by my previous post about the Clock of the Long Now, I came across a nice, philosophical and instructive article about it: “But even if the Clock of the Long Now fails to last ten thousand years, ev...
Read more →http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=blogbridge-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=0465007805&fc1=000000&IS2=1<1=_blank&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr I just finished...
Read more →Over on our new BlogBridge site, we’ve been working on a new set of Screencasts. We discovered various problems with what we had done before and thought, let’s try to make things better (as they say at Philips.) I thought I’d share my stream of consciousness notes from that experience. - Wow, thos...
Read more →From LifeHacker (one of my new favorite sites) comes a pointer to a site called FeedsThatMatter. What it seems to do is to look at public subscriptions listed in BlogLines, do...
Read more →Does creating something that demonstrates that a security scheme doesn’t work make you a suspect yourself? Does pointing at it from your blog make you of questionable character? I suppose you might even wonder about clicking on the link below. Does that say you are a bad person? I hope not. Check this out, it’s pretty insterezsting and instructive! Chris’s NWA Boarding Pass Generator
Scoble writes about the Zune. Also check out the video of the demo and detailed briefing about Zune. Here’s another interesting article about the Zune from Geek News Central! Technorati Tags: zune ipod scoble
“Without a doubt, the concepts behind AJAX are providing the catalyst to move the web from its old clunky “send it all back the server for an update” into the thick client “desktop” feel the average computer user has come to expect.” Check out the next meeting of BostonPHP, October 25, 6:30pm, at IBM/Lotus in Cambridge. Get meeting details here. Technorati Tags: PHP
Well it’s over and I am getting ready to head back to real life. Pop!Tech remains my favorite conference (and not just because I can drive here from my house.) It’s hard to capture what it’s like but if you are interested, here are some links that could give you a flavor. Thanks to all the diligent ...
Read more →Ok, Pop!Tech is a wonderful conference, already, and I am learning and stimulated and all that. But why, oh why, is everyone an author, thinker, serial entrepreneur, extraordinary, world renowned, and inimitable? Inventor, artist, composer, musician, educator, philosopher. And these are not the speakers, these are the people sitting next to me and in line with me in the bathroom. Yikes! Technorati Tags: poptech
Ok so I am getting ready to wrap up and came across this fun toolfor your enjoyment.. 
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Bloggers and others are notoriously obcessed with metrics: how many hits, what’s my rank etc. As a result there are numerous services which try to analyze sites and blogs etc, to help measure this. Not insignificantly, a site’s revenue potential is tied closely to this as well. [Seomoz.org has put...
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North Panorama Arch Originally uploaded by Pito. Look at ...
One correspondent asked: “Isn’t this what bb:library is about or Technorati Blog Directory or egs. like Corante Web Hub, Global Voices, World Changing?” Well, it might be a **reinvention of th...
Read more →Larry Sanger, the co-founder of Wikipedia who later quite the project over differences in vision, just announced a direct competitor to the project: Citizendium Via Modern Dragons, via KurzweilAI.net