There are a handful of services that bring podcasts to mobile phones over the phones data connection. Unfortunately, navigating the phone that way is really hard. I think there’s an easier way. Update 31 Aug 2007: I love the internet. If you wait long enough, the things you’re looking for will find you: “Podlinez is …
Author Archives: Garrick van Buren
Wednesday, April 11, 2007 11:41:11 PM
Just finished Disc 1 of Morgan Spurlock’s 30 Days series. The Muslim in America episode was by far the most striking. Jen and I paused it multiple times to discuss. Anti-aging hit me as well. Though nowhere near as strongly.
Wednesday, April 11, 2007 4:53:57 PM
word of the day: ad hominem. The first time I read it today, I had to look it up. I’ve since heard & read it 4 more times since then. All from different sources, published at different times.
Wanted: Bud Nippers
I took a long walk yesterday, and on Dave’s recommendation, listened to the great Skepticality interview with Pro. Philip Zimbardo (Stanford Prison Experiment, The Lucifer Effect, etc) on how “normal” people turn “evil”. Answer: Baby-step by baby-step in an environment encouraging exclusion. While my initial reaction to the blogosphere drama of the last couple weeks …
There’s No Accounting for Taste
From my perspective, transparency is about being up front about biases. Objectivity is an unachievable. Covering all sides of anything equally and without a subjective adjective is not only futile, it makes for a boring read. The prerequisite for making anything interesting is a perspective, a slant, some reason to care. Without that reason, why …
I’m Demoing The FeedSeeder Project @ MinneBar 07
If you’re on the fence about attending MinneBar, I’ll be demoing the FeedSeeder Project. Maybe that’ll tilt you either way. I’ve got a stack of index cards listing features that should be implemented by then. 16 features, 16 days. Tick tock. Update 11 Apr 2007: I’ll also be leading a session on ‘Designing for Use’. …
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Thursday, April 5, 2007 1:23:16 PM
In an effort to reduce my chronic back pain from hunching over the laptop screen, I just unpacked a 23″ Cinema Display. My first impression: Sure has a lot of cords.
This Song is a Commerical
“This Song is a Commercial” by Wonderlick “The future is ad-supported music. Not that the idea is new idea but it is reality.” – NVTS, Evolving Trends The future is music as ad and the future is already here. Recorded music is an ad for the live performance (always has been). Recorded music is an …
Tuesday, April 3, 2007 1:36:44 PM
Anyone else catch the excellent example of ‘Wisdom of Crowds’ in this week’s The Amazing Race? 4 people counting the same set of stairs, deciding the number that 2 people settled on was the correct number.
Doing Something About Carbon Offset Arguments
Like the NYTimes, a month ago, today’s Strib gave carbon offsets the hairy eyeball. As they confirm, being carbon neutral is super cheap ($6/laptop, a dime/gallon of gas). It’s so cheap, that I see it as the 2nd easiest way to be more environmentally & energy conscious. The first – buying all your energy through …
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