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Adidas has wowed us before with not one but two pairs of shoes that incorporate hemp, and it looks as though they're innovating again. The Adidas BW Army is made from surplus military materials (though they're tightlipped about the source...must still be classified); the use of repurposed material makes each pair unique. Product Dose found a similar deal a year ago, with a limited run of 500 pairs, so there's no telling how long they'll last. Repurposed camo shoes don't come cheaply, though; each pair goes for $115, available at ::Coolest Shop via ::Product Dose

Originally from Treehugger

reBlogged by Matthew Haughey on Jul 14, 2006, 12:52PM

Originally from mathowie reBlog feed reBlogged on Jul 14, 2006, 12:21PM

Originally from mathowie reBlog feed , on July 14, 2006 12:34 PM

Photograph by James L. Stanfield Anchor of old Paris, L'Arc de Triomphe frames a parade on Bastille Day. Celebrating the Great Revolution, the French take to the streets for a day-long party every July 14th, the anniversary of the day Parisians took the Bastille, beheaded the governor, and emptied the jail in the name of "Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity."(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The New, the Enduring Paris," July 1989, National Geographic magazine)

Originally from National Geographic Photo of the Day by James L. Stanfield

reBlogged by Matthew Haughey

Originally from mathowie reBlog feed by James L. Stanfield reBlogged on Jul 14, 2006, 12:29PM

Originally posted by James L. Stanfield from mathowie reBlog feed , on July 14, 2006 12:34 PM

I love good food and I love to eat, and I sure do appreciate someone who can conjure up words that do justice to either and that's why I look forward to Fatted Calf's weekly email newsletter. An excerpt from this week's:

The drama continues this weekend when notoriously good Knoll Farm Figs are carefully encased in a petite boule of our sausage and then gingerly stuffed up the rump of a plump, brined Hoffman Farm Quail. These lusty concoctions are gorgeous when roasted and positively sing when grilled. Plunge in your fork and witness the hot figgy lava flow onto your plate beckoning you with its honeyed perfume to take a bite.

Bravo, little Fig!

See what I'm talking about?

Originally from A Full Belly by Alaina Browne reBlogged on Jul 14, 2006, 10:45AM

Originally posted by Alaina Browne from A Full Belly, on July 14, 2006 12:27 PM

Reitman did Ghostbusters and Shivers, but what’s Arnie ever done that’s any good?  Oh yeah, Predator. This isn’t a finest moment for either of them, as Arnie cashes in his man-mountain image to make this not that hilarious or heart-warming family flick. In fact, it’s a weirdly judged film – along with all the “I want to be a princess!” and “Four-score and ten” cuteness you get a murdered junkie girlfriend on a morticians slab.

Pamela Reed, who plays Arnie’s puking and eating sidekick Detective Phoebe O'Hara is good in this – but didn’t go on to do a whole lot more outside of the voice of Ruth Powers in the Simpsons.

Why was the central kid played by twins? And why was he seemingly OK about meeting his mum's new boyfriend shooting his long lost dad the moment he turns up? My son seemed to think it was reasonable. To me, this is the kind of movie that demands a sequel. By now, he’d be in his early twenties, properly psychotic (did no one else find that silver foil stuff a glaring omen of mental illness?). Maybe he's even worked out that there’s two of him.

The scariest person in the whole film is Eleanor Crisp’s evil, uptight mother – played by Carroll ‘Baby Doll Meighan’ Baker. it’s predictable to see the cause of the problem being traced back to the unloving mother, but even that old chestnut can't stop the chill of seeing a women buy an anal thermometer in preparation of welcoming her grandson back into the family.   

Originally from A Girl & A Gun by Josie reBlogged on Jul 8, 2006, 5:03PM

Originally posted by Josie from A Girl & A Gun, on July 14, 2006 12:23 PM

Discovery finds itself in the unexpected position of racing to save face, instead of to replace Lance with lots of explaining to do. Besides being critical and saying, "don't believe your own hype" or podcast, I'd like to know what happened in the team dynamic to have them perform so poorly when there's so much promise on that team.

Note, I don't want them to do bad, and I know there are fans in a deep funk right now (like mine over Jan, which is getting worse), but I'm reminded of Fortune's Pack Mentality article that analyzed the peloton's org chart and team-crew symbiosis. Are they reeling because no one is in charge, like a ship without a rudder, or troops without a general?

Originally from Tour de France 2006 by texturadesign reBlogged on Jul 14, 2006, 10:21AM

Originally posted by texturadesign from Tour de France 2006, on July 14, 2006 12:17 PM

It's all very well being hooked on Sudoku, but when do we have time to do these addictive puzzles in our busy lives? When are we sitting down alone, with our hands free and nothing too taxing to do with our brains? You can see where we're going with this. If you're tired of leafing through cartoon books you've read a hundred times, but would like something to while away the time while you sit contemplating the back of the loo door, then Sudoku Loo Roll is quite possibly the answer.

(via BetuMan)

Originally from Cynical-C Blog by Chris reBlogged on Jul 14, 2006, 10:57AM

Originally posted by Chris from Cynical-C Blog, on July 14, 2006 12:17 PM

Posted by Shuman Ghosemajumder, Business Product Manager for Trust & Safety

You may have seen some of the media coverage generated by a blogger's quoting Eric Schmidt about click fraud. By using select excerpts and ignoring the context of the remarks, that blog post made for an interesting read, but was unfortunately misleading.

Eric spoke at a SIEPR economics event at Stanford in March. At the end of his remarks he took questions. (You can view the whole presentation and Q&A that followed here.)

Here's the relevant question Eric was asked about click fraud: "Recently there’s been some talk about click fraud being a potential threat to the entire advertising business model. I was just wondering what your thoughts on that were and if there’s an economic solution to it more than just technical solutions."

Eric made clear from the very beginning that he wasn't describing our approach to click fraud and was answering hypothetically. He introduced his answer by saying: "Let’s imagine for purposes of argument that click fraud were not policed by Google and it were rampant ..."

The "let it happen" excerpt followed, in which he discusses the economic forces that can retard click fraud: "Eventually the price that the advertiser is willing to pay for the conversion will decline because the advertiser will realize that these are bad clicks. In other words, the value of the ad declines. So, over some amount of time, the system is, in fact, self-correcting. In fact, there is a perfect economic solution, which is to let it happen."

But he made clear that we don't take that approach, by adding that click fraud is "a bad thing and because we don’t like it, and because it does, at least for the short-term, creates some problems before the advertiser sees it, we go ahead and try to detect it and eliminate it." He also said, "In Google's case, we worry about this a lot and we have a number of technical engineers who think that this is great fun to try to go ahead of this and get ahead of it."

The fact is that Google strives to detect every invalid click that passes through its system, and to prevent those clicks from ever reaching an advertiser's account. And Eric and many others at Google have discussed the problem of invalid clicks publicly many times -- on our quarterly earnings calls, at our Press Day, and in other places, such as blogs. Anyone who has followed Google knows that Eric, and others at Google, have stated several times that Google fights invalid clicks, that we've devoted significant resources to manage it, and that we take it very seriously.

Update: Added link to the original story.

Originally from Official Google Blog by A Googler reBlogged on Jul 14, 2006, 11:03AM

Originally posted by A Googler from Official Google Blog, on July 14, 2006 12:17 PM

There's so little parking in Dumbo these days what with all the construction going on that people have forgone cars in favor of boats.

Originally from Brooklyn Record by Brooklyn Record reBlogged on Jul 14, 2006, 11:40AM

Originally posted by Brooklyn Record from Brooklyn Record, on July 14, 2006 12:17 PM

My poor readers. I've decided you're all dream whisperers so you're expected to interpret my dreams. How about this one from yesterday morning? ...besides the obvious...

* I realize that our relationship has been taken to a new level with this weird post - are you ready for the intimacy and craziness??!!

Originally from Andrea Harner by Andrea reBlogged on Jul 14, 2006, 10:01AM

Originally posted by Andrea from Andrea Harner, on July 14, 2006 10:17 AM

If you have $135 to burn, check out the South Street Seaport's stunning four-hour tugboat waterfront tour. Participants will board at the Seaport, visit Newtown Creek then head down the East River beneath the Williamsburg Bridge to the Brooklyn Navy Yard, the Atlantic and Erie Basins, then around Governor's Island and back to Manhattan. Why the expense, you ask? The W.O. Decker tugboat holds a limited number of passengers (6-8) and each fare pays directly for the operation of the boat. Reservations for this event are required and you must be 12 or over to participate. Trip leaves from Pier 16 at 10 AM tomorrow — Saturday, July 15. Call 212-748-8786 for details.

Originally from Brooklyn Record by Corie reBlogged on Jul 14, 2006, 9:59AM

Originally posted by Corie from Brooklyn Record, on July 14, 2006 10:17 AM

Licorice doughnuts
Originally uploaded by schickr.

Only in Finland

Originally from Cognections by charlie reBlogged

Originally posted by charlie from Cognections, on July 14, 2006 10:17 AM

Back in town and still catching up, but here’s an quick update on a recent blog item:

On Monday, June 5, 2006, the US Conference of Mayors adopted the ‘2030 Challenge,’ a resolution committing to a timeline for reducing greenhouse gas emissions by all new and renovated city buildings to the point that all new city buildings are carbon-neutral by 2030.

On May 31, 2006, the City of Santa Fe became the first city in the US to formally adopt the ‘2030 Challenge’.

The 78,000 member American Institute of Architects formally adopted the ‘2030 Challenge’ in January 2006.

Originally from Social Design Notes reBlogged on Jul 14, 2006, 10:20AM

Originally from Social Design Notes, on July 14, 2006 10:17 AM

About 1/2 way through our honeymoon/cycling trip across Southeast Alaska a couple years ago, I spotted an espresso ahead sign and was like what! It had been days since I’d had good coffee and I mean Seattle-style, dark muddy, depth-charge-in-your-gut espresso and rode 26 miles, ticking off each mile, and noting each sign to get a cup. And it was really good, best cup ever actually.

Originally from Bike Hugger by DL Byron reBlogged

Originally posted by DL Byron from Bike Hugger, on July 14, 2006 10:11 AM

As Frank announced, I’m guest posting on the Tour de France Blog for a few days. Frank is attending a funeral, spending time with his family, and I’m going take a pull for him.

Originally from Bike Hugger by DL Byron reBlogged

Originally posted by DL Byron from Bike Hugger, on July 14, 2006 10:11 AM

Just checked the NYTimes interactive TDF feature and it’s very whiz bangy, even more whizzy than the “ticker” from Velonews. Live commentary, standings, profiles, and more.

Originally from Bike Hugger by DL Byron reBlogged

Originally posted by DL Byron from Bike Hugger, on July 14, 2006 10:11 AM

I’m not kidding. This is the End, maybe, of Civilization As We Know It. I’m thinking now would be a good time for the Borg to come along and assimilate us all. I’m talking about Yahoo’s new The 9. Surely the Internet must have an “Off” switch somewhere?

Originally from ongoing reBlogged

Originally from ongoing, on July 14, 2006 8:47 AM

I'm not sure I see the point in rolling around a frozen pig's head, whether it's into a mosque or not. To me, that is worth getting mad about. I couldn't really get worked up about the whole Mohammed cartoon thing, but don't come rolling a frozen pig's head into Mr. Sun's hizzouse unless you are ready to throw down or make a new delicious kind of barbecue.

Originally from Mr. Sun! by Mr. Sun reBlogged on Jul 12, 2006, 11:31PM

Originally posted by Mr. Sun from Mr. Sun!, on July 14, 2006 8:45 AM

david posted a photo:

Originally from david's Photos by david reBlogged

Originally posted by david from david's Photos, on July 14, 2006 8:35 AM

"While these technical developments are important, Fader adds there's a particular technology -- the addition of video playback to Adobe System's ubiquitous Flash Player -- that has helped online video explode. The Flash software, bundled with all the major web browsers, allows rich media to be displayed on the web without requiring a separate media player. 'I don't think people fully appreciate the transformation Flash has created,' says Fader."

Originally from tecznotes links by Michal Migurski reBlogged on Jul 13, 2006, 9:29PM

Originally posted by Michal Migurski from tecznotes links, on July 14, 2006 8:26 AM

      

"One can choose the role they wish  to assume: curator, artist, etcetera. With every click of the mouse, viewers become participants; the interactive community defines the exhibition. The hope is that the final result will be a 50 print exhibition of images chosen by the community." Read the full text of the Press Release.

If you had told me a couple of years ago that a renowned New York gallery was going to begin breaking down the walls of the traditional gallery "curate and exhibit" experience, I would have been more than a little suspect.

From June 30th to August 25th visitors to the Pace/MacGill Gallery (both the actual gallery space in New York and their website) will do just that.

There's a writeup in Sunday's New York Times (login required). Photos courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery.

Originally from FlickrBlog by noemail@noemail.org (Heather Champ) reBlogged on Jul 13, 2006, 5:13PM

Originally posted by noemail@noemail.org (Heather Champ) from FlickrBlog, on July 14, 2006 8:17 AM

Captain Jack Sparrow can't keep pace with Darth Vader.

Originally from From the Desk of Ghent by Ghent reBlogged on Jul 13, 2006, 12:19PM

Originally posted by Ghent from From the Desk of Ghent, on July 14, 2006 8:17 AM

Tom Biggins sent me a link to this article in the Times about adult urban dorms in Manhattan. Quite an interesting concept. Dozens of twenty-something sharing a building in the city to cut down on costs and meet interesting people.

Originally from House 2.0 by amit reBlogged on Jul 13, 2006, 4:13PM

Originally posted by amit from House 2.0, on July 14, 2006 8:17 AM

Remember the little brown dress? It's gone missing after the artist held an 'undressing' party and is now living its life like a 'wayward lawn gnome.'

Originally from MetaFilter posts tagged with garden by drstein reBlogged on Jul 12, 2006, 5:03PM

Originally posted by drstein from MetaFilter posts tagged with garden, on July 14, 2006 8:15 AM

Last week, I posted about, Sketching in Hardware 1, a conference I organized. Now, I'd like to comment on an issue that has come up at other tech conferences and which came up again at sketching - the disproportionate demographics. Specifically, the disproportionate ratio of men to women who attend conferences, relative to the proportion of people working in the field. During the planning of this conference, I talked to a number of people about how to attract more women to technology conferences. My goal was to create as gender-balanced an invitation list as I could manage. I sought input from a broad range of folks (thank you Molly,Anne, Liz, Julian,Rael, Judith and everyone else I've consulted with). The conference focus was to bring together developers of toolkits for rapid prototyping of physical/ubiquitous computing devices, or heavy users of such toolkits. With that as the primary gating criteria, I tried to invite a broad range of people, especially women, across a range of career trajectories (i.e. I didn't want to stick with established professors and professional engineers, but PhD students, researchers, artists, educators and designers, managers). I spent several months collecting lists, using Google and working my social network (i.e....

Originally from Orange Cone by mikek reBlogged on Jul 12, 2006, 2:09PM

Originally posted by mikek from Orange Cone, on July 14, 2006 8:15 AM

Here's one homebrew application for the hardcore DS developer - DS Debugger v0.11. As the name says, the app allows developers to interactively debug their applications running on a real Nintendo DS. Created by Simon Hall, the app initialises the network, connects to the PC-side stub and installs the breakpoint-catching code.

Originally from random($foo) reBlogged on Jul 12, 2006, 10:02PM

Originally from random($foo), on July 14, 2006 8:14 AM

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Title: Flood Gallery: Art Star Philly

I love Jen Corace and have been waiting and waiting for her to make prints and she's finally made three new ones that are available now at Art Star. Art Star is also currently showing Julie West's latest work.

Originally from we[heart]prints reBlogged on Jul 14, 2006, 1:17AM

Originally from we[heart]prints, on July 14, 2006 8:12 AM

We’ve discussed the various possible forms of constrained writing many times here, so why not ‘constrained clicking’? I was referred to a blog collective, TruthBeauty, from a out-of-the-ways town in Australia, Wagga Wagga, and discovered a post by ‘casey’ about a great wikipedia game. Here is the post reblogged here:

over the school holidays my dear son Zach discovered the joys of wikipedia (thanks in no small part to my new laptop). he sent me an email today outlining his new wikipedia game: from the wikipedia main page click on random article - from there follow links till you get to the wagga wagga article.  

i made it the first time in five pages: Mohammed Bin Hammam - Australia National Football (Soccer) Team - Australia - New South Wales - Wagga Wagga.

too easy, hey?  my next random article is On Golden Pond and proving to be a little trickier.

how many pages can you make it in?

There are a few comments in the post, as everyone compares the routes they’ve taken through wikipedia in search of THE WAGGA WAGGA PAGE. This reminded me not only of constrained writing (and so I called it constrained clicking) but also of games I used to play (with myself) as a kid. I used to pick an object, like a parrot, and another, like tomato sauce, and give myself a number, like 5, which represented the amount of sentences I should take to get from object a to object b with a story that makes sense. Anyone have any examples of such games they played or even other examples of ‘constrained clicking’?

Originally from WRT: Writer Response Theory by wrt@writerresponsetheory.org (Writer Response Theory) reBlogged on Jul 12, 2006, 9:46PM

Originally posted by wrt@writerresponsetheory.org (Writer Response Theory) from WRT: Writer Response Theory, on July 14, 2006 8:12 AM

Harkness A/V is an ongoing collaborative Audio/Visual salon organized by Nick Hallett and Monkeytown, an art space and restaurant in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. On Friday July 21st, they will present an evening of works by renowned computer artist Lillian Schwartz and up-and-coming San Francisco-based video artist, Nate Boyce. Schwartz pioneered the field of computer-generated art beginning in the late 1960s, and her experimentations have served to legitimate the practice. While Schwartz utilized nascent computer technologies to establish a canonical aesthetic for the field, Boyce uses newish computer programs, such as Jitter and Maya, to recall the style of early video art. Side by side, the combination of these artists offers an interesting contrast between two generations of computer-produced art, between an era in which the present once aimed to foretell the future, and the future now aims to evoke the past. - Ceci Moss

http://www.monkeytownhq.com/schwartzboyce.html

Originally from Rhizome.org: Rhizome News reBlogged on Jul 14, 2006, 3:00AM

Originally from Rhizome.org: Rhizome News, on July 14, 2006 8:11 AM

"Virtual PC 2004 Service Pack 1 (SP1) is a powerful software virtualization solution that allows you to run multiple PC-based operating systems simultaneously on one workstation, providing a safety net to maintain compatibility with legacy applications while you migrate to...

Originally from Guardian Unlimited: Technology blog reBlogged on Jul 13, 2006, 2:28PM

Originally from Guardian Unlimited: Technology blog, on July 13, 2006 11:16 PM

Food economics: adjusted for inflation, the price of a luxury meal in Paris has risen by 216% since 1950, but nonluxury food prices have fallen.

Originally from kottke.org remaindered links by jkottke reBlogged on Jul 13, 2006, 9:56PM

Originally posted by jkottke from kottke.org remaindered links, on July 13, 2006 11:15 PM

It's neither high quality nor rare, so why is a copy of Shakespeare's First Folio fetching such high prices at auction?

Originally from kottke.org remaindered links by jkottke reBlogged on Jul 13, 2006, 1:59PM

Originally posted by jkottke from kottke.org remaindered links, on July 13, 2006 11:15 PM

David Remnick on the Bush Administration's sustained assault on the press. "You begin to wonder if the Bush White House, in its urgent need to find scapegoats for the myriad disasters it has inflicted, is preparing to repeat a dismal and dismaying episode of the Nixon years."

Originally from kottke.org remaindered links by jkottke reBlogged on Jul 13, 2006, 8:45PM

Originally posted by jkottke from kottke.org remaindered links, on July 13, 2006 11:15 PM

Two longstanding rules have just come tumbling down in the world of inexpensive digital S.L.R. (single-lens reflex) cameras.

Originally from NYT > Technology by DAVID POGUE reBlogged on Jul 13, 2006, 12:00AM

Originally posted by DAVID POGUE from NYT > Technology, on July 13, 2006 11:14 PM

Originally from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs by djacobs reBlogged on Jul 9, 2006, 12:11PM

Originally posted by djacobs from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on July 13, 2006 11:13 PM

Originally from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs by djacobs reBlogged on Jul 9, 2006, 12:29PM

Originally posted by djacobs from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on July 13, 2006 11:13 PM

web app for capturing movies of user interaction.

Originally from unmediated by yatta reBlogged on Jul 12, 2006, 4:02PM

Originally posted by yatta from unmediated, on July 13, 2006 11:12 PM

this private feed needs a key to unlock its contents. we have recently changed our key format. please get a new link to this feed with the new key attached at http://del.icio.us/for/djacobs

Originally from del.icio.us/for/djacobs reBlogged

Originally from del.icio.us/for/djacobs, on July 12, 2006 7:34 PM

I'm rooting for France today, but I feel that Italy has the best chance of winning. But we shall see. Allez!

Update: I'm stunned. Not so much about the loss, but Zidane...what was that? That headbutt is one of the craziest things I've ever seen in sports.

Update: Video of the headbutt. There's some speculation that Materazzi twisted Zidane's nipple...or if not, I wonder what he said that could have riled the Frenchman so?

Update: Ok, here's a video of the whole exchange. No twisting that I can see...Materazzi obviously said something. With all his experience, hasn't Zidane heard it all before?

Update: Video of some of Materazzi's dirty plays.

Update: From a 2004 profile of Zidane in the Guardian:

One of the theories about Zidane as a player is that he is driven by an inner rage. His football is elegant and masterful, charged with technique and vision. But he can still erupt into shocking violence that is as sudden as it is inexplicable. The most famous examples of this include head butting Jochen Kientz of Hamburg during a Champions League match, when he was at Juventus in 2000 (an action that cost him a five match suspension) and his stomping on the hapless Faoud Amin of Saudi Arabia during the 1998 World Cup finals (this latter action was, strangely enough, widely applauded in the Berber community as Zidane's revenge on hated Arab 'extremists').

