Monthly Archives: May 2006

Asian Scooter Gangs

May 31, 2006 – 6:21 pm

The members of this Taiwanese scooter gang might really be cooler than me. Well, they would be cooler if the scooter gangs weren’t also known to be violent:
A scooter gang viciously attacked and injured 12 teenagers — three critically — while on a violent joyride in Taipei County’s Tucheng City…
The gang of more than 20 [...]

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Car Lust

May 30, 2006 – 11:34 pm

I told Vincent that I didn’t really care much for cars. It was my sister, I explained, that wanted to look. Vincent agreed quickly and said it was rock climbing that excited him most. Cars, it turned out, were just a family thing he had to play along with.
Still, he told me about the Lotus‘ [...]

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Will Google Eat Itself?

May 29, 2006 – 11:06 am

Once upon a time Microsoft was the gorilla to beat. Once upon a time we thought Google could do it.
Perhaps not any more. Amazon has dropped Google’s search results from their A9 search aggregator in favor of Microsoft’s Live search, and while Yahoo!’s on again, off again partnership talks with Microsoft appear dead after Y!’s [...]

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Sweet Portland

May 28, 2006 – 3:28 pm

I have to thank Caleb and Caroline for showing around town, and offer my apologies to Heidi and Alice, who had offered me tips and suggestions that I (again) didn’t have time to follow up on. Someday I’ll enjoy a Stanich burger; someday I’ll find Rimsky-Korsakoffee; heck, someday I’ll even get to Powells.

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Denver Sights

May 22, 2006 – 10:06 pm

There’s plenty of public art in Denver, including a blue bear and this horse in a red chair (here and here, respectively). Tourists can also sneak a peak inside the Unsinkable Molly Brown’s house on Pennsylvania St.

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Denver Nights

May 22, 2006 – 7:36 am

El Chapultepec is a little jazz club on Market St in LoDo, and one of a number of finds in Denver.

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Presentation: Designing an OPAC for Web 2.0

May 21, 2006 – 10:38 am

IUG 2006 presentation: Designing an OPAC for Web 2.0 (also available as a PDF with space for notes)

This is an update of my ALA Midwinter presentation.

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And We’re Discarding This?

May 20, 2006 – 2:41 pm

I read enough of this to get a good laugh, but not enough to understand if it was serious or not. Some of it reads like satire, but other parts as are dry as, well, they’re dry (who really needs a simile anyway, they’re just dry, okay?).

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Scooter

May 19, 2006 – 2:34 pm

My new scooter. It’s not much of a picture, but we’ve had two weeks of rain and this is what I could get.

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Whiskey Blanket

May 17, 2006 – 9:45 pm

I just bought Whiskey Blanket’s It?s Warmer Down Here (2004) on the basis of a few tracks they offered on MySpace.
It’s hip hop, socially critical hip hop (crit hop?), set atop a well constructed downtempo trip hop music bed (yeah, I’ll cut it with the hops already). It immediately brought to mind MC 900 Ft. [...]

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Flickr Goes Gamma

May 16, 2006 – 4:52 pm

Just when we started wondering how much longer flickr would be beta, they announced gamma.
The new design had me scratching my head for a bit, but I’m coming to like the changes. The menu/toolbar in the header has direct links to a lot more stuff, while the stuff in the footer has many fewer links. [...]

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Better Business Bureau Pulls One Out

May 15, 2006 – 10:17 pm

I gave up on Hostgator a while ago, and I thought I’d cancelled my account until I noticed they were still charging me monthly (yeah, I should pay more attention to what’s on my CC bill). When I contacted them about it they claimed I never fully cancelled. Here’s a copy of the form I [...]

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Linkability Fertilizes Online Communities

May 15, 2006 – 10:58 am

It’s hard to know how Fuzzyfruit found the WPopac catalog page for A Baby Sister for Frances (though it is ranked fifth in a Google search for the title), but what matters is that she did find it, and she was able to link to it by simply copying the URL from her browser’s location [...]

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Stonehill Industrial History Center (aka the shovel museum)

May 14, 2006 – 11:26 pm

Most travel guides simply call it the ?shovel museum,? but it’s really the Stonehill Industrial History Center. Much more than shovels, curator Greg Galer tells us the collection reveals interesting facts about what we were building and how we built it over the past 200 years.
Located on the campus of Stonehill College in Easton Massachusetts, [...]

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Blogging From Basements

May 12, 2006 – 3:17 pm

My buddy Cliff emailed me excited about the following quote he found on the Yahoo Finance message boards:
Sun vs Dell
All you need to know about Dell & Sun was predicted 8 months ago by some blogger in his parent’s basement. The draft ads are cool:
http://spiralbound.net/2005/09/15/sun-talks-some-smack/
How come the big brokerage house analysts can’t figure this stuff [...]

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