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9/11 Commission Report
Anyone looking for a project for the day can head over to: http://www.9-11commission.gov/. The 9/11 commission has just released their, suposedly harsh, report on 9/11 including the many intelligence fa ...
July 22, 2004 |
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ALF on DVD
I was informed today that ALF, the furry alien from Melmac, will finally be coming to DVD (it's going to be ...
July 23, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
American Demographics Newsletter
It appears that somehow the latest American Demographics Alert (the new weekly newsletter) has slipped online (it's supposed to be subscriber only). Since I expect I am not allowed to post any of my own work myself (all of it has a big Primedia co ...
July 29, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Another point
I just got around to reading The Second Browser War from Thursday's Guardian, which highlighted a major point I failed to mention ( ...
July 18, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Barack Obama's Speech
For those who missed Barack Obama's speech to the Democratic National Convention last night, as I did, you can read the <a href="http://www.obamaforillinois.com/index.asp?Type=B_PR&SEC={4C624248-27E9-4 ...
July 28, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Foresight is 20/20
Not exactly sure why, but the feature for the July/August issue of American Demographics has been posted online (all articles on Demographics.com require registration). Anyhow, the article is fairly intere ...
July 25, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Freudian Slip
An instant message conversation with my mother: Noah says: but i tried to set up those links on the side as grey all the time Noah says: but for some reason Noah says: they ended up drink and i can't expla ...
July 17, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Has Gmail Already Reached its Trucker Hat Phase?
In today's New York Times there's an article about the lure of beta testing as a status symbol. The article is titled <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/22/technology/circuits/22beta.html?ex=1248148 ...
July 22, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Having Google Trouble?
I was shocked to find that Google was down this afternoon. After looking into it, it seems that there's some kind of email virus that scans email domains in people's address book and then uses search engines to find valid addresses at those domain ...
July 26, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Icons Getting Political
It seems like everyone is getting political this election season. There are interesting articles from The New York Times and Salon on Carlos Delgado of the Toron ...
July 21, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Links Roundup
Since I'm fairly busy at the moment with a deadline, I decided to post a links roundup. So without any further ado, here's some stuff to read (with excerpts): My Blog ...
July 27, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Marketability of Blogs
Are blogs a viable marketing tool? That is the question that Jim Meskauskas addressed in yesterday's Mediapost OnlineSPIN titled Flogging the Bl ...
July 23, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Mercury Prize Shortlist
For those not aware, the Mercury Prize goes to the UK album of the year. The prize was awarded to Dizzee Rascal - 'Boy In Da Corner' in 2003. Here's this year's list: Amy Winhouse - 'Frank' Basement Jaxx - 'Kish Kash' ...
July 21, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 3 COMMENTS
My Summary of the Executive Summary
I read the Executive Summary from the 9-11 Commission report. I pulled paragraphs that I found interesting out of the 31-page document. The only time I removed pieces from paragraphs were in the bulleted ...
July 22, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
New Site
Well, looks like this will work for now. This is my site. You are reading the blog-type portion. To the right you will see some links, those are constantly being updated (it's a feed from my del.icio.us site: <a hr ...
July 16, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Newly Discovered: MusicBrainz, AudioScrobbler and del.icio.us
Anyone who listens to MP3 should consider downloading the MusicBrainz tagger. It searches your MP3 files and compares the information versus their huge user-modified database. If your tags are incorrect the ...
July 31, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 5 COMMENTS
On Demand Culture
There is probably no quantifiable way to prove that Americans are an impatient breed. We want what we want, when we want it, and we're willing to pay for the privilege. Today, companies rake in millions--sometimes billions--giving people ...
July 27, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
RSS Feed Links
I'm really getting fed up with hard to find RSS links. I went on the Hardblogger site (the new MSNBC group-blog with contributions by Ron Reagan and Joe Trippi, t ...
July 26, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 1 COMMENTS
RSS: The Next Big Thing
MediaThink has writte a new white paper on RSS titled "RSS: The Next Big Thing". I'm not sure that the white paper itself is revolutionary, although ...
July 21, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Random Wikipedia Entry
I was poking around Wikipedia and I noticed the random page link. So far I've gotten <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Wood%2C_1st_Vis ...
July 30, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Sports Guy's New Mailbag
Excerpt from the Sports Guy's new mailbag: "Q: If an animal attacks a PETA supporter, do the rest of the PETA people have t ...
July 16, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Time Saving Weight
Lately there have been some fascinating articles on issues of weight and obesity in America. Here's some of the more interesting ones with excerpts followed by my own opinions: <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47735- ...
July 19, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Top 10 Songs of All Time
Jeff gave a whole bunch of people a year to come up with their top 10 songs of all time (with explanations for why each is on the list). It's an interesting challenge and much tougher than it sounds. He has just released his top 10: <blockquo ...
July 23, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Traditional Media and its Fear of the Blogosphere
"Convention seats do not turn Internet gossips into journalists." Or so says the sub-headline from an LA Times article by Alex S. Jones titled, <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/custom/showcase/la-oe- ...
July 19, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Update: Wireless Music Remote
Boing Boing posted a link to Salling Software who creates the Sa ...
July 20, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Where are All the Wi-Fi Remotes?
StevenBerlinJohnson.com has a very interesting post up entitled The iPod Is The Remote (Or Should Be). In it he ask ...
July 19, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Will the Tiger finally break Windows?
PC's have long dominated the computer market, however, that could change. I think we are seeing early warning signs that this dominance is beginning to erode. First, it's easy to spot the market dominance of the iPod, white earbuds have invaded ci ...
July 18, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS