randomwalks/dj

big congrats to both  

Originally from Waxy.org Links reBlogged on May 27, 2006, 3:13AM

Originally from Waxy.org Links, on May 27, 2006 9:30 AM

by encouraging ubiquity of the "Web 2.0" meme, O'Reilly diluted the proprietary meaning of the mark  

Originally from Waxy.org Links reBlogged on May 27, 2006, 2:40AM

Originally from Waxy.org Links, on May 27, 2006 9:30 AM

electric performance; could they have been honoring Towel Day a day early?  

Originally from Waxy.org Links reBlogged on May 27, 2006, 2:18AM

Originally from Waxy.org Links, on May 27, 2006 9:30 AM

Originally from hustler of culture by souris reBlogged

Originally posted by souris from hustler of culture, on May 24, 2006 7:43 AM

Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week the Non-Expert helps a forlorn scientist understand why his friend and co-worker chose to quit her job and leave the state.

Have a question? Need some advice? Ignored by everyone else? Send your questions ‘); document.write(‘via email’); // —> . The Non-Expert handles all subjects and is updated on Fridays, and is written by a member of The Morning News staff.* * * Question: I moved to the deep South to take a good job as a government scientist. My position includes money for research, a laboratory, and a full-time technician. My new boss “suggested” I hire a local girl, which I did. After making her cry repeatedly and feeling like an over-demanding tyrant, I convinced an old friend from California to temporarily move to Mississippi and be my technician. She agreed and it really saved my career bacon. It’s now been two years and she’s moving back to California. How do I not feel resentment that being homeless and unemployed in California is somehow better than being gainfully employed and... Click here to continue reading this article.

Visit The Morning News.

Originally from The Morning News reBlogged on May 12, 2006, 10:23AM

Originally from The Morning News, on May 23, 2006 11:22 PM

be back in a week.

things to anticipate:

-- replacement janome sewing machine, can't wait to work that shit!
-- finishing heart balloon dress
-- piano stool cover, & question "is this project really necessary?"
-- two secret silk quilts (almost complete!)

+ more titillating news from the clinic (featuring guest pontificators boy 5: "you be the pterodactyl who lays the eggs; i'll be the pterodactyl who goes to work" and girl 10: "i was like excuse me there is no bookstore called the 'how to act your age' bookstore where every book inside it is called 'how to act your age' and they have one for every age" and parent X: "don't get too drunk this weekend, larogers." ?!)

Originally from serenalarogers by serenalarogers reBlogged on May 23, 2006, 10:03PM

Originally posted by serenalarogers from serenalarogers, on May 23, 2006 11:17 PM

I just noticed The Morning News Digest, "A weekly round-up of books (Mondays), mp3s (Wednesdays), and videos (Fridays)." This is my 18 year-old self's internet holy grail. My 30 year-old self is a little overwhelmed with a "books to read" list fifty titles long and an impossibly large mp3 collection, but this is still a fantastic resource.

Originally from hello, typepad by David Jacobs reBlogged on May 23, 2006, 7:50PM

Originally posted by David Jacobs from hello, typepad, on May 23, 2006 11:17 PM

Xcode 2.3 has just hit the streets. Bill Bumgarner points out a few of the highlights including the new distributed build system. [link]

Originally from James Duncan Davidson reBlogged on May 23, 2006, 8:21AM

Originally from James Duncan Davidson, on May 23, 2006 6:52 PM

I'm the Design Advisor for a new small company in NYC, and we're looking for a full-time web designer. I can't tell you a whole lot about the company here, but I can say it involves the web, contagious media, & weblogs and the people responsible are creative, reasonable, smart, level-headed and not at all "dot com".

What we're looking for is a generalist sort of web designer, someone who can develop the information architecture for an information-oriented web application, do visual mockups in Photoshop/Illustrator based on the IA, code the site up with valid XHTML/CSS, doesn't flee at the sight of a little Perl or PHP code, is familiar with weblogs, and knows some JavaScript. You don't need to be completely solid on all of that, but if you're not, you should be a quick on-the-job learner and just generally curious about the world and interested in learning how it all fits together.

