Year: 2003
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“…including tax but not sunscreen”
It must have been amusing to write this CNN/Money story: “Nudity takes off“. My favorite quote? Cost for a suite: $2,500 per week, including tax but not sun screen.
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Gulker’s toilet
I shared this plumbing story with two colleagues at work today. I’m glad to read that all’s well that ends well. Not my cup of tea.
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MOVIE: Lara Croft, Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life
OK. Fluff movie, I admit. I saw the first one, and was mildly amused. Rumors were that the second Tomb Raider movie was better than the first. Not exactly high standards, but I needed a break from a Sunday evening at the office. Film was about what I expected, but I did not expect to…
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First Aubrey-Maturin movie?
Saw a preview last night for Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, a movie coming in November. As far as I know, this is the first Aubrey-Maturin motion picture made, but I’m quite willing (eager, even) to be enlightened. Russell Crowe is starring as Lucky Jack. I don’t recognize the actor playing…
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Temporary condition
For five short days, I’m a bachelor. I’ll try not to waste it all working!
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Time-ing is everything
I’ve written briefly about David Gelernter before. Now William Grosso, a “well-known speaker” I’ve never heard of throws out a short article titled “We’re all Gelernter Now“. Grosso doesn’t write much, but he does hit on the key point: “has anyone else noticed that time-based tagging is becoming more and more important to the way…
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Some competition for NNW?
A few days ago, I cited my limited awareness of MacOS RSS newsreaders. Just found one today, Shrook. While I don’t have a lot of time to explore, this looks like an intelligent application, and I see that the developer is smart enough to build in NNW subscription import… although Brent made the job easier…
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Editors save time
I’m listening to the fascinating Christopher Lydon interview of Dave Sifry, founder of Technorati. Sifry defends editors, or says the discussion/debate about editors (as witnessed — and read by both Lydon and Sifry — by Jeff Jarvis) really obsures the point: saving time. Editors save time, and the collaborative filtering does, too. Sifry says that…
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Tangible Media
As one who has started to limit his time creating in part because of the nuisance/stress of typing, I love seeing exploration into alternative interfaces, especially ones that take more advantage of our full range of physical expression. [thanks to Steve Ivy for the link]
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San Francisco = the new…
San Francisco is shrinking. In this Reuters story about newly released Census data, SF is even compared to Flint, Michigan and Gary, Indiana thanks to its incredibly vanishing population. San Francisco, with a population of about 776,000 in mid-2002, joins some other famously depressed U.S. cities, including Flint, Michigan, which ranked 240 on the list…