Want to date Lance Archibald? Stop by www.DateLance.com Thank goodness my friends are that crazy! 🙂 (Don’t get any ideas, guys….)
Color Photographs from 1907-1915
Did you ever think that you could see color photographs from the early 20th century? Believe it or not, you can. Visit the Library of Congress online exhibition, The Empire That Was Russia: The Prokudin-Gorskii Photographic Record Recreated. These color photographs from Russia were made between about 1907 and 1915. The photographer used a special […]
Zoo Photos
I bought a new monopod recently and that seemed like a great excuse to take a photo safari to the St. Louis Zoo. The monopod, in case you are curious, is an Adorama Podmatic ($89.95) and I stuck a Sunpak Compact Ball Head ($19.95) on top.
A Journey Through Military Justice in Iraq
What happens when an innocent American citizen is arrested in Iraq in 2005? He spends 55 days in prison, never gets to see a lawyer, and is only released after the ACLU, the Los Angeles Times and the The New York Times get involved. Fifty-one days after arrest, the Detainee Status Board at Camp Victory […]
RSS: The Executive Summary
Demystify the buzz. ION RSS printed* a good article in April titled Of course, you know what RSS is … so here’s an article for your clueless boss. The good news is that you don’t have to be a clueless boss to learn from Nick Aster’s words. * How long will it be until nothing […]
What New Users Need to Know About OpenOffice.org
Linux Journal recently published a nice article which introduces OpenOffice.org. If you have heard me (or someone else) rave about how great OOo is but have been hesitating to try to out, give OOo Off the Wall: What New Users Need to Know About OpenOffice.org a quick read. Then download and try OpenOffice.org (it’s free).
VOIP Round-Up
Slashdot has nicely pulled together a few links about a Keynote Systems study on VOIP call quality in New Study Finds VOIP is Getting Better I feel like I have been conducting my own survey over the last couple of years. I started with Vonage, used it for a year, and then installed my own […]
Despair, Inc.
Check it out: Despair, Inc.
The Future of RSS is Not in Blogs
Sharon Housley of FeedForAll hits the nail on the head in her article The Future of RSS is Not in Blogs. RSS feeds give readers a tremendously powerful tool to find and read the stuff which interests them. Blogs give writers soapboxes from which to spread their witticism. Most people are readers and “should” care […]
Alternatives to Passwords
The CNN article Bank to require more than passwords describes Bank of America’s plan to query web site users for personal information after they enter their passwords. The idea is to more firmly establish their identity. It makes me wonder, though. Why bother with the password at all? How well would an authentication system work […]
You Cannot Fail
In this article, Reuters describes a group of British teachers which wants to replace “fail” in classrooms with “deferred success.” I’ll have to remember that one. Sorry, officer. I didn’t fail to observed the speed limit. I have simply had deferred success with the speed limit. Yeah. That’s the ticket…. 😛
Good news for dark chocolate-lovers?
Reuters reports, in Good news for dark chocolate-lovers? on a study published by the American Heart Association showing that eating flavonoid-laden dark chocolate can lower blood pressure by amounts that are both statistically and clinically significant. This is not only a statistically significant effect, but it’s also a clinically meaningful decline,” Blumberg said. “This is […]
Interview with the Search Engine
Reminiscent of the old Eliza artificial intelligence program, and a lot more “relevant,” SatireWire has interviewed Jeeves of AskJeeves.com in their article, Interview with the Search Engine 🙂 You can try talking with Eliza here and read about Eliza in Wikipedia. My thanks to Jeremy Zawodny for finding this and brightening my day!
particletree · API Roundup
Chris Campbell did a very nice job of collecting a bunch of key web APIs onto one page in his API Roundup. Now all I need to find is the time to play with all of them. Thanks, Chris!
Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger
Scoble rants about RSS feeds that aren’t full text. Rather than being “bad,” I think that the style of RSS feed simply tells you something about the author’s motivation. Does he want the reader to have the information? Or is it more important to get the reader to visit the actual web site and view […]
The iPod Flea
Watch the iPod Flea ad spoof. I know what I’m going to get for my teenage son for his next birthday! 😛
Remembering Netscape: The Birth of the Web
Picture a world without Google, without eBay or Amazon or broadband, where few people have even heard of IPOs. That was reality just a decade ago. The company that changed it—bringing us into the Internet age—was a brilliant flash in the pan called Netscape. For the tenth anniversary of its IPO, FORTUNE recruited dozens of […]
Girls Rock!
Related to my article on the ManKind Project, this article appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch covering the Girls Rock, a mentoring program for teenage girls. From the Girls Rock web site: Our Society can be a pretty tough place The media sends a crazy mix of messages. School is full of pressures..Friends pull in […]
Encountering Hyperion (Movie)
This is way too cool. A “movie” of Hyperion, one of Saturn’s smaller moons, shot by Cassini between June 9 and 11, 2005. The image here is only the low resolution version. Check out Encountering Hyperion (Movie) at ciclops.org for the hi-res movie. Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
Global Economy in My Mailbox
The notion of a global economy does not usually protrude on my life above the level of background noise. Today, however, I received a postcard that made me notice just how small our world has become. A Korean company (Temco, if you are curious) actually sent a postcard from Korea to my PO box in […]
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