Dec 06
Sep 28
Someday when I also have far too much time on my hands I want to count the number of cuts in this video - it didn’t seem like very many.
Sep 07
Merlin Mann of 43folders.com posted this to his blog, and as a mac newbie, I’m also posting it here for further exploration. Some of these I know about and some are new. Merlin said it’s a good list, so I’ll try at least some of these.
Sep 05
A very cool site that trolls open directories of music and indexes it. Here’s a quick playlist I made there:
Aug 22
The original post uses the “W** 2.0″ buzzword, but I’ll just call it a lengthy (not complete, although complete is probably impossible) list of APIs for interesting/innovative use. If you don’t know what an API is, here is the wikipedia page.
Here’s the link to the list of APIs. I know of a few they’ve left off including SugarCRM and Asterisk among others.
Aug 10
Aug 02
I found this article that features several different forms of data visualization that might be of interest to a colleague (or it might be on the basic side for her). Some of these are just funny little web 2.0 “mashups” (wincing as I use that word). A few I’ve actually seen before, but one I actually might look at from time-to-time.
Newsmap is a site that matches the font and space used by an article on the page to it’s popularity on Google News. The bigger the rectangle and size of the font, the more popular that article is. This would be incredibly cool as a widget. Also cool would be keyword filters to then be able to visualize which stories on a certain topic get the most traffic.
Seeing this reminded me that I should get the appropriate tool that displays the contents of my hard drive like this. (Which comes native with the Linux KDE desktop.) Lifehacker wrote a great post reviewing several of these a while back.
Jul 25
From Slashdot: “Inspired by Negroponte’s laptop for children, the Swedish company Medison is now taking orders for their US$150 Linux laptop, the Medison Celebrity. The laptop is a 1.5 GHz Celeron M 370 with 14 inch screen, wireless network and it comes with Fedora Red Hat pre-installed.”