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2007/01/16
16-Jan-2007
Geni: Online Tool For Geneology
Very very cool. The Geni Blog: Geni in the Press. My extended family is way into genealogy. I’m sort of interested too. This is a cool way to play with it. Check out Geni.com. Killer flash-based user interface. Sublimely easy to use. Recommended.
16-Jan-2007
“Joe, don’t read this one”
Poo? Too late. I was there, and those photos truly reflect Tyler’s incredible enthusiasm and cackling howls of laughter at tasty food that looks like excrement. I believe he even asked for the recipe.
16-Jan-2007
[CakePHP:PHP] : [CakeInfo():phpinfo()]
This is pretty nifty! cakeinfo! I’ll be using this on some of my projects to do internal diagnostics.
16-Jan-2007
The Diamond Age: Mini-Series for TV
via BoingBoing, and confirmed on Clooney’s studio site. Here’s the story from scifi.com: SCI FI Wire: Diamond Age, based on Neal Stephenson’s best-selling novel The Diamond Age: Or a Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer, is a six-hour miniseries from Clooney and fellow executive producer Grant Heslov of Smokehouse Productions. When a prominent member of society concludes...
16-Jan-2007
Time, Attention, and Alan Watts
Thomas Barnett got an assistant and prioritizes based on the level of effort from the asker. Neal Stephenson simply asks you to go away. Eric Raymond wrote a whole article on asking good questions. One of my favorite articles is from Mark Pilgrim called Why We Won’t Help You (from 2003) which is actually inspirational...
16-Jan-2007
Peter Nicholls’ Definition Of Science Fiction As Quoted By Bruce Sterling
It occurs 45 minutes into the Long Now mp3 of the event “The Singularity: Your Future as a Black Hole;” it makes me laugh. Why would Science Fiction stoop to this? Why are they deploying this grand mathematical notion as like, a source of “plot coupons” Well I’ll explain this to you, and if you...
16-Jan-2007
Lyrics: The Killer Inside Me, by MC 900 Foot Jesus
I really like this song, available on One Step Ahead of the Spider. At some point I transcribed the lyrics, and here they are. If he put out more records, I would buy them. It’s interesting to me that though he’s still alive, or seems to be, Mark Griffen, aka MC 900 Foot Jesus, is...
16-Jan-2007
Good Day Y’all
I have a few things bubbling on my mind. I was quite moved by this article about bloggers in the Middle East. If there were a risk that I might go to jail for my blogging, would I still do it? This is a hard question, but I’d like to think I would. The stories...
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