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Courtesy of TEDster Bill Bragin, I had the good fortune to attend the premier of Stew's show Passing Strange at Berkeley Rep earlier this week.  Bill is the Director of Joe's Pub, the influential music venue associated with The Public Theater in New York.  Not only is Bill credited with building Joe's Pub into the powerhouse that it has become, but he is also credited with seeing theatrical possibilities within Stew's music.  Through a collaboration between The Public and Berkeley Rep (and the assistance of Stanford and Sundance), Stew has managed to unleash a show that is unconstrained by theatrical expectations.  Passing Strange has evolved into a wonderfully energetic and compelling experience.  If it is possible to be simultaneously ironic and sentimental, then Stew is the king of the art form.  The show has received fantastic reviews and is playing through December 3rd, so if you live in the Bay Area don't miss it.  And if you live in the New York area, stay tuned -- Passing Strange is coming your way next.

Originally posted by David Hornik from TED Blog, on October 28, 2006 6:25 PM

A confession: I just spent a little while watching NHL '94 highlight videos on YouTube and consider it time well spent. After all, it is one of the greatest video games ever made. I noticed quite a few of the featured goals in this video were what my little cadre of gamers in college referred to as "cheater" goals where you go across the goal and slapshot hard to the far side. We outlawed them because it was a guaranteed goal and made playing a whole lot less fun. The goal I didn't notice so much of was the "rock the cradle" goal, a beautiful goal and my bread and butter as an NHL '94 player. It happens on the break where you dribble the puck very quickly back and forth from left to right and, when it works, juke the goalie completely. The best part is that after much practice, you can do it with even the slowest players in the game against the best goalies.
Update: Some crazy souls have made a multiplayer version of NHL '94 that works over the internet. You just login to a server, find an opponent, and away you go. There are even leagues!

Originally from kottke.org remaindered links by jkottke reBlogged on Oct 27, 2006, 3:38PM

Originally posted by jkottke from kottke.org remaindered links, on October 28, 2006 6:25 PM

Originally from Modern Art Notes reBlogged

Originally from Modern Art Notes, on October 28, 2006 6:25 PM

Last night I attended the Austin Nintendo Wii party- about 20 people were selected, told to call a number and leave our name and phone number, and then contacted back by a Nintendo rep who gave us instructions and a password. On the day of the party everyone recieved a text message detailing where to go, and we were met by a couple of vans and some Nintendo reps who had us surrender our cellphones, show ID, and give our passwords. I took my DS just in case, but no DS-Wii interoperability was being demoed at the party. We were taken to what looked like an artspace with about 5 HDTV's, Wiis, and a multitude of Wii remotes. Blessedly, beer, softdrinks and pizza were also served. We jumped right into the games pretty quickly. The games being demoed were Wii Sports, Zelda: Twilight Princess, Trauma Center: Second Opinion, Wario Ware: Smooth Moves, a Marvel comics game, a Madden game, and a racing game (who's name I have unfortunately spaced on, but I'm sure someone here will refresh my memory).

The first game I picked up was Trauma Center, which was a good place to get started using the Wii Remote. I had heard a few reports of people having difficult times with the remote at various demos, but I found it fairly easy to pick up on, using the metaphor of a laser pointer for Trauma center, and then refining that with the general location awareness of Wario Ware and Wii Sports. The demos of some of the games really only allowed a taste of the possibilities and got us accustomed to working with the controller- Trauma Center and Wario only had a brief set of levels, Twilight Princess had one figting tutorial level and a demo of a fishing mini game (the fishing was one of the most impressive interactions I had with the wii, great use of feedback and physical movements, and the camera movements and water looked great). Wii Sports seemed to be the most appealing package- The bowling and tennis games were easy to pick up, simple and very fun. I especially had a good time taking part in a 4 person tennis match, and could definitely see myself playing the tennis and bowling for hours with my drunken friends. The boxing seemed like a good idea, but I couldn't quite get the hang of using the controllers for it. The swordfighting in Zelda also wasn't as precise and reactive as I had hoped, but I've heard that a star wars lightsaber game is in the works that will use the full range of motion for more precise sword movements.

All in all I was very impressed with my first look at the Wii. Nintendo sent us on our way with coupons for free Wii Remotes when we purchase the console. I left a little buzzed, with a slightly sore shoulder from tennis, and a definite feeling I was going to pick a Wii up in November.

Originally from hello, nintendo by Wiley Wiggins reBlogged on Oct 27, 2006, 1:36PM

Originally posted by Wiley Wiggins from hello, nintendo, on October 27, 2006 2:35 PM

Ze Frank's discussion of rocketbooming, the practice of inflating stats, is interesting on a lot of levels. There's still very little analysis (anywhere) of the quality of the audience, just the quantity. It's not hard to figure out why - in Ze's own words, "Given the current state of web metrics, talking about eyeballs seems to create more risk than value... "

Originally from hello, typepad by David Jacobs reBlogged on Oct 27, 2006, 12:05PM

Originally posted by David Jacobs from hello, typepad, on October 27, 2006 12:39 PM

Vox launched today and I can't say enough good things about it. Just try it out and see (it helps if you get a few friends and family roped in as well). Dad, if you're reading this, this is that invite I sent you a few weeks back that you never used. Sign up and email me your Vox blog URL when you're done. Thanks Mena, Ben, and the rest of the Six Apart crew for building this app. It is going to literally make many people's lives better.

Originally posted by Matt Haughey from A Whole Lotta Nothing, on October 26, 2006 10:02 PM

Ziff-Davis opens up the vault, offering free PDFs of every issue from December 1981 to November 1992! [via] 

Originally from Waxy.org Links reBlogged on Oct 23, 2006, 4:30AM

Originally from Waxy.org Links, on October 25, 2006 3:57 PM

using the Nintendo DS as an interface for mixing live video performances; watch the video for a demo [via] 

Originally from Waxy.org Links reBlogged on Oct 23, 2006, 4:26AM

Originally from Waxy.org Links, on October 25, 2006 3:57 PM

We wandered through the labyrinthine of art studios in Gowanus this weekend, but we didn't stumble upon the Bat Cave, a former power station off Third Street that is home to dozens of runaways from California, Long Island, Queens, and the Midwest. Flickr photographer e-liz took the picture above, and has a whole set of interior shots. An 18-year-old Bat Cave squatter named Sasha claims, "It's like a dorm," but it doesn't look anything like our college dormitory. The walls and furniture are covered with graffiti, and according to the Daily News, "This month, two twentysomething males mainlined heroin while talking with a reporter outside the building." The building, owned by mega-developer Shaya Boymelgreen, is located across the street from the proposed Whole Foods store, and is slated to become a luxury condo complex called Gowanus Village.
Homeless Rule at the 'Bat Cave' [NY Daily News]

Originally from Brooklyn Record by Brooklyn Record reBlogged on Oct 23, 2006, 10:52AM

Originally posted by Brooklyn Record from Brooklyn Record, on October 25, 2006 3:55 PM

Let's say, like Steve Wynn, you've punched a hole in your Picasso. Here's how to fix it.

Originally from kottke.org remaindered links by jkottke reBlogged on Oct 23, 2006, 5:30PM

Originally posted by jkottke from kottke.org remaindered links, on October 25, 2006 3:37 PM

CNBC: “I’m curious, have you ever googled anybody? Do you use Google?”

President George W. Bush: “Occasionally. One of the things I’ve used on the Google is to pull up maps. It’s very interesting to see — I’ve forgot the name of the program — but you get the satellite, and you can — like, I kinda like to look at the ranch. It remind me of where I wanna be sometimes.”

(Watch the video)

Via Andy Baio’s Waxy.org, and thanks to punk floyd, Joey, Kyle Maxwell, Jason, Markus, Benjamin, Larry, rob schimmel, Tony, Gut, Rick Second and Greg Askins.

Categories: Buildings, Texas and Watercraft

View in Google Earth

Originally from Google Sightseeing by Alex reBlogged on Oct 24, 2006, 8:58AM

Originally posted by Alex from Google Sightseeing, on October 25, 2006 2:08 PM

So unfortunately, because I've been sick, I didn't make it to Ruhlman's talk at the Y on Monday evening. :( If anyone attended and has a report, I'd love to hear it. Shoot me an email with your thoughts.

Originally from megnut.com blog by meg@megnut.com (Meg Hourihan) reBlogged on Oct 25, 2006, 1:52PM

Originally posted by meg@megnut.com (Meg Hourihan) from megnut.com blog, on October 25, 2006 2:05 PM

Meet a new periodic table, what do you think? I think the interactive application makes it really useful.

