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Amazing pictures from the Dubai Desert Classic golf tournament where Tiger Woods was invited to take swings atop the Burj al Arab hellipad.
This seven star hotel skyscraper - rooms start at $1400 per night - is located in Dubai, a city in the United Arab Emirates with lots of zany development dreams. Big pockets help make big dreams real, so it is quite possible that the tallest building on earth and a world map raised from the ocean could happen. For more information-
A Short History of Dubai Property Part 1, 2
or this recent Washington Post article,
Making the Desert Boom The idea behind The World is that it will look as much like the world as possible. When finished, this collection of hundreds of man-made islands, dredged up out of the Persian Gulf off the coast of Dubai, will be shaped like the seven continents of planet Earth.
Great Hackers
Great Hackersvia blogdex... there are too many good blockquotes from this article, but here's one:
To do something well you have to love it. So to the extent you can preserve hacking as something you love, you're likely to do it well. Try to keep the sense of wonder you had about programming at age 14. If you're worried that your current job is rotting your brain, it probably is.
This kid's Dinner with #1 on the Forbes
intern blogs about dinner at Bill Gates' mansion Obviously it goes without saying that it's a pretty big deal to be eating with Bill Gates at his house. So much so that most full-time employees don't get this opportunity until you reach a level that is at least pushing general management via JonathanWe can all be super-powered individuals in the future. (read book)
In other old news, God invented the moon and that bubble gum smell.
EE Times -That sucking sound? It's your cell
it's not in the hardware, baby!That sucking sound? It's your cell
a must-read from EE Times via slashdot
Weaving Factory photo - oochappan photos at pbase.com
here is a Weaving Factory in India click next in the top rightExtemporaneously Speaking about
a unique entry by Dave Tracker exclusive and unedited for RWIRExtemporaneously Speaking about
Stem Cells
1. What are stem cells?
Stem cells are a type of
repair cell in the body. They have the ability to change into many types of
cells to help repair or re-grow a part of the body. These cells can split and
each half can become another stem cell or any type of cell the body needs such
as a brain cell, blood cell, or muscle cell.
2. Why are they important for
research?
These cells can be used to
create many types of cells or even to create whole organs. Embryonic stem cells can be used to create
almost anything because they are undifferentiated, whereas adult stem cells
have already specialized and therefore are more difficult to manipulate and keep
alive in a lab. With the ability to grow
cells, scientists believe we will be able to cure ailing organs by adding a few
cells with the ability to rebuild the entire organ.
3. What are some things that
can be done with them?
Stem cell usage, especially
embryonic stem cells, has the potential to cure diseases from heart disease to
kidney failure. Virtually any part of
the body can be rebuilt with stem cells.
The periodontal
ligament , bone
marrow , diabetes, strokes, burns, arthritis, and Parkinson’s disease are
just a few of the potential applications.
Stem cells researchers believe there may be potential help almost any
injury or disease. To find out more check out Research as U-Wisconsin. There is a tremendous upside to stem cell
research and much work is being done to over turn G.W. Bush’s decision to stop
government funding of stem cell research.
Check out NIH stem cell
or sign
the petition.
How Google beat Amazon and Ebay to the Semantic Web (Ftrain.com)
can't.... stop.... reading.....How Google beat Amazon and Ebay to the Semantic WebA work of fiction. A Semantic Web scenario. A short feature from a business magazine published in 2009.
via blogdex
HBS Working Knowledge: Strategy: A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
Strategy: A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward "When you map a negotiation backward, you envision your preferred outcome and think in reverse about how to get there," says Harvard Business School professor and negotiation specialist James K. Sebenius. From Negotiation.A lot of people ask me how I have so much time to blog. Well, blogging to read what I'm reading has become habit. If I'm on the internet, I'm blogging. If I'm not blogging, I'm probably not on the internet.
Big Quantitative Analysis II test tomorrow, so I'll probably be off-line until then.
