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Florida-202 Originally uploaded by claesk. Space shuttle in a parking lot. Funny. p.s. I found this with a BlogBridge SmartFeed on Flickr pictures about “shuttle” and I blogged it directly from Flickr’s blogging interface. Cool!

[Geek] Good Java Mailing List

I’ve subscribed to this list from OCI (“Object Computing Inc.”)  for a while now. They always have interesting readable articles on one thing or another related to Java.  If you are interested in Java, I recommend it! Technorati Tags: java

Bill Gates Foundation supports Intelligent Design?

The New York Times is running a series on the Evolution/Intelligent Design ‘debate’. Quite interesting. I was startled to see this in the article, though: Referring to the Discovery Institute, one of the main think tanks pushing the...

[GEEK] More tips for the 40 year old virgin

Here’s something funny I came across: “Sex Tips for Geeks: How to be Sexy” where we learn such gems as:  > “While human beings often have sex for pleasure, the instincts that drive human mating behavior have been shaped by a deadly serious game of evolutionary selection. Sexually attractive ...

Compelling: interview of Cindy Sheehan with Chris Mathews of ‘Hardball’

“But I am compelled to do this.  And other than that, that’s as far as I’m going to talk about my family’s — another personal tragedy due to this war.” Technorati Tags: iraq

The unfolding of language: Looks like a very interesting book

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Who has a life?

As you might have seen over at our BlogBridge blog, we are experimenting with a new visualization of blog postings, right inside BlogBridge. I’ve taken to calling this the Kleppner Widget as it was invented by Paul and Andrew Kleppner who have been contributing ...

Check out Findory

I was talking about search engines the other day. I guess Findory includes a search engine, but in my mind it’s a lot more. Here’s how they describe it: > “Our patent-pending technology personalizes the homepage for each reader, recommending content based on what th...

Color laser printers consume lots of consumables

Color laser printers are wonderful. The one I use is a Konica Minolta QMS 2200. We’ve had it for years and it works like a champ. Only thing is, the toner is really pricey. So pricey that I started suspectin...

iTunes and Podcasts

This is just a quickie: did you know that you can just drag and drop the URL of a Podcast RSS feed (a.k.a. an RSS Feed with enclosures) onto the Podcasts list in iTunes? In other words, you don’t need to surf the Apple iTunes catalog looking for your favorite show if you have the URL. This is especially handy if the Podcast you want to listen to has not made it to their catalog. Technorati Tags: podcast

A bit of personal PR (at least I labeled it so you can skip it)

Hey, I just came across this:  > “The Invention of the Pivot Table: The concept that led to today’s pivot table came from the halls of the Lotus Development Corporation with a revolutionary spreadsheet program called Lotus Improv. Improv was envisioned in 1986 by Pito Salas of the Advanced...

The death of spam?

My friend Paul English has written an interesting bit about spam and ways that we need to combat it:  > “The keys to ending spam are (1) to eliminate the ability for spammers to falsely identify themselves and (2) to then determine whi...

BlogOn Conference: I’m on the advisory board

BlogOn is a conference being organized by the inimitable Chris Shipley. The full name is “BlogOn 2005 Social Media Su...

Sifry: “A new blog is created about every second, there are over 80,000 created daily”

Dave Sifry of Technorati has an interesting analysis of the current dynamics in the Blogosphere:  > “Summary: > Technorati was tracking over 14.2 Million weblogs, and over 1.3 billion links in July 2005 The blogosphere continues to double about every 5.5 month...

People are still doing groupware startups, believe it or not!

Being a veteran of the groupware movement (worked at Lotus for years, and co-founded eRoom Technology) this item caught my eye:  > “Liquid Systems, a venture-funded software company that is focused on enterprise messaging and collaboration, according to sources familia...

Interesting new search engines

There was a recent interesting article in the New York Times describing some new, unusual search engines: > “Search engines are so powerful. And they are so pathetically weak. … When it comes to digging up a specific name, date, ...

RSS in the Academic/Research/Scientific community

I recently wondered out loud (on a couple of mailing lists) how much action there is with RSS and Blogging within the Academic/Research/Scientific community. The  reason for that question was that I was considering that with those folks refereed, scholarly articles are what counts which seems ...

[GEEK] Site Referral Log Mystery: How does this happen?

Can someone explain why my referrer log for this site is full of spamish-looking like urls, none of which actually have a link to it? For example: texasholdemcenteral.com, www.freewebs.com, skate.cyberfreehost.com, google.co.uk/search, www.myspace.com/nyjeter2ox,  images.google.ca/imgres, images.go...

[GEEK] This may be good news for Java, long term

“IBM has announced that it will be joining the Harmony open source Java project. Although right now, IBM’s role is limited to providing thoughts and suggestions, it is likely that IBM will be contributing code to the project in the future according to Rod Smith, Vice President of Advanced Technolo...

Microsoft bought one Bridge, maybe they’ll buy another

Check this out: Microsoft Announces Plans to Acquire FrontBridge… Is BlogBridge next? (ok, you know I am only joking, right ;->) Technorati Tags: funny, microsoft