Year: 2003
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3D map of London Tube
A map that’s more art than function, at least from San Francisco. But nifty all the same.
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Time-shift your radio
Griffin Technology gets accessories for the Mac right. So I’m taking a chance, and pre-ordering RadioShark, which will let me time-shift radio the same way I time-shift TV with TiVo. Yes, I sound like a damn advertisement, but I’m curious/excited. There are shows like This American Life which I would really enjoy listening to, but…
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BOOK: How Would You Move…
A bit over a week ago, I finished a short book with one long title: How Would You Move Mount Fuji?: Microsoft’s Cult of the Puzzle — How the World’s Smartest Companies Select the Most Creative Thinkers. Aside from the examples of various puzzles and brain teasers (and their answers!), I felt William Poundstone’s book…
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10 years of online news
Steve Outing reminisces about 10 years of online news. He doesn’t seem so enthused about what newspapers have done online to date. I would say it’s still early, although no newspaper has made itself a critical part of my online life to date. I wasn’t at Internet World in 1993, but I was at the…
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Book: Quicksilver
The day before Thanksgiving, I finished Neal Stephenson’s Quicksilver, the first volume of his Baroque Cycle trilogy. Stephenson takes the ancestors of the protagonists in Crytonomicon (his most recent book) and sprinkles them through 17th century Europe, in key roles, especially among the nascent scientific community coming together (in England) as the Royal Society. I…
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Claiming my place
Just added the Technorati link to the footer of my blog home page. Yes, I’m a lemming. We’ll see if BlogShares ever makes it back, too, so the broken image will resolve once more.
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Big promises
I’ve been reading Vin Crosbie’s posts for about a decade on the online-news mailing list, and his blog for several months. He knows publishing in a digital world. Still, he just made a very big public promise to deliver the business plan for the future of publishing. There is a lucrative business plan for online…
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Blogmarks
Just picked up that term from the comments of Jeremy Zawodny’s blog post on 2004 predictions. I certainly keep bookmarks in Safari only as long as it takes me to post them here… which can be several weeks, admittedly. I’ll have to try one of those bookmarklets (Radio Express?) to see if I can make…
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Putting the fan back in…
Read Sportscolumn.com for biased views on sports. Uneven columns, but that Philly fan is usually entertaining. Too bad the Eagles will disappoint him once again. Not sure how or why or when, but it will happen.
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Empire State Building
Here’s an Empire State Building made entirely of Legos. [via Slashdot] When I was a kid, my dad and I built a paper model of this building from a kit. Took a long time, but it was fun. It was also fun, years later, when it was a bit worse for wear, to burn the…