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 direction. That is, in its AdSense program, there will now be video ads.

But there is an interesting twist. The ads will not play automatically; that is, the user must click on the ad.  Hence, it is "click and play" advertising.

I talked to Greg Sterling (who, by the way, got back to me at 11pm tonight), who is the founding principal of Sterling Market Intelligence, a consulting and research firm focused on online consumer and advertiser behavior.  His assessment so far:  "I haven't seen the ads in action so I can only comment in the abstract about the model. But it combines reach and performance-based targeting for video in ways that are going to be appealing to brand advertisers."

While Yahoo! certainly has had much more experience in branding ads, the company may be a bit too traditional in its approaches. Here, in the case of Google, it is offering a unique method to video advertising.  And it is leveraging its incredible AdSense technology that has already proven to be quite successful.

Links:

My interview with Greg Sterling

Greg Sterling - Blog Post

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Originally from Blogging Stocks by Tom Taulli reBlogged on May 23, 2006, 5:30AM

Originally posted by Tom Taulli from Blogging Stocks, on May 23, 2006 9:55 AM

Small new flickr set from this morning’s May Day protests here in Florence

Originally from Ben Hammersley reBlogged on May 1, 2006, 9:27AM

Originally from Ben Hammersley, on May 23, 2006 9:55 AM

Jane Jacobs has died, just before her 90th birthday. It’s very sad news, and inspires a rather odd feeling: I don’t tend to think that the authors of books like “The Death and Life of Great American Cities” could actually still have been around. The sheer brilliance of it makes it timeless, somehow, and not connected to someone who until this week I could have called on the phone. It’s perhaps the book that has had the most influence on my thinking: I wish I’d thought to say hello. Cory said it best, I think: “Reading that book rendered visible whole rafts of secrets about how the world around me functioned. It was like taking off a blindfold.”

Originally from Ben Hammersley reBlogged on Apr 26, 2006, 3:21AM

Originally from Ben Hammersley, on May 23, 2006 9:55 AM

After thinking about it for so long (and adding to my good karma by helping it along), the mobile version of Plazer is now in beta.

Plazer is a little app for the phone (and an original version for the PC) that helps you tag a location in the Plazes service. From the PC, the location is captured via the network information (wireless or wired). From the mobile, the location is captured via the cellID.

I think Plazes is nifty on the PC. But to me, it is really promising on the mobile (please, I've only had it less than an hour). As you can imagine, the real fun happens when you can build upon the location info: find folks, find access points, find out about the area, tag photos, initiate communication, and so on.

Let's see how it evolves. I might have to contact them to see how Plazes has been doing.

Link: blog.plazes.com � Blog Archive � Mobile Plazer Closed Beta.

We started a closed beta for our mobile Plazer now. It runs on S60 mobile phones. If you own a Nokia S60 phone with OS version 2.1, 2.6 or 2.8 (N90, N70, 6680, 6681/6682, 6670, 3230, 6620, 6630, 6260, 7610) and want to take part, please drop us a line: support at plazes dot com. The number of users on this beta is limited, so hurry up!

Originally from Lifeblog by charlie reBlogged

Originally posted by charlie from Lifeblog, on May 23, 2006 9:55 AM

Stewart posted a photo:

Originally from Sylloge by Stewart reBlogged on May 23, 2006, 4:06AM

Originally posted by Stewart from Sylloge, on May 23, 2006 9:39 AM

A test card is (according to Wikipedia):

A test card, also known as a test pattern in North America, is a television test signal, typically broadcast at times when the transmitter is active, but no program is being broadcast (often at startup and closedown). Originally, all test cards were actually physical cards at which a television camera was pointed, and such cards are still often used for calibration, alignment, and matching of cameras and camcorders. Test patterns used for calibrating or troubleshooting the downstream signal path are nowadays generated by test signal generators, which do not depend on the correct configuration of (and presence of) a camera.
(…)
Most include a set of calibrated color bars which will produce a characteristic pattern of “dot landings” on a vectorscope, allowing chroma and tint to be precisely adjusted between generations of videotape or network feeds

Some examples:

Why do I blog this? first because I like their odd design; second because it’s an artifact that belongs to the past. What’s the equivalent of the test pattern for the Web?

Originally from pasta and vinegar by Nicolas reBlogged on May 23, 2006, 3:20AM

Originally posted by Nicolas from pasta and vinegar, on May 23, 2006 9:39 AM

My magic bird spirit friend.
Originally uploaded by yatta.

