Apple has done wonders for human-friendly UI in the past, but with this latest ipod shuffle, they’ve made the cheapest part of the package, the one most likely to fail, about the most important part of the user interface. Well, that’s not entirely true; they’ve made it the only part of the user interface. To [...]
Read more →I’m a fan of the donorschoose.org method of directed, project based funding for schools and classrooms. While it began out of desperation and as a result of underfunding in the school system, it’s become a great way to help fight for more real science in classrooms. Tim Ferriss, author of The Four Hour Work Week [...]
Read more →In running through the SXSW mp3s, I came across “Read a Book” by Bomani D. Armah and was surprised that I had missed its internet meme status. Though, as I’m not a BET viewer and not generally a follower of Hip Hop, maybe I wasn’t the intended audience. People have at turns called this artist’s [...]
Read more →Early morning twitter conversation in which I destroy childhood icons for someone I’ve only just met. mercerch: So it’s 1am Saturday….. what to do. xinit0: kill an hour, and move all the clocks in your house ahead… mercerch: Thought the clocks did not change until 4am or something. xinit0: Like anyone will know… go on… [...]
Read more →Latest version of Google Maps 3.0.2 for the Blackberry Storm actually pulls in my location correctly from GPS. Seems to guess a lot, and then zero in on where I am. Sometimes I see myself spontaneously making a run for the harbour. Wheeeee! I wonder if this is some crazed version of GPS that utilizes [...]
Read more →I was curious about some interesting traffic hits that I saw on my sitemeter stats today, hitting my earlier post about Michelle Obama that appear to have been referred by The New York Times. Sure enough, there I was with The Huffington Post, The New York Post and others. Dude. I’m part of the liberal [...]
Read more →I’ve listened to another couple hundred tracks, and managed to pull another 15 loosely themed tracks for your listening pleasure. I started with The Pack A.D. and picked 14 artists that I hadn’t heard of to go with the one I had. The band by the name of Nancy here is not the punk band [...]
Read more →Saw this story on the front page of technorati.com while I was looking for something else; apparently the conservative bloggers and professional reporters are up in arms over an event at a homeless shelter that Michelle Obama worked in this past week. The first lady visited a Washington, D.C., homeless shelter on Thursday, bringing fruit [...]
Read more →This year, more than any other, I have managed to take a much larger bite out of the SXSW sample MP3 files. I’ve filtered through a lot of bad tunes to put together a couple 15-song playlists for those with fewer masochistic tendencies. This first list has some quirky pop music and pretty upbeat songs [...]
Read more →Matt Bors presents a surprisingly good idea on how to save print journalism, working from the success that another free-at-home product has seen thanks to packaging. As he says in his blog entry “Behold my completely serious, entirely workable, fail proof plan for saving newspapers. Free papers should go this route as well. Why deny [...]
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