"The Periodic Spiral envisions a remedy to the flaws in conventional periodic tables by illustrating hydrogen's ambiguous relationship to the noble gases and halogens while recognizing its relationship to the alkali metals; it also fully integrates the lanthanons and actinons into the design.

It has been described | as "logical and fresh" by reknowned astronomer and author Bob Berman; and serves as a design motif for the entry to a new $34.5 million science complex at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts. Following two years of development, the concept has been realized as en e-learning application for Windows, Macintosh OS 9 and OS X."

More:

• Chart explained at the NYT - Link.
• The Periodic Spiral - Link.

Related:

• Periodic Table of keys - Link.
• Interactive Periodic Table - Link.
• The Wooden Periodic Table Table - Link.
• Periodic Table of the Operators - Link.
• The Periodic Table of Poetry - Link.
• Limited edition MAKE: Pocket Refs are in - Link.

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Originally from MAKE: Blog by philliptorrone

reBlogged by Matthew Haughey on Oct 25, 2006, 5:41PM

Originally from mathowie reBlog feed by philliptorrone reBlogged on Oct 25, 2006, 1:14PM

Originally posted by philliptorrone from mathowie reBlog feed , on October 25, 2006 2:05 PM

I recently read “Design Research: Methods and Perspectives” (Brenda Laurel, Peter Lunenfeld, Eds.). One of the chapter that I found relevant for my work is the one about Creating a Culture of Design Research by Eric Zimmerman.

The author describes some of the strategies they took at the game development studio called “gameLab“, pushing the boundaries of game companies and cultivating a “design culture”. It’s mostly based on 6 hints:

1. Create a space that encourages design research: “the office space we inhabit is filled to bursting with games, toys, and other play objects”
2. Build a design research library: ” retail game titles, books and graphic novels, DVDs and videotapes, magazines (we have many subscriptions), board and card games, and toys of all kinds.”
3. Attend and create events: “GameLab has attended films, exhibits, conferences, and other events connected to games, design, and popular culture / we also host our own design research affair”
4. Let them teach
5. Encourage side projects: “We encourage our staff to pursue personal projects.”
6. Create contexts for experimentation: “from time to time we create opportunities for our staff to undertake experimental, noncommercial projects as a form of design research. ”

Why do I blog this? I was looking for ideas of creative companies, especially in the game industry, I found those highlight relevant and fruitful for future projects. The idea of creating a proper environment, with a culture of design creativity is of interest to me (given that my role in various organization is too nurture designers).

Originally from unmediated by yatta reBlogged on Oct 25, 2006, 12:43PM

Originally posted by yatta from unmediated, on October 25, 2006 1:59 PM

This is a clever twist on a very important emerging market of location based content, Outside.in. Check it out. Steven's announcement here.

...the site is ultimately about a new kind of experience. You sit at a computer and type in a street address, or a neighborhood name, or a zip code -- perhaps for your own home area, perhaps for a place you're visiting or interested in -- and within seconds the screen gives you a glimpse of all the textured, real-world issues and conversations and news unfolding in the location you've entered. Not just restaurant reviews or upcoming concerts, but the

Originally from John Battelle's Searchblog reBlogged on Oct 24, 2006, 11:57PM

Originally from John Battelle's Searchblog, on October 25, 2006 1:57 PM

A new implementation of the OpenGL industry-standard interface for developing portable, interactive 2D and 3D applications could offer as much as a twofold increase in performance when running under Apple's forthcoming Leopard operating system.

Originally from digg / Apple reBlogged on Oct 24, 2006, 11:00PM

Originally from digg / Apple, on October 25, 2006 1:57 PM

It is sometimes useful to insert a list where number of items is unknown, but each item has enough boilerplate to want a snippet for it.

One approach to give this a more natural flow is chaining of snippets done e.g. for Rails migrations.

A thread on the mailing list recently resulted in this tip from Brett Terpstra

The idea is that the first snippet inserts the full list and has the last tab stop after the list end marker. So that would be (the class name here is generated from the entry text, specifically it is lowercased and spaces are replaced with underscores):

<ul id="${1:navbar}">
    <li class="${2/( )|\w+/(?1:_:\L$0)/g}">
        <a href="${3:#}">$2</a>
    </li>
</ul>$0

Another snippet inserts a new entry and the list end marker. It has the list end marker itself as tab trigger (i.e. </ul>), so the snippet is:

    <li class="${1/( )|\w+/(?1:_:\L$0)/g}">
        <a href="${2:#}">$1</a>
    </li>
</ul>$0

This means that when the caret is located after </ul> you can press tab, and you will extend the list with a new entry, and be able to fill in the text for this new entry.

