Archive for October, 2008
Friday, October 31st, 2008
Friend Tim Showers did a blog post not too long ago called "Visualization Strategies: Text & Documents" where he introduced me to a Wordle. A Wordle is also embedded above from the NY Times Visualization Lab. I haven't explored the Times site extensively, but it looks like there are some ...
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
Love my buddy to death but why the hell would he send this? There is no why in hell various phone companies are going to get together and say, "Yeah, you know that one chain message? How many thousand did you get? Ok, let's write it down ...
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
A text message appeared on my iPhone yesterday and shortly thereafter came an email stating that AT&T is finally offering up free Wi-Fi to iPhone customers "at thousands of hotspots". Here are the instructions to connect if you happen across one:
Activate Wi-Fi from the settings icon on your iPhone.
Select “attwifi” ...
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
Update: http://www.netflix.com/silverlightoptin is the link to sign up for the Mac Beta, right now.
It's about time. Crunch Gear says Netflix will enable its "Watch Instantly" feature for Intel Macs by year's end by utilizing Silverlight. Looks like Netflix will still use DRM, but at least those Netflix subscribers with ...
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Friday, October 24th, 2008
A picture in honor of a forthcoming book of his, I know nothing about called The Mutineer: Rants, Ravings, and Missives from the Mountaintop 1977-2005 due out February 1.
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Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
Man how I love Blogger. This happened around 2:40 Central Time without a warning and I've got the blog hosted elsewhere. It is time to migrate to WordPress.
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Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
If spammers can spam it, they are going to spam it. So it goes with Twitter. I'm sure many already deal with this, but today is the first I've seen of it as three or four nonsensical Twitter accounts have started to "follow" me, thus resulting in an email notification. ...
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Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
Considering following someone on The Twitter? Check out Follow Cost. This snappy tool asks: "How annoying will it be to follow blank on Twitter?" Blank is where you type in who you are pondering to follow on The Twitter and Follow Cost will then spit out the average updates ...
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Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
Author Tom Moon has assembled a book called 1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die: A Listener's Life List. I first heard about this project on NPR's All Songs Considered podcast.
The title pretty much explains the book, but the idea behind it and the title itself seem both hugely ambitious ...
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
I'm trying to download Open Office 3.0, now native for Mac, this morning, and when I finally get the site to come up, I get the above error that reads:
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /servlets/ContentHelmNoodle on this server.
Anything the reads "Content Helm Noodle" is worth blogging.
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