Month: March 2006
Wednesday, 22 March 2006
You are a Dynamic Inventor
So says, My Personal DNA Report.
Tuesday, 21 March 2006
Amazing Race Season 9 – Episode 4
Deutsche Bahn…I have such fond memories of the DB. Like the time I caught a trip from Hamburg to Hannover on St. Niklaus Day – and the conductor’s passed out apples w/the DB logo grown into them. Ahhh, German hospitality.
Wall of Death
Jen, “Can I do it?”
No argument here.
“Awe, you don’t get to drive?”
Roadblock – Find Roaming Gnome
Ha! Jen says I have better luck than she does, so I’m doing it. Gnomes are funny. Especially the beer making ones (those are Belgian, not Travelocitizen).
Actually, Eric & Jeremy could have rented their German.
Detour – Break it or Slap it
We have to break it. As Jen says, “You have less than no rhythm.” Breaking bottles over each other’s head sound like a damn good time. And looks hilarious. Especially with Lederhosen-clad dancers circling you.
Garrick’s Favorites
- BJ & Tyler – #2, I love these guys – they know how to race.
- Dave & Lori – #5
- Ray & Yolanda – #7
9 More SXSW 2006 Selections
- Vile Lives by The Arm
Simple, rock. Just the way I like it. - Goodbye Daily Sadness by Cruiserweight
Punk, rock, chix. - East Side by Benko
Hardcore Dork Rock. - Hanging Around by Gemma Hayes
A little country, a pretty voice. One of a million just like her, doesn’t change that I just like her. - Broaden a New Sound by Nobody & Mystical Chords of Memo
Non-existant in the Showcase listings. Not even Google knows. Sounds the the folks from The Minus 5 with a pseudonym. - Face Down by Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
Reminds me of anything by Sponge. Catchy, rockin’, with a thick layer of cheese on top. - Avantcore by Busdriver
The most interesting hip hop I’ve heard in quite a while, reminds me of early Del mixed with Soul Coughing - Bundys by Animal Alpha
What if L7 was from Norway? Glad you asked. - A New England by Billy Bragg
I was introduced to this song when Too Much Joy covered it on their …Finally Album. TMJ turned up the tempo and the desperation. By comparison, Bragg’s version seems painfully slow and half-hearted.
We Are All Silos
Another day, another MacLeod (the word I’m using to describe my heavy-handed, Hugh MacLeod-inspired imagery).
How many login/password combinations are you (or your browsers) remembering?
Aside from the security issues inherent in having multiple keys around the web, each login/pass is another barrier to adoption, integration, usability, and usefulness.
Customers are the silo, not publishers – application or otherwise.
Great conversation with J Wynia on this topic this morning. The point is, we all have the ability right now to hold, serve, and control our own data. Fifteen minutes into the future, we won’t be adding information to services – we’ll be pointing our own urls to them.
Trackbacks & tags, trackbacks & tags. This is where EdgeIO is pointing to the future. Aggregators and other services pulling in distinct tags, basically taking ownership of a word. While authors still own their original posts. The opposite of Technorati.
Back to Basics 2.0
I predict the next internet-enabled application to capture our imagination will have no AJAX, Flash, what-have-you. It will be so minimal, so basic, so straight-forward, it’ll make Google.com’s interface feel complicated.
On a related note:
“Here’s betting that ‘Web 2.0’ is what we’ll call the next crash.” – Doc Searls
Monday, 20 March 2006
Time to Mothball WishRSS – RSS Feeds Standard for Amazon Wishlists
A while back, I played around with Amazon’s ECommerce Services to spin out RSS feeds for wishlists – the result was the highly flakey and slow WishRSS.
Today, Amazon announced RSS feed for wishlists exists by default.
Yea! Now I can cross a rebuild of WishRSS off my list of Things To Do. Nice. Gotta love delegation.
Death is My Exit Strategy
Maybe it was:
- -The rash of Web 2.0 acquisitions (Brightcove + MetaStories, Google + Writely, SixApart + SplashBlog)
- – The sense that Web 2.0 is becoming a pile of me-too’s copying less than useful applications
- – The general need for Spring to spring
- – All of the above
Either way, the above MacLeod got stuck in my head this morning.
I quickly searched GapingVoid.com for anything similar. Came up empty.
Friday, 17 March 2006
Bird Flu for the Birds
Perhaps I’d feel differently if Bird Flu was the only Big Bad the Big Media has thrown at us in the past 6 years. But it’s not.
Flood. Iraq. Terrorist Attack. Neighbors. Asteriods. First Graders. Blogs. (Maybe I’ll finish finding links later, maybe not.)
Call me cynical, but bird flu feels FUDdy. Especially when something like this comes through.
Jen read Flu. She says we’re due.
That may be. At minimum, the wrong people (everyone) are being told to prepare for something full of ‘ifs’, ‘whens’, and ‘maybes’.
(emphasis mine)
91 people have died on record from bird-to-human transmission. No human-to-human cases have been found.
The CDC conservatively estimates 20,000 people die each year from regular flu (the kind we have shots for).
More than 33,000 people have died due to military intervention in Iraq. The official death toll of the Sept. 11 disaster is 2,986.
I still remember the constant threat of MAD thrown at us growing up. I recognize that there were moments in the cold war where it came very close to occurring.
But. It. Didn’t. I think we’ve lost perspective.
Thursday, 16 March 2006
Degrassi Junior High – Awkward. Funny. Awkwardly Funny.
Jen and I are revisiting our awkward years via Degrassi Junior High (thanks Netflix).
Aside from the oddly vague and ambiguous endings, they’re very enjoyable. Especially the public announcements in the school – full of on-subject jokes.