I will provide ad hoc feedback and you'll be working closely with Jonah Peretti and a small team of smart folks onsite in NYC (most likely in Soho or Chinatown). This is a full-time salaried position, benefits are included, and you'll get equity in the company. The position is open immediately so if you're interested, send your resume/portfolio to jobs@buzzfeed.com with a subject line of "Web Designer position" (plain text resumes and links to online resumes/portfolios are greatly preferred to email attachments). We look forward to hearing from you.

Originally from kottke.org reBlogged on May 23, 2006, 7:16PM

Originally from kottke.org, on May 23, 2006 6:50 PM

Nike and Apple have announced the Nike Plus line of shoes that integrate with an iPod Nano through an antenna that attaches to the iPod. As far as I can tell, the shoes broadcast telemetry and the Nano collects it and then downloads the data to software running on your computer as it syncs the music (which is grouped into playlist-based workouts). This may be the biggest commercial wearable computing project since the Adidas 1 robotic adaptive shoe (and, tangentially, an interesting departure from Nike's previous technology venture with Philips, which produced some MP3 players in the 90s--Nike + Apple clearly makes more sense brand-wise in today's market), and there are many more models than that product--which went from running shoe to basketball shoe in its latest incarnation. The possibilities are, again, pretty interesting: because they broadcast (even if near-field) and probably broadcast with a unique ID (so that two people running together don't get each others' telemetry) these shoes could be used to track people in the panoptic scenario, but they could also produce a much more sophisticated pedometer. For example, why just sports shoes? Why not make a deal with Campers and give urban hipster iPod users an...

Originally from Orange Cone by mikek reBlogged on May 23, 2006, 6:39PM

Originally posted by mikek from Orange Cone, on May 23, 2006 6:50 PM

Google Enterprise Professional Program

Enterprise gains a host of professional partners contributing additional services, including data recovery, archival search, intranet development, SAP integration and security. Included among the new partners is MetaCarta. Its addition to Enterprise, for example, will allow users in government, energy and enterprises to retrieve from Earth ‘unstructured content’---such as HTML, Word docs, and emails. For $10,000 a pop, professional subscribers gain access to installation, customization and training for enhanced features in Google Search Appliance and Mini.

Y! Finance better looking, bloggier

Released in an exclusive beta last week and expected for public tests in June, Yahoo is offering a syndicated stock feed with quotes, news and charts for up to 10 companies to blogs and other websites (MicroPersuasion). Paid Content notes that quotes are delayed 15-20 minutes; and Yahoo is still analyzing how to monetize the tool.
Also, the main Y! finance site also gets a little sleeker.

Grilling Eric Schmidt
Resource Shelf and SEW point out an WSJ/CNBC interview with Eric Schmidt in London (in town for the forward-looking Zeitgeist Conference), asking "whether Google is becoming the next Microsoft." Apart from remaining queasy with identification as a media portal, the Google CEO answers questions on the future reach of Google (Asia), its ability to keep its widening grasp together (media), and keep its books in order (click fraud). The two part video and audio copies are available from the WSJ: Part one, Part two.

Moving.com launches
Today Move, Inc. launches its online search platform, Move.com. Move.com says it has the largest, most comprehensive search engine for home and rental listings, and scouting reports (on local schools, maps, photos, affordability calculator, etc.). Together with Realtor.com, Move is the exclusive real estate feeder for AOL and MSN, and the preferred referral for Yahoo. Citing research with thousands of users, the press release says, "Consumers said they wanted everything related to their move in one place, including more photos, virtual tours, maps, and information about neighborhoods." Move hopes to accomplish that by gathering real estate information from sites all over the web.

MySpace choosing its friends carefully
The news from the Financial Times is that MySpace is in talks on integrating search with Google and MSN--- "not Yahoo"---"in a move that would confirm the emergence of Rupert Murdoch’s internet site as a significant new power online" (via Garrett French at SE Lowdown). The FT writes that the search titans themselves are beginning to gravitate towards the ballooning social sites (like MySpace, Facebook) in the market.

These networking hubs have "threatened to tip the balance of power on the internet away from traditional portals and search engines. Their potential to become the places where many young people spend most of their internet time could make them the “gatekeepers”, or the entry point for online activity. The rise of the social networking sites has already forced the established internet powers to revise their views of how new audiences will emerge on the internet."