This means initial creation of the list is just an extra tab for each additional item, and at a later time, it is possible to add new items to the list by placing the caret after the li end tag and hit tab.

Originally from TextMate Blog by Allan Odgaard reBlogged on Oct 25, 2006, 10:09AM

Originally posted by Allan Odgaard from TextMate Blog, on October 25, 2006 12:55 PM

Following the lead of the Six Word Story group on Flickr and Caterina's prompt, Wired asked some prominent writers to pen their own six word stories. "Hemingway once wrote a story in just six words ('For sale: baby shoes, never worn.') and is said to have called it his best work." Got any good ones? (Comment on this)

Originally from kottke.org remaindered links by jkottke reBlogged on Oct 25, 2006, 1:26PM

Originally posted by jkottke from kottke.org remaindered links, on October 25, 2006 12:54 PM

Interview with Cory Arcangel about his new show at Team Gallery. "I made the conscious decision that the viewer shouldn't have to understand it; it should stand on its own and be beautiful. Anyone can have an art moment with my work, regardless of their technical knowledge."

Originally from kottke.org remaindered links by jkottke reBlogged on Oct 25, 2006, 12:53PM

Originally posted by jkottke from kottke.org remaindered links, on October 25, 2006 12:54 PM

outside.in is a hyperlocal blog/newspaper/information aggregator that Steven Johnson is heading up. Here's his announcement post on his blog. "Type in a zip code or address, and you'll instantly see the conversations that the natives are having about their community."

Originally from kottke.org remaindered links by jkottke reBlogged on Oct 24, 2006, 2:39PM

Originally posted by jkottke from kottke.org remaindered links, on October 24, 2006 10:02 PM

Andy Herbert recently announced a Widget Creator bundle (direct link to the bundle). This allows you to create a Dashboard Widget from your current document, be it a Ruby, Python, Perl, shell, or whatever script.

The created widget will then run the script when clicked and you can optionally drag files or URLs to this widget (e.g. from Finder or your web browser), and the script will receive the dropped items as arguments.

There is a screencast showing the Widget Creator bundle in action.

So if you don’t like to write contextual menu plug-ins or compile AppleScripts into applications, in order to get custom (drop) actions in Finder, this bundle provides you with an easy alternative!

Originally from TextMate Blog by Allan Odgaard reBlogged on Oct 24, 2006, 12:26PM

Originally posted by Allan Odgaard from TextMate Blog, on October 24, 2006 10:02 PM

Homebrewed subway maps for the Nintendo DS, including London, Lyon, Mexico, Paris and Vienna. Some hacking required. Via Matt....

Originally from The Map Room by Jonathan Crowe reBlogged on Oct 13, 2006, 7:45AM

Originally posted by Jonathan Crowe from The Map Room, on October 24, 2006 9:53 PM

After some discrepancy, Ze Frank has laid into me because he doesn't believe how he could only have a fraction of the audience size of Rocketboom.

I was pretty surprised because we have had some friendly emails recently and he has asked me about my stats but apparently didn't believe me. I have even offered to have him come by and have a look but he would rather just assume I must be wrong I guess.

It turns out Ze receives about 30,000 downloads per day compared to Rocketboom which receives well over 300,000 per day.

As a result of Ze's outspoken concerns, I got a call today from Marshall Kirkpatrick from Techcrunch who wanted to go over all of my stats. He was pretty skeptical at first but I gave him logins for the various servers and spent an hour on the phone going over everything.

He confirmed my numbers. This is not a first, and you don't need to take it from him.

I have always been open about this and Rocketboom is in a very, very different position than Ze Frank.

Ze has been doing online video for a very long time, but he uses 1.0 means of distributing his show (e.g. no links out of his site, no off-site distributions or redistribution partners) and he only started to identify with "videoblogging" once videoblogging defined him. In otherwords, Ze is brilliantly interactive with his not-safe-for-work-or-school audience, but has not done much, relitively speaking, in pioneering the space that we are both defined by now and he has not been much of a contributor to lifting up others in terms of sharing his ideas for how to make all of this work.

I always thought he should do a short-form daily show and told him as much a year before he finally did. During the year that he didn't, he missed quite a bit.

