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• Unexpired Potential - Domains I Own Inspired by Rex’s unused domain list, here’s my list of yet-to-be-released projects: BlockByBlog.com CoffeeHacks.com Dashcaster.com ExpiredPotential.com Limble.com LunchForBrains.com Nusability.com Unlistened.com PodcastCalling.com RedBallThankYou.com SLAReporter.com Update June 3, 2008. A few more I’ve picked up since we last talked: DroidWarehouse.com Kernest.com MSGCTRL.com NeuPost.com Looking at the list and remembering the projects behind them, I’m pleasantly surprised; how much these ideas still interest me how some of these ideas are far easier to execute today then when
• A Million Pieces & LonelyGirl15 - Reality is Irrelevant 2 From the ‘So What?’ Department: LonelyGirl15 isn’t a ‘real’ person, just an entertaining video project James Frey’s A Million Little Pieces not a ‘real’ memoir, get your money back To me, both of these are non-stories and stories with illiterate audiences. There’s no reason for readers or viewers to feel cheated if they were entertained. That doesn’t
• Lineage Darrin points to the MIT SIMILE project. The lifeline/timeline visualization is similar to something I’ve been working on for the Genealogy Namespace for OPML project. While it’s cool to see a single person’s timeline, far more interesting to me in the intersection and relationship between multiple people (a marriage isn’t just one-sided, a birth has at
• Europe v. US: Taxes v. GDP We’ve got a European vacation in the works and by coincidence, the Marginal Revolution has a nice U.S. vs. Europe comparison thread running. “Further, a recent study has shown that Germans and Americans spend the same amount of time working, but the proportion of taxable market time vs. nontaxable home work time is different. In other
• The Newest Urbanist Congrats to Sam & Jen on the arrival of Joe Urban Jr..