no, really. i think it might be difficult for you to imagine just how bad i am at golf.
i've caught a few of the
apple "switch"
commercials and found them mildly interesting, since i've recently
purchased an
ibook
after years of tolerating having a wintel box as my primary
computer.
i probably wouldn't have thought twice about the ads until i
noticed aaron
adams'
website
[ which looks like it's down as i type this post ] and
damon wright's
weblog
. perhaps i'm showing the true depths of my superdorkness, but i
was thoroughly fascinated to read about these guys' real life
experiences and how freakishly similar some of the parallels were
to my own life.
"hey!" i thought. "these guys really are just like me."
well. unfortunately, i didn't realize just how true that thought
could
be
:
"The bad news is that Apple couldn't have picked a starker collection of life's losers with which to promote the Macintosh.
Here in unforgiving relief are a collection of scarred, terrified refugees from life - for whom the computer is alternately a punishment surrogate, a child substitute or a masturbation object. "
"These people are so freaky that if one sat next to you on the bus, you'd suddenly find yourself wondering if walking home might be an altogether less traumatic option."
great. and yes, my wife does find this all very, very amusing.
me scratches chin. Graphical Interface For Very Large-Scale Conversations:
"In principle the Conversation Map system can be used just like a usual electronic news or mail program (e.g., Eudora, RN, or Netscape Messenger). The main difference is that the Conversation Map system analyzes the content and the relationships between messages and then uses the results of the analysis to create a graphical interface. With the graphical interface, a participant can see the social and semantic relationships that have emerged over the course of the discussion. The Conversation Map system computes and then graphs out who is "talking" to whom, what they are "talking" about, and the central terms and possible metaphors of the conversation."
[ via nooface ]
hmm. i was getting ready to follow ben trott's advice on installing spamassasin for os x and along comes cloudmark which sounds intriguing:
"The company's flagship product called SpamNet is the first collaborative spam reporting network capturing nearly every spam attack around the world in real-time to automatically keep 75 percent of spam out of peoples' inboxes - a percentage that will improve overtime as the network grows."
on further reading, unless i missed something completely obvious, it doesn't look like there's a os x client support yet and if it does appear soon, it'll probably be for outlook which i don't use. hi. ho.
Desktop Pattern Organization In Mac OS X:
"In Mac OS X desktop pattern and picture organization seems a lot more confusing and inaccessible then it did in OS 9. In the Desktop System Preference Pane there is a pull down menu of the few collections that Apple has pre-installed on your computer. What about your own collections? There is a very simple way to add your own collections to this menu so accessing your own pictures can become a breeze."
[ via splorp ]
with strategy letter v, joel once again displays his adeptness at making complicated things simple:
"Once again: demand for a product increases when the price of its complements decreases. In general, a company's strategic interest is going to be to get the price of their complements as low as possible. The lowest theoretically sustainable price would be the "commodity price" -- the price that arises when you have a bunch of competitors offering indistinguishable goods. So: Smart companies try to commoditize their products' complements."
wow. the k5 community comes up big for rusty's plea for help:
" It's almost a cliche at this point that whenever K5 faces adversity, whenever times look darkest, you pull out all the stops and restore my faith in humanity with a force that makes my head spin. And folks, you have done it again. In one day, you all managed to raise ten thousand dollars. I Am Not Making This Up."
bummer. i guess rusty's headline says it all.
We're Broke: The Economics of a Web Community:
"I come to you, Kuro5hin community, in an hour of need.
Great googly-moogly, could that be any more pompous? Nevertheless, it's true. You see, I found out last week that K5 is out of money. Our last remaining funds just went off to the gub'mint for quarterly taxes. I won't get a paycheck this month. Subscription income will help a little, but in the longer term, the prognosis is bleak. Frankly, I don't know what to do.
So I thought I'd take a little time and lay out the structure and workings of the media business in general, and K5 in particular, and ask what you think I should do."
matt jones and victor lombardi make me think about why i haven't been visiting ia blogs so much lately:
"The current social networks thinking is fascinating, and will only get better once more people dig into web services, and then the semantic web. It's a little disconcerting, embarrasing even, that no IAs are at the forefront of these discussions. Isn't that what we do, find interesting patterns in information and present them to people? It's high time we start balancing our focus on library science with some attention to computer science."
Working for Wankers Makes You Wordless:
"The dissociators work for wankers; it really is that simple. Wanker management believes that the company has One Voice; that voice comes down from On High and must neither be contradicted nor amplified nor qualified - and it must particularly never admit a mistake. Wanker management believes that smart workers exist basically to feed knowledge upward so that it can be properly incorporated into the One Voice - at which point, of course, any trace of the worker originating the knowledge is extinguished."[ via brent ashley ]
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“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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