Every spring, a cardinal (this cardinal?) visits the tree in my backyard for one day only. He comes by, hangs out for a while, then flies off not to be seen again until the following year. Completely wonderfully weird.

Originally from braintag reBlogged on May 23, 2006, 2:02AM

Originally from braintag, on May 23, 2006 9:39 AM

LBB Fundraiser: South Bronx Bring on the Queens
Originally uploaded by triciawang 王 圣 㨗.

21st and NYC
Now this was a very educational night for the youth of south Bronx.
you would never know looking at them these are some of the most bravest, hardest and smartest youth of the streets in Hunts Point. You especially don't think that when they are posing with the 2 biggest queens of the world.
you all made me so proud tonight! Emilia has raised you well, and I get to reap the joys from her work. It's an honor to work with John, Yesenia, Tati, Pamela, Hazel, Bobby, Joaquim and Camille. I am still waiting for Bobby to call... I am about to call the cops any minute if he doesn't answer.

Originally from Hi Tricia! by Tricia Wang 王 圣 㨗 reBlogged on May 23, 2006, 12:50AM

Originally posted by Tricia Wang 王 圣 㨗 from Hi Tricia!, on May 23, 2006 9:39 AM

This is Gulliver Park in Valencia, Spain. The figure you see is an enormous fibreglass model of Lemuel Gulliver trapped by the Lilliputians, and the ropes that tie him to the ground form part of a children’s adventure playground. Children can slide down his jacket, climb up the ropes on his arms, visit the city of Liliput inside him, and do a number of other activities spread out all over the figure.

Sounds quite gross actually.

Thanks to BADI, Javier, Francisco Gioielli, Rober, brigate, JohnnyBoy9, Veli Matti Pelttari, cremaor, Trompie, Michael Zacherl, Pablo, andysamp, Ximet, Andros and Martin.

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Originally from Google Sightseeing by Alex reBlogged on May 23, 2006, 8:28AM

Originally posted by Alex from Google Sightseeing, on May 23, 2006 9:19 AM

The Oil We Eat. "With the possible exception of the domestication of wheat, the green revolution is the worst thing that has ever happened to the planet."
Update: Here's a Wired article on super organics, smartly breed foods that will "that will please the consumer, the producer, the activist, and the FDA". (thx, andy)

Originally from kottke.org remaindered links by jkottke reBlogged on Jul 18, 2006, 8:55AM

Originally posted by jkottke from kottke.org remaindered links, on May 23, 2006 9:19 AM

If you liked the Sony Bouncy Balls ad, you'll love this homage, filmed in Wales for the soft drink, Tango.

Originally posted by June Cohen from TED Blog, on May 23, 2006 9:19 AM

Teresa Janoras is one of 150,000 people who scavenge or recycle the garbage in Manila. On her best days she can earn a bit more than $3.

Originally from NYT > Home Page by SETH MYDANS, International Herald Tribune reBlogged on May 23, 2006, 12:00AM

Originally posted by SETH MYDANS, International Herald Tribune from NYT > Home Page, on May 23, 2006 9:19 AM

Not content to borrow the reflected glory of the punk scene, Nike has decided that they also need some covert prestige, UK-style. 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. I suppose this means that I can start selling shoes with a swoosh. If Nike disagrees, we can discuss whether they should get a piece of the action whenever they notice....

Originally from Stay Free! Daily by Charles Star reBlogged on May 22, 2006, 11:31PM

Originally posted by Charles Star from Stay Free! Daily, on May 23, 2006 9:19 AM

Quick Post

http://www.graphpaper.com/2006/05-22_morning-subway-demographics

Originally from Capn Design reBlogged on May 22, 2006, 4:01PM

Originally from Capn Design, on May 22, 2006 3:17 PM

A zero energy home in Oklahoma, according to futurist Roland Piquepaille, was built for under 200K. read in zdnet | more

Originally from Archinect.com Feed reBlogged

Originally from Archinect.com Feed, on May 22, 2006 2:40 PM

Rahm Rechtschaffen, an architecture student at Catholic University in Washington DC, is using Flickr to run a participatory architecture project for his senior thesis. We've talked about applications of open source in architecture and design before, and the potential that OS could open for transformation in those fields.