Update: More detail on some of Zidane's past misdeeds. (thx, daniel)

Update: Zidane's agent says Zidane "told me Materazzi said something very serious to him but he wouldn't tell me what". "Zinedine didn't want to talk about it but it will all come out in the next week. He was very disappointed and sad. He didn't want it to end this way."

Update: Zidane's headbutt, now in video game format.

Update: With the help of lip readers, two UK newspapers have deciphered what Materazzi alledgedly said to Zidane to set him off.

Originally from kottke.org reBlogged on Jul 9, 2006, 2:24PM

Originally from kottke.org, on July 12, 2006 11:55 AM

You'll notice that over on the left sidebar, we've posted Movable Type 3.3b-Final Release Candidate 2. We're pretty happy with this one because it looks like we've found and fixed all of the bugs that would be considered showstoppers for this release thanks to Tweezerman and our Japanese users who actually got a "final release" a bit early.

Download it if you like. It's doubtful that anything else will change between now and release. I'll be posting the release notes for FRC2 shortly.

Originally from Movable Type Beta Weblog by jallen reBlogged on Jul 9, 2006, 3:22PM

Originally posted by jallen from Movable Type Beta Weblog, on July 12, 2006 11:55 AM

[Van Dev Blog] Dan offers a free download of a bz2’ed version (~300mb) of the compiled address location data (by the way, the README on his site is good reading material). Dans program does more than I needed it to, so I simplified his source code (Thanks Dan) to do simply what needs to be down.

<!--Your own personal Geocoder... for FREE-->

Originally from Geotags.org by admin reBlogged on Jul 9, 2006, 10:41PM

Originally posted by admin from Geotags.org, on July 12, 2006 11:53 AM

A year ago I wrote about key bindings for switchers explaining how to make home/end and page up/down work (system wide) as most Windows users expect them to work.

Using the same key binding system we can make insertion of the various Apple-centric keyboard glyphs easy. This is useful when we want to cite a keyboard sequence like ⇧⌘V or similar.

If you look in the HTML bundle there is an Entities submenu (depicted below.) This is what I used when writing the TextMate manual, i.e. typing command and pressing tab (⇥) to get ⌘ etc.

This is fine when we are inside TextMate and writing HTML/Markdown, but when you are getting used to having the key glyphs available, the need for them tend to creep up in other applications as well.

Jacob Rus got the great idea to create a multi-stroke key binding dictionary for inserting these glyphs. The problem would normally be that there are dozens of these glyphs, and we do not have dozens of free key equivalents, but by using multi-stroke key bindings we can hide all of them behind ⌃M.

The format for multi-stroke key bindings is explained here so without further ado here is a key binding dictionary for most Apple-centric glyphs. Credits to Jacob Rus for compiling the dictionary.

You need to save the paste as ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict and then relaunch the applications for which you want this to work. If you already have a local key binding file, you need to add the bindings to this, rather than overwrite it.

Note: Key bindings only work for Cocoa applications.

Below is a table of the glyphs and their key sequence using this key binding dictionary. The logic behind the arrow glyphs is that they follow the default (emacs inspired) movement keys, i.e. forward, backward, next (down), previous (up.) As for the other glyphs, they mostly use the first letter of the glyph name, and control (⌃) is used for the “primary” glyph on that key.

Glyph	Description	Key Sequence
␣	Space	⌃M + ⌃␣
↩	Return	⌃M + ⌃E
⌅	Enter	⌃M + E
⇥	Tab	⌃M + ⌃T
⇤	Backtab	⌃M + T
⌫	Delete	⌃M + ⌃D
⌦	Forward Delete	⌃M + D
⌘	Command (apple)	⌃M + ⌃A
⌥	Option	⌃M + ⌃O
⌃	Control	⌃M + ⌃C
⇧	Shift	⌃M + ⌃S
⇪	Caps Lock	⌃M + S
←	Solid Left (back)	⌃M + ⌃B
→	Solid Right (forward)	⌃M + ⌃F
↑	Solid Up (previous)	⌃M + ⌃P
↓	Solid Down (next)	⌃M + ⌃N
⇠	Dotted Left (back)	⌃M + B
⇢	Dotted Right (forward)	⌃M + F
⇡	Dotted Up (previous)	⌃M + P
⇣	Dotted Down (next)	⌃M + N
↖	Home	⌃M + ⌃H
↘	End	⌃M + H
⇞	Page Up	⌃M + ⌃U
⇟	Page Down	⌃M + U
⎋	Escape	⌃M + ⌃X
⏏	Eject	⌃M + X

Originally from TextMate Blog by Allan Odgaard reBlogged on Jul 10, 2006, 5:41AM

Originally posted by Allan Odgaard from TextMate Blog, on July 12, 2006 11:53 AM

From a Guardian review of Heat, Bill Buford's new book on, in part, celebrity chef Mario Batali:

Batali would play Bob Marley songs on the sound system, knowing the New York Times restaurant critic was a fan. He would berate staff who failed to recognise celebrities, who must be served first and given special treatment. To make a humble fish soup called cioppino, he would rummage through bins and chopping boards, collecting left overs (tomato pulp, carrot tops, onion skins), then price the dish at $29 and tell the waiters to sell the hell out of it or be fired. Short ribs prepared in advance, wrapped so tightly in plastic wrap and foil that they wouldn't spurt sauce if stepped on, would keep in the walk-in fridge for up to a week.

Maybe that's why a recent trip to Babbo was not the top-shelf experience we expected.

Originally from kottke.org reBlogged on Jul 10, 2006, 2:19PM

Originally from kottke.org, on July 12, 2006 11:51 AM

Thanks to a9.com's terrific street-level photographs of pretty much every building in Manhattan, it's simple to see what the building that collapsed today looked like:

• Before
• After
• A9 link to photos of that block
• More news on the collapse

Originally from ScaryNY by adm reBlogged on Jul 10, 2006, 2:06PM

Originally posted by adm from ScaryNY, on July 12, 2006 11:51 AM

Viva Italia!!! Viva! Viva!

In celebration of the Italian World Cup win...here are some Italian sumo wrestlers for you:

Originally from Andrea Harner by Andrea reBlogged on Jul 10, 2006, 3:08PM

Originally posted by Andrea from Andrea Harner, on July 12, 2006 11:51 AM

Originally from jwz by jwz@jwz.org reBlogged on Jul 10, 2006, 4:20PM

Originally posted by jwz@jwz.org from jwz, on July 12, 2006 11:50 AM

Hey, lookit me, posting from Jabber. This is a test, but I have a question: how is each episode of The Venture Brothers 20% more awesome than the one before? How?

Originally from jwz by jwz@jwz.org reBlogged on Jul 10, 2006, 3:19PM

Originally posted by jwz@jwz.org from jwz, on July 12, 2006 11:50 AM

By Alison Bjerke, Google Base Operations

Last week, we launched Google Checkout, a new process that enables customers to buy from sellers like you quickly and securely using a single username and password. When it's easy for customers to buy from you, you sell more. And when customers buy from you with Checkout, it's easy for you to charge your customers' credit cards, process orders, and deposit funds to your bank. Checkout also gives you the confidence to sell by identifying and filtering fraudulent transactions, fighting chargebacks, and reimbursing you for transactions covered by our Payment Guarantee policy.

If you already have a website containing information about the items you sell, you can integrate Google Checkout with your website to process transactions online. A few sellers are already using it. To learn more about integrating with Google Checkout, go here.

