Wednesday, April 30, 2003
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May's Atlantic Monthly has a great article on p53 titled 'The Fall of the House of Saud'. Did you know that Saudi Arabia has over $1 trilion in the US stock market and another $1 trillion in US bank accounts? No joke.
Monday, April 28, 2003
Sunday, April 27, 2003
ExtremeTech - Killer Apps Share A Common Thread: Hacker Geeks
AT&T Wireless also uses the Amazon service as part of its own experiment in social assimilation. Dialing #121 on an AT&T-subscribed cell phone allows the user to find any song playing on any radio station. AT&T uses the cell phone tower antenna to figure out what city the user is in, the nearest radio station playing the song, and gives the user the ability to link back to Amazon to order the song over the phone.
Alpha Kappa Jeff Harris has a few pictures on stock.xchng, "the leading free stock photo site" on the Internet. I'm enjoying browsing the site, looking at completely random photos, most of which are available in hi-res and without usage restrictions. A+
Thursday, April 24, 2003
I'm trying to read Jane Jacobs' The Nature of Economies right now. It's a horribly fascinating introduction to economic thought (I transferred in my Econ credit) but it has taken me about ten days of occasional reading just to finish the first 50 pages.... Why am I typing this right now PEACE
Wednesday, April 23, 2003
Business Week notes that Broadband-crazy South Korea is rushing into Wi-Fi, too. But, like, seriously rushing because "70% of the total in a population of 48 million have fixed line broadband connections in South Korea."
Tuesday, April 22, 2003
quick note, but what are some durable goods that leave the USA with a high export value? key word here is clearly 'durable'. e-mail me
Let's keep an eye on this, okay? Chandler - Our Product Description
Outlook is stuffed with features, but no one can fairly claim it's either an elegant product to use or an easy one to maintain. The full feature set, (including, for instance, the sharing of calendars,) is available only in the Enterprise edition with the Microsoft Exchange server, and not to Internet users with a standalone Outlook application.
Sunday, April 20, 2003
FARK links to a WaPo article titled, Pabst Blue Ribbon: Another Winner Retro Chic Suds Hit With Hip Young Adults. I was buying a sixer of the PBR over Winter break in fairly-downtown Atlanta when this guy spotted my pick and asked if I was in to punk rock. Turned out that the Pabst was what all the punk rockers were going to after years of Guinness....
Bob Frankston chimes in to IP with some interesting claims on number portability: that it's nothing but scam and lie.
Saturday, April 19, 2003
this is what my screen saver looks like
Wednesday, April 16, 2003
General Motors' Destruction of California Transit Systems... Kerosene was poured on the streetcars and electric trains and they were burned, except a few placed in museums. Nothing was left of the transit system which had comprised 1479 streetcars and train cars and 771 trolley buses. Even the subway was made unusable by a future subway line. How awesome is that? I read some court cases about this in one of my b-school classes last semester.
Monday, April 14, 2003
Redherring.com - Get hatched: an insider's guide to incubators- January 19, 2000
An insider's guide to incubators Redherring.com, January 19, 2000 Divine Interventures founder Flip Filipowski doesn't like the word incubator. He says it reminds him of a bunch of chickens running around with their heads cut off.
The Register notes that Apple is planning to launch a Tablet PC-style wireless display terminal... talks of a 15in display with a detachable keyboard but no battery. That suggests we're not going to be looking at a tablet as such, but some kind of tabletop terminal, perhaps driven by Mac OS X Server.
You know about SomaFM, right? I was sold on studying to their Groove Salad almost exactly one year ago (it goes well with Accounting). Tonight finds me lost in the Drone Zone (128k MP3 stream) as terms like focused differentiation strategy dance in my head.
Saturday, April 12, 2003
Wednesday, April 09, 2003
Monday, April 07, 2003
Japan Media Review -- Cell Phones That Surf for News New always-on desktop applications for cell phones can be programmed to scan the Web for news and to send you links to must-see stories, photos and videos.
Sunday, April 06, 2003
Amazon.com is incredible. We could talk for three cups about how they will/are change/ing the world. But have you been frequenting their user-driven guides yet? Intelligent user opinions meet affiliate/referral marketing. Fantastic, really.