"Unlike the software programmers that participate in open source design projects, the end users of most architectural projects are neither steeped in the guiding principles of architectural design, nor are they able to the use the tools required to create a design," says Rechtschaffen in his introduction to the project, "Although architects often go back and forth between design and client, the architect always keeps the client management and the design process separate. In an open source project the client would be directly involved in the design process."

The idea here is not to eliminate the architect, but to permit all future users of the space full access and participation to any part of the planning and design process, at any time. By putting the project on Flickr, users can track the progress of various contributions and changes as they make their own. Because it's a public project on Flickr, even unsolicited contributors can jump in if they so desire.

Rechtschaffen ran a survey a few months ago to determine how the project was progressing. Based upon the feedback, he developed several new iterations and invited the next round of contributions. He has tracked the entire process in both visual and textual detail on Flickr. It's interesting to scroll through and read the commentary at various stages in the process, which has now been underway for about 4 months.

Where will this fully-participatory ideal dwelling be? A hillside in Costa Rica, an obvious place for utopian dreams to come alive.

via: Tropolism

(Posted by Sarah Rich in The Tech Bloom – Collaborative and Emergent Technologies at 10:05 AM)

Originally from WorldChanging: Tools, Models and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future by Sarah Rich reBlogged on May 22, 2006, 2:05PM

Originally posted by Sarah Rich from WorldChanging: Tools, Models and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future, on May 22, 2006 2:38 PM

Jonathan Glancey in today’s Guardian, on an upcoming must-see exhibition at the Barbican:

“Cities built out to sea. A city that encircles the globe. Houses that look like space pods. An “instant city” that can be constructed almost overnight. Visions like these are the stars of Future City: Experiment and Utopia 1956-2006, an exhibition opening next month at the Barbican in London. It will include some 300 intriguing and often baffling drawings, models and animations of attempts by the most radical architects of the past 50 years - from Archigram to Zaha Hadid via Shigeru Ban and Superstudio - to create the architecture of the future.”

And in his closing paragraph of the preview, Curly’s almost channeling BLDGBLOG:

“If only the members of Archigram or Superstudio had been able to buy, in the 1960s, the kind of cheap digital technology available on high streets today. They may not have been able to get their dream cities constructed, but they could have visualised them in mini-movies - much more enticing than so many drawings, lectures and models.”

Of course if he really was on the BLDGBLOG tip, then he would have followed through into newer media of the 21st century, i.e. gaming and avant-garde architecture…

Here’s the link to the Barbican website about the exhibition. It starts on June the 15th.

Tags: barbican, jonathanglancey, bladerunner, 2001, kubrick

Originally from Blackbeltjones/Work by Matt reBlogged on May 22, 2006, 4:41AM

Originally posted by Matt from Blackbeltjones/Work, on May 22, 2006 2:38 PM

I’ve started playing with Radar.net from Tiny Pictures.

Nothing much to report yet, but there is one little design detail that I’ll be stashing away for my own stuff (as long as Mr. Poisson et al don’t mind) which is not only going for a URL that is t9/predictive-text friendly, but also issuing identity elements (an auto-generated unique posting address to MMS pictures to, in this case) that are t9-compliant.

This makes it far, far easier and more pleasurable to set-up the service and integrate it with your mobile, which with these sorts of things is 75% of the battle won. Makes the thing feel very polished and considered from the start, which gives me the confidence to trust radar.net with a little bit more of my digital life perhaps.

My feeling is that despite all the hoo-haa about uglydesign/undesign’s success in Web2.0, it just won’t carry in the Mobile Web 2.0 world.

Originally from Blackbeltjones/Work by Matt reBlogged on May 22, 2006, 4:30AM

Originally posted by Matt from Blackbeltjones/Work, on May 22, 2006 2:38 PM

Members of the John Muir trust have found a piano near the top of Britain's highest mountain. A biscuit wrapper found beneath it is the only clue. "We have a constant battle against litter being left on Britain's highest mountain—but this elevates being a litter lout sky high into a completely different category." Sandy Maxwell, volunteer group organiser. (via dm)

Originally from Rebecca's Pocket reBlogged on May 22, 2006, 8:30AM

Originally from Rebecca's Pocket, on May 22, 2006 2:35 PM

The American Library Association Recommended Summer Reading for Children and their families goes all the way through high school.

