A terrorist threat is thwarted in London. The reaction here and there – making flying more uncomfortable for everyone else, heighten the ‘threat alert’ to ‘red’ (because something might happen we’re not aware of? – hmmm. I felt more secure). Seems that with the plot foiled, we should be _safer_ in the immediate short term …
Author Archives: Garrick van Buren
Corn Soda
Good conversation over at Marginal Revolution on how corn subsidies and sugar quotas have contributed to the fattening of America with a secondary debate on the superior soda sweetener.
Free and Open vs Not – At a Glance
Steve Borsch weighs free & open against for-fee and closed. In in he brings up some great points – namely, if the problem you have is solved – good enough – by a hosted, for-pay service, then installing and setting up a “free”, open-source system isn’t worth it. Personally, I’m not keen on SurveyMonkey’s presentation …
Finally – Multiple Speakers in iTunes AirTunes
Spent a few moments over lunch refining my wireless network, while making sure everything worked as expected, I noticed a ‘Multiple Speakers’ option in my iTunes v6.0.5 (20). About Frigging Time! When we first set up the Airport Express, I was baffled why I couldn’t have the same music playing in the room with the …
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Agent FeedSeeder Says ‘Hi’
If you see: FeedSeeder/Development (http://workingpathways.com); TEST Furrow in your logs, that’s me. Well, technically, the T-minus project I’ve been talking about. Hi. How are you? Things are good. Thanks. I’m pretty happy with how things are behaving, even at this yet early stage. Just the poking around I did tonight felt very comfortable. I’m looking …
Compare and Contrast
Exhibit 1: The lastest Morning Coffee Notes talking frankly, casually, honestly about business and the internet. There’s a pile of very valuable lessons in this conversation. Exhibit 2: TechCrunch’s heavily produced, seemingly scripted, wardrobed, cast of 14 CEOs talking buzzwords. Update 12 August 2006: The Om and Niall Podsessions have left me unsatisfied lately. Too …
Blog Networks Are An Oxymoron
It’s a rare recording label with more fans than the artists it supports, a rare television company with more fans than the programs it broadcasts. Anyone can create a network just by installing MagpieRSS on their favorite server and loading it up with their favorite RSS feeds. Er, I think that’s a network, maybe a …
Different Words for a Sandwich with Meat Cut from a Vertical Rotisserie
Last night, over a dinner of thinly-sliced lamb in a small, round piece of bread with tomatoes and onions, we wondered what we should call this sandwich. According to Wikipedia, here are our options: Gyros – this is the Greek term, ‘jeeros’, and the first time I had one at Drag’s Pizza in Rice Lake, …
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Kyle Says You Should Listen to the First Crack Podcast
Check out Kyle’s Podcasts that you should listen to list. I’m flattered to have the First Crack podcast mentioned in the same list as Skepticality and Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com. Rock on.
Dave Winer on Ad-proaching a Singularity
“When they finish the process of better and better targeted advertising, that’s when the whole idea of advertising will go poof, will disappear. If it’s perfectly targeted, it isn’t advertising, it’s information.” (I said a similar thing a couple months back.)