As you know, I believe in the untapped potential of consumer Instant Messaging. The above blog post (author is a Managing Partner at Softbank Capital Partners bling bling) crystalizes some tech aspects of untapped data capability in the Buddy List, but does not address the fun consumer opportunities I see. Maybe because it is difficult, if not damn near impossible, to monetize the consumer B.L.?
Danger Inc. - Palo Alto, CA; provider of the hiptop® Wireless Solution, which enables wireless operators to quickly and economically deploy compelling new services and products to their customers; $37 million; Series D; Venture Capital, Redpoint Ventures, SOFTBANK Capital Partners, T-Mobile Venture Fund, Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), Adams Street Partners. **Sharp is taking over the mfg'ing of the HipTop device - via ZAK and JN**
related news - Lindsay Lohan rejoices, goes on a shopping bender.
(Jane Jacobs) has also watched other businesses - independent bookstores and hardware stores - become endangerd by chain stores with hardly a peep from residents or local government. "One thing that astonishes me always is how stupid chambers of commerce and boards of trade are about what's good for them," she says.
"Long ago, as a chld, I read a story that's always stuck with me about the man who sold the sun for a guinea." Jacobs tells me of the poor young man who one day finds a golden coin lying in the gutter. In his hunt for another one, he never looks up at the sun again. It's her metaphor for short-sighted institutions that focus on money and ignore things that may be valuable in other ways.
Quote from a July 24/July 25 article in the Financial Times, Lunch with Jane Jacobs: Street activists's saving grace, by Jeff Pruzan. Jacobs' latest book, Dark Age Ahead, is available everywhere good books are sold.
Attention high school readers - You should go to Wake Forest for no other reason than the fact that we have hot employees.
"My Beef With Big Media" by Ted Turner
My Beef With Big Media, by Ted Turner
How government protects big media--and shuts out upstarts like me.
Another ranting on regulations article predicting the death of television, from the founder of CNN - a great read. Featured in this month's Washington Monthly link via dailywireless
Om Malik just looks like a fucking badass. Here's his site, and check the current issue of Business 2.0 - Om wrote the cover story.
The Social Numerator.
The Human PageRank.
It's like Google's system for determining the relevance of a website, but for social purposes. It tells me how important you are - how much money you have, who you're connected to, your SAT score and how good you can dance.
Shamings | The Olympics of Drunken Embarassment
Fresh from my roommates that brought you The Shocker and The Mars Party comes Shamings.com, The Olympics of Drunken Embarassment. I like their Origins of Shaming page....
Creditel PowerSwipe review by PC Magazine
Creditel PowerSwipe review by PC Magazine You can now use a cell phone to take credit card payments
Wired News: Debit, Credit or Cell Phone?
Oh my, this is happening sooner than I ever imagined - Wired News: Debit, Credit or Cell Phone? Japan has long been phasing out the hassle of coins and bills with microchip-laden "smart cards," which let people make electronic payments for everything from lunch to the daily commute.A series of phones going on sale this summer in Japan, for use on NTT DoCoMo's wireless network, are the world's first with an embedded computer chip that you can fill up with electronic cash.
pictures of mold, maybe?
A few days ago I noticed something interesting amazingly colorful growing near a few of the trees on our Quad.
Scientists think that there are about 100,000 species of fungi. Rust, mold, yeast and mildew are included in this kingdom Fungi are organisms that scientists once confused with plants. However, scientists have found that, at the cell level, the fungi are more like animals than they are like plants. For one thing, fungi cannot synthesize their own food like plants do, but instead they eat other organisms as do animals. - and, of course, mushrooms!
Love Song
I was sitting outside of the dorms last night and I had my Treo 600 cell phone face down on the grass. The speaker phone was facing up, and of course I was listening to those hot MP3 mashups from osymyso.... I had the vision for a TV commercial.
This is a storyboard I made to try and pitch the idea.
