i'm going to post urls! urls! urls! on the off chance that it'll help me remember to put an 'url interface' together for the archives.
posted by e3
9:33:47 PM
i realize the point the author is trying to make in microbrew and there's a big part of me that agrees with it:
of course, in my fantasy the pipe is freer than what you'll find at starbucks and the coffee is more like what you might find at peet's.
posted by e3
9:38:11 PM
"If you, an average caffeine consumer, see your peers enjoying "an even better in-store experience" and "shopping online while enjoying their beverage," as the press release predicts, won't you want get on board, too? Won't you want to feel the rush of a million blinking gadgetry advertisements, the miniscule text scrolling across your pager telling you that you got that house, the smart snap of the Enter key being hit? To get all those non-geeks thinking that it's fun to get online when they're not at work, that it's okay to incorporate the Internet into every aspect of their lives, Microsoft has to demonstrate its wares in a safe, non-threatening, non-technical environment. What better place to begin, then, than amid the tasteful lighting and woody hues of a Starbucks, conveniently located on every single corner of every single American city?"on the other hand there's still something warm and narcotic thinking about walking into starbucks and ordering a large cup of coffee and getting connected to a fat pipe.
of course, in my fantasy the pipe is freer than what you'll find at starbucks and the coffee is more like what you might find at peet's.
behold! i have seen the killer app for wireless devices. at least in certain demographic groups:
posted by e3
8:09:38 PM
""It's like a virtual girlfriend, but it happens to be Pamela Anderson," Eruptor founder and CEO Brad Foxhoven said. "If you don't take care of her she goes to bed, gets sick and is hated by everyone.""mark my words. bigger than tickle-me-elmo.
"The company also touts "PortaPimp" and "PortaHo" games, where pimps and hookers fight each other for money."
i'm familiar with using self organizing maps to study the mechanisms of action of chemotherapeutic agents but the big picture mentions them in an entirely different context:
posted by e3
9:17:28 PM
"THE rivers of electronic information gushing around the world?s companies ought to reveal a lot about how people communicate within these organisations. But until now the very volume of data involved has defeated attempts to analyse it. A group of Finnish academic physicists has, however, developed some nifty software to help with the task."[ self organizing maps and the big picture via peterme]
"The main sifting technique employed is called a self-organising map. This projects the convoluted network of different types of communication between individuals on to a plane (see diagram). It does so by repeatedly adjusting the position of the individuals in the map, in order to minimise the distance between those whose communications have most in common. The trick behind this process is to find a mathematical formula that measures these distances efficiently, since the types of communication can be very different in nature. Dark islands on the map show clusters of individuals who are working strongly together. Weak bridges of communication link some of the islands. And deep channels of silence isolate certain islands entirely."
i actually downloaded facemail just to see how creepy it would be to have an 'avatar' read my mail:
posted by e3
7:59:23 PM
"While it's of dubious value for daily use, Facemail can be a lot of fun. I wrote a facemail in which I had a character wink every few words and stutter. "I I ;-) I I I feel buh buh bugs crawling :-( under my skin. :-(" I wrote. The face stuttered, twitched, made strange faces, and looked deeply disturbed. I sent it to a friend who sent me back his own crazy Facemail. It was pretty cool."unfortunately, the novelty wore off before i ever hit the 'install' button because i couldn't think of anyone else who would go through the effort to download and install the software. sending myself creepy messages just didn't seem like as much fun.
had a bad experience with java? simson garfinkel feels your pain:
posted by e3
8:58:59 PM
"But what will be the ultimate legacy of Java? The anti-Microsoft crowd said that Java would allow Sun to finally make inroads against Microsoft's dominance of the desktop. But in the final analysis, Java was nothing more than a ploy to capture the public's interest and, in so doing, boost Sun's stock price. And it worked marvelously. Java's introduction in 1995 marked the beginning of what was essentially a five-year climb in the price of Sun's stock: $1,000 invested in Sun on July 1995 would have been worth $18,535 at the close of trading on December 30th, 2000. Now that's the power of Java."i guess i can't complain too loudly since i know a few people who consider me to be slow, ugly and irrelevant too.
i think maybe two people will find Things to Say When You're Losing a Technical Argument amusing. but it's funny. really. in a 'you-had-to-be-there' kind of way.
[via dave]
posted by e3
8:42:45 PM
now here's a problem that i just don't see myself having to face anytime soon:
posted by e3
8:34:14 PM
"The story that you usually see in the press is about an arrogant 26-year-old multimillionaire who thinks that he knows everything. You see this spin most often, but there's another spin too: There's this really bright 26 year old who's been quite successful and who's scared. "Oh, my goodness, I've got to run this meeting," he thinks. "I'm going to have to meet with this team, and then I'm going to have to go to dinner with them. I'm terrified. I'm just pretending to be the chief technology officer. I'm really just a computer hacker who got sucked into this world.""
i suppose the cynical could have a field day with this perspective from viewfromtheheart on the blogger server fund, but that would be missing the point:
posted by e3
7:08:24 PM
"Blogger has helped get a lot of nice folks onto the web. It's made it easy, up until recently, for folks to get weblogs up and running in a hurry. So what do you owe them? Contractually, nothing. They made no demands of you, and now you can pack up your content and march on down the road to another 'blog services provider. But I think that when somebody does you a good turn, the least you can do is think about what you can do to return the favor. Whether it is just be compassionatly quiet and listen, or try to help solve the problem, there is usually some way to help.[via genehack]
And what will you get for your help? No, no stock options or IPO's; no job offers or discounts. Just the knowledge that you were part of the dream. Part of the team. Part of a community."
i think it's just about impossible to understate how much ian macKaye altered the trajectory of my entire existence. and i mean that in the best possible way. as usual, he's speakin' the truth:
posted by e3
6:31:26 PM
"Napster may go by the wayside because it may just sell out. That's apparently what's going on now. But people will continue to find ways to share the music that has affected them. With Napster and the sharing of music, of course, there are going to be people who exploit it. Greed has no end. But there's a lot of good that could happen. We shouldn't let the economic concerns of the major labels infringe on our freedom to share music. Fuck 'em. "
got some spare time with absolutely nothing to fill it with? webtrumps might be just what you need.
or not. [via zeldman]
posted by e3
9:19:13 AM
or not. [via zeldman]
Creating Audio CDs With Linux:
posted by e3
9:05:17 AM
"This article follows the process of recording the material to the hard disk, editing and filtering it with signal processing software, and finally creating an audio CD from the results, complete with custom covers for the jewel case. I'll present and describe the tools used in each stage of the process, and I'll explain how you too can turn your computer into a powerful audio CD mastering machine, using only free and open-source Linux software."
i don't know >how< i missed the singing bass hack.
the possibilities are endless. [via usr/bin/girl]
posted by e3
9:00:47 AM
the possibilities are endless. [via usr/bin/girl]
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.”
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