Wondering if you can still take advantage of Google Checkout even if you don't have a website? Well, through Google Base, you can sell items in two ways:

1) If you only have a few items to sell, you can submit a single item to Google Base and follow these steps to enable customers to buy from you using Google Checkout. Monster Magazine is a good example of a seller who has done this.

2) To sell multiple items without a website, specify Google Checkout as an accepted form of payment in your bulk upload, and we'll show a "Buy" button next to each of your items. They'll be displayed on pages like the single-item posts, but you don't have to create each post individually. Details about this option are here.

Originally from Official Google Base Blog by Denise reBlogged on Jul 10, 2006, 3:18PM

Originally posted by Denise from Official Google Base Blog, on July 12, 2006 11:50 AM

I'm declaring my YAPC::NA 2006 hackathon over. Perl::Dist (Perl::Dist::Builder), Perl::Dist::Vanilla and Perl::Dist::Strawberry are all submitted to CPAN, and checked in to Alias's subversion repository.

Originally from use Perl by dagolden (posted by davorg) reBlogged on Jul 12, 2006, 10:27AM

Originally posted by dagolden (posted by davorg) from use Perl, on July 12, 2006 11:48 AM

Finished Chris Anderson's The Long Tail this morning, and while I've been following the discussion around these issues (and chiming in occasionally) since his original essay was published, I still found the book completely stimulating and fun to read. In addition to the original research that drives so much of his argument, Chris has also included some fascinating stories: the creation of the Sears-Roebuck catalogue; the pro-am movement in astronomy, etc. It also has a very persuasive critique of one of my pet peeves -- the polarization hypothesis generally associated with Cass Sunstein. (Related to our epic serendipity debate from earlier this year.)

There was a review in the Wall Street Journal this weekend that chided Chris for sharing some of the techno-utopian tendencies of writers like Steven Johnson and James Surowiecki, which is damning criticism indeed. And it's true The Long Tail -- like a certain book of mine -- does generally hold to an enthusiastic tone about the trend it is describing. But in Chris's case at least, I find that kind of sweeping criticism irritating. I suspect Chris does believe the that the trend towards long tail distributions in culture is, on the whole, a substantial improvement over the top heavy mass media model that has dominated the twentieth century. But that hardly makes him a techno-utopian. It means that in this one realm of technological development, Chris thinks things are getting better. For all we know, there may be other technological trends that Chris considers more problematic or troubling -- the point is, The Long Tail is not a book about those trends, nor is it a general statement about technology (the way, I imagine, Kevin Kelly's next book will be.)

When I was heavy in the promotion of Everything Bad, I often had people generalize out from my endorsement of popular culture and say things like: "Well, you think everything's just cheery in American society right now..." And I'd invariably have to explain that this wasn't true: I think there are plenty of problems in America right now (the usual suspects: wealth inequality, global warming, our President); I just happen to think pop culture is not one of those problems. So I wrote the book partially to say to our politicians and other cultural authorities: stop worrying about video games -- you've got real problems to deal with. Maybe you should focus on them for a change.

Reading The Long Tail actually made me think that I should have added one additional factor in my description of the forces behind The Sleeper Curve, the trend towards increased pop culture complexity I described in Everything Bad. One of the puzzling things about the Curve that readers occasionally had trouble with is that the trend is towards increased complexity, but not necessarily elevated artistic or intellectual achievement. The content can be silly or gratuitously violent, but the formal techniques used to convey the content have grown, on average, more complex. There's more information conveyed in shorter amounts of time, with less hand-holding from the creators. It occurred to me reading The Long Tail that the general trend from mass to niche can explain some of this increased complexity: niches can speak to each other in shorthand; they don't have to spell everything out. But at the same time, the niche itself doesn't have to become any more aesthetically or intellectually rich compared to what came before. If there's a pro wrestling niche, the creators don't have to condescend to the non-wrestling fans who might be tuning in, which means that they can make more references and in general convey more information about wrestling -- precisely because they know their audience is made up of hard core fans. But it's still pro wrestling. The content isn't anything to write home about, but the form grows more complex. In a mass society, it's harder to pull that off. But out on the tail, it comes naturally.

Originally from stevenberlinjohnson.com by stevenberlinjohnson reBlogged on Jul 12, 2006, 10:53AM

Originally posted by stevenberlinjohnson from stevenberlinjohnson.com, on July 12, 2006 11:48 AM

Guide for how to win at Pac-Man. "Pac-Man is the game which represents everything that's good about gaming (any kind of gaming) and nothing that is bad."

Originally from kottke.org remaindered links by jkottke reBlogged on Jul 12, 2006, 11:35AM

Originally posted by jkottke from kottke.org remaindered links, on July 12, 2006 11:48 AM

If you need a quick reference on the basics of Unix, have I got a deal for you.

The Unix enthusiast over at freeengineer.org has put together "the basic commands for getting started using the UNIX shell." I take a bit of issue with the title - "Learn Unix in Ten Minutes" - because frankly it's kind of silly to expect those kind of results.

Not to worry, though; this Unix cheat sheet is an excellent resource for anyone who just needs to know the barebones basics of how to get around inside Unix. — Wendy Boswell

Learn Unix in Ten Minutes [via Digg]

Originally from Lifehacker reBlogged on Jul 12, 2006, 12:00PM

Originally from Lifehacker, on July 12, 2006 11:48 AM

In an interesting twist, those watching the World Cup Final in the stadium didn't see Zidane headbutt Materazzi: "As a result, tens of thousands of spectators, those actually watching the game in real life, had to resort to calling or texting friends, often in faraway places like the United States or Japan, to find out what was happening in Berlin. Why was Zidane, the resurgent French hero, walking with a bowed head from the field?"

Originally from kottke.org remaindered links by jkottke reBlogged on Jul 12, 2006, 12:03PM

Originally posted by jkottke from kottke.org remaindered links, on July 12, 2006 11:48 AM

Wired: What kind of genius are you? A new "unified field theory of creativity" asserts that genius comes in two flavors: young, "Conceptual Innovators" like Mozart and Orson Welles, and late-blooming "Experimental Innovators" like Alfred Hitchcock and August Rodin.

Originally from Rebecca's Pocket reBlogged on Jul 12, 2006, 12:16PM

Originally from Rebecca's Pocket, on July 12, 2006 11:48 AM

New York City vs San Francisco, which dining scene will reign supreme? San Francisco Chronicle's Michael Bauer poses the question on his blog, "Is New York better than San Francisco?" Apples and oranges, I say. I love them both.

Originally from A Full Belly by Alaina Browne reBlogged on Jun 5, 2006, 7:50PM

Originally posted by Alaina Browne from A Full Belly, on July 12, 2006 11:46 AM

The Greenmarket is now in the Lower East Side, on Orchard Street between Delancey and Broome. Market hours are Sundays, 10am - 5pm. Anyone make it down there this weekend?

Handy map of all Greenmarket locations and hours (pdf).

Originally from A Full Belly by noemail@noemail.org (Alaina Browne) reBlogged on Jul 10, 2006, 8:45AM

Originally posted by noemail@noemail.org (Alaina Browne) from A Full Belly, on July 12, 2006 11:46 AM

The Nokia E60, Nokia E61 and Nokia E70 — the first of the new Nokia E-series mobile devices — will ship in the UK bundled with The Michelin Guide and ViaMichelin digital maps and route planning, according to Telematics Journal.

"The wireless version of The Michelin Guide puts the best choices in restaurants and hotels at your fingertips no matter where you travel and the ViaMichelin maps and driving directions ensure you get there with ease".

