Archive for the ‘News’ Category
Saturday, February 6th, 2010
Readability is a simple tool/service for internet readers that instantly removes clutter with the click of a bookmark(let) button -- eliminating distractions and facilitating reading -- as you (will) see below.
Before Readability
After Readability
Making Readability work is cake. After arriving on the Readability project page first select one of five presentation/font styles; ...
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Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
Last April I bought "The Spirit of Apollo" by hip-hop project N.A.S.A. on vinyl; purchased only because of the free digital copy provided since I still don't have my turntable hooked back up. But naturally, Epitaph, the record's label, only gave three chances at downloading it on their sub-site -- ...
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Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
Nate Broughton is right. Infographics on the interwebs are now ubiquitous. Here's a recent favorite from GigaOm concerning the economy of iPhone applications:
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Monday, November 2nd, 2009
Recently rediscovered ArXiv.org -- an online repository for free papers on Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics.
Nearly a 100 percent of everything on the site makes me feel stupid so I just glean the site's very specifically focused papers for buzzwords and neato graphics, like the ...
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Monday, September 28th, 2009
I follow Robert Scoble (@Scobleizer) on Twitter -- why, I don't really know -- and usually just pass over his copious twittering. But the other day his mention of BuzzVoice caught my eye. BuzzVoice takes the stuff you read and reads it aloud for you.
Of course a computer voice ...
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Thursday, August 27th, 2009
Google recently asked several online luminaries what they subscribe to, or read, in Google Reader. There are people from four different areas:
* News
* Tech and web
* Food and health
* Trends and fashion
Find someone on the list you know or like, you can subscribe to what they read. My only gripe ...
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Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
"This song is called Woof Woof; it is about a dog."
This is a video performance by Dan Deacon at Todd P's (which I think is in NYC). It comes from NOISEVOX who say of themselves:
NOISEVOX is an open music magazine and media network created by journalists, photographers, musicians, and you.
Not ...
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Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
If you've never seen Auto-Tune the News, you're missing out. If you push play and are thinking WTF, give it a few moments until your ears adjust to hearing popular media figures being Auto-Tuned -- (the vocal effect of the minute in hip-hop and rap) -- and you may find ...
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Wednesday, July 15th, 2009
In approximately 19 hours, We Choose The Moon will enter "stage 2" and the Apollo 11 moon mission will be recreated in real time. I'm not exactly sure of the recreation details, but from what appears on the site currently, it looks like there could be a audio stream between ...
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Monday, July 13th, 2009
Kickstarter is a fairly new way to fund various ideas and undertakings. People who wish to fund a project -- say a musician, a filmmaker, an artist, etc. -- sign up on Kickstarter and anyone who wishes to pledge toward it can do so and may receive "rewards" (such as ...
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