Love Song is a thirty second branding exercise
duke students all get iPods
Nevermind Wake Forest University's fantastic laptop initiative. IBM Thinkpads? How passe. Duke freshmen all get iPods On Monday, the university announced a deal with Apple to distribute 1,650 of the hand-held gizmos to first-year students. Duke will get a discount and give them free to freshmen -- My thoughts are, What a miserable idea! If only a school had chosen to adopt Danger mobile phones instead... link via BoingBoingIn 1898, with the improvement of printing techniques and the increase in transportation speeds, the cost of postcards were lowered from two cents to one, and postcards began to scatter from Coney Island at an astonishing rate: on a single day in September 1906, an astonishing 200,000 postcards were postmarked from Coney Island.
part blog, part wiki?
I've been tossing this ideaI want a MT plugin that will let a select group of my closest, most trusted friends correct typos in text and URLs on my blog posts and republish their changes without my intervention around in my head for a few months now - Part blog, part Wiki. There are a lot of topics I like to write about, and often my blog entry reflects the first time I'm introduced. New companies, music groups, ideas. I write them down with some reference notes I can trust in the future.
My readers often know more about these topics than I do. So, it makes sense for you to contribute, and not just in a comments form. Would you hyperlink and research and add images for the sake of knowledge? Or is that what your own website is for?
At the very least, yeah, you could correct my speeling spelling errors.
trend watch - Paul Williams and The Victory Trio
Which folksy gospel bluegrass group is currently a mock pop sensation in a few of London's hipster clubs?
Paul Williams and The Victory Trio bring fierce conviction, along with a touch of righteousness and didacticism, to these stark, old-timey spiritual testimonials.
In the '50s and early '60s, singer, songwriter, and mandolin great Paul Williams served in formative bluegrass bands the Lonesome Pine Fiddlers and Jimmy Martin's Sunny Mountain Boys. Paul Williams's self-appointed mission has been to spread the bluegrass-style gospel, and though nearly every bluegrass artist worth his salt gives an occasional tip of the hat to gospel, Williams lives and breathes it.
Do yourself a favor and check out the song Stay by the Brook. There's a 30-second sample on Amazon's Old Ways and Old Paths album page (track 4).
osymyso music home
very cool mash-up MP3 downloads at osymyso...now listening: Intro-Expansion 01 via Chad Pugh
sean stewart - the beast
cool, a retrospect from someone behind that A.I. Web Game On January 2-4, 2001, a small and very secret team met in the offices of Microsoft's Game Group to plan and design a massive, web-based scavenger-hunt/soap opera.(Jordan Weisman's) belief, which we all shared, was that if we put a clue in a Turkish newspaper at dawn, it would be under discussion in a high school kids basement in Iowa by dinner time.
Jerry Lee Lewis, the story goes, was touring with Chuck Berry. In theory they were each headliners, and the idea was they would take turns opening for one another. In practice, Lewis refused to be the opening act. Pressure from the tour promoters grew, until finally Lewis was forced to open. He played, by all accounts, a blistering set, and at the end of it, he poured lighter fluid all over his piano and set it on fire in the middle of the stage before stalking to the side and snarling, "Let's see the son-of-a-bitch follow that."
We used up a lot of lighter fluid on the Beast. Good luck, whoever's coming next.
PhoneGaim
PhoneGaim.com Linspire, aka Lindows, has a VoIP client cum AOL Buddy List based on the open source GAIM/libfaim engine.Anik F2 Launched on Ariane 5
July 17th, 2004 - Anik F2 Launched on Ariane 5 The world's largest commercial communications satellite, Telstar's Anik F2, was launched atop an Ariane 5G rocket today. via Jonathan
SNARKMONEY ALERT sex phone via VoIP
SNARKMONEY ALERT
Who is doing 1-900 sex lines, outsourced to India or Thailand on VoIP?
