Monthly Archives: April 2008

Where Do They Find The Time?

April 30, 2008 – 11:21 am

Clay Shirky recently posted a transcript of his Web 2.0 Expo keynote.
…If you take Wikipedia as a kind of unit, all of Wikipedia, the whole project — every page, every edit, every talk page, every line of code, in every language that Wikipedia exists in — that represents something like the cumulation of 100 [...]

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ROFLcon Turns Me On To Ustream.TV

April 29, 2008 – 11:07 am

I was amused to learn Nathan was officially at ROFLcon on behalf of his library. I wasn’t representing my work and wasn’t on the lookout for work-related tools, but I found some anyway.
Universities have been anxious to get into live video casting for a while. Our first effort eventually became PBS (NET, ETS and PBS [...]

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Anglia Ruskin University Faces Criticism 2.0

April 28, 2008 – 11:17 am

Anglia Ruskin University is in Cambridge, but it’s not Cambridge University. It’s likely that none of us would even know of Anglia Ruskin’s existence if it wasn’t for Naomi Sugai, but she’s not interested in promoting the school.
She’s got complaints, she’s fed up, and she’s taking her case to YouTube.
Well, she took her case to [...]

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2002 Honda Civic iPod/iPhone Install

April 27, 2008 – 6:30 pm

Last weekend, while I was putting an iPod interface into my Scion I did the same thing for my 2002 Honda Civic. Using Ben Johnson’s story as a guide, I bought a PIE HON98-AUX interface and dove in.
Aside from tools (screwdrivers and 8 and 10mm sockets), you’ll need:

The interface adapter
Audio wiring — I used a [...]

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Snakes On A Plane

April 25, 2008 – 10:42 pm

It was only after I’d taken my seat and David Weinberger began his ROFLcon keynote that I realized there was a box of t-shirts at the side of the room with a sign over them that said something along the lines of ?FREE: t-shirts from worn out memes.? Thinking that the internet might be old [...]

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Retro Atari 2600 Video Game Cover Art

April 21, 2008 – 9:22 pm

Sure you played Asteroids and Defender, but did you play these?

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2004 Scion xB iPod/iPhone Install

April 21, 2008 – 8:55 am

Based on this story about an iPod interface install I purchased a PIE TOY03-AUX aux input adapter so I could finally listen to my iPhone without using the lousy FM transmitter. Sure, I coulda bought a new car, as the manufacturers seem to have finally come to their senses and started including such inputs, but [...]

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Barbed Wire, The Deeper History Of

April 20, 2008 – 5:36 pm

It turns out that, like most everything else, barbed wire shows up at auctions. Not just shiny new stuff, you’ll find used stuff too. Expect it to be at least a little rusty, and look out for clumps of hair or other things stuck to it. Whether that adds value or not is unclear.
Where could [...]

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My Flickr Complaint

April 18, 2008 – 10:24 am

Some whine about movies on Flickr, others about the switch to Yahoo IDs, I simply want better rendering of transparent PNGs as JPGs.

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Cats Want To Eat Your Brains

April 14, 2008 – 6:44 pm

NYT: parasites in your brain are driving you to raise cats in hopes that they eat you. Hat tip to Cliff.

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Flickr Adds Video

April 14, 2008 – 8:22 am

I asked for it in 2004, before YouTube, Vimeo, Viddler, or Revver appeared on the scene, and before MySpace and Facebook added video sharing as a feature. Four years later they finally added it. Neil Rickards should get credit for creating the theme of “long photos” (Neil called them “moving photos”). And anybody who was [...]

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The Internet, According To mememolly

April 11, 2008 – 11:20 am

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Identity Management Going Commodity?

April 7, 2008 – 8:56 pm

Atlassian’s Crowd SSO and IdM solution has the kind of online pricing you’d expect for word processing software. I don’t know if it’s any good, but it’s a sign that identity management getting boring.

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Why Can’t I Re-Check Spam With Akismet & WordPress 2.5? (Workaround)

April 7, 2008 – 6:18 am

I recently installed WordPress 2.5 and among the changes I noticed was a loss of Akismet’s ?Recheck Spam? button (or something like that. It didn’t seem like such a problem at the time, but then I got swamped with so much trackback and comment spam that the flood DOS‘d my server. I had to disable [...]

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Cargo Aircraft Safety

April 3, 2008 – 11:02 pm

Who knew FedEx and UPS planes crashed so often? (Blame the intronetz for making this too easy to discover.)

UPS plane catches on fire, lands in Philadelphia (2006). Apparently the source of the fire remains a mystery, as with a few other UPS fires.
FedEx planes have crashed and burned in Tallahassee (2002) and Memphis (2006). In [...]

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