Originally from textually.org by emily reBlogged on Jul 10, 2006, 1:37PM

Originally posted by emily from textually.org, on July 12, 2006 11:34 AM

If you played soccer for Brazil, what would your name be? Mine is "Jasa", although I like the result better if I switch my first/last names: Jasinho.

Originally from kottke.org remaindered links by jkottke reBlogged on Jul 12, 2006, 10:52AM

Originally posted by jkottke from kottke.org remaindered links, on July 12, 2006 11:31 AM

"Amazon Simple Queue Service (Beta) offers a reliable, highly scalable hosted queue for buffering messages between distributed application components. Using the Simple Queue Service (SQS), developers can decouple components of their application so that they run independently. SQS provides the message management between the independent components. Any component of a distributed application can store any type of data in a reliable queue at Amazon.com. Another component or application can retrieve the data using queue semantics."

Originally from unmediated by yatta reBlogged on Jul 10, 2006, 11:05AM

Originally posted by yatta from unmediated, on July 12, 2006 11:29 AM

A doctor and his ex-wife had been fighting for five years, but in New York, divorce lawyers say, while blowing up a building is extreme, vindictiveness is not unusual.

Originally from NYT > Home Page by ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS and CARA BUCKLEY reBlogged on Jul 12, 2006, 12:00AM

Originally posted by ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS and CARA BUCKLEY from NYT > Home Page, on July 12, 2006 11:28 AM

On Sunday, Yahoo Travel launched Trip Planner, a CPC ad-based search that drives traffic to online travel booking sites (earlier glimpsed here in beta). Yahoo hopes to secure a foothold in an increasingly tight travel market by integrating user generated content, including sharable trip albums and photo journals. In a Forbes interview, a Yahoo rep says that although the growth in the online travel market is slowing as it matures, the pressure on travel sites to find new sources of traffic will only drive demand for Trip Planner.

[Update: A Yahoo! PR rep. felt that Trip Planner is better described as an "online travel research resource," although it also serves the function of driving monetized search traffic.]

Originally from John Battelle's Searchblog reBlogged on Jul 10, 2006, 5:01PM

Originally from John Battelle's Searchblog, on July 12, 2006 11:28 AM

Philipp finds yet more evidence of a Google personal computing environment, hard drive and all, and he finds it connected to Writely, the online word processor Google picked up a while back.

Originally from John Battelle's Searchblog reBlogged on Jul 10, 2006, 1:00PM

Originally from John Battelle's Searchblog, on July 12, 2006 11:28 AM

On July 1st, the community of Beloit, Wisconsin came together on the banks of the Rock River to recreate George Seurat’s “Sunday Afternoon on the Island of LaGrande Jatte” with the help of photography. “Saturday in the Park with Friends”. Read about it at the Beloit Daily News, and see the results in this Flickr set.

(via FlickrBlog)

Originally from Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog by Johnny reBlogged on Dec 31, 1969, 6:59PM

Originally posted by Johnny from Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog, on July 12, 2006 11:26 AM

Canadian cartoonist Jon Izen has a new production blog all about the new animated CBC show Yam Roll: Super Funny Happy Yam Roll Blog. We’ve talked about awesomely-titled The Very Good Adventures of Yam Roll in Happy Kingdom before, and it remains one of the most crazy, fun-looking shows around. I’m looking forward [...]

Originally from Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog by Johnny reBlogged on Jul 10, 2006, 11:55AM

Originally posted by Johnny from Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog, on July 12, 2006 11:26 AM

Originally from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs by djacobs reBlogged on Jul 6, 2006, 1:43PM

Originally posted by djacobs from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on July 12, 2006 8:49 AM

SIGGRAPH Guerilla Studio

We're going to SIGGRAPH. We'll be at the Guerilla Studio helping people extract geometries and clean them up for 3D printing. What's extra cool is that SIGGRAPH will actually have some on- and off-site 3D printing resources that we can use for free!

You can expect to find some or all of the following folks there:

- Rob O'Neill -- ex-Eyebeamer, Pratt Digital Arts Lab
- Paris Mavroidis -- Rob's grad student
- Evan Harper -- Studio Senior Fellow, Eyebeam
- Arthur Young-Spivey -- CADDEdge, local ZCorp reseller, and digital design/manufacture at teacher at Parsons
- Michael Frumin-- R&D Tech Director, Eyebeam (and author of OGLE)

Originally from OGLE: OpenGLExtractor by Eyebeam R&D blogs reBlogged on Jul 11, 2006, 7:25PM

Originally from OGLE: OpenGLExtractor by Eyebeam R&D blogs, on July 12, 2006 8:44 AM

Jason Kottke points to a remarkable post by Kevin Kelly entitled The Big Here, after the Eno-coined-counterpart to the Long Now - which shoots a diamond bullet through my thoughts for the last few months:

At the ultimate level, your home is a cell in an organism called a planet. All these levels interconnect. What do you know about the dynamics of this larger system around you? Most of us are ignorant of this matrix. But it is the biggest interactive game there is. Hacking it is both fun and vital.

In the post it goes on to take you through a quiz which examines your knowledge of your immediate environs, and the linkages it has to the wider ecosystem.

Here are the first three questions:

30 questions to elevate your awareness (and literacy) of the greater place in which you live:

1) Point north.

2) What time is sunset today?

3) Trace the water you drink from rainfall to your tap.

Kelly prefaces this with a positioning of the quiz as one of his “cool tools”:

“The intent of this quiz is to inspire you to answer the questions you can’t initially. I’d like to collect and then post the best step-by-step suggestions about how to answer a particular question. These are not answers to the quiz, but recommended paths on how one might most efficiently answer the question locally. Helpful websites which can provide local answers are wanted. Because of the severe specificity of local answers, the methods provided should be as general as possible. The emerging list of answer-paths will thus become the Cool Tool.”

So far, so good.

Wonderful, even.

My immediate thought though, reading both Jason’s post and Kevin Kelly’s mission is why the hell is this not on a mobile?

So - I over the summer am going to try and knit something together to get it there.

1. I imagine it will be pretty easy (i.e. within the reach of my terrifyingly-bad coding skills) just to port the text quiz to a mobile using S60 python as a standalone experience.
2. It might be easy enough then to both launch web resources from the quiz on the mobile device, and perhaps post answers in some easily-aggregated format to back out to the web from whoever takes the quiz.
3. however might be more tricky…

What I immediately imagined was the extension of this quiz into the fabric of the near-future mobile and it’s sensors - location (GPS, CellID), orientation (accelerometers or other tilt sensors), light (camera), heat (Nokia 5140’s have thermometers…), signal strength, local interactions with other devices (Bluetooth, uPnP, NFC/RFID) and of course, a connection to the net.

The near-future mobile could become a ‘tricorder’ for the Big Here - a daemon that challenges or channels your actions in accordance and harmony to the systems immediately around you and the ripples they raise at larger scales.

It could be possible (but probably with some help from my friends) to rapidly-prototype a Big Here Tricorder using s60 python, a bluetooth GPS module, some of these scripts, some judicious scraping of open GIS data and perhaps a map-service API or two.

One thought that springs to mind would be to simply geotag the results of a quiz (assuming the respondent takes the quiz in-situ!) and upload that to a geowiki, something like Place-O-Pedia.

It might be delightful to see the varying answers from valiant individuals clustered in a location and inspire some collaboration on getting to the ‘right’ answers about their collective bit of the big here or the issues raised by the route there more importantly perhaps.