Originally from Rebecca's Pocket reBlogged on May 22, 2006, 8:30AM

Originally from Rebecca's Pocket, on May 22, 2006 2:35 PM

A couple of months ago I was at this rockabilly  show where there was a women in such a stunning dress, I couldn't stop staring.  It was red and structured and fit her curves perfectly and the way her brown Betty Page hair dropped around her hair in fat curls was all just so breathtaking.
"Stop staring," she said as I walked by her a fifth time.
"What?" I asked, embarrassed.
"The Dress?  It's from Stop Staring."

When I got home later, I did some googling, and sure enough, Stop Staring is a company that specializes in recreating those sexy looks from yesteryear -- dresses and skirts and stuff that made women look like women -- like this hot number available at Daddy O's.

Now if only everyone would catch on that slutty doesn't = seductive.

Originally from Awesome! by citywendy reBlogged

Originally posted by citywendy from Awesome! , on May 22, 2006 2:35 PM

Comeks tutorial
Originally uploaded by Artio.

I bumped into Arto at the Global Mobile Monday Summit. He showed me his comics app, Comeks, pretty nifty and quite fun.

Being the online sharing type, I suggested that it would be fun to be able to post comics online.

Well, he's implemented a sharing feature via ShoZu.

Here's a tutorial by Arto on how to use Comeks, created in Comeks, and posted to flickr.

Something tells me I might just get into doing something like this too. :-)

Originally from Lifeblog by charlie reBlogged

Originally posted by charlie from Lifeblog, on May 22, 2006 2:35 PM

Some more of the screens that are inspiring Signal vs. Noise readers:

www.drewflaherty.com

www.americanapparel.net

www.tnvacation.com

www.thebignoob.com

www.madeinmtl.com

www.thecity.org

www.panic.com/goods

Related: Screens Around Town: Inspired #1

Originally from Signal vs. Noise reBlogged on May 22, 2006, 11:28AM

Originally from Signal vs. Noise, on May 22, 2006 2:29 PM

This is not a new conspiracy theory.

But as Dave pointed out in the comments, why did LeBron go to so much trouble to show off his New York Yankees cap in yesterday's press conference (look at about the 24:20 mark on that video)? Here are some ideas:

• James wants all the leverage he can get in contract extension negotiations with Cleveland (I know, they can only pay him the max, but I have no idea, maybe he wants jobs for friends, promises about future teammates and payrolls, or the Employee of the Month parking space every month.)
• James wants to establish some credibiliy among New York fans in case he ends up there.
• James wants help the Yankees sell some hats.
• James was pulling for the Yankees in a close-fought weekend series against the Mets.
• James just likes that hat. He has worn it plenty of times before.

To me the much more important question is what's with those epaulets?

Originally from True Hoop by Henry Abbott reBlogged on May 22, 2006, 11:01AM

Originally posted by Henry Abbott from True Hoop, on May 22, 2006 2:29 PM

The work of Canadian artist Rob Gonsalves is part Salvador Dali, part Rene Magritte, and part M.C. Escher. This is one of my favorite images of his, called Tributaries:

I also quite like Community Portrait. Here's some of his other stuff and a book of his images.

Originally from kottke.org reBlogged on May 22, 2006, 1:22PM

Originally from kottke.org, on May 22, 2006 2:28 PM

Thanks to the two people who have e-mailed me this photo from just after yesterday's game. That's LeBron James on the right, and William Wesley leaning in from the left to check to see if James really does have a tight six-pack.

And, I think I figured out how that LeBron makes basketball look so easy. Check out the extra arm he's using to adjust his headband.

Originally from True Hoop by Henry Abbott reBlogged on May 22, 2006, 1:07PM

Originally posted by Henry Abbott from True Hoop, on May 22, 2006 2:28 PM

He is right up near the top of my favorite NBA players. Joe Dumars, thankfully, agrees. Mitch Albom writes this:

It's LeBron's world.

But it's Prince's Palace.

"He is definitely the biggest reason we won this game tonight," said Joe Dumars, the Pistons' president of basketball operations, after Detroit finally -- finally! -- ousted the surprising Cavaliers, 79-61, to advance to the Eastern Conference finals against Miami. "And he may be the reason we won this series."

Originally from True Hoop by Henry Abbott reBlogged on May 22, 2006, 12:51PM

Originally posted by Henry Abbott from True Hoop, on May 22, 2006 2:28 PM

CDB is a fast, reliable, simple package for creating and reading constant databases.

