Monthly Archives: July 2007

Is It That They Don’t Care? Or Just Don’t Want It From Us?

July 31, 2007 – 12:44 pm

&tJessamyn asks ?do library users care about our new initiatives?? It comes from a survey done by the Wisconsin Public Library ConsortiumOn one hand, if you interpret the results literally you could make a decision to reject technology and focus on building a collection around personal enjoyment for Wisconsin residents. On the other hand, these [...]

By Casey | Posted in Libraries & Networked Information | Comments (2)



The FBI And IRS Are A Series Of Accountants

July 31, 2007 – 5:33 am

Alaska Senator Ted–The Internet Is A Series Of Tubes–Stevens (mockingly so, listen) returned to find the FBI and IRS searching his Alaska home.
Ted Stevens, investigation, series of tubes, raid, IRS, FBI

By Casey | Posted in Dispatches, Politics & Controversy | Comments (0)

iPhone Complaints

July 30, 2007 – 12:11 pm

Cliff and Vasken wrote up some link bait complaining about how the iPhone doesn’t meet their expectations or is a lesser competitor to a crackberry. But I challenge them to find a device that offers what they say is missing or even matches what the iPhone has.
Still, I’ve been using mine for a month now, [...]

By Casey | Posted in Technology | Comments (14)

Ingmar Bergman Dead at 89

July 30, 2007 – 6:14 am

Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman is dead at 89. The Local calls his work immortal, as did many of his colleagues.
Until now I’ve been misremembering the title of one of his movies as Three Smiles of a Summer Night, a 1955 romantic comedy. I’d say that most of his works I’d seen were depressing and [...]

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Sour Cream Berry Bread

July 29, 2007 – 10:46 am

My wonderful neighbor, Wendy, went berry picking and dropped me off a large container with luscious, fresh blueberries and raspberries. I decided to try a bit of an experiment and use the batter for one my favorite cakes with the berries. The result was this heavenly sour cream berry bread.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Grease and [...]

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What Is That Thing

July 28, 2007 – 2:26 pm

Kent Wien posted this photo of the tail of a Boeing 757 showing what looks like the exhaust end of a turbine.
I had to ask what it was all about, and Kent explained:
Ahh, very good question! There actually IS an engine back there. It’s the APU (auxiliary power unit) and it’s what keeps the [...]

By Casey | Posted in Planes, Trains, & Automobiles | Comments (0)

Poet-Bot

July 27, 2007 – 3:43 pm

Doug Savage’s take on Frost.
poet, poetry, robot, poet-bot, cartoon, savage chickens, doug savage

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iPhones Around The World

July 26, 2007 – 3:35 pm

A long time ago somebody started the Newtons Around The World gallery, and it came to symbolize the love we Newton users had for the little device as well as our geeky pride.
The trend seemed to continue with iPods Around The World, and now iLounge wants to start a gallery for the iPhone. I was [...]

By Casey | Posted in Copyrights & Intellectual Property, Photoblog, Technology | Comments (0)

iPhone Troubled, Replaced

July 25, 2007 – 12:32 pm

On Thursday I had trouble answering a call. By Friday night it was clear my iPhone was seriously porked. A visit to the nearby Apple store got me a swift replacement, and a promise that once I synchronized the new device it’d have all the info the old one did.
Hrm.
Well, the Mac Genius did ask [...]

By Casey | Posted in Technology | Comments (4)

Liz Danzico on WordPress Usability

July 22, 2007 – 4:23 pm

Liz Danzico of Happy Cog Studios spoke today about her consulting with Automattic on the design of the WordPress admin interface.
As with so many of the presentation today, I’m really hoping the slides will be published soon, as there are some great ideas coming out.
Liz spent a lot of time watching WordPress users at blog. [...]

By Casey | Posted in Technology | Comments (2)

Scriblio Goes To WordCamp

July 22, 2007 – 3:39 am

Scriblio is based on WordPress, an open source content management system, and the community that uses, supports, and builds it is what makes it great. WordCamp started last year, when the community was about 750,000, and it’s even more important now that it’s grown to nearly two million.
The first day of the schedule focuses on [...]

By Casey | Posted in Libraries & Networked Information, Technology | Comments (1)

Designing the Obvious

July 21, 2007 – 4:40 pm

Robert Hoekman, Jr is speaking now on Designing the Obvious, his book and philosophy:
These principles include building only what?s necessary, getting users up to speed quickly, preventing and handling errors, and designing for the activity.
I just added the book to my must read list, but what I’m hearing here sounds like instructions to [...]

By Casey | Posted in Libraries & Networked Information, Technology | Comments (2)

Calliope Gazetas Design

July 21, 2007 – 3:57 pm

Calliope Gazetas works for The FontShop and freelances under the name 99 Monsters. One of her projects includes skinning the Burning Man environmental blog.
Calliope Gazetas, design, portfolio

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Jason Brightman Design Portfolio

July 21, 2007 – 3:53 pm

Jason Brightman’s work includes XXLmag.
Jason Brightman, design, portfolio

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WordCamp WordCamp WordCamp

July 21, 2007 – 10:32 am

I’m at WordCamp again. This time I dragged Matt and Zach with me. Dan Kuykendall, author of PodPress, is first on the schedule, and I’m just now learning how he’s built in support for a variety of media types (more than MP3) and for premium content.
Those who showed up early got to pick over last [...]

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