Overtime, Rocketboom has become very pervasive internationally, especially as a reference point to which other things are often compared and tried.

Just looking at my stats today, I noticed we have over 15,000 phone distributions of each episode alone. That's half Ze's total daily audience on the phone. Lets not get into TiVo which accounts for more than the other half, our daily Japanese version, TVTonic type aggregators, home made aggregators, my goodness, my rant -> .mov files, .wmv, full_.wmv .3gp, .3gpp, .mp4, .mpg _hd.mov just for each episode to accommodate everyone.

While this sounds spread out, in short, statistics can be known very easily and clearly - there is no mixup or problem with understanding video stats:

The core of the matter is not hits or page views or uniques or subscribers or Alexa #'s it's how many completed videos were served. The video carries the ad. So that is what the advertiser wants to know, that is the ultimate value number and that is what Mr. Frank stated he was most concerned about: ad revenue potential. For any website that uses Apache and keeps a log file (i.e. the majority of the websites on the internet), this is a no brainer to see. Again, its simply a video file and fIles are easily counted.

I'm with Brogan, this is no time to compete.

I'd say don't worry about it so much, just do your thing; if you have a creative voice like Ze does, 30,000 is a huge amount of people to be watching daily, more will come in due time.

***update: Even Alexa is in on the game and posted a graph on their front page. Dear frenzy, Ze Frank has a big website with a lot of stuff going on and has been doing it for years. He said he gets 30,000 views of his show. How many page views does he get? A lot more which is likely fueling his Alexa status. Rocketboom delivers more videos than page views. Look now at how our Alexa stats have gone up today. It's just an indication of ONE KIND of audience out of the many kinds of audiences out there. Google trends is another story too. Boingboing has 3-million people per day reading, it's all relative.

Originally from Dembot by Rocketboom reBlogged on Oct 24, 2006, 9:13PM

Originally posted by Rocketboom from Dembot, on October 24, 2006 9:52 PM

I get a kick out of this every time I see a reference to English (British) like this. I wonder how many tatoos it would take for us to take over the Kanji alphabet as well.

Originally from hello, typepad by David Jacobs reBlogged on Oct 24, 2006, 6:40PM

Originally posted by David Jacobs from hello, typepad, on October 24, 2006 9:52 PM

Mac OS X Leopard will indeed make use of resolution independence, Apple has confirmed in a posting to its developer website.

Originally from digg / Apple reBlogged on Oct 24, 2006, 5:30PM

Originally from digg / Apple, on October 24, 2006 9:52 PM

He's made three, and two are still for sale:

The one in the middle is sold, at time of writing.

Originally from Wonderland by Alice reBlogged on Oct 17, 2006, 2:39AM

Originally posted by Alice from Wonderland, on October 23, 2006 12:09 AM

How Jim Donald, the CEO and president of Starbucks, manages his time. (via s1a)

Originally from Rebecca's Pocket reBlogged on Oct 18, 2006, 3:24PM

Originally from Rebecca's Pocket, on October 22, 2006 9:41 PM

By Naureen Kabir, Google Base Support

Ever been frustrated with having to wait an hour before being able to upload your file to Google Base? Worry no more -- the wait is over! We updated our system to handle more frequent file uploads. If you've uploaded a file that returns errors once it's processed, you can upload it again immediately after making corrections. For example, if the file status in your account dashboard displays messages such as "Failure," "Disapproved," or "Bulk upload contains some errors," you can make corrections to your bulk upload and submit it again without having to wait an hour. This applies to uploads via both FTP and the Google Base web interface.

However, if your file processes successfully -- i.e., the file status in your dashboard says "Success" -- you'll have to wait an hour before you can upload an updated file.

Originally from Official Google Base Blog by Google Base Blog reBlogged on Oct 18, 2006, 12:22PM

Originally posted by Google Base Blog from Official Google Base Blog, on October 22, 2006 9:41 PM

Something’s up with my installation of Movable Type and/or the MySQL database powering it. Often, during the publishing process — after hitting Save or Rebuild — the application will fail in its attempt to get a response back from the server. What results is a message that says, “Internal Server Error.” Fun, right?

This was something I started to see a few months ago, about the same time that I upgraded, after much delay, to Movable Type version 3.3. (To be fair, I’m not entirely sure that the upgrade was the cause of the problem.)