Who is doing straight sex phone via VoIP? ie, you're not routing the traffic through an interner carrier... the call originates from the desktop, or Vonage etc
Are there going to be private VoIP exchanges for 1-900 calls,
and would Dubai Internet City DIC offers foreign companies 100% tax-free ownership, 100% repatriation of capital and profits, no currency restrictions, easy registration and licensing accept this company as resident?
Roden Crater Project
I just got a message on Orkut from someone asking, Do you know James Turrell? Can you tell me what it takes to get invited to the Roden Crater?tmg | PROJECTS | Tangible Bits Exhibition
very future - I/O brush RealVideo download or I/O Brush home pageIO Brush is a new drawing tool aimed at young children, ages four and up, to explore colors, textures, and movements found in everyday materials via mathowieA Young American Outsources Himself to India
The New York Times: A Young American Outsources Himself to India At one table, five friends from Singapore sat with a 6-foot-3, 23-year-old anomaly: Joshua Bornstein, perhaps the only native-born American among the Bangalore-based employees of Infosys Technologies. via Brian Carloblended thoughts on a new economy + digital post boxes
Blended: the very new economy, via TJ.
I think that a good idea for a product would be mailing addresses* like the fake PO boxes at the Empire state building that Seth talks about in places like Colorado, Dubai and Singapore that scan and digitally deliver your snail mail over the internet.
Your articles would be:
- Photographed at the final destination in their original envelope, so that you still get the messy stamp feeling.
- Professionally opened, so as not to damage their contents.
- Scanned page-by-page at a resolution of your definition.
- Delivered via e-mail and RSS.
- Archived by date and return address in a web-accessible database.
This must have been done before with fax, right? E-mail me if you know.
Joi Ito's Web: Brainstorms 2004 dinner interview notes - Ted Turner
My vision comes from thinking. I don't watch TV.
Ted Turner at Brainstorms 2004, interview notes here
nPost.com Interview with Narendra Rocherolle of Webshots
March 1, 2004 Interview with Narendra Rocherolle, CEO of WebshotsWebshots co-founder hit jackpot with sale to CNET
Webshots co-founder hit jackpot with sale to CNET Online technology news provider CNET Networks Inc. said Wednesday that it will pay $70 million to acquire Webshots, a digital photography Web site that was salvaged from the ruins of bankrupt ExciteAtHome for $2.4 million 21/2 years ago.this is sippey.com: cost per influence and meme arbitrage
cost per influence and meme arbitrage and this is the birth of 2004 new media marketing theoryWSJ.com - Microsoft to Link Message System With Yahoo, AOL
very big news? Microsoft to Link Message System With Yahoo, AOL Microsoft Corp. announced Thursday a deal that will allow users of its corporate instant-message software to communicate with services from rivals America Online and Yahoo Inc. link via Mark Hughesbuzzmarketing.com -- The Authority on Buzz Marketing
I rapped with Mark Hughes from BUZZ MARKETING what he was a part of as VP Marketing at Half.com is truly impressive for about two hours last night. Great guy, very cool. He's working on writing a book that should be really, really solid for new media models (like blogs and away messages!).
TimesDispatch.com | Could it be his fortune to ace pop quiz?
Could it be his fortune to ace pop quiz? featuring Austin Harris, WFU 2004, currently working as an analyst for Merrill Lynch in NYC.
Watch The WB next Tuesday,
July 22, at 9:00 p.m.
Feld Thoughts: Software Durability and Societal Infrastructure Software
Software Durability and Societal Infrastructure Software ... the title just sounds smartPopgadget: Personal Tech for Women
Popgadget: Personal Tech for Women Gadgets, Culture, General Neophilia. For and by womenBuddyGopher press
I am working part-time again at the library on campus, and today The Washington Post came in.
During my interview with the writer, I made it a point to try and explain the phenomenon of away messages in a campus environment relative to their social scheduling functionality. I think Laura already had that impression. One thing, though - We're always on! Please don't call us Generation Y. I used my mouthful of a BuddyGopher description, One-to-many bite-sized blogging for the college masses! , but that didn't make her print.
