It’s been a rough week for podcast-network overlords. First, Keith and the Girl dug into the Podshow Contract then Eric Rice responds with a smack down. Then, Graeme and Frosty in It Radio break the news that I’ve been making quietly acquiring podcasts for my own evil podcast network. No, it’s not safe for work …
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Five More from SXSW 2006
Modern Swinger by The Pink Spiders If you’ve been following this series (or this blog in general) you’ve probably picked up on my preference for dorky white guys with silly songs. The Pink Spiders also fall into that category. This song specifically reminds me of Caviar’s “She’s Flawed Like a Diamond”. Honey I Been Thinking …
Amazing Race Season 9 – Episode 5
BJ and Tyler are the greatest team, if only because they’re giving tribute – via their t-shirts – to previous Race teams; “Bowling” / “Moms”. Rad. Detour – Foundry or Laundry Uh. Laundry. No Question. “We Choose Not to Yield” Exactly it’s way too early to yield. The teams in the lead are too even …
Retiring Retirement
J Wynia ran some numbers concluding retiring at 65 will probably happen less and less.
Cameras Cameras Everywhere
I grabbed a Gyro and a Lamb Kabob from Holy Land Deli this evening and notice this advertisement for a local surveillance company. The first blob of red text says that the City of Minneapolis requires any grocery, tobacco, or liquor store to have a functioning surveillance system up and running as of January 2006. …
RSS Feeds Replacing CDs – It’s Starting
A while back I pondered RSS feeds replacing Compact Discs as the primary way to receive music from your favorite artists. As I mentioned in that post: “With a podcast, musicians can release whatever they’d like, whenever they’d like; demo tracks, rough tracks, experiments, final edits, interviews, conversations about the song writing process, anything their …
My Heritage Finds Alan Turing in a Tree
This morning, Jen and I were playing with MyHeritage.com‘s facial recognition system. Here you can see the MyHeritage system found Jen’s face and someone lurking in the bushes. Who could it be hiding in the Belgian forest? Perhaps British mathematician, logician, and cryptographer Alan Turing? Maybe, star of television’s Baywatch and Knight Rider, David Hasselhoff …
First Crack 76. Paying Attention with J Wynia
Back from SXSW 2006, J Wynia and I grabbed a morning tea and talked about: Using email clients for reading and managing RSS feeds J’s Windows Attention Recorder and Edison Thomaz’ OnLife and the AttentionTrust Recorder Comparing technology adoption to the ebb and flow of tides The ethics and benefits of attention recording Some thoughts …
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Making Jonathan Coulton Videos – Minnesota’s Winter Pasttime
A 10th Grade class in Sobriety High down the street in Edina made a video for Jonathan Coulton’s ‘Mandelbrot Set’. Aside from being a brilliant project, making videos for JC is a an excellent way to get through Minnesota winters. I should know.
We’ve Got To Start Somewhere
“I’m going to fine you $1 every time you write the word ‘consumer’ instead of customer!” – Ben McConnell