Rough Type predicts that the Google-MSN shoot-out will play like that for AOL last year, where dominant the search engine won the upper hand. With MySpace so far failing to gain PPC ad profits in proportion to its astounding popularity, and Rough Type thinks its hunting for a search engine that can better monetize with keyword-targeted ads.

+Screenshots of Windows Vista
Can't get enough? Here are some more peaks at PCMag, which is also running a feature on it.

Originally from John Battelle's Searchblog reBlogged on May 23, 2006, 6:33PM

Originally from John Battelle's Searchblog, on May 23, 2006 6:50 PM

Circuit Design With Quartz Composer.

Zac White is a true mac coder geek. (And I mean that in a good way!)

Originally from Gus's blog, adventures in Flying Meat. reBlogged on May 23, 2006, 6:28PM

Originally from Gus's blog, adventures in Flying Meat., on May 23, 2006 6:50 PM

Website Portrait Performances

Ursula Endlicher's Website Portrait Performances (WPPs) consist of graphical visualizations of the hyper-links of a particular website which illustrate the link structure two levels down into it. How the website is written in HTML will define how the links are displayed in the graphic. The grammar of one medium (HTML) is applied to another (graphic).

Furthermore these visualizations are read as so-called "dance notations". Each link is performed depending on how the individual node is defined in the graphic. If a link shows seventy sub-links (HTML) for example, the performance ("dance") will consist of seventy movements. Finally, each link selected by the user also simultaneously displays the real-time URL of the according page of the specific website on a secondary monitor (installation) or window (web).

The "www.whitehouse.gov" Website Portrait Performance exists as interactive installation with "mouse-chair", projection, secondary monitor and real-time web-feed. It also has a web-based version. Other web-based projects in this series are "www.vatican.va" and "www.morexoptimo.com".

Website Portrait Performances are another manifestation of my ongoing interest and research in translating the Web's grammar into other mediums, in this case by superimposing the link structure of a website onto a graphical representation and performances. With the interactive mouse-chair I developed an interface that engages the whole body; a navigation device which expresses my ongoing longing for alternative human-machine communication interfaces.

Originally from networked_performance by jo reBlogged on May 23, 2006, 5:54PM

Originally posted by jo from networked_performance, on May 23, 2006 6:50 PM

Platial is a genius Google Maps mashup that lets you create maps with any context you like. It works a lot like Flickr, Yahoo's photo sharing app.

You can make your own maps—say, fun things for wedding guests to do, or the best places to make out in your hometown.

Originally from ReadyMade Blog by Maggie reBlogged on May 23, 2006, 5:18PM

Originally posted by Maggie from ReadyMade Blog, on May 23, 2006 6:50 PM

The cool, collaborative text editor SubEthaEdit has been updated to 2.5—with a bunch of AppleScript enhancements (and more, of course).

Originally from ranchero.com by Brent Simmons reBlogged on May 23, 2006, 4:31PM

Originally posted by Brent Simmons from ranchero.com, on May 23, 2006 6:50 PM

TODAY! International Web Conference

The Challenges of Curating Net Art - An International Web Conference, LIVE online May 26, 2006: 10:00-12:00 p.m. at Mobile Studios, Sofia (3:00-5:00 p.m. EST online): presented within the framework of the local Upgrade! Sofia meeting, this web conference is hosted by the Mobile Studios project, Eyebeam, New York, and Turbulence.org in Boston. A panel of international artists and curators is meeting up virtually to discuss various aspects of the mediation, curation and funding of net art.

Hosts: Ela Kagel, digital media producer and co-initiator of Mobile Studios and Ursula Endlicher, NY-based media artist & initiator of the round table in New York.

Participants in Sofia, Bulgaria:

Susa Pop, initiator of Mobile Studios
Galia Dimtrova, curator at InterSpace Sofia
Petko Dourmana, director of InterSpace Sofia
Kyd Campbell, initiator of Upgrade! Sofia

Participants in NY/USA:

Yael Kanarek, media artist & initiator of Upgrade! New York
Liz Slagus, director of education at Eyebeam, NY
Michele Thursz, independent curator, NY
Lauren Cornell, director of Rhizome.org, NY
Anne Barlow, curator of The New Museum, NY

Participants in Boston/USA:

Jo-Anne Green, co-director of Turbulence.org and initiator of Upgrade! Boston
Helen Thorington, media artist, co-director and founder of Turbulence.org