Props to prior art on the Always On generation Google Results for "always on generation". For a larger scan of the Washington Post print article, see BuddyGopher ~ Got Press?
Oh, and yes, we really do love Away Messages.
Pardon Me For Being Forward
Pardon Me For Being Forward That forward? I got it. I've gotten it. I do not wish to keep receiving it. I was neither moved nor inspired. It was neither clever nor funny. I was not amazed at the stupidity of that criminal, nor disgusted, appalled, and chagrined by the United States Government... via Anil Dash
An interesting thought posted by Scott Rafer via Tim Oren...
Reed's Law is the next valuation asymptote that we all get to strive for, possibly for the rest of our careers. The data-rich relationships that it requires online communities to build may be twenty years in the future. The current software How can the smart money throw away the lessons of the dotcom bust and Metcalfe's Law so completely? is a tiny step in that direction.
For reference, all via Wikipedia:
- Reed's law says that the utility of large networks, particularly social networks, can scale exponentially with the size of the network. It places a high value on the number of possible sub-groups within the community, so that the network effect of potential group membership can eventually dominate the overall economics of the system.
- Metcalfe's law states that the value of a communication system grows as approximately the square of the number of users of the system (N˛). The law is often illustrated with the example of fax machines: A single fax machine is useless, but the value of every fax machine increases with the total number of fax machines in the network, because the total number of people with whom you may send and receive documents increases. This contrasts with traditional models of supply and demand, where increasing the quantity of something decreases its value.
SecurityFocus HOME News: VoIP hacks gut Caller I.D.
SecurityFocus: VoIP hacks gut Caller I.D.Hackers have discovered that the handy feature that tells you who's calling before you answer the phone is easily manipulated through weaknesses in Voice over IP (VoIP) programs and networks. They can make their phone calls appear to be from any number they want, and even pierce the veil of Caller I.D. blocking to unmask an anonymous phoner's unlisted number.
Article by famed hacker Kevin Poulsen.
The Jeff Pulver Blog: Looking for IP Communication Visionaries
Jeff Pulver of Pulver.com needs some beta testers... Looking for IP Communication VisionariesUS Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation
This Thursday at 10:00am
Senate Hearing on Nielsen Local People Meter. via Maigh, my former boss at Siemens, now working for the VP Chief Research Officer they're known collectively as the C-suite at Turner.
Will the Nielsen LPMs destroy current television ad rates?
Broadcasters have resisted the new system because it has told them things they don't want to hear. When introduced experimentally in Boston in 2001, Local People Meters (LPMs) showed that cable viewing was higher and broadcast viewing lower than previously thought. TV viewing overall was 8 percent lower than reported by the old system. source
According to one station's analysis of Nielsen data, the differences between the two systems can be as much as 20 percent, depending on the daypart. "It's enormous," said the station executive. "Eyeballing it, it's usually no less than 10 percent difference in terms of HUT levels, and up to 20 in some time periods. In some cases, the differences in HUT levels is greater than the rating for the highest-rated show in the time period." source
One obvious disadvantage for on-line publishers is the inability to grossly over-estimate our audiences. Detailed website statistics I use StatCounter.com, and I really like their free service. serve as a double-edged sword.
Stoned Del. student gets lost in Conn.
a funny news story A Delaware college student ate a bag of hallucinogenic mushrooms and drove around in a pair of stolen cars for three days before arriving, confused, on a mountain in northwest Connecticut - via ricksterbotTHE SYSTEM LEARNS MORE ABOUT YOU AND CAN PICK UP SUBTLE PATTERNS IN YOUR BEHAVIOR. THE MORE VARIABLES YOU GIVE THE SYSTEM, THE SMARTER IT BECOMES.Aging Baby Boomers Want Smart Houses for Their Golden Years
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IN THE FUTURE, WE'LL DECOUPLE SYSTEMS AND STANDARDIZE INTERFACES. WE'LL PREDICT THE LIFE CYCLES OF COMPONENTS AND REPLACE THEM AS NECESSARY.
