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9.15.2000

MP3 Player, Detailed Information sigh. i'd like to pretend that i had enough free time to actually build my own mp3 player:
"This project is a stand alone MP3 player, designed for home, car, or portable use. It plays a group of MP3 files stored on a standard or laptop IDE hard disk drive... hundreds of hours using even today's low-cost drives. The firmware is available under the GPL, for anyone who want to really customize the player. High quality audio output is provided by a 24 bit DAC, using both standard line-level outputs and an amplified headphone output. The large capacity allows the use of very high MP3 quality settings, that would reduce flash based players to only a few songs. Because it's a complete stand alone player usable in a variety of applications, you can have your entire MP3 music collection anywhere away from your computer. "
just think of the home automation possibilities of playing with the mp3 player and the world's tiniest webserver



posted by e3 4:29:26 PM

9.14.2000

hooray for mom, apple pie and google . it appears that yesterday's flap over google's directory rankings was, indeed, an innocent aberration to be blamed on the fact that googlebot actually obeys the exclusionary principle.
posted by e3 9:34:47 PM

9.13.2000

i'm almost embarrassed at how funny i find newbie blog chat. [via zeldman]
posted by e3 10:34:55 PM

Searching for directory sites: Google falls for Yahoo! i'm just going to pretend for now that this is all just some sort of mathematical fluke:
"Last November, as reported in Google likes directory sites, I discovered that Google had the uncanny ability to sniff out high-quality, but little-known directory sites. As I discussed in that article, Google was able to do this because it ranks sites according to how many people make links to them, and smart people everywhere learn that directories are important, so they make many links to them. Now, however, I've found solid evidence that Google's new alliances, especially the pact with Yahoo! that was announced in June, seem to have compromised its ability to find directories."




posted by e3 10:23:36 PM

9.12.2000

i don't know why xml-based protocols have been capturing my eye so much lately. if i get any free time at all, maybe i'll munge around xmethods and see if there is anything of interest:
"Standards like XML and SOAP make it easier for systems to make remote procedure calls across the Internet. For example, corporate systems will allow customers to make calls that check real-time inventory levels. Your car's navigation system will check local traffic reports when planning the quickest route. These are all "services". This site helps you find services that are publicly accessible."
posted by e3 11:08:54 PM

9.11.2000

crap. dark clouds are hanging over the nascent snowdeal.org media empire. taylor has removed me from his list of regularly visited sites. and what do i get replaced with? "frivolous gaming sites". oh, that's just great. actually this is my first experience with something that feels close to rejection and i don't like it! taylor, please come back. i'll be interesting. you'll find stuff here that you won't at those silly "frivolous gaming sites". honest. sniff.
posted by e3 9:59:34 PM

9.10.2000

first pixels are recommended as the format to specify font sizes, then i learn of the death of the websafe color palette. my safe, secure web world is crumbling before my eyes.
posted by e3 10:07:08 PM

just in time for summer - look snazzy and support the site at the same time by buying some snowdeal schwag!

The stranger has been a fundamental touchstone of cultures at least since Abraham and Sarah invited weary road travelers into their tent only to find out that they were angels in disguise. The Odyssey, too, is a meditation on strangers and hospitality: Odysseus experiences different ways of being a stranger on his way home while the suitors abuse every rule of hospitality in his own house. It's easy to see why strangers are so important: a culture's attitude towards them expresses its understanding of its position in the world of social groups. In our culture, we're suspicious of strangers. They're a threat. They lurk in shadows. On the Web, however, strangers are the source of everything worthwhile. Strangers and their utterances are the stuff of the Web.

the hyperlinked metaphysics of the web





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