A live stream of this event will be available at http://www.mobile-studios.org

Originally from networked_performance by jo reBlogged on May 23, 2006, 3:33PM

Originally posted by jo from networked_performance, on May 23, 2006 6:50 PM

Filed under: Rumors, Products and services, Industry, Consumer experience, Newspapers, Competitive strategy, Google (GOOG)

It's no surprise that Google's commanding lead in the internet search department is pretty solid -- and growing by the day. Its formula for success has been relevant search results in a very timely fashion (in milliseconds) combined with an advertising platform that works incredibly well, and one in which customers actually use and find value withing. Hint to television and radio: adapt to this model or become extinct. Wait -- that's happening already.

Anyway, with many more mobile phones on the planet than computers, will the next battlefront for Google take place on the two-inch screen of your mobile phone? Most likely, it will. Google brass has highlighted the mobile front many times recently, and it you look at the numbers, they're probably correct. Billions of mobile phones are in use today the world over, and higher-speed mobile data networks are being installed in the Pacific Rim, Europe and here in the U.S. (Cingular Wireless and Verizon Wireless, to name a few).

This article over at the Wall Street Journal talks about the mobile universe as the next big challenge for established competitors in the internet space, and I have to agree. There is quite a bit of work to be done -- from the user interface to data speeds to battery life -- but if the mobile phone (or device) can become the next search tool of choice, you can bet Google will be racing to be there first as the de-facto solution.

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Originally from Blogging Stocks by Brian White reBlogged on May 23, 2006, 2:23PM

Originally posted by Brian White from Blogging Stocks, on May 23, 2006 6:50 PM

david posted a photo:

- Taken at 5:09 PM on May 23, 2006; cameraphone upload by ShoZu

Originally from david's Photos by david reBlogged

Originally posted by david from david's Photos, on May 23, 2006 6:50 PM

It was only a matter of time. Along with the graduate level seminars on Tupac Shakur and Six Feet Under, academic luminaries are now turning their attention to the DIY movement. Oxford University Press' Journal of Design History has just published "Do It Yourself: Democracy and Design" along with an exhibition curated by Paul Atkinson ...

Originally from ReadyMade Blog by Shana reBlogged on May 22, 2006, 3:14PM

Originally posted by Shana from ReadyMade Blog, on May 23, 2006 3:09 PM

What's the most offensive show on television? MTV's My Super Sweet 16. "Marissa created an exclusive guest list and announced it at school. If you weren't on the list, well, sorry. When a few kids begged to get an invitation, she made them have a 'dance-off' in front of her. Watching her get off on that was like watching the Emperor zap Luke Skywalker with those fingertip lightning bolts in Return Of The Jedi."

Originally from kottke.org remaindered links by jkottke reBlogged on May 22, 2006, 7:23PM

Originally posted by jkottke from kottke.org remaindered links, on May 23, 2006 3:08 PM

Nas is about to slap hip hop with a declaration of death. On Thursday night (May 18), while performing at the Roots’ show in New York City’s Radio City Music Hall, the Illmatic One announced that his first album off Def Jam - Hip-Hop Is Dead … The N – will hit stores in late September.

The N is a play on words signifying ‘the end' of the genre of music. (VIBE)

Originally from Agenda Inc. Live Feed reBlogged on May 23, 2006, 9:26PM

Originally from Agenda Inc. Live Feed, on May 23, 2006 3:06 PM

I found out via a roundabout way that my bid to be the Vermont Library Association’s chapter councilor wasn’t successful. This is good news and bad news. The woman they elected was probably more qualified than me, and will probably not dislike her time on Council as much as I have historically. I am not sure if she will advocate as strongly for web site improvements and increased technological access to ALA generally, but I’m sure there are things she is planning on promoting. I would have liked to have been a Councilor representing a specific group and not just the “at large” world but I’m young and there is still time.

For me, this means that ALA in New Orleans is the last meeting I will go to as a Councilor, for a while, if not forever. This means I can, if I want, cancel my membership to ALA. It means I can plan a Fourth of July party without being on my way back from a conference. It means that I don’t have to travel out of state twice a year in addition to all the other travelling I do. It means I probably won’t try to explain some of ALA’s decisions that I find inexplicable. It means I’ll get more involved with my local chapter — the irony being that if I had been at VLA’s annnual meeting, I might have had more of a shot at getting elected, but I was in Ohio at the Small Libraries Conference talking about the digital divide, and the libraries I worked with back home.

