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The Importance of Connections
I ran across this quote from Eco's Foucault's Pendulum via ONFOCUS: "No piece of information is superior to any other. Power l
August 11, 2004 |
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Notes on the 2004 Presidential Election Part 1
By Jeff Hughes Marilyn O’Grady, a surgeon running for New York State Senate, is quoted in the completely unbiased New York Post as saying: "Here's my vote: Boycott the Boss. If you don't buy his politics, don't buy his music!
August 18, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 2 COMMENTS
Moving to College
For those who read my website regularly, be advised that the following doesn't include any references to RSS and other dorky stuff. You have been warned! I helped my little sister move off to college this weekend and came away with three o
August 29, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 2 COMMENTS
Notes on the 2004 Presidential Election Part 2
By Noah Brier Michael Moore and Errol Morris both have made documentaries about politics. Both have won Oscars and both gave impassioned acceptance speeches. If asked, I assume both would call themselves liberals. This, however, is
August 18, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 1 COMMENTS
Athens 2004: Stupid Hyperlink Policy
Here's another in the long list of WebPages with stupid hyperlink policies. The website for the 2004 Athens Summer Olympics only allows you to link to them if you write for permission and you use the term ATHENS
August 11, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Speaking Out Against Bush
I just got around to reading Ron Reagan's new essay in Esquire titled "The Case Against George W. Bush". It's a well-a
August 5, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Sportsguy RSS Feed
The last excuse I had for not using RSS has ended now that I've disocvered Bill Simmons has a feed. In fact, it turns out that you can get <a href="http://216.239.41.104/
August 6, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Bloglines Email
I recently started using the Bloglines email address feature and it's great. What it allows you to do is create an email address for those annoying email newsletters that haven't converted over to RSS yet. An
August 11, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Ali G Commencement Address
Sorry for the lack of posts lately, deadlines loom large. Anyway, I ran across Ali G's commencement address to Harvard today and it was too funny not to post some excerpts from. Go read the whole
August 10, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
ALF's Official Return to TV
In more non-RSS/blog related news, ALF is offically returning to television. ALF's Hit Talk Show will begin airing in October on TVLand. Although I admit th
August 10, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Craigslist: An Effective Use of RSS
While searching for Rilo Kiley tickets the other day, I discovered that Craigslist has added RSS. You'll notice in the lower right hand corner of any search you do there is a link to RSS and a ? which links
August 4, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Easy RSS Subscriptions
After seeing Anil Dash put all the easy subscribe links to various aggregators in his latest post (something I had often thought about), I ran across a neat program called <a href="
August 3, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Testing Meme Propagation In Blogspace: Add Your Blog!
This posting is a community experiment that tests how a meme, represented by this blog posting, spreads across blogspace, physical space and time. It will help to show how ideas travel across blogs in space and time and how blogs are connected. It
August 2, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
BK Needs to Give it Up
Following the success of Subservient Chicken, Burger King has come out with two more attempts at viral campaigns. One, House of Ugoff, feels like a cheap rip-off of
August 3, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Idiocentricity and the Internet
Terry L. Heaton has posted a fantastic new essay titled "The Power of Attraction," part of his "TV News in a Postmodern World." Heaton's essay is wo
August 3, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Another Meme Experiment
Copy This GoMeme From This Line to The End of This Article, and paste into your blog. Then follow the instructions below to fill it out for your site. Steal this!!!! This is a Gomeme -- a new way to spread an idea along socia
August 4, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
6 Albums I Listened to in July
Since I really haven't posted much in the way of music, I've decided to post some albums that got me through July: A.C. Newman - The Slow Wonder: It's the songwriter from The New Pornographers doing his own thing. Much more acoustic
August 4, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Google's Playboy Interview
The SEC was more than a little upset with Google for their interview with Playboy Magazine which will be appearing in the September issue. As a punishment for violating their quiet period, the SEC has forced Google to include the <a href="h
August 16, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
If I Ruled the Olympics
By Jeff Hughes What about pole-vaulting...unless you're storming a castle there's no reason to know how to do this.... Which brings me to another point...what if we took a lot of these activities.... the decathlon of sorts.... and
August 26, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
The Impact of iPod on Mac Sales
A little over a month ago I wrote about the impact that the iPod could have on Mac sales (July 18, 2004: Will the Tiger finally break Windows?"). Today <a href="http://w
August 23, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
The Dangers of Wikipedia
When I was in high school we weren't allowed to use the library without a special pass. No amount of begging could get you in without that signed slip of paper. I once walked in during lunch and begged them to allow me to sit there and read a book
August 26, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Johnny Boy
A friend of mine sent me over this song tonight by an English band called Johnny Boy (Warning: Site is Flash heavy with sound). Anyhow, the song is really pretty spectacular, it sounds li
August 29, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
20 Things I Think I Learned in College
After having moved my sister in to college this weekend I decided to write down some of the lessons I learned from four years at NYU. Some are kind of random, some are clichés and some are more advice than lessons. I probably could have gone be
August 30, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Protesting Up Eighth Avenue
As I was finishing my chicken sandwich with bacon and swiss a protest began to emerge up Eighth Avenue. I watched for a bit and was fairly unimpressed. There were a lot of people, but there seemed to be very little cohesion. Yes, I understand that
August 30, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
YellowArrow
I just got my new copy of Wired and a short story about YellowArrow.org caught my eye. YellowArrow apparently gives away a bunch of yellow arrow stickers (appropria
August 22, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
del.icio.us Reliance
I'm going to sing the praises of del.icio.us again, so forgive me. Yesterday del.icio.us went down. I don't know how long the service was down for, but when I tried to send
August 18, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Follow-up: The Dangers of Wikipedia
I first addressed an article on from the Syracuse Post-Standard on Wikipedia in a post titled "The Dangers of Wikipedia." Since then many people have addressed the article
August 31, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Garden State Soundtrack
While the movie is not one of my favorites, the soundtrack for Garden State is pretty spectacula
August 13, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Dropping the Capital 'I' in 'internet'
Today Wired News announced an important change to its style guide: It is dropping the capital letters at the beginning of 'interne
August 16, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
ALF Facts
According to my ALF Season One DVD (which I just recieved in the mail), here are some ALF facts:</
August 16, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Cow Crossing
I was looking through my photos and ran across this cow crossing sign from Poland. I figured I'd post it. There may be more to come, there may not. <img alt="Cow Crossing" src="http://www.noahbrier.com/archives/cowcrossing.jpg" width="500"
August 16, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
The Effects of the Cruise Swagger
This was too funny not to post. Apparently Tom Cruise's swagger can have some incredible effects on the world, according to Jamie Foxx, Cruise's co-star in Collateral. This comes from a People Magaz
August 12, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS