in an amusing post the site formerly known as up2speed [ and even more formerly known as marketingfix ], explains why they’re changing their name to marketingwonk mere months after the last change. they forgot to do a trademark search. anyway, best of luck to them. the site, whatever the name, is always informative.
that said, i’m not sure why they just didn’t stick with marktingfix, which i think is less clunky than marketingwonk.
i live for the days that i can juxtapose the announcement of a shiny, new aviation software system which will rate your risk level based in part on their city of departure, destination, traveling companions and date of ticket purchase, with the news that a man shipped himself from new york to texas in crate.
yes, that’s right. today i had the easiest,
least painful experience with
sendmail
of all things. for reasons too obscure to go into, i needed a local
mail server. normally, i avoid
sendmail
like the plague after discovering the pleasures of
postfix
. but local in this case means
os x
, which comes preloaded with
sendmail
.
great. i’ve either got to fiddle with installing
postfix
which will inevitably have a few speed bumps, but i get the
advantage of being able to configure it quickly; or i go with
sendmail
which is already installed, but which will likely come with it’s
own configuration speed bumps.
but a quick search for
“os x sendmail”
turns up the
“one click sendmain enabler”
, which happens to be heartily
recommended
by
jon udell
, which is good enough for me.
1 minute later i had a functioning mail server running.
i hear that
panther will go with postfix
anyway, so maybe i’ll only need to sully my system with
sendmail
for a short time.
recently, i downloaded a few of the christopher lydon interviews and put them on my ipod for when i’m running or driving around and sick of npr.
yesterday i rather enjoyed wandering around the home despot, while listening to an interview with the real live preacher. good stuff. now a good thing is even easier, considering that all the interviews are available in one tidy collection. just in time for a trip to chicago
listmatic is exactly the type of thing i’d throw into a “sidebar” links blog, because when it comes down to it, there isn’t really that much you need to say about it. and yes, i did find it on jason’s remaindered links.
interesting. of a whim i applied for google adsense and now i’m not sure what to do. i think it might be a little jarring for ex machina, but it might make sense for conflux and {bio,medical} informatics.
it’s densely packed with all sorts goodies and perhaps even a bit off-putting in the same way those the high-falutin’ “lit crit” classes in college, but don’t let that stop you from getting lost in “landscapes of capital”. much, much good stuff on the medium and the message:
“”Our project is an ongoing attempt to write a multimedia Web-based book dedicated to studying how corporate television commercials portray a world shaped and defined by global capitalism during the late years of the 20th century and the first years of the 21st. Drawing on a set of over 800 TV commercials sponsored by corporate firms from 1996 to present, we try to map conceptually the landscapes and narratives of Cpital, Technology and Globalization as seen in corporate television ads.”
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