bitch is the new black
Posted on February 25, 2008 - Filed Under
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Wikipedianew time suck found (google hot trends)as i descend into parts of the internet i never new existed, as I ponder questions such as:
Will #29 tawny kitaen be able to catch up with #28 norman mailer?
Curious as to the interest in #58 (obama turban) but when you consider that it falls well behind #45 sasquatch [...]
iTunes strikes back
Posted on February 2, 2008 - Filed Under
| Leave a Commentlooking for help to this now recurring error when I try and sync my iPod with iTunes “cannot be synced because there is not enough free space”:
Any help the internet can throw my way will be nice. So far google has failed me.
(For those scoring at home, my iTunes library is not 2 Billion gigabyes.)
As [...]
Read More..>>Cut And Run
Posted on December 17, 2007 - Filed Under
| Leave a Commenthttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAAgfY_NHzw
Read More..>>big day of random
Posted on September 20, 2007 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentLooking at my last.fm, suspicions were confirmed — I’ve been listening to the same stuff a lot (I’m looking at you hold steady). So today, I’ve plugged my ipod into my laptop and am shuffling my entire collection. I expect to hear a lot of bad music and previously unheard songs. If you care to [...]
Read More..>>Mega-Powerful
Posted on August 7, 2007 - Filed Under
| Leave a Comment“The iMac continues to sport Intel Core 2 Duo processors that can now run up to 2.8 GHZ with up to 4MB of memory and up to 1Terabyte of storage.”
(I expected this typo be corrected before you ever see this, but it only fuels my speculation that Apple press releases are cut-n-paste into “news” articles [...]
BMK: Mobile
Posted on June 16, 2007 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentI’m playing around with a Wordpress Plugin that makes this blog mobile device friendlier. Any mobile readers out there, please let me know any suggestions. (I’m testing it out on my new MotoQ). If yer interested, this is the plugin I used (after taking out some of the Advertising links & such) written by Andy [...]
Read More..>>I heard they were naked when they got busted
Posted on May 16, 2007 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentBob Holmes at New Scientist reports:
Fruit flies have free will. Even when deprived of any sensory input to react to, the zigs and zags of their flight reveal an intrinsic, non-random - yet still unpredictable - decision-making capacity.
If evolution has furnished humans with a similar capacity, this could help resolve one of the long-standing puzzles [...]
Swann Song
Posted on April 12, 2007 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentI see old boy Proust is picking up some blogmentum at Tingle Alley and Conversational Reading. Previously, I’ve been impressed with Microsoft Word’s Auto-Summarize feature. So, I’ve run the e-text of Moncrieff’s translation through the machine, and after 2 iterations, have come up with a condensed version for those who want to cut to the [...]
Read More..>>Murder By Death By Robot
Posted on March 12, 2007 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentFrom the 30 Strangest Deaths (in HISTORY, no less):
Death by Robot
Robert Williams [wiki] was the first man ever killed by a robot. On January 25, 1979, Williams climbed into a storage rack at the Ford Motor’s Flat Rock casting plant to retrieve a part because the parts-retrieval robot malfunctioned. Suddenly, the robot reactivated and slammed [...]
my other blog - artifactual
Posted on March 12, 2007 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentIn case anybody is interested, I’ve decided to start another blog, “artifactual” (A/F). It will focus on software development — despite appearances on this crappy blog, that’s what I do to pay the bills — something I didn’t really want to muck up BMK with. Basically, I’ve decided to divide and conquer myself. I also [...]
Read More..>>Fantasy Baseball 2.0?
Posted on March 2, 2007 - Filed Under
| 1 CommentI’m looking for a “social”* fantasy baseball site and welcome any recommendations you, kind Internet, may have to offer.
The closest I’ve come is a couple leads on Ning found by searching for “fantasy baseball”. Unfortunately, all two hits on this purportedly “social” site yield variations of:
I’m sure there are great reasons for having invitation-only social [...]
Read More..>>online campaining
Posted on February 21, 2007 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentTim O’Brien provides a fun read - breaking down the web sites (and technology behind them) for the various presidential candidates. Some highlights:
Barack and Hillary are all about video. In fact, CNN just engaged in media fusion [BARF -ed.] by playing the Clinton video on the TV. Think about this, a Cable Television channel just [...]
iScrew?
Posted on February 21, 2007 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentJeff “They All Suck” Atwood:
That’s the other problem with the Mac vs. PC debate: it completely misses the point. Computers aren’t couture, they’re screwdrivers. Your screwdriver rocks, and our screwdriver sucks. So what? They’re screwdrivers. If you really want to convince us, stop talking about your screwdriver, and show us what you’ve created with it.
but [...]
Code Immortal
Posted on January 24, 2007 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentUse this software rant from Steve Yegge and metaphorize it as you see fit. Yeah, I said it - Metaphorize.
I think the second most important design principle, really a corollary to the first, is that systems must be able to grow without rebooting. A system that can’t grow over time is static, so it really [...]
Executive Summary
Posted on January 12, 2007 - Filed Under
| 1 CommentAside from warm woolen mittens, two of my favorite things: (1) Brevity (2) Robot Brains. Happily these two passions of mine collide in Microsoft Word’s “Auto-Summarize” feature, as brought to my attention by Maud Newton.
To make a long story short: here’s the “executive summary” of our state’s executive’s summary: “Our troops in Iraq have fought [...]
Oceanographer’s Choice
Posted on January 8, 2007 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentRhymin’ & Stealin’ memes. This time from Rarely Likeable.
1. Put your music player on shuffle.
2. Press forward for each question.
3. Use the song title as the answer to the question.
What does next year have in store for me?
De La Soul - Plug Tunin’ “a return to the classics?”
What does your love life look like?
Joan Jett [...]
Free Electronic Waste Removal
Posted on September 15, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentThis weekend at PacBell SBC AT&T Park you can have your electronic waste taken off your hands for Free Ninety Nine! For many of the items being accepted there is often a “disposal” fee, so this is a great way to get rid of your Commodore 64 without releasing lead, mercury and other toxic goodies [...]
Read More..>>Yahoo! No Google?
Posted on September 5, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentI rarely spell-check, but found myself using the embedded spell-checker in Yahoo’s web email.
Curiously (or not), Yahoo! did not recognize “Google”, instead thinking I meant “Go ogle”.
Luckily, Yahoo was able to recognize itself as a word (even though Merriam-Webster does not, at least as a web company — “a boorish, crass, or stupid person“) though [...]
Read More..>>Why Every Blogger Should Use Firefox
Posted on September 1, 2006 - Filed Under
| 1 CommentI just came across this extension for Firefox: SessionSaver .2 that loads Firefox to the same state from the last time it was running - including text you had typed into forms (like, say, a blog entry post that you hadn’t saved, but accicently closed your browswer). Just tested it out and it works as [...]
Read More..>>Timothy Hornyak - Loving the Machine: The Art and Science of Japanese Robots
Posted on August 24, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentI saw this in the Bookshop West Portal events announcement. Sounds right up my alley. Robots!!
TIMOTHY HORNYAK
Loving the Machine: The Art and Science of Japanese Robots
Thursday, September 21 at 7 PM
From the amazing automatons of feudal Japan to giant animated robots and the cutting-edge androids of today, Loving the Machine explores the reasons behind Japan’s [...]