I’ve been following some of the ALA L2 kerfuffle which I was more interested in as a friend of Michael Stephens and Jenny Levine than as an ALA member. As a Councilor, I didn’t hear word one about this endeavor. As a member, I’m not surprised that ALA chose to hire a consultant group that talked a better game than they delivered, though for them the price was right. All I know is that if your consultant starts making blog posts like this one complaining about being complained about, and not getting paid enough, it’s going to be a hard tailspin to pull out of. I wish everyone the best possible luck making the best of things.

ala, jennylevine, l2, library 2.0, ottergroup, ttw

Originally from librarian.net by jessamyn reBlogged on May 22, 2006, 7:52PM

Originally posted by jessamyn from librarian.net, on May 23, 2006 3:06 PM

Megnut is now all about food....

Originally from A Full Belly by Alaina Browne reBlogged on May 22, 2006, 4:37PM

Originally posted by Alaina Browne from A Full Belly, on May 23, 2006 3:06 PM

GGirl's Credit Card Application Experience in College

Originally from Andrea Harner by Andrea reBlogged on May 22, 2006, 10:59AM

Originally posted by Andrea from Andrea Harner, on May 23, 2006 3:06 PM

Sometimes Matt is so dorky that he's positively dreamy. This is one of those times.

Originally from cheesedip.com by lia bulaong reBlogged on May 22, 2006, 9:51PM

Originally posted by lia bulaong from cheesedip.com, on May 23, 2006 3:04 PM

FLOW is a mindset, an innovation tool and a commercial brand. A mindset focused on sustainable growth. An innovation tool which through the 3 sub-categories "individual, collective and environmental flow" concretizes the parameters for sustainable growth. And finally a brand that through these 3 parameters transforms and concretizes the mindset into commercial products and services.

When speaking about sustainability, the concept is traditionally conceived in terms of environmental protection: pollution and ruthless exploitation of the world's resources are having a negative impact on sustainability.However, the Danish boys and girls at [the Flow Institute] also understand sustainability in a much broader sense: as a general parameter for balance/imbalance. Sustainable growth is all about generating growth on more than just an economic and a technological level. Indeed, throughout the 20th century we have witnessed how a one-dimensional view on growth has resulted in a wide range of imbalances on 3 levels: man's relation to himself, to society and to nature.

Phenomena that individually and together bear witness to an unhealthy development of our societies that we can and must seek to reverse - or at least reduce - and push in a more holistic direction. On the basis of this acknowledgement, and with a point of departure in the universal concept of flow defined as the integration of growth and balance, [the Flow Institute] has developed an innovation tool for creating sustainable growth.

Individual flow: Physical, mental and spiritual growth.
Collective flow: Cultural, economic, social and technological growth
Environmental flow: Environmental growth

A holistic mindset that is the essential basis of all products and services in FLOWinstitute. FLOW were making waves this weekend at The ICFF - green and harmonious waves that is. Let it flow, let it flow, let it flow.....

Originally from l-e-mental by clairehyland reBlogged

Originally posted by clairehyland from l-e-mental, on May 23, 2006 3:04 PM

I have nothing to say about this:

Jenny the traffic girl at WXII, the NBC station in Winston-Salem NC, decides to rap the traffic report one morning.

Originally from Tuberaider Video by Jay Smooth reBlogged

Originally posted by Jay Smooth from Tuberaider Video, on May 23, 2006 3:00 PM

I can't stand the stuff so this link is entirely for my beer drinking readers. Savages.

Originally from Cynical-C Blog by Chris reBlogged on May 23, 2006, 2:51PM

Originally posted by Chris from Cynical-C Blog, on May 23, 2006 2:56 PM

DIY culture and hybrid cars turn out to be a match made in heaven. CNet has a collection of takes of Prius Hackers, who've taken the job of improving they rides into their own hands. Our ally Phillip Torrone, editor of Make Magazine, calls them "the new breed of hot-rodders" - a population of tech-savvy environmentalists who will fiddle with the car's computer in order to fix annoying built-in features and improve their driving experience.

via: Make

(Posted by Sarah Rich in QuickChanges at 11:00 AM)

Originally from WorldChanging: Tools, Models and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future by Sarah Rich reBlogged on May 23, 2006, 3:00PM

Originally posted by Sarah Rich from WorldChanging: Tools, Models and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future, on May 23, 2006 2:55 PM

A couple of months ago, we mentioned several efforts and initiatives to develop labels for helping consumers select cars based upon emissions. Now the French Ministry of Ecology and Sustainable Development has introduced CO2 labels which are legally required to be displayed on all automobiles produced in France, effective immediately.