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Architectural Record 04.04
OUTFOXED: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism
Hilarious trailer on OUTFOXED: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism via blogdex or direct WMVGosh, we haven't talked in a while.
- If my
was sprawled in front of me (like a
very
naked
girl), I
would snatch it up and purchase a
tightrope trainer set. - I am excited about having a dream that would entail a future meme
called,
The Switch. -
The book would be about a new
tribe of people who nearly entirely use electronic devices for long-term
memory storage. It has started with
calendaring, not-my phone numbers, and
LiveJournals.
(sike? crybabies.) Slowly, pocket cameras and convenient keyboards are
starting to fill a new database. - MyGoogle.
- MeGoogle.
- Google.name.
- Nick.Google.
- I don't know what it would be called. Anyhow, they switch from brains to bionics. Typing and taking, searching with wireless Is Google God? by THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN when needed.
- I'm starting already. A month or two and I still don't know my own mobile telephone number. I have to search Blogger or use CallerID in a way its inventor never intended Patent 4,582,956 - Method and apparatus for displaying at a selected station special service information during a silent interval between ringing each time I need it.
- The Switch, by the way, starts with your phone.
-
a) away messages
b) profiles
c) blogs
d) none of the above
Errol Morris -> Main
Errol Morris, Good Film Director.
Why It Makes Sense to Beat a Dead Horse:
- Sets an example for other horses. (that might be watching)
- Aerobic workout.
- Horse might not be dead yet. (Better safe than sorry. You can never be too careful.)
- Tenderizes the meat.
- Horse is unable to fight back.
- Makes you feel good. (Provides a welcome relief from tension or anxiety.)
more oddpost news
more information on the Oddpost sale(Oddpost has) labored in relative obscurity, growing a customer base, raising VC money, adding people, and staying out of the way. Then Google launches Gmail, with a very Oddpostish interface, and someone at Yahoo says "Hmmm, I've seen that somewhere," calls up Ethan and Iain and their new VCs and asks "Are you for sale?" and the rest is history.
MSNBC - Away messaging keeps users in touch
Away messaging keeps users in touch
Many college students use the feature daily
MSNBC - Away messaging keeps users in touch same article by Laura Sessions Stepp - it is cool to see this article go through the distribution channels
Get Real: Interview: Michael Osterman
Stowe Boyd does an interview with Michael Osterman regarding last week's enterprise IM happenings... He conducted it over IM - I like Stowe already!Offline and Still in Touch With Away Messaging
Here is the on-line Washington Post article by celebrated writer Laura Sessions Stepp - Offline and Still in Touch With Away Messaging. BuddyGopher gets a nice mention towards the tail end of the piece.
Ana Marie Cox, the satirical scribe behind Washington political blog wonkette.com, is hooking up with MTV News to be a correspondent at the upcoming Democratic National Convention.
reference link via M.H.
washingtonpost.com: Offline and Still in Touch With Away Messaging
Washington PostFriday, July 9, 2004; Page C01 --- check it out
11Alive News on Mushrooms
My mom sent me this link to an awesome news segment about the great mushroom season that Atlanta is experiencing. Click here to watch.
International Visitors Welcome
Welcome International Visitors!
In the last 24 hours, read what I'm reading on nickgray.net was accessed by computers in the following countries:
I want you to slow down for a second. Seriously. Stop and slow down. Quit quick-scanning for bold words and listen to me for one second.
The Internet is about sharing,
and tonight I want to share this song that really encompasses the goals of the bite-sized notes which I publish here. Transparency, baby. LYRICS and 3.21mb MP3.
quote via DNA-DUBLIN
Great design will not sell an inferior product, but it will enable a great product to achieve its maximum potential.