I love CDB. -dj

Originally from tecznotes links by Michal Migurski reBlogged on May 22, 2006, 12:33PM

Originally posted by Michal Migurski from tecznotes links, on May 22, 2006 2:28 PM

Flickr photos tagged with "last day of high school". You've never seen so many smiles.

Originally from kottke.org remaindered links by jkottke reBlogged on May 22, 2006, 11:15AM

Originally posted by jkottke from kottke.org remaindered links, on May 22, 2006 2:28 PM

Several Flickr members are displaying their drawings from and charting their progress on Brain Age. I love David's paramecium.

Originally from kottke.org remaindered links by jkottke reBlogged on May 22, 2006, 1:47PM

Originally posted by jkottke from kottke.org remaindered links, on May 22, 2006 2:25 PM

hack.art

Web Biennial's new gallery exclusive for "hack.art" is online. Please hack this folder to show your works. It is free, open for all, first come first serve, self service. Please keep the title tags of the index page as usual; "Web Biennial -Name of the Artist - Name of the Project".

Web Biennial aims to offer an alternative approach to exhibiting online art and it brings an alternative method for exhibiting art online. It is the first international bi-annual contemporary art exhibition created exclusively for the World Wide Web (W.W.W). It is an open non-curated, non-thematic exhibition and it does not have any sponsors.

Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum, iS.CaM; Büyük Hendek Cad. No:37/2, Galata Kuledibi, Beyog˜lu, Istanbul Turkey istanbulmuseum.org | webbiennial.org

Originally from networked_performance by jo reBlogged on May 22, 2006, 1:37PM

Originally posted by jo from networked_performance, on May 22, 2006 2:25 PM

A Community Event

reboot8 is a community event for the practical visionaries who are at the intersection of digital technology and change all around us... 2 days. 400 people. A journey into the interconnectedness of creation, participation, values, openness, decentralization, collaboration, complexity, technology, p2p, humanities, connectedness and many more areas. Applied towards us as individuals, citizens, teachers, culture workers, entrepreneurs, creators and change makers.

reboot is the European meetup for the practical visionaries who are building tomorrow one little step at a time, using new models for creation and organization in a world where the only entry barrier is passion. reboot is two days in June filled with inspiration, perspective, good conversations and interesting people.

reboot is a place for people to come together once a year and reboot their minds with perspective, inspiration and relationships. Starting out in 1998 with a Danish focus the event has been turning more and more international throughout the years. In 2005 reboot turned truly european with 400 participants from more than 22 countries.

Originally from networked_performance by jo reBlogged on May 22, 2006, 12:36PM

Originally posted by jo from networked_performance, on May 22, 2006 2:25 PM

Last Monday I went to a lecture at the 92nd St Y, Michael Pollan with Ruth Reichl: The Omnivore's Dilemma. It was an interesting discussion though as someone who's already familiar with a lot of the issues around various farming methods (and someone's who's currently reading Pollan's new book The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals) I didn't learn a tremendous amount. Still it was enjoyable, and somewhat depessing, to hear them talk about topics so close to my heart.

editor's note: I excerpted this entry, click through to Megnut!

Best line: he told a story about talking to a meat producer on the phone and his hopes of getting some "review steaks." I'd like to get some review steaks! He said we need to rediscover the art of the kitchen, of preserving. We're complicit in the system and we need to reinvent ourselves as eaters. We need to get more local. We need to cook more. People do have time to cook, it doesn't take three hours to put a meal on the table.

He wrapped up by saying blue states need to pay attention to the Farm Bill (reauthorized every five years in the US, new one coming up in 2007) because it dictates public health and land use. We need to work towards food sovereignty for regions and nations, and we should not sell food below the cost of production. He suggests we follow a more European model by paying farmers to maintain land and to be sustainable (rather than grow monocrops and saturate the land with chemicals), and to grow food we want to eat.

Originally from megnut.com blog reBlogged on May 22, 2006, 12:32PM

Originally from megnut.com blog, on May 22, 2006 2:25 PM

hanging garden
Originally uploaded by niznoz.

A very nice way to celebrate the return of the sun.

