I like the idea of the "lifestream" apps, but is it just me or do most of them just seem like information overload?
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Swurl: Your Lifestream, Made Beautiful
And on that note it looks like ATI just released some newer drivers this week: http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS6354568513.html.
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I hate Linux Graphics (Linux Hater's Blog)
An interesting look into the use of Google trends data for research.
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Are we what we Google?
Posted 21 days ago
Heh... there is a wikipedia article for everything: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enjoyment. In the end I think happiness revolves more around being content than anything else.
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Gross Happiness Index
I agree that our system needs work. My comment above was referring to the numbers of people who have tried to use Canada's system as an example of a working socialized medicne system.
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Second Thoughts About Socialism
Quite an interesting diversity, though many are quite sad. The first one on the list was a guy who hired a divorce lawyer :(
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How I Spent My Stimulus Dot Com
Bah! That was a horrible article... They didn't even mention my favorite, and probably one of the most memorable, Johnny 5 from Short Circuit!
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Movie robots to be remembered
That story almost sounds too ridiculous to be true. First, he runs into a bear, then a deer shows up, then he rides his cycle to the hospital to be relieved that his kidneys are ok because he wasn't to donate his kidney to his sister!
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and you know, i feel sorry for the bear.
Wow... I think you guys are thinking way too hard. This has nothing to do with interface, and is more about art. You should try it for yourselves at http://wordle.net/
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Cryptonomicon via tag cloud
I actually haven't used a sustain pedal, but I think it is much more than that. You can sustain/mute strings individually, plus some othere interesting effects.
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Amazing new guitar from Moog
Posted 37 days ago
todd: While true, it is more about the time I spent with my son searching for the grill, teaching him the virtues of gas vs. fire, having him help me build the grill, and in the future teaching him how to grill the perfect hamburger. :)
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What's the best thing to do for Dad on Father's Day?
jhota: That is a good point. It looks like one of the other things that the site does is allow users to find and rate/review local shops. This will hopefully help someone pick a show that isn't going to shaft you.
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Is your mechanic telling you the truth?
That is pretty amazing... I saw once where someone simulated logic gates withe legos, and made a simple adder.
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Lego Turing machine
Posted 42 days ago
I had thought about making an MMORPG where you character walks around Google street view, and fight the monsters of the city
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Google Maps meets 'Grand Theft Auto'
I can hear my grandpa saying... "Back in my day, we didn't have photoshop... We had to develop our film ourselves, in the snow!" :)
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"The Ghost of Bernadette Soubirous"
Posted 44 days ago
No... They are the art of Nathan Sawaya. He makes some amazing sculptures.
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LEGO Bricks
To me all of slide's apps are novelties (slideshows, superpoke). I still think there is a lot of room for meaningful apps that may not be more popular, but get better engaged audiences.
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Slide.com is not building any more Facebook applications!
Man this thread is making me hungry. And todd, you are just saying that this thread is better because Jim didn't write it :)
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$100 Hamburger Bites the Big One
Wow... as if it isn't expensive enough as it is. I just spent $15 for Charlie and I to see a matinée on Monday and probably another $10 for popcorn and drinks.
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Popcorn Driving Up Movie Tickets [Word of Mouth]
I downloaded the bubble game hoping that it would help my son work on controlling the Wiimote, and it is actually pretty fun.
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WiiWare goes live today!
So I guess she figures if she can't win, she shouldn't let Obama win either, guaranteeing a split vote and a Republican win?
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Hilary Clinton is the New Ralph Nader?
Posted 84 days ago
This also reminds me that we need to implement RSS feeds at some point for Babbledog. :)
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RSS Awareness Day
Not just access to big table, but a whole app hosting framework. Very slick.
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Google Release App Engine!
Posted Apr 07, 2008
If this does happen, the other implications are even more interesting. If Google wants to compete in this area, they will really need to expose the entire platform (just as Amazon has).
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Google To Launch BigTable As Web Service
I'm with jhota, but it does give me some more incentive (as if I have needed any) for another trip to the lego store :)
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Modular Microscale Space Legos
Posted Mar 25, 2008
I like to buy local, but it is purely out of a taste motivation. There is nothing like salsa that is made from fresh tomatoes, onions, jalapeños, and cilantro :)
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the myth of buying local?
Posted Mar 25, 2008
Actually looks like 16 cores. The box has two nodes, and each node can have two procs (including the latest quad-core procs). I so want one (or more) of those :)
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8 cores in 1U
Hmm... I should try installing it on my olpc to see how it does there.
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Holy crap!
Posted Mar 19, 2008
It is interesting that the new Safari update also includes an integrates sqlite database
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Best Browser Beta
Posted Mar 19, 2008
jim: Thanks for the link, I meant to post it but forgot. I remember being quite inspired when I saw him give the keynote at Pycon last year about the OLPC project.
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A sad day for OLPC
Evidently not: http://www.firstshowing.net/2006/09/16/fearless-is-not-jet-lis-last-movie/
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Best Kung Fu movie ever?
Posted Mar 11, 2008
I was a bit disappointed to find out that you have to have an Intel based mac to do development for it, but I guess I should have expected that :(
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Live from Apple's iPhone SDK press conference
I just looked at all the nominees and realized that I haven't seen any of the movies nominated. I guess that is what happens when you have kids.
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80th Academy Awards
The Giants earned it for sure. You can tell they did their homework. No matter who you were rooting for, it was a very well played game by both sides, and for once we had a Super Bowl that was fun to watch.
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Super Bowl XLII
Patriots Vs. Giants
Phoenix, AZ 2/3/2008
Posted Feb 02, 2008
todd: Yeah I think it is just bad timing for Google. I'm still thinking of all the ways that this can go wrong. And flickr! Oh MS, please, please don't mess up flickr!
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M$ buying YHOO
Hrm... I read somewhere that the next version of OpenOffice will have Google Docs integration. It will be interesting to see how this progresses.
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Google Docs going offline soon?
Posted Jan 30, 2008
I never could understand economics period, let alone when you throw politics in the mix
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Economics
It is an interesting idea. When I went to look at a couple of topics though, the interface seemed quite clumsy and confusing. My initial impression is that the system would be too complicated for a broad audience, and would only be interesting to those that are the most vocal about topics.
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Interesting alternative to chat/forum discussions
An interesting editorial looking at LEGO's philosophy when it comes to military models.
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