Month: May 2006
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Video chat with more than just Macs
I’m a huge iSight fan, and I’ve converted three other family members (though it wasn’t hard). The more challenging video chat issue remains going between my Mac and my mother’s Windows machine. The camera doesn’t appear to be the problem, but so far we haven’t succeeded in getting video and audio. That’s trying AOL Instant…
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Slashdot CSS Redesign Winner Announced
Slashdot CSS Redesign Winner Announced…and it doesn’t look much different. Oh well. Still, kudos for trying.
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Movie: Inside Man
Until the afternoon before seeing the movie, I had never heard of Inside Man. Despite Spike Lee directing, and Denzel Washington, Jodie Foster, and Willem Dafoe acting, the marketing for this movie just passed me by…even the editorial marketing (reviews, etc.). Fortunately, two months after its release, it’s still showing at one theater in San…
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Movie: Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
The official website of Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines doesn’t load: http://www.terminator3.com. It’s only three years since the movie’s release, but duds sink fast, clearly. As duds go, this wasn’t the worst movie ever. But it was 100 minutes of my life I’ll never get back. The first two Terminator movies really earned all…
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WebsitesAsGraphs – Visualization of clock’s HTML source code
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.mobi for the mobile web is a non-starter
Various publications covered the introduction of .mobi as a Top Level Domain (TLD). Basically, everyone who has a website in .com, .net, .org or one of the other TLDs is being encouraged to think about .mobi for their mobile content. (Details in the CNET News.com article about “dot-mobi”.) Let me come right out and say…
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Welcome Martin
Martin Green jumps in with a blog, Forward Looking Statements. I think Webshots, and the other community properties at CNET Networks, will benefit from the conversation. Subscribed.
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Movie: Raising Arizona
I’ve seen bits of Raising Arizona before, but last night I watched the whole movie. Funny, though a bit manic by the end. Telling that the Metacritic score is a 55 (mixed or average reviews), while the user score is 86. Can you say…cult hit? I suppose you can expect at least that much success…
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Book: The World Is Flat
I haven’t bumped up against the TimesSelect wall since I wrote about its introduction in September 2005. However, after reading The World Is Flat by Thomas Friedman, I can understand some of the attraction of the columnists…at least Friedman himself. This exploration of globalization, sub-titled “A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century,” tells a forceful…
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Book: The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
After seeing the movie last year, I re-read Douglas Adams’ The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy last weekend during a plane flight. My copy is a 1979 paperback, when it was Hitch Hiker’s (two words) instead of Hitchhiker. It’s a slim 159 pages…loomed larger in memory, honestly, although brevity is a benefit. After the…