February 2009
Some background on copyright http://tr.im/tracs & how it came about…
Expose inaccessible websites http://www.herdict.org/web/ Crowdsourced reporting of crap websites - got to be a good thing, right?
“…it’s part of the misery of democracy to which I subscribe.”
Italo Calvino short story, ‘The Daughters of the Moon’ http://tr.im/lune “what we desire we shall never have.”
Japan: the only country in the world where carrying an iPhone makes you look uncool? http://tr.im/gPA7
RT @stilgherrian: Sometimes I wish instead of inventing more & more tools, people would USE tools they already have to ACHIEVE something.
The x-phi-les? Philosophy gets a logo and is primed for reality TV http://tr.im/xphi
When I started in this business I was paid to read. Then I was paid to write. Now I am paid to talk. I miss the old days…
Not all old media are clueless: NYT announces API http://tr.im/times Should make @samfarrow feel better…
Power of Information Taskforce Report | UK Cabinet... →
The Power of Information Taskforce was set the following terms of reference: âTo advise and assist the government on delivering benefit to the public from new developments in digital media and the…
Another jeremiad about the Internet http://tr.im/gMk9 And how is reading a book or listening to music w/ headphones any different?
Listening to Louis Menand talk about Donald Barthelme http://tr.im/barth who is, sadly, categorized as a ‘postmodernist.’
It seems kids txting isn’t the cultural götterdämmerung that classicists feared http://tr.im/txtspk Pity.
HP CEO Mark Hurd says pay cuts not layoffs http://tr.im/hurd My admiration for his leadership is tempered by the 24k jobs cut in Sept 08…
Obama. Kev. Merkel. The British guy. Is this the golden age of attractive world leaders?
Portrait of My Father, a memoir by Jonathan Lethem http://tr.im/gIEe
If your (self-described) personal brand is ‘thought leader’ then ineluctably, in my mind, your default logo is goatse…
I don’t always succeed at (2), (3) & (4). But what I learn from my failures teaches me more than enough to convince me to keep trying…
What do I do? I try to communicate ideas that I believe in (1) with a clarity (2) and passion (3) that influences change (4)…
A terrific article about the marvel that is the Indian rail system, the triumph of bureaucracy & self-actualization http://tr.im/gHEu
Acerbic review of Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse at The New Yorker http://tr.im/dollh
Technorati feed for ‘e-govt’ +’nz’ (don’t ask) turns up “Heath Ledger wins best supporting actor!!” Technorati, a fancy way of spelling FAIL
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-2-22) →
Sly & The Family Stone (1)
Tower of Power (1)
Hank Mobley (1)
Lester Bowie (1)
Andrew Hill (1)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Submitting report to Apple about random focus bug. Disclaimer on the form makes it clear that I should hold no hopes of ever hearing back…
Dropbox set up on the laptop running xfce, Flickr password that was lost in ‘07 (miraculously) recovered. It’s been a good night…
Stimulus Spend Data Coming via Feeds -... →
“For each of the near term reporting requirements (major communications, formula block grant allocations, weekly reports) agencies are required to provide a feed (preferred: Atom 1.0, acceptable:…
Checking Package Dependencies with apt-rdepends On... →
Check the dependencies of a package with apt-rdepends on Debian and Ubuntu systems. It resolves dependencies recursively, i.e., not only does it show the direct dependencies of a package, but also…
Why is it called Art School? It doesn’t produce artists as much as pretentious tossers…
Another conversion to Songbird http://getsongbird.com/
Number of poems included in The Best American Poetry ‘93 that rhyme: 1 http://harpers.org/x/1993/11/14
The only reason I unsubscribed to Harper’s was the frequency with which copies would not show up; it should be shipped in plain brown paper.
Jason 1. Rabbit 0. The zero sum game of rural living…
Setup Dropbox on Debian using XFCE
I have been running Dropbox under Gnome for quite a while now and think that it is a brilliant way to sync data between machines.
However, on my laptop (a machine that is pushing 6 years old now) I have installed Debian and run XFCE as the desktop, as it is lighter and still feels snappy even though there is only 512K RAM in the box.
It turns out that setting up Dropbox under XFCE is...
My take on the Cuba St Carnival? If Darwin was right, why is Morris Dancing still practiced today?
woot! I just won a free 12 month digital subscription to Linux Journal - thanks to the @linuxjournal team
Last.fm betrays it’s users by handing over their scrobbled data to the RIAA? http://tr.im/gCWB
Does anyone seriously care about the Oscars? Except, perhaps, as a bellwether for mediocrity?
Seems I am being followed by JR http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_R
LinkedIn spam??
LastGraph: Home →
Graphs your Last.fm playing history…
Stimuluswatch.org; The Falling Cost and... →
None of these people knew each other previously. They were brought together by blog post into a common effort. They used open source tools in rapid development. They plugged in off the shelf online…
Harley Davidson convention in town for the weekend. You don’t see many pastels in that crowd…
Made it to @plasticbag’s talk at #webstock09
For every rung you claw your way up the ladder, add 30mins to your average meeting time (and ask yourself if it is worth it)…
Latest Mac update has introduced “fun” new behaviour: random focus shifts between open apps. I’m a Mac & I now have epilepsy…
Flash 10 working in Iceweasel on Debian 5: now I can get some Last.fm action on the laptop…
Mainstream media still content to adopt the ‘why check, let’s just make some shit up & see what happens’ approach. Epic FAIL.
How do so many ‘political’ bloggers get away with just rehashing/reprinting MSM stories?
http://twitpic.com/1jhyl - Kiwis on Twitter…
Trying to explain the difference between synecdoche and metonymy… and wondering why I thought either/or relates to a vision statement.