At first, I thought I was only seeing it on the administrative end, when I was editing posts, creating new ones, or managing comments. Then I started to realize that users were seeing it, too, because I suddenly started to get multiple copies of comments, often published in quick succession. Obviously, people were — and in fact, all evidence indicates that they still are — submitting their comments, encountering this error, and then, thinking their remarks weren’t successfully published, submitting them again until some sort of confirmation indication appears.

Anyway, for all of this trouble that users are experiencing while trying to contribute remarks, I apologize. I’m also grateful for those who persevere, despite the unfriendly technical feedback, in posting their remarks. It means a lot to me that you don’t immediately append your comments with an angry denunciation of my inept publishing setup. Thanks, and keep commenting!

I’m trying to work with the nice folks at Dreamhost to resolve the situation now, but it may take some time because there’s no apparent cause for it in the MySQL setup. Also, it may take some time because when it comes to troubleshooting PERL, CGI, MySQL and Apache publishing, I’m useless. If anyone out there has come across a similar problem while using Movable Type, and you’ve hit upon a fix, please let me know. I’m very comfortable with the template aspect of the application, but I know diddly squat about the back-end.

Of course, this underscores the complex nature of Web applications today — and how low are our expectations for being able to manage them. If you’re running an application on your own server, the technical bar is high enough that this kind of difficulty requires more advanced know-how than someone like me possesses. And, I’ll be frank: I think it’s reasonable to expect that running a blogging application on my own server is something that I shouldn’t need major back-end knowledge to resolve.

Originally from Subtraction by Khoi Vinh reBlogged on Oct 18, 2006, 8:17PM

Originally posted by Khoi Vinh from Subtraction, on October 22, 2006 9:38 PM

Ray builds her celebrity out of mixed signals, in this case, the sweet and the savory. An interesting look at the Rachael Ray phenomenon.

Originally from megnut.com blog by meg@megnut.com (Meg Hourihan) reBlogged on Oct 18, 2006, 2:51PM

Originally posted by meg@megnut.com (Meg Hourihan) from megnut.com blog, on October 22, 2006 9:38 PM

Illustrates how to use SyncServices API in a Carbon (HLTB) based application

Originally from Apple Developer Connection Apple Applications Headlines reBlogged on Oct 16, 2006, 4:00AM

Originally from Apple Developer Connection Apple Applications Headlines, on October 22, 2006 9:38 PM

    

   

Photos from spinlab, pockett, slowburn, pmarella, and Syncro87.

Originally from FlickrBlog by Heather Champ reBlogged on Oct 19, 2006, 1:13AM

Originally posted by Heather Champ from FlickrBlog, on October 22, 2006 9:36 PM

Stop making it hard for me. You put the 2006 Black Movie Awards opposite the Season Finale of Project Runway. How can you do that to me???!!! I mean, I don't even understand what the Black Movie Awards are. Don't we already have the NAACP Awards? I mean I guess these awards are just for movies but you guys really need to do some PR around this because I did not even know it was happening until tonight.

My card was already in jeopardy by not telling my small blog audience to watch Eyes on the Prize on PBS. I kept forgetting and I really should have shouted it from the rooftops that this historic series was coming back after years of being in a copyright pergatory. Now it's done (but you can still buy it). I was taught history from this series. Many teachers just pressed play and had a cigarette in the hall while I developed my crush on Huey P. Newton. Oh, hopefully some of you watched it.

So here I am watching Project Runway because I have to know who wins this thing ... UPDATE: The winner is Jeffrey and I am fine with that. I liked his model also so it was a win, win. I loved Uli's line more and Michael was my favorite person but his line was weak. Laura has been eh to me all along. She definately brought the drama so I thank her for that.

Now I am trying to make things up by watching the last half hour. Some general thoughts:
* I can see that ATL was a big movie this year. I had no real desire to see it but it keeps getting mentioned.
* It is hard to see Ruby Dee getting older.
* I did not see When The Levees Broke. I don't have HBO and truthfully I am not ready. I know myself and I know what I can handle and I don't think I can handle it yet. I admire Spike Lee highly though and know that it is amazing. When he puts his mind to something and when he is coming from a good place, he can be brilliant (See Do The Right Thing or Malcolm X). Don't get me started about when he's not coming froma good place ...
* OK TNT, enough already with your commercials for the NBA's upcoming season.
* OK HBO, enough already with the commercial where you essentially pat yourself on the back for having so many shows with black people.
* This show has been cut up and cut up some more.
* I was moved by Laurence Fishburne's speech.
* And finally, I thought Tsotsi was really moving but ... kind of boring. Yeah ... my black card is gone.

