Due to problems with the site all this week, a couple of time-sensitive stories that I wrote but coudn’t post have now been posted with pre-dated timestamps.
I’ve been following every news item about the Mac mini with likely more interest than it deserves. What can I say, I like the little computer. As it turns [...]
Karen forwarded me a link to Juicy Panic’s “you drive me oh oh oh” video by torisukoshiro + autophene.
More animation and illustration by torisukoshiro is linked from the main site.
Then she sent me this link to How Strange, a site full of odd, interesting, and weird images.
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Gizmodo mentioned the new Garmin iQue 3600a GPS Palm for Pilots this morning. There’s a long write up about it at MyPalmLife, but the Gizmodo story linked to Palm247.
Once there, I found a link to instructions on putting the Wikipedia on a Palm. Well, you’ll need a 1GB SD card, but that’s okay, right? [...]
My hosting provider has a US-based datacenter and UK-based staff. It’s an odd mix that may or may not be helpful when things go all to heck, like they did on Saturday and again on Tuesday.
The first acknowledgment of the problem Saturday explained that “the server is reporting a Kernel Panic.” then four hours later, [...]
Charles Jade at ArsTechnica has written both a Mac mini preview and a MacWorld Expo show walkthrough. The expo is about a lot more than the Stevenote, and Jade does a fine job walking us about the show floor. Also entertaining is an OSViews story on the Mac mini that concludes the mini is far [...]
I said the Mac mini was the reincarnation of the Cube last week, but Gizmodo has posted a picture of the two, um, together. We all knew the mini was small, but this shows how reall small it is.
The Unoffical Apple Weblog has a list of things people are planning to do with their mini [...]
Yesterday I posted a story about using a Mac mini in my home entertainment center. I noted that I’d already replaced my CD player with iTunes on an old iMac and I wondered if I could do the same for DVDs. I ignored the facts that some provisions of the DMCA may make this illegal. [...]
Gizmodo has two pictures of a young Bill Gates vogueing on a desk with 5.25-inch floppies and a circa-1986 PC monitor. Oh, wait, is that a Mac on his desk behind him?
The pics were reportedly published in Tiger Beat, and Gizmodo is offering a reward for the original issue.
update David Heisler wrote to Gizmodo to [...]
More than a few people are looking at the Mac mini as a new component in their home entertainment center. CDs are unknown in our house, where iTunes and an old iMac entirely replaced our five disc changer some time ago. Correction: CDs are used as an input medium. New CDs are ripped into iTunes [...]
Michael Stephens’ Twelve Techie Things for Librarians 2005 deserves a look. User-centered technology planning, RSS, acnd convergence lead his list, but other items speak directly to the role of the library in the internet age.
I learned today that pMachine Pro — the software behind this site — has been discontinued. I’d expected the announcement for some time, seeing it today reminded me that I should be looking for a new blog/CMS solution. Expression Engine has largely replaced pMachine, and I know at least one person running it, so I’ll [...]
This super-cool 70s-styled logo adorns the side of a trailer in the backwoods of New Hampshire.
More photos from MaisonBisson
trying to quote lyrics for his book, Planet Simpson to understand how current copyright law is already limiting legitimate work.
Lots more stories of copyright law gone amok in the MaisonBisson Copyrights & Intellectual Property index.
If you read nothing else all year, read this.
Will Shetterly’s “The People Who Owned the Bible” is a tale of copyright gone amok. It’s the clearest, plainest, and funniest of all such works I’ve seen.
Note: My title is based on a New York Times story about copyright from a while back. Am I in trouble?
In his MacWorld Expo keynote today, Steve Jobs introduced the iPod shuffle.
From MacNN:
Apple introduces iPod Shuffle…flash based player. Smaller than most packs of gum.
Weighs the same as 4 quarters (less than 1 ounce).
Volume/Up dow. Simple LED to provide feedback. No display.
Either shuffle or album-based playback.
USB 2 transfer connector under connector at the bottom. 12-hour rechargeable [...]