Saturday, April 05, 2003
Daily Dish: ODB's out of jail, on comeback trail
Friends of the rapper, who is serving a two- to four-year sentence on drug charges, have been alarmed by his strange and erratic behavior and think that the mental evaluation is a good idea. "He was showing signs of schizophrenia," a source tells us. "He would look up at the sky and say, 'Yes, I will do what you say.'
justin from links.net about his book, Just In Tokyo:
What about Just In Tokyo? Kenji Eno speaks: For example, if I look at only the the Statue of Liberty and say, "New York is a wonderful town truly!", what do you think? For example, if I look at only Buckingham Palace, Hyde Park, and Big Ben and say, "I've really enjoyed the travel in Britain!", what do you think? Although I have many foreign friends, when I know that their sightseeing in Tokyo is the same, I am disappointed extremely: Tokyo Tower, the Imperial Palace, Kabuki-za. Maybe I will not go to such a place more than 3 times in a lifetime. It is the same as giving only kiss, although you are married. It is the same as playing only Tetris, although you have Playstation2. It is the same as eating only sausages, although you ordered a jambalaya. Traveler, Taste more! American! Play Japan deeply! You should marry Tokyo! Tokyo, I think almost every country is the same. It depends on you whether Tokyo becomes interesting or less boring. You can encourage the man of past 40 who was fired from restructuring in the public bath called 'Sento' and You can be mistaken for a molester by a high school student girl who operated orthopedically in the train. You can eat the sushi which the robot made in the dance-club. You can say "You are a person really kind" to the cute pet in a mobile phone at the capsule-hotel. After that, you will know the merit and poorness of Tokyo. Meritorious and poor - When you love it, you are already a Japanese about 24%. No, you don't need to worry if you become so. You can be original you again, if you burn this book which is used as the first step of your trip, you already know. - Kenji Eno (a game creator, the president of fyto inc.)
Friday, April 04, 2003
day two of the snuff experiment brings bloodshot eyes and dusty collars.
getting better at proper amount but substance still too fine. must visit
a better tobacco shop.
IS SNUFF THE NEW BEST THING?
... Sit down, please. 
... Have a cup of coffee, 
... and let's talk about telephones. 
Wednesday, April 02, 2003
The Grand Buffet show Monday night really got me interested in snuff. Nobody I've talked to seems to know anything about this mystery smokeless tobacco. After a few G-queries I was able to turn up Nasal Tobacco Snuff: What it is, Where to get it, How to take it, which gives the following description: Snuff is any powder prepared for sniffing. Of course, the main use of the term is for powdered tobacco. Tobacco snuff is made by selecting tobacco leaf (and also sometimes tobacco stalk, as in e.g. Irish High Dry Toast) and disintegrating it into a coarse powder.... The coarser, moister snuffs are the least "sneezy" and hence best for the beginner (though often favourites of the seasoned snuff taker). They were the most popular - and cheapest - locally milled snuffs in Britain in the 18th & 19th centuries, called "rappee" (as opposed to "Scotch" = fine-milled snuffs.) But who actually uses snuff? Well, nobody today, but it sure was the shit in the time of Dickens! The above site notes that the United States Senate chamber still keeps snuff boxes filled. The habit of snuff-taking in the Senate chamber is as old as the Senate. For those today or in the future who would cast a jaundiced eye at the use of snuff, we might pause to be reminded that, during the first half of the nineteenth century, most members of this body carried their own boxes of finely ground tobacco, and some even kept two boxes on their persons, one containing a mixture for personal use and another, usually a milder type, which was offered to friends. Washington’s leading presidential hostess, Dolley Madison, is reported to have carried as many as three snuffboxes at White House receptions. I'm going to buy some tonight. (If I get hooked I can always use a snuff bullet)
1: Why We Misquote
During the hearings about Clarence Thomas's Supreme Court nomination, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Joseph Biden quoted Shakespeare as saying, "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned." Senator Alan Simpson of Wyoming pointed out (correctly) that it was actually playwright William Congreve who wrote: Heaven has no rage, like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
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