Originally from tuckergurl by Angela Tucker reBlogged on Oct 18, 2006, 11:42PM

Originally posted by Angela Tucker from tuckergurl, on October 22, 2006 9:36 PM

Just as am having a look at the N93 Nokia is already announcing the N95 (.. dont know the actual release date though).



With a 5M Pixel camera , the N95 has already got its community of fanatics worldwide. This is one smartphone am definitively gonna follow the coming months .

Check out the details of the phone allaboutsymbian and Nokia website .

Originally from Javed Mandary :: Dodo Unleashed by javed reBlogged

Originally posted by javed from Javed Mandary :: Dodo Unleashed, on October 22, 2006 9:36 PM

Originally from dooce by pbtm reBlogged on Oct 19, 2006, 7:15AM

Originally posted by pbtm from dooce, on October 22, 2006 9:31 PM

L'Unità. The left-wing Italian paper (founded by Gramsci in 1924!) has a nice writeup about my work.

Originally from Social Design Notes reBlogged on Oct 19, 2006, 5:35AM

Originally from Social Design Notes, on October 22, 2006 9:31 PM

The late Notorious B.I.G. - aka Biggie Smalls aka Christopher G. Wallace was a talented rapper, who was gunned down in 1997 while he was leaving a star-studded Vibe magazine party after the Soul Train Music Awards- - is about to become a massive presence in the ringtone world, as the entire mobile community has joined forces for an unprecedented campaign starring the legendary rapper, reports Hip Hop Galaxy.

"In anticipation of the eagerly awaited December 20th Bad Boy Records release of "NOTORIOUS B.I.G. DUETS : THE FINAL CHAPTER," today, December 1st, marks the launch of "B.I.G. Mobile Month" — as both the new album and B.I.G.’s biggest catalog hits have been transformed into a remarkable array of over 60 ringtones custom-tailored for the wireless world."

Originally from ringtonia.com by emily reBlogged on Oct 19, 2006, 5:19AM

Originally posted by emily from ringtonia.com, on October 22, 2006 9:31 PM

For all of you Xcoders and Cocoa dev newbies (incl. yours truly), check out the free PDF starter "Become an Xcoder" by Alex Clark of CocoaLab in Australia.

I've meant to blog about this since Alex announced the availability in Chinese and Arabic. [links removed see link above] Take that O'Reilly!  Maybe Alex knows something about the growth of the international Mac market that others have missed.

Grab the PDF and get cracking!  Also, CocoaLab hosts an online Wiki version of the text in English.

Kudos to CocoaLab for making tools like this available to new developers. It would be cool to see developers offer to run people through this course at CocoaDevHouse. There are a few in planning around Australia last I heard.

Technorati Tags: alexclarke, apple, cocoa, cocoalab, mac, macdeveloper, macprogramming, osx, Xcode

Originally from CocoaRadio by Blake Burris reBlogged on Oct 20, 2006, 11:57AM

Originally posted by Blake Burris from CocoaRadio, on October 22, 2006 9:29 PM

National Geographic News has a story about the OpenStreetMap project -- useful for giving it some context. Part of a series on "digital places," with more articles forthcoming. Via OpenGeoData. See previous entries: OpenStreetMap at Where 2.0; OpenStreetMap Animations; Ed...

Originally from The Map Room by Jonathan Crowe reBlogged on Oct 19, 2006, 8:07AM

Originally posted by Jonathan Crowe from The Map Room, on October 22, 2006 9:29 PM

Originally from News of the dead by weevil@wileywiggins.com (Wiley Wiggins) reBlogged on Oct 20, 2006, 4:52PM

Originally posted by weevil@wileywiggins.com (Wiley Wiggins) from News of the dead, on October 22, 2006 9:27 PM

Wonderful rave review for Ghost Map in the Wall Street Journal's weekend edition:

This is a marvelous little book, based to a large extent on the essays delivered to an academic colloquium, just as was Dava Sobel's "Longitude" (1996). Yet "The Ghost Map" is a far more ambitious and compelling work. What Mr. Johnson shows us is that the crucial test of a mega-city is whether it can digest its own waste. That whole vagabond London crew of scavengers, bone-pickers and rag-gatherers were not just pitiable victims of the System. In providing their unofficial janitorial