Originally from DefinitiveInk by joshua mack for definitiveink reBlogged on May 22, 2006, 11:26AM

Originally posted by joshua mack for definitiveink from DefinitiveInk, on May 22, 2006 2:25 PM

My mother stands by her frozen fish recommendation and enjoys Trader Joe's Tilapia. What she made sounds delicious, but I'm not so sure that eating farm-raised fish is, "green alternative to over-fished wild species." From what I've heard recently, fish farms can be big polluters. I'll have to do some more research on that to confirm.

Originally from megnut.com blog reBlogged on May 22, 2006, 8:18AM

Originally from megnut.com blog, on May 22, 2006 9:50 AM

The designer of PGP e-mail encryption has released a free Windows software program, Zfone, that encrypts Internet voice conversations.

Originally from NYT > Technology by JOHN MARKOFF reBlogged on May 22, 2006, 12:00AM

Originally posted by JOHN MARKOFF from NYT > Technology, on May 22, 2006 9:50 AM

The Weinstein Company has invested in aSmallWorld, an online community where invitations to join are difficult to come by.

Originally from NYT > Technology by MARIA ASPAN reBlogged on May 22, 2006, 12:00AM

Originally posted by MARIA ASPAN from NYT > Technology, on May 22, 2006 9:50 AM

Katrin Verclas coordinates the secretariat of MobileActive, a global network of activists and campaigners using mobile phones for civic action and engagement.

In an interview with Marshall Kirkpatrick of The Social Software Blog, she gives several examples of how text messaging has been used around the world to mobilize activists, (covered before in this blog in the SMS and politics category), but of interest to textually readers:

... "There are also serious concerns amongst MobileActive community members around security. Almost all cell phones are now easy to locate, for example. Katrin says that mobile activists need to be aware of government abilities to locate use and possession of a phone, to capture data on the phone if seized, to use your phone as a remote listening device and engage in other nefarious tactics. Fortunately, MobileActive maintains a checklist and tips on cell phone security on their wiki.

[via The Social Software Blog]

Originally from textually.org by emily reBlogged on May 22, 2006, 9:26AM

Originally posted by emily from textually.org, on May 22, 2006 9:49 AM

On May 11, 2004, activist artist Steve Kurtz of the Critical Art Ensemble (CAE) awoke to find his wife Hope had died of cardiac arrest. He dialed 911, launching an Orwellian series of events in which the FBI arrested Kurtz and confiscated his artistic work and supplies, which they interpreted as bio-terrorist weapons and threatening propaganda. This included drafts of CAE's latest book, Marching Plague: Germ Warfare and Global Public Health, which has since been reconstructed and is now being published by Autonomedia. Concurrent with the screening of the Marching Plague video, at the Whitney Biennial, New York's Eyebeam is hosting a book launch on May 24th, at which the book will be discussed and other artists' films concerning the political and social fallout of bio-technological warfare will be screened. In the climate of scare tactics perpetuated by the Bush Administration since 9/11 and the anthrax scare in the 'War on Terror,' CAE's new book is a timely reference on the politics of fear and the rhetoric of the government's assertion that apocalypse awaits us all if we aren't prepared. - Randall Packer

http://eyebeam.org/engage/events_unique.php?id=96

Originally from Rhizome.org: Rhizome News reBlogged on May 22, 2006, 3:00AM

Originally from Rhizome.org: Rhizome News, on May 22, 2006 9:48 AM

BOSTON

our old friends know how to dress. wedding weekend, natty men revolving outfits around items such as kilt, pink driving cap, the color green, attendant dresses brown linen cut as if to showcase tattoos, bouquets of pink and white tulips, more green, flower "girl" in happy splashy yard sale score, which reminds me how once i moved to boston explicitly to marry a white seersucker suit. so much talk of guitars, the skeleton killers, life before a certain comic became the connection between us and new friends, we may have forgotten there was such a time.

more importantly boston friends doing original, fascinating things, such as jef's online diary, spun from his zine, the urban pantheist, on loving nature while living in the city. he chronicles a life form a day, boston style.

the diner 'traveler books' on I84, do you know it? deterred someone from taking piss in a parking lot, let's just buy a book, and a book genre which never ceases to fascinate me was well-represented by my tiki friend here.

Originally from serenalarogers by serenalarogers reBlogged on May 22, 2006, 8:26AM

Originally posted by serenalarogers from serenalarogers, on May 22, 2006 9:48 AM

Circa 1942-45. Larger version here.

