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1 + 1 = 2. Really. Honestly.

1 + 1 = 2. Really. Honestly. 03/25/2005 11:31 AM
The New York City Department of Education has recalled 3rd-7th grade basic math prep materials after finding multiple errors. Like what? Multiplication errors, addition errors, poorly worded questions, and incorrectly spelling Fourth on the cover of the Fourth Grade Book. "Th e fact is, if third- or fifth-grade students made the mistakes made in the test prep materials, they would be flunked and no one would be asking them for an explanation."

Honestly, It's Policy

Honestly, It's Policy 09/01/2004 03:12 PM

Fired for grading honestly?

Fired for grading honestly? 08/22/2004 01:38 PM
Fired for grading honestly? Historically black Benedict College's president recently fired two professors for "insubordination" after they refused to comply with the school's SE E ("Success Equals Effort") policy. One of the fired faculty members claims his academic freedom had been violated. (Gratuitious opinion: I think what's getting violated here is the idea that you're supposed to do college-level work in college....)

i got a Sony Net MD, and honestly the
ATRAC convertin proces

i got a Sony Net MD, and honestly the
ATRAC convertin proces 09/11/2004 06:22 PM
TechTree Sep 11 2004 8:52PM GMT

Shark Tank: But honestly, that other
Mark is SO much nicer!

Shark Tank: But honestly, that other
Mark is SO much nicer! 06/17/2005 07:23 PM
Thunderstorms have knocked out power to some of the stores of this supermarket chain. So when a help desk pilot fish gets an emergency page from one store, he figures he knows how to handle it.

Energy Star program works, honestly

Energy Star program works, honestly 01/26/2004 10:58 PM
Canadian Press via Canada.com Jan 27 2004 2:45AM GMT

""The fact is, if third- or fifth-grade
students made the mistakes made in the
test prep materials, they would be
flunked and no one would be asking them
for an explanation.""

""The fact is, if third- or fifth-grade
students made the mistakes made in the
test prep materials, they would be
flunked and no one would be asking them
for an explanation."" 03/26/2005 09:39 PM

Media Made Easy Announces the
Availability of the Media Made Easy
Media Center PC

Media Made Easy Announces the
Availability of the Media Made Easy
Media Center PC 03/24/2005 08:30 PM
Media Center PC World Mar 25 2005 12:48AM GMT

TV the next big thing?

TV the next big thing? 06/10/2004 04:36 AM
Yes I know, you are wondering if I have lost it. To be honest when I read all the fuzz about it I thought "TV?...

If It's Not One Thing...

If It's Not One Thing... 06/06/2005 12:15 AM

I've been gone for a while ... and for too many reasons to count, but I'll try.

1. Family problems months ago that are ongoing
2. Preparation at work for some changes
3. New car, and the financial wrangling that made it happen
4. Possible new work in the future
5. Built foundation of that possible new work
6. Upgraded Mac Geekery and codepoetry to Drupal 4.6 (on the same install, no less)
7. Worked so hard, slept so little, immune system went down enough I picked up shingles – yay me

So, while I'm doing my best not to scratch everywhere, I'm looking at the tech news as of late and realizing that there is absolutely nothing interesting going on until the 29th. Sure, sure, Adobe is trying harder to be the Microsoft of the media applications market, and succeeding, and other little fun things going around and around, but overall it's just your average monkey business.

But, damn, did you see Apple's stock price? Down $10 in just a few days for no real reason. Well, the whole market went to crap along with it (the Dow dropped over 500 points) so it's not like a bias or anything but ... wow.

Anyway. I'll have a long biting insight ready just as soon as the hydrocodone wears off... -scratch- -scratch-

One More Thing...

One More Thing... 06/05/2005 10:47 PM

Intel Inside the Apple.

Best Thing at CES

Best Thing at CES 02/01/2005 09:27 PM
“What was the best thing at CES? Macworld,” writes Dan Dubno for CBS News. “After a week in Las Vegas, at the Consumer Electronics Show, I had seen all there was to see...Yet something was missing at CES, and a week later, at Macworld in San Francisco, we found it: the new Mac Mini and the iPod Shuffle.” [Jan 27, 2005]

Say one thing, do another

Say one thing, do another 03/06/2004 01:54 AM

The Old New Thing

The Old New Thing 06/18/2004 04:58 AM
RaymondChen's weblog .. The Old New Thing

weblogs.asp.net/oldnewthing
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One New Thing

One New Thing 01/29/2004 12:59 PM
One New Thing
http://nlrp.blogspot.com/

Weblog of Lynette Reville, a new librarian in Australia, who is on a library-like quest to find One New Thing to learn every day. Her companion website is the New Librarian's Resource Page . Both are resources that you need to visit. I will be adding One New Thing to my eCurrent Awareness 2004 Report.

Oh, And One Last Thing...

Oh, And One Last Thing... 04/18/2005 10:21 AM

Steve Jobs is finally getting his wish: an user interface that is really good enough to lick

Next best thing to being there

Next best thing to being there 11/15/2003 08:46 AM
Los Angeles Times Nov 15 2003 7:38AM ET

The Next Big Web Thing - Really

The Next Big Web Thing - Really 03/13/2003 10:22 AM
What happened to Web services? Well, they're out there, being developed by Microsoft and Sun employees as well as folks working on other platforms. But, thankfully, what keeps showing up on the radar is not the position papers produced by vendors' marketing departments, but rather the quiet, diligent work of the W3C, which will have the last laugh, in my humble opinion.