Thomas Watson Jr
Andrew Estel : Composer
JetSet Composer writes in with a first-hand travel scoop:
i thought you might want to know that wireless headsets are super popular in paris...business men talk into them while driving, and guys in athletic clothes look cool while clipping them to their ears as they walk down the street. they're small and silver, and they remind me of images from films about 5 or 10 years ago. i think they use bluetooth technology.
previously 6/5/2004... "videophones are everywhere here in italy. people hold them away from their faces and talk with the speaker phone."
Party Poker.com
Bill Lerner has a good anecdote on PartyPoker usage:Nick, I did some work for a kid who is starting at Vanderbilt this Fall and he had Party Poker on his system. He said that all of his friends have party poker on their computers and it is the thing for kids his age. He is a typical very good student/athlete from a very rich school district here on L.I. (Roslyn, the one the papers keep talking about as several employess took a few million from the school to finance personal stuff) He said poker is a very big thing among suburban boys. Our cousin who is going into tenth grade made 800 dollars over spring break at a resort from other kids. I guess all of the ESPN showings of the world series of poker have something to do with it.
Threadless T-Shirts - Damn Scientists
I don't at all like this t-shirt design, but the slogan fits... this was supposed to be the future - where's my jetpack?
random business thoughts from 13 QUESTIONS
Are you selling vitamins, aspirin or antibiotics? (I.e. a luxury, a nice-to-have, or a need-to-have)Zatoichi
NOW PLAYING--
Jeff Slipko, a super Japanese film fan, e-mailed me about this movie.
Zatoichi is Takeshi Kitano's (I believe you are familiar with him from Battle Royale) stab at the popular samurai series and it is wonderful. Very funny, very entertaining, and unique. Check it out if you get the chance. Miramax picked it up for North America distribution.
Watch the QuickTime trailer or visit www.zatoichi.co.uk. Available July 26th on DVD & VHS. E-mail me for access information to my super fast DivX server.
Spam and Removal Information
I don't care who you are - If your e-mail newsletter does not have an easy REMOVE link, I'm going to mark you as spam.
Faithful readers, I encourage you to do the same. If enough of us start flagging these sorts of disrespectful messages as spam, Google and Yahoo! et al will start to automatically put every one of their messages into my spam folder. And that would be really good punishment for bad e-mail practice.
Today's offender was Hoover's Online - Great business research. Bad on-line customer sales relations.
The Barcode
Clearing out my backlog... this is from June 26 on Jeff Nolan's blog.30 years ago today on June 26, 1974, a revolution begun that changed the way businesses from retail to rental cars to the U.S. military operate. On this day in 1974 a pack of Juicy Fruit chewing gum passed over a bar code scanner at Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio, it was the first commercial transaction involving a bar code. Today, it's hard to imagine a transaction in our daily life that doesn't involve one. Congratulations go to engineer Joe Woodland for the invention, which was so far ahead of it's time it is hard to appreciate. While patented in 1952, grocery store scanners didn't proliferate until the 1980's, although the railroads and General Motors implemented the technology much earlier. By the way, it's interesting to note that Woodland's inspiration for the barcode was Morse Code that he learned as a boy scout.
THE WORLD IS 10 YEARS OLD. I was listening to an Audible book The Lexus and The Olive Tree on the drive to Wake Forest today. Now living in Taylor with four football players and a nice fellow named Ben, thrice my size each.
If I were in the market to make a big purchase, the first thing on my list would be an LCD projector with built-in Bluetooth. Now that's what I call future!
Thailand Forum -> Thai Step-daughter "sniff Kisses" New Pa - Thai visa
sniff kissing"sniff kissing" is very normal. It is a form of kissing without the tongue and lips, to show that i do adore you and care for you. Especially as a kid ... so they would not use the lips, just their tip of the nose to sniff u good night. No it isnt because u smell. Its just another habit that the Thais have.
BuddyGopher Demo : Stats Page
It is amazing how many people post away messages that say they are in the shower.