Oh wait, isn’t “terrorism” waging politics by fear?

Originally from Social Design Notes reBlogged on May 21, 2006, 8:27AM

Originally from Social Design Notes, on May 22, 2006 9:48 AM

Fond memories of Mac OS 9 gripes. Mine: my 8500 had a problem where touching the Caps Lock key would instantaneously and irreversibly freeze the entire system. The only solution I could come up with was to remove the key, and weld the switch shut with superglue.

Originally from tecznotes links by Michal Migurski reBlogged on May 22, 2006, 1:38AM

Originally posted by Michal Migurski from tecznotes links, on May 22, 2006 9:47 AM

In an article for the BBC, Alan Krueger describes how the entertainment industry in the US has become more business-like over the years:

"Early on in the entertainment industry, it's in the interest of the business to think of themselves as throwing a party, not selling a product. I think they attract more of a following that way," he said.

"But over time, the industry takes more the form of a market and is driven by market forces. The Superbowl initially felt like it was rewarding its fans. But then it becomes established and the League finds it in its interest to push up prices."

As my involvement in kottke.org resembles something more like a business and less like a hobby, I've noticed the trajectory described by Krueger, both in my approach to the site and in how kottke.org's readers perceive it. I'm sure other people have experienced this when their small projects have become businesses -- like Blogger, Movable Type, del.icio.us, Upcoming, etc. -- and have struggled to maintain a "rewarding its fans" type of relationship with their customers under increasing pressure from the market to focus on other things. Craigslist has done a good job in sticking close to their initial values and not allowing their business to be driven primarily by market forces. A company like Friendster? Not so successful.

Anyway, an interesting pattern to be aware of.

Originally from kottke.org reBlogged on May 21, 2006, 2:23PM

Originally from kottke.org, on May 22, 2006 1:14 AM

I just recently discovered this blog and have completely fallen in love with it. It's called swissmiss, published by Tina Roth Esenberg, a "Swiss designer gone NYC". Stop by, you won't be sorry!

Originally from textually.org by emily reBlogged on May 21, 2006, 1:24PM

Originally posted by emily from textually.org, on May 22, 2006 1:14 AM

Insane collection of Central Pacific Railroad Maps.

Originally from tecznotes links by Michal Migurski reBlogged on May 21, 2006, 11:17PM

Originally posted by Michal Migurski from tecznotes links, on May 22, 2006 1:11 AM

 [Web Sage Collective] Google is looking good with the dominance in search and an already large community working to extend Google Local and Google Earth. It will be interesting to see what plays out when we move to a more geocoded world and our devices become more portable and broadband access extends even further.

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Originally from Geotags.org by admin reBlogged on May 21, 2006, 10:36PM

Originally posted by admin from Geotags.org, on May 22, 2006 1:11 AM

Originally from Wooster Collective reBlogged on May 21, 2006, 9:41PM

Originally from Wooster Collective, on May 22, 2006 1:11 AM

Taza de café
Originally uploaded by Lady Macabea.

For my readers, a Monday morning coffee. Please don't drink it early!

Originally from hello, typepad by David Jacobs reBlogged on May 21, 2006, 6:59PM

Originally posted by David Jacobs from hello, typepad, on May 22, 2006 1:11 AM

Ours is a Nokia house. Adriana has been loving the N90 and it's sweet camera, which for my money is two or three times nicer than the next best camera on a phone, which belongs to my beloved n70. And of course both phones sync wonderfully with our Apple computers. This is the perfect amount of PDA in my phone - I need to be able to check mail & appointments but rarely do I need to write mail or create appointments. When I do need to do that, the features are available, albeit inconvenient.

I've also been playing with the Spring A920 as part of their Ambassador Program. As far as I can tell, this program is a raging success. The blog chatter is off the charts, and if I'm at dinner with six or seven folks there's a good chance four of us may whip out the phones and start playing songs. This phone is great as a walkman or mini-boom box. However, there's no way will I pay $2.50 for a single or $4.99 for a ringtone.

I have played with the idea of using my Sprint phone as a primary phone, but the lack of syncing with OS X is a deal breaker. And although Nokia's "smart phone" utopia has never quite materialized and probably never will, it's still pretty good and I don't want to give it up. I love the music capabilities of my Sprint phone, but I simply don't need them. iPods are good for music, and in my estimation things will stay that way for the forseeable future.