One open question would be if this ‘Big Here Tricorder’ where realised, would it genuinely raise an individual or community’s awareness of their local ecosystem and it’s connections at other scales? “Every extension is also an amputation” etc.

Well - we won’t know unless we build it.

While we’ve had a couple of year’s noise about Where2.0, I reckon there’s a hell of a lot of mileage and some real good could come of focussing on Here2.0… which gives me a nice little summer project - thanks Kevin, Brian and Jason…

Tags: here2.0, kevinkelly, brianeno, jasonkottke, s60python, gps

Originally from Blackbeltjones/Work by Matt reBlogged on Jul 11, 2006, 6:10PM

Originally posted by Matt from Blackbeltjones/Work, on July 12, 2006 8:44 AM

TOKION’s going on a trip and apparently we're all invited! The mega cool mag has got events this month in New York, Berlin and San Francisco that’re going to be (and I quote) "so crazy packed with all sorts of wanderlusty awesomeness."

What's up NYC?

Well, after rocking out to Norwegian disco-monster Todd Terje at PS1’s Warm Up Tokion cordially invites us all to Williamsburg for a free Saturday night party. Mr. Terje be joined by the legendary Jeremy Campbell and Bumrocks. All in all, not bad for some Saturday entertainment!

Todd Terje
Saturday, July 15, 2006
Capones, 221 North 9th at Roebling, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Originally from l-e-mental by clairehyland reBlogged

Originally posted by clairehyland from l-e-mental, on July 12, 2006 8:44 AM

70 years after Robert Moses's Triborough Bridge opened to traffic, his pro-automobile career is being re-appraised. "'He made it all fit together,' said Laura Rosen, the archivist for Metropolitan Transportation Authority Bridges and Tunnels." NYTimes.

Originally from Archinect.com Feed reBlogged

Originally from Archinect.com Feed, on July 12, 2006 8:31 AM

On January 3rd of 2006 at approximately 7:32 PM, I had a phone conversation where I told Jason to make a Pro-Con version of Tada. My instant message transcripts will tell you I have repeatedly told him to make such an online application because my idea was simply BRILLIANT, and he keeps telling me that I didn't "come up with" the idea of listing pros and cons.

Apparently, someone named "Ben Franklin" did.

But the good people at Knock Knock are keeping my dream alive with these awesome and cheap printed Pro/Con notepads. My first entry was titled, "On being BRILLIANT."

PRO: Uh, brilliant!
CON: Someone named Ben Franklin stealing all your ideas.

Originally from Awesome! by S H reBlogged

Originally posted by S H from Awesome! , on July 12, 2006 8:31 AM

"Port of Python 2.4.3 to the Nintendo DS, specifically, a port of the Stackless version of Python."

Originally from tecznotes links by Michal Migurski reBlogged on Jul 12, 2006, 2:33AM

Originally posted by Michal Migurski from tecznotes links, on July 12, 2006 8:29 AM

Good reference for Vim's bizarre escape happy regex syntax

Originally from random($foo) reBlogged on Jul 11, 2006, 4:56AM

Originally from random($foo), on July 11, 2006 6:12 PM

Peter Rukavina: “Because NetNewsWire lacks any mechanism for storing XFN information itself, I crafted an AppleScript-based solution that stores my relationship to each feed’s author in a SQLite database. You can download my Define XFN Relationship script and try it for yourself.”

Originally from ranchero.com by Brent Simmons reBlogged on Jul 11, 2006, 12:46PM

Originally posted by Brent Simmons from ranchero.com, on July 11, 2006 5:15 PM

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A different view of the infamous World Cup "head butt." (To paraphrase Alicia Silverstone, "I may not know my soccer but I know my LiveJournal.")

Originally from Tom Moody by tom moody reBlogged on Jul 11, 2006, 8:18AM

Originally posted by tom moody from Tom Moody, on July 11, 2006 5:13 PM

Zinedine Zidane's savage headbutt of Marco Materazzi in the World Cup final has touched on many things: Race, family, country, terrorism, sportsmanship. But more than anything else, it's united the entire Internet around the most important thing. Wacky animations!

In light of this historic moment, and thanks to the efforts of citizens of MetaFilter, Something Awful, b3ta, and other online communities, I sifted through dozens of the best/worst Zidane-related animations online. All this to bring you the following movie I made last night, dedicated to the head-first fight against alleged racism, the grand tradition of ridiculous memes on the net, and the premise that "Yakety Sax" is always funny.

Feel free to leave your own animated .gifs inline in the comments; If you aren't signed in, I'll have to approve your comments before they appear.

Originally from Anil Dash by noemail@noemail.org (Anil) reBlogged on Jul 11, 2006, 3:26PM

Originally posted by noemail@noemail.org (Anil) from Anil Dash, on July 11, 2006 5:13 PM

from Drew and Natalie's Married to the Sea

Originally from hello, nintendo by yi reBlogged on Jul 11, 2006, 11:13AM

Originally posted by yi from hello, nintendo, on July 11, 2006 11:38 AM

NBC Names New Chief for iVillage Unit:

At privately held Conde Nast, Fine had served as publisher of Glamour and Bride's, two of the company's biggest magazines. She also worked in senior roles at Avon Products Inc. and headed up a fashion line called Pink at Victoria's Secret, a unit of Intimate Brands, which is owned by Limited Brands Inc.

This hire oozes synergy.

Originally from hello, typepad by David Jacobs reBlogged on Jul 10, 2006, 6:19PM

Originally posted by David Jacobs from hello, typepad, on July 10, 2006 8:33 PM

We just pushed out a sizeable update of the Movable Type plugin directory and thought we'd share with you those which are new and updated. Below are links to each with descriptions written in the authors' own words:

• NewEntryTemplate v1
  Categories: Authoring, Built for 3.2, Shortcuts
  Allows setting global or per-blog default content for entry text fields.

• MTIfCommenterEmailIs v1
  Categories: Built for 3.2, Comments/TrackBacks, Community, Email
  This plugin adds a new MovableType conditionnal tag named MTIfCommenterEmailIs. It accepts two arguments: email (mandatory) and trusted. The aim is to recognise a commenter by its email address. If trusted is set to 1 then the comment must also be from an authentified source (typekey for example). You can use MTElse to add some code when the comment is not from the expected source.

• FileSize v1
  Categories: Built for 3.2
  Get the filesize of a file. Accepts inline MT tags.

• LJsubs v1.2
  Categories: Administrative, Authoring, Built for 3.2, Text Formatting
  If you're porting a LiveJournal to MovableType, this will make the transition all the more easier. This MT plugin contains a text filter that translates most LiveJournal-specific tags, and formats your entry according to normal LJ practice. That is, anything inside an lj-raw container gets left alone, and anything outside gets a linebreak appended to the end of each line. Other common LJ tags get translated, too.

• Moderate Via Delay v1.03
  Categories: Anti-spam, Built for 3.2, Comments/TrackBacks
  The plugin has a junk filter that can moderate comments and trackbacks that are submitted a certain amount of time after the original entry was posted, or after the last comment/trackback was posted. You can also flag such comments as junk instead of moderating them, and even scale the junk rating so that it increases the longer the entry has been idle.

• AddComment v1
  Categories: Administrative, Built for 3.2, Comments/TrackBacks, Shortcuts
  Allows posting comments right from Movable Type's backend. It adds an "Add Comment" form in the "Comments" tab when editing an entry.