The color-coded labels will rank cars according to CO2 emissions per kilometer. French cars made today produce around 152g of CO2 per kilometer on average, compared with the general EU average of 160g/km. The hope is that compulsory labeling will accelerate existing efforts to improve auto emissions on new cars produced in the EU, where such indicators are currently voluntary. In July, another labeling scheme will be introduced to indicate energy efficiency in French homes.

(Posted by Sarah Rich in A Newly Electric Green – Sustainable Energy, Resources and Design at 10:28 AM)

Originally from WorldChanging: Tools, Models and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future by Sarah Rich reBlogged on May 23, 2006, 2:28PM

Originally posted by Sarah Rich from WorldChanging: Tools, Models and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future, on May 23, 2006 2:55 PM

Lottery idea: instead of earmarking revenues for education, why not use the money for individual retirement accounts? The piece includes this startling fact: "Some 20 million Americans spend at least $1,000 a year on lottery tickets". !!!!

Originally from kottke.org remaindered links by jkottke reBlogged on May 23, 2006, 3:15PM

Originally posted by jkottke from kottke.org remaindered links, on May 23, 2006 2:41 PM

like the Half-Life 2 mousetrap, but using the Oblivion engine  

Originally from Waxy.org Links reBlogged on May 23, 2006, 1:51PM

Originally from Waxy.org Links, on May 23, 2006 2:36 PM

Recently, when I was in the process of installing and using JavE - an ASCII art editor, each time I wanted to run the editor, I had to open up a terminal, navigate to the directory containing the JavE binary and then execute the command :

$ java -jar jave.jar

After some time, this whole job of opening the terminal and typing the command became quite tedious. And I started wondering if it was possible to start the editor by just double clicking on the jar file. But double clicking on it opened the jar file in the Gnome archive manager which was not what I wanted. I even tried associating the command 'java -jar' with all jar files in Nautilus. But to no avail.

That was when I remembered that Nautilus has a special feature which allows one to pass file names to scripts from the file manager. Gnome has a special folder by name nautilus-scripts/ which resides inside the hidden directory '.gnome2/' in ones home folder. The full path for the nautilus-scripts/ in my home directory being '/home/ravi/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts/'. And any executable script that one drops in this directory will be accessible from the Gnome right click menu.

So I created a bash script by name 'Run_Java' and saved it in the folder '/home/ravi/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts/'. And voila! I was able to access and run the script by right-clicking anywhere on the Gnome desktop or file manager and selecting the script (See picture).

Fig: Shows how the script is executed from Nautilus

The contents of the script I wrote contains only two lines as shown below:

#File Name: Run_Java

#!/bin/sh




java -jar $1

In the above listing, the $1 contains the value of the first parameter - which in this case was the name of the JavE jar file. You can access the nautilus-scripts/ directory in Nautilus file manager by navigating to File Menu -> Scripts -> Open scripts folder.

Fig: The message one sees when nautilus-scripts folder is opened in the file manager

This is a very useful feature and opens up a lot of avenues as most GUI tools in GNU/Linux accept command line parameters. For instance, one can open a Jpeg image in Gimp from the command line by passing the name of the image file as a parameter to Gimp. So by writing a bash script and saving it in this magic folder, one can select a group of image files in Nautilus and right-click and select the relevant script to open all the selected files in Gimp.

But not every one is proficient in writing scripts you say ? No problem, there is a site by name g-scripts maintained by Shane.M who has taken it upon himself to collect and make available nautilus scripts suitable for diverse purposes. The afore mentioned site contains a large collection of scripts, some of which were written by Shane himselves and others collected from different sources on the net.

