links, random thoughts, various opinions
Jeremy Allaire’s Radio
“Connecting people, software, data and content faster than ever before — that was my experience. And we’ve come so far so fast. Everything is more fluid and transparent — software creation and distribution; collaboration and communication; data and content exchange and publishing. It’s good to step back and pat our […]
ext|circ: Your world, interconnected
“We all know that an object’s utility increases pretty much exponentially according to the number of other objects that it can talk to.”
I think everyone from the RIAA to eBay are living proof of this concept. What’s interesting is that in shipping the idea of open exchange of information, let alone […]
Recommended Reading
If you have a blog/personal website (that is public) check out this clever tool that will ‘find’ sites that may be of interest. They recommended a few for me that I definitely found interesting.
Interconnected
“The dominance of tele and cinema over the past couple of decades have habituated our consciousnesses to media that refuse to acknowledge the difference between what’s transmitted and what’s understood. Both attempt to be as much like real life as possible. A better television is one with a higher-definition picture. However!, a better book isn’t […]
Salon.com Audio | “Letters to Wendy’s” by Joe Wenderoth
“Letters to Wendy’s” is a collection of ficticious diary entries, written on Wendy’s restaurant customer-comment cards. “Tell us about your visit,” these cards encourage, and Wenderoth took the fast-food chain up on its offer. Hilarious, bizarre and tragic, the genre-bending novel traces a year in the life […]
O’Reilly Network: A New Kind of Productivity Application [November 26, 2002]
“The thought begins not with Apple, but with Doug Carlston, the founder of Broderbund Software. When I first met Doug, he was explaining Broderbund’s business to me. He explained that they had three lines of business: games (like Myst), “edutainment” (like Where in the World […]
I was having an email exchange with a friend of mine who moved to Argentina (he’s an American but married a wonderful woman down there). Anyways he noticed in the news that Jean Chretien is stepping down many months from now as Canadian Prime Minister. He thought it interesting that a politician would […]
It’s Darn Early
For as long as I can remember my good friend, and former university roomate Frank [aka Grant] has been obsessed with high rise construction cranes. Next to his current apartment, he (along with his patient wife) now have to put up with the annoying sounds of a massive construction project (why can […]
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Origin of dogs traced
“Dogs today come in all shapes and sizes, but scientists believe they evolved from just a handful of wolves tamed by humans living in or near China less than 15,000 years ago.”
Well I finally got to switch my XP machine for a new 14″ iBook. OS X.2 is a great operating system. Programs like iTunes and NetNewswire Lite are far superior (they just work the way common sense would indicate) than similar windows counterparts. Part of the reason for the switch is to […]
plasticbag.org | files | Apple and the Pirate Everyman
A lots been written about the DMCA [Thanks Derek] and the whole idea of maintaining copyright as the barriers to data and content transfer become effectively non-existent. Tom Coates has the start of a good essay on Apple’s potential view of all this…
“And this vision extends […]
Apparently you can pre-order the Segway on Amazon’s site now. This would make my commute so much easier. More interesting is that apparently Kamen has created an efficient and practical Stirling engine…link here c/o Aaron Swartz: The Weblog
How badly do I need one of these? Almost as much as I want to […]
Regular Season Hockey Pool
After winning last years hocky pool, by accident…I am now in last place…apparently also by accident. It’s a conspiracy.
I love Japanese Mandarin Oranges. These things are like candy. I could eat a whole box in a day or two (it’s my annual fruit allotment).
I remember when I got started on shipping (all those long years ago) the founder of the company I worked for told me how they were […]
The Internet
“I think as time goes on, and more people who’ve grown up with the Net spread out into the power roles in society, we’ll all understand it more as a place than a medium. While e-mail goes through the Internet to get from me in Vancouver to my friends and relatives in all sorts […]
Maritime Wired - Get Connected
“Following in Domino’s footsteps it is believed that ship owners have decided to stop offering charterers free delivery on their cargoes. While owners in both wet and dry have been forced to offer free delivery on charterer’s cargoes in the last year they have reportedly had enough of the free delivery […]
“On Easter Monday: 9 April 1917 the Canadian Expeditionary Corps launched an assault on Vimy Ridge. For the first time all four of the Canadian Divisions found themselves fighting alongside each other.
The memorial shows the names of 11,285 Canadians never found for burial, but is as much a memorial to all 66,655 Canadians who died […]
Today is Remembrance Day in Canada. In World War One, over sixty thousand young Canadian men (approximately 25% of the adult male population) died on the fields of France. The hell in which they fought and died is unimaginable to young Canadians like me who are so prosperous and free because of their […]
EVHEAD: it’s sharp!
“I am procrastinating.”
Me too.
The GOP’s silent legions
“What are the facts of life in modern America? They are that the country is at war with a remorseless and evil enemy that must be crushed without equivocation or delay. People driving children to school, shopping for groceries, traveling to the office, attending a football game, do not want leaders who […]