• Macron v1.1
  Categories: Authoring, Built for 3.2
  Adds a button above the entry editing area to easily add a macron to any character. A macron is a "mark placed over a vowel to indicate that the vowel is long" (Webster). It can be used for example in romanized Japanese.

• MTMaps v0.6
  Categories: Built for 3.2, Web Services, Widgets
  MTMaps lets you easily create Google Maps that show where each of your blog entries occurred. It's perfect for PhotoBlogging, TravelBlogging, diaries, or collaboration - any time you want to show the world where your blog is happening!

• myComments v1
  Categories: Built for 3.2, Comments/TrackBacks, Web Services
  This plugin sends approved comments to myComments service (http://mycomments.idslab.com.ar/)

• TagSupplementals v0.02
  Categories: Authoring, Built for 3.3, Categories, Keywords, Linking, Search, Tagging
  TagSupplementals Plugin is intended to provide supplemental features, in addition to the standard MT 3.3 tags for tagging.

• EntryCategoryEntries v0.01
  Categories: Built for 3.2, Categories
  EntryCategoryEntries plugin allows you to list entries included in the primary category of the current entry. This plugin can be used only in the entry context, which means the inside of the MTEntries container or the individual entry archives.

• Duplicated TBPing Lookup v1.02
  Categories: Anti-spam, Built for 3.2, Comments/TrackBacks
  An MT 3.2 JunkFilter plugin for rejecting duplicated and/or repeated trackbacks from the same source URLs. These kind of trackbacks seem to be spams or caused by authors' mistakes.

• Delicious Tags v0.01
  Categories: Built for 3.2, Categories, Tagging, Web Services
  This plugin allows you to import and display your del.icio.us tags into your MT blogs.

• Update-n-Ping v0.12
  Categories: Authoring, Blogosphere, Built for 3.2, Community
  Update-n-Ping plugin enables MT to send update pings when updating published entries and adding newly published entries.

• Tagwire v0.26
  Categories: Keywords, Tagging
  Tagwire Plugin provides an easier way to handling "tags" in Movable Type 3.1x and 3.2.

• Captcha v0.02
  Categories: Anti-spam, Built for 3.2, Comments/TrackBacks
  "Captcha Plugin" is an anti comment-spam plugin which generates and verifies CAPTCHA tests that most human commenters can easily pass but current spambots cannot pass.

• Show System ID v1
  Categories: Administrative, Built for 3.2, Widgets
  Show System ID integrates display of blog, entry and category ID numbers directly within the MT interface.

• Granular Interface Styling v1
  Categories: Administrative, Built for 3.2, Shortcuts, Widgets
  Granular Interface Styling adds extra classes to the MT interface to allow for more detailed customization.

• Socializer v0.1
  Categories: Authoring, Linking, Tagging, Web Services
  Add socializer link to your entries.

• MTGoogleMaps v4
  Categories: Built for 3.2, Rich Media, Template/Tag Helpers, Web Services, Widgets
  MTGoogleMaps is a plugin that enables you embed Google Maps in your weblog entries and templates.

• webSSearchy v3.2
  Categories: Built for 3.2, Search, Web Services
  webSSearchy is a plugin which enables your visitors to easily search more related pages in the web space with a help of your own suggesting search queries, the AJAX technique, and Google, Yahoo Web Service API.

• NotifyWho?! v1
  Categories: Administrative, Built for 3.2, Comments/TrackBacks, Community, Email
  NotifyWho?! is a plugin written for Movable Type 3.2 which enables blog administrators to specify exactly who should receive comment and TrackBack notifications for each individual blog. The can be sent to the entry's author (the default), to a list of arbitrary emails or both.

• LivePreview v1
  Categories: Authoring, Built for 3.2, Text Formatting
  LivePreview is a new plugin that finally brings live previewing to Movable Type. A live preview, perhaps the most requested feature yet, allows you to view an entry in your weblog's context, i.e. with all the styling applied to it, rather than with Movable Type, as with the default previewing mechanism. It has several advantages, the biggest being that you no longer have to save and publish your entry to view it in context. Hence, you can identify any potential problems with your entry well in advance of publishing it. A screencast of LivePreview in action is available!

• Google PageRank v0.1
  Categories: Statistics, Web Services, Widgets
  This plugin allow you add the Google PageRank of the current blog into your pages.

• Google Analytics v0.2
  Categories: Administrative, Blogosphere, Statistics, Template/Tag Helpers, Web Services
  This plugin makes it simple to add Google Analytics codes to your weblog.

• Akismet v1
  Categories: Anti-spam, Built for 3.2, Comments/TrackBacks, Web Services
  Filters the contents of incoming feedback using the Akismet service. Feedback can be scored based on whether Akismet deems it spam (bad) or ham (good).

Originally from ProNet by Jay Allen reBlogged on Jul 8, 2006, 1:11PM

Originally posted by Jay Allen from ProNet, on July 9, 2006 10:20 AM

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Another photo from the Jessica Ciocci show at Foxy Production. The orange cast is because this is taken inside a tent in the corner of the gallery--the lights are shining through various colored fabrics. I told Paper Radder Ben Jones that all the artists in the three-person collective are equally good, and I think they are, but this was my favorite of the Foxy shows, including their collaborative effort. It's the most materially sumptuous. I still don't agree with the gallery's decision to show the artists individually so soon, though. It's not like the Who, where you have Pete Townshend and John Entwistle solo albums or whatever. Or actually--you had a bunch of Who albums before the solo efforts started appearing. In any case, everyone knows and expects musicians to work as groups. The art world, however, still clings to the myth of the Leonardo-like solitary artist, moving culture forward in a single heroic leap. The most rad thing about Rad, to me, is their rejection of individuality cliches--who made what? Who cares? If you're a gallery you pound that message home. You don't immediately take your strongest artists and start presenting them the way everyone else presents their artists--as individual branded commodities. The power of the status quo is insanely huge. [/rant]

Originally from Tom Moody by tom moody reBlogged on Jul 8, 2006, 8:03AM

Originally posted by tom moody from Tom Moody, on July 9, 2006 10:17 AM

I was excited to check out today's opening of the new Mission Bay library -- the first new branch in 40 years! -- today. It's a nice space and convenient enough to work and home that weaning myself off of Amazon.com + prime shipping should be painless.

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Originally from alaina browne lives here by Alaina reBlogged on Jul 9, 2006, 12:06AM

Originally posted by Alaina from alaina browne lives here, on July 9, 2006 10:09 AM

The one red paperclip guy has completed his quest to trade a single red paperclip for a house. Listen all y'all, it's arbitrage.

Originally from kottke.org remaindered links by jkottke reBlogged on Jul 9, 2006, 10:07AM

Originally posted by jkottke from kottke.org remaindered links, on July 9, 2006 10:09 AM

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Title: The Amorous Nudibranchs Paint the Town Red (and Orange and Yellow and Green and Blue and Violet)... Site: Kozyndan

New panoramic from Kozyndan. Available as a $25 limited edition of 88 offset prints or as a $750 limited edition of 10 archival prints. They describe it better then I ever could:
It is, we think, our interpretation of a most basic of platitudes: "Love can change the world!" Although in this case, it is the new found love is between two giant land-locked magical sea slugs, out on their first date in the streets of Soho. Everywhere they go the world becomes more vibrant, more alive. Some people notice the change, and some do not, but we are all in some way affected.

Originally from we[heart]prints reBlogged on Jul 9, 2006, 1:34AM

Originally from we[heart]prints, on July 9, 2006 10:09 AM