Finally, the Sprint Ambassador program may be a victim of it's own success. I searched for some fun Sprint A920 ideas or tricks that I wouldn't have known about on my own, but all I could find was a bunch of blog entries. Relevant blog entries, but almost all of them talking about how good the Sprint A920 is at downloading music when that music is free. Yes, that is true. No, that is not what I need in a phone, especially when the music stops being free.

Originally from hello, typepad by David Jacobs reBlogged on May 21, 2006, 6:30PM

Originally posted by David Jacobs from hello, typepad, on May 22, 2006 1:11 AM

david posted a photo:

Their fans too.
- Taken at 9:45 PM on May 21, 2006; cameraphone upload by ShoZu

Originally from david's Photos by david reBlogged

Originally posted by david from david's Photos, on May 22, 2006 1:11 AM

The city of McAllen, Texas has launched a GIS portal, The Monitor reports....

Originally from The Map Room by Jonathan Crowe reBlogged on May 21, 2006, 10:35AM

Originally posted by Jonathan Crowe from The Map Room, on May 21, 2006 11:01 AM

MacGPS Pro 6.4 is a Universal Binary, which means it will now run natively on Macs with Intel processors (rather than via Rosetta emulation). Via MacNN. See previous entries: MacGPS Pro 6.1; Mac Geocaching and GPS Software; Garmin Announces Mac...

Originally from The Map Room by Jonathan Crowe reBlogged on May 21, 2006, 10:09AM

Originally posted by Jonathan Crowe from The Map Room, on May 21, 2006 11:01 AM

New York -- where there's always enough people with the time to wait in a big line on opening day (see: Trader Joe's, Shake Shack). Apple has put up time-lapse movies from the first 24 hours of the new flagship fifth ave store. Each one elapses a full hour - you can find someone in a yellow or red shirt and follow them through the line. Kind of liked this frame from around 1 am (7 hours after opening) when there's finally a visible end to the line.

Not nearly as spectacular as the Apple Japan opening day , but we do love that cube. And hooray for the MacBook winners, who look like nice people, don't they?

Originally from shey.net reblog reBlogged on May 21, 2006, 12:04AM

Originally from shey.net reblog, on May 21, 2006 11:01 AM

C. Ray Nagin fended off a strong challenge from Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu in a contest to decide who would lead the city's rebuilding.

Originally from NYT > Home Page by ADAM NOSSITER reBlogged on May 21, 2006, 12:00AM

Originally posted by ADAM NOSSITER from NYT > Home Page, on May 21, 2006 11:01 AM

Today Barry Bonds tied Babe Ruth for third place on the all-time home run list at 714. While Hank Aaron's total of 755 seems arguably (very arguably) within reach, I think Josh Gibson's total of 962 is well out of reach.

Originally from Mule Design : Off the Hoof by Mike Monteiro reBlogged on May 20, 2006, 11:00PM

Originally posted by Mike Monteiro from Mule Design : Off the Hoof, on May 21, 2006 11:01 AM

Originally from News of the dead by weevil@wileywiggins.com (Wiley Wiggins) reBlogged on May 20, 2006, 10:30PM

Originally posted by weevil@wileywiggins.com (Wiley Wiggins) from News of the dead, on May 21, 2006 11:01 AM

The American Institute of Architects National Government Advocacy Team and Architecture 2030 are urging the US Conference of Mayors to adopt Resolution 50 which sets a goal of carbon-neutral city buildings by 2030 — that is, new city buildings will use no fossil-fuel or greenhouse gas emitting energy sources to operate.

The orgs are asking people to call their mayors this week before the meeting in early June. Background information, talking points, sample letters, and contact info up http://www.architecture2030.org/news/index.php

The text of the resolution reads like a nice little manifesto. Click below for the full text.

And how rare and wonderful to see a professional association engaging with progressive public policy!

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Originally from Social Design Notes reBlogged on May 20, 2006, 7:54PM

Originally from Social Design Notes, on May 21, 2006 11:01 AM

Originally from shey.net reblog reBlogged on May 16, 2006, 4:34AM

Originally from shey.net reblog, on May 21, 2006 11:01 AM

A collection of clips from various sources, in honor of Malcolm's birthday last Friday:

Originally from Tuberaider Video by Jay Smooth reBlogged

Originally posted by Jay Smooth from Tuberaider Video, on May 21, 2006 11:01 AM