The Gartner Fellows: Michael K. Powell's Interview
note to self - read this Michael K. Powell's Gartner Fellows Interviewissues and policies concerning broadband, telecommunications, media ownership and content issues and digital TVBloglines | My Blogs
You know how people are hooked on eBay? I am totally hooked on eLance. Can't..... stop..... outsourcing..... breakfast.
Relief for text addicts - Icon - smh.com.au
Relief for text addicts - smh.com.auCheap text messages: they are a dream come true for most teenagers and those who foot the phone bill. They're also the next venture by tech entrepreneur Steven Goh.
The x-txt system will tie in with instant messaging, allowing messages to be sent and received via MSN Messenger in July. The mobile-instant messaging link up could be important, says Juma-Ross. 'It's reasonably popular in the tech-savvy youth set,' he says.
The ability to indicate when a user is connected is called presence. In future versions of the service, x-txt users may leave away messages ('I'm in class') via this facility.
They Might Be Giants Open Their Own Music Store
They Might Be Giants have opened their own music store, featuring "highest quality" (256kbps) un-DRM-encumbered mp3's. There are only two CDs currently available (at $0.99/song or $9.99/album), but presumably more will be added as time goes on.
per Slashdot "Looks like a great way to directly support the artists." Yuppers.
streaming radio
listen.pls to New York Public Radio or SHOUTcast HTTP page
this "make you smarter" update thanks to richard van veen, Manhattan
HomeDepot
Home Depot has Contractor Pick-Up. Will Elance (or another company of similar position) ever have a Buyer Log-In link which directs to a faster, more intelligent and faster server?
lightertricks.com - level3_73
when he opened this lighter I thought that I could actually smell the fluid from my 8th-grade Zippo knockoff. I didn't smoke, but I was a poser-pyro. lightertricks.com - 100 Watt Super Leadbut they all want to see that move where you squeeze it open and it's already liton a personal note
Last night was highlighted by a very spiritual, moving conversation from my parents after dinner. I am living at home in the suburbs of Atlanta and helping out at my father's very small avionics company office nearby. Sometimes inspiration comes from an unlikely source. In this case, it was enough to hold back tears. I can do this.
Two hours earlier, my mother lectured a lesson in strategy that was punctuated with an example from a recent episode of The Simple Life. The protagonist to her story was Nicole Richie. Oh, sweet suburban life. It's not so bad once you get here.
article - THE NEW GOLD MOUNTAIN
THE NEW GOLD MOUNTAINHong is among the many Chinese immigrants and their descendants returning to their ancestral homeland, bringing their American know-how to one of the world's fastest-growing economies. Their capitalism is transforming China.The Chinese have a proverb, Hong said.
Drink water, and remember the source.
Stealth Messaging :: AO
Yes, please, but not so complicated - Stealth Messaging I've been wanting a service like this since I first got a cell phone. But, wait... didn't MMS plan to provide something similar? Pictures with voice attachments. Hm.Bidding war for MGM - The Times of India
Bidding war for MGM A bidding war has started between Time Warner and Sony for the prime Hollywood studio MGM via MaighTotalFark
via Josh Shader and the guys at Terra Firma Films, I consulted with a new Hollywood writer last night. He is developing a script about censored for censored Studios and had a few technical questions.
The writer explained a scene that was occuring in censored censored and was very concerned. Is this possible? Could it happen in real life? Yes, I said. What you are imagining is not only possible - it is reality!
After exchanging buzz words and electronics slang that would pepper his dialogue, this man asked me in a low voice- By the way, do you read Fark? Imagine that! I was speaking to my first TotalFark member. I had to ask- So why do you pay for it? It's my home page, it's my Internet!So much more content- I almost can't keep up with the links.
Enough said. It's your internet, and we're thrilled to have you paying for it.
Why You Will Come to Love Dead Zones
Why You Will Come to Love Dead ZonesAt some point over the next five years, you will see military organizations, schools and corporations try to figure out how to seal off parts of their facilities from wireless communications.I don't agree with the example of public transportation, but the article thesis is definitely correct.