Originally from All about Linux by Ravi reBlogged on May 23, 2006, 1:13PM

Originally posted by Ravi from All about Linux, on May 23, 2006 2:36 PM

The working-class London borough of Hackney is furious that Nike is selling t-shirts with the Hackney logo without asking for permission to use (much less license) the decades-old icon. In keeping with their act first, act later practice, Nike has agreed to discuss the issue with Hackney.

Stay Free! brings us another Nike kerfuffle, "Just Coopt it."

I'm sure this story will follow a similar arc as the Minor Threat "controversy" (see kottke, torrez, me, mike, mike again, and anil) - debate among bloggers, coverage in alternative weeklies, GIF apology.

Chimpanzee Media Monitoring (really!) were the first to blog the story, and you can read the statement from the Mayor of Hackney. The Hackney city council is asking for financial reparations to fund sports activity, and assurances that the clothes were not produced in sweatshops.

I wonder if it's too late for the District of Columbia to argue that Minor Threat (and by extension, Dischord Records) is a local treasure. Reparations should be paid to local musicians and educational programs.

Originally from hello, typepad by David Jacobs reBlogged on May 23, 2006, 11:18AM

Originally posted by David Jacobs from hello, typepad, on May 23, 2006 2:36 PM

From -> Lauren Cornell
New exhibition by London-based curator Hanne Mugaas ------ Forwarded Message From: "hanne mugaas" Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 16:58:11 +0100 To: hanne.mugaas@gmail.com Subject: GIVING PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT - Glassbox, Paris GIVING PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT - GLASSBOX, PARIS Curated by Hanne Mugaas and Ida Ekblad **************************************************************************** ... [more]

Originally from Rhizome.org Rare by Lauren Cornell reBlogged on May 23, 2006, 5:00AM

Originally posted by Lauren Cornell from Rhizome.org Rare, on May 23, 2006 2:36 PM

Rant on.

I like javascript, but its use by a few big sites (looking at you, nytimes.com and wired.com) makes me break out in hives. When I turn off javascript in Safari, both of these sites are screaming fast as I'd expect. When I have it turned on, both are excruciatingly slow, and simple actions (selecting text, clicking links) lead to baffling delays and beach balls. I haven't yet spent the time with Venkman to figure out why this is, but I have my suspicions. A lot of the scripts are coming from Google, Doubleclick, and other "strategic partners" checking in on my activity. Wired seems interested in where I'm from (see the "GeoIP" section of headerLayer.js), and The New York Times likes to know what text I'm selecting, and which links I'm following.

It would be ideal if sites like this put the Ajax crack pipe aside for five minutes and erred on the side of usability. It would also be nice if Safari's javascript implementation were faster, or threaded, or whatever.

Barring that, I have a feature request: per-domain javascript disabling. Javascript is now too useful and pervasive to be turned off entirely, but certain domains abuse the privilege and ought to be denied. Even a javscript on/off switch in the Safari browser chrome would go a long way towards helping.

Rant off.

Originally from tecznotes reBlogged

Originally from tecznotes , on May 23, 2006 2:36 PM

How many times have you looked at the empty space on your wall and thought, " I wish I had some books sort floating there, you know, with no shelf -- just floating.  On the wall.  With no shelf."?  Well now you can!  Sort of!

See, this shelf is a conceal book shelf, which means it's all hidden and shit in the back cover of the empty book.  I know, so genius!  So, you can pile a stack of books on the wall and invite people over and they will all think you're magic like Harry Potter with your floating books on the wall.

You can even put a little bud vase of top of the books with a tulip or something.  You know, to be cute!

Originally from Awesome! by citywendy reBlogged

Originally posted by citywendy from Awesome! , on May 23, 2006 2:36 PM

Gothamist reports that this weekend's NYC Culinary festival was not so hot. I saw something about this but it didn't sound that enticing to me, so I didn't go. Based on what's been reported, I'm glad I didn't bother.

Originally from megnut.com blog reBlogged on May 23, 2006, 10:08AM

Originally from megnut.com blog, on May 23, 2006 9:55 AM

Filed under: Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), Yahoo! (YHOO)

The knock against Google is that its ad business is mostly text-based. Then again, it is a highly lucrative business - that others like Microsoft and Yahoo wish they could excel at.

However, Google realizes that, in order to continue its growth, the company needs to bring on board more mainstream advertisers. This means going away from text ads - and venturing into branding.

It's not an easy transition.  But this week, Google is making a big step in that directio