This thing still on?

This thing still on? 02/05/2005 10:19 PM
For a variety of boring reasons I spent some time today upgrading my old Windows 2000 box to WinXP. I believe that Radio has survived the transition, but this is a test post to make sure...

Is This Thing On?

Is This Thing On? 07/02/2004 10:46 PM
Jesus, hanging on the cross, says, “Peter, come here.” Peter, thinking he is about to receive a profound religious truth, tries goes to Jesus but...

Getting beyond the next big thing

Getting beyond the next big thing 08/15/2004 09:32 AM
McKinsey says a post-boom tech industry can profit mightily by taking stock in the operations of many slower-growth industries.

The Opera Thing

The Opera Thing 01/17/2004 10:42 PM
See that gap Opera 6/7 inserts in this web layout? That CSS bug has been fixed in Opera 7.23+. Opera fans, take note.

About that whole Internet thing...

About that whole Internet thing... 04/01/2005 01:10 AM
A major study on the Internet initiated by the US Congress was released today... over six years late. Needless to say, a lot has changed.

the damn thing

the damn thing 06/07/2004 04:11 AM
NotCon '04 .. NotCon

notcon04.com
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XML: Too much of a good thing?

XML: Too much of a good thing? 09/07/2004 06:38 AM
Explosion of special-interest XML dialects could mean the standard is a success or could be the start of a new headache.

Next big thing--or the latest fad?

Next big thing--or the latest fad? 03/31/2005 11:29 PM
ZDNet Apr 1 2005 12:20AM GMT

Interesting Thing of the Day

Interesting Thing of the Day 06/04/2004 03:50 AM
San Francisco’s Terra Infirma and other Interesting Things of the Day. Putting the muse back in museum was another that struck me with its focus on unconventionally-themed museums, reminiscent of the roadside attractions in Gaiman's American Gods. Audio feeds of recent articles are available, and well read, but it seems that most of the clips are intended to become available by subscription-only. Regardless, many of the past year's articles make for fascinating reads. (via bsag)

Gillette's New, New Thing

Gillette's New, New Thing 05/24/2004 12:41 PM
Gillette is counting on the new M3Power shaving system to differentiate its line.

Is there such as thing as too much
memory?

Is there such as thing as too much
memory? 08/14/2004 11:54 AM
Munich Bans Memorial Plaques Munich has decided to ban memorial plaques to Jewish, Sinti and German citizens deported and murdered during World War Two. Jewish leaders, fearful that the plaques would stir up anti-Semitic fervor, supported the ban. These plaques are the work of a German artist, Gunter Demnig. ”He first had the idea in the early 1990s when he was unveiling a memorial for the Sinti and Roma victims of the Holocaust. “An elderly woman approached him and insisted that "no Gypsies ever lived here". "It is so easy for people to deny something. I wanted to ensure that this would not happen," he says. (BBC).” This reminder of the holocaust brought to mind the Pinkas Synagogue in Prague, as well as the Viet Nam Memorial and the AIDS quilt -- monuments that really changed me.

Next big thing? A little PlayStation

Next big thing? A little PlayStation 01/06/2005 04:45 AM
Ajc.com - Thu Jan 6, 02:09 am GMT

The New iMac: One Thing Too Many

The New iMac: One Thing Too Many 08/31/2004 11:28 AM
I don't mean to put a damper on the wonderful new iMac, but Apple needs to look far back to the tradition of the Performa line. By Apple Matters (via MyAppleMenu)

But I can tell that it’s about the
same thing

But I can tell that it’s about the
same thing 03/14/2005 04:38 PM
One of the common feature requests we get for NetNewsWire is to handle this situation:

Say you’re subscribed to several Mac news feeds. Then one day Microsoft updates Office for Macintosh, and each feed includes a news item about it, so you have several news items about it.

You only need to read that particular piece of news once. So why not make it so NetNewsWire detects that these are all about the same thing, and mark them as read automatically once you read the first one?

Here’s why:

Consider these two news items, ripped from today’s headlines...

MacMinute

Title: Microsoft Office 2004 update released
Description: Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit (Mac BU) has posted Office 2004 for Mac Update 11.1.1, which includes improvements to Excel add-in calculation, increased PowerPoint and Word 2004 stability, additional support for device drivers and enhanced appearance of imported graphics...
Link: http://www.macminute.com/2005/03/07/office-2004/

MacCentral

Title: Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac updated to 11.1.1
Description: Microsoft Corp.'s Mac Business Unit (Mac BU) on Monday announced the release of Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac Update 11.1.1. The update includes improvements to Excel add-in calculation, improves stability for PowerPoint and Word, adds support for new device drivers and improves the appearance of imported graphics.
Link: http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/03/07/office/index.php?lsrc=mcrss-03 05

They’re about the same thing

Both items are obviously about the same thing. You can tell by looking, instantly, no thought required.

But computers aren’t that smart. How does a piece of software know that these two are about the same thing?

The titles, descriptions, and links are different.

There are many of the same words—but you really don’t want your aggregator to start making guesses here. Imagine two completely different stories, but each one has “Apple iTunes” in the title. “Songs on Apple iTunes Music Store now free” and “Apple iTunes sold to SixApart” are not the same piece of news.

What’s the solution?

Artificial intelligence would be helpful here. But we don’t have that.

One possibility would be a new kind of link element—an external link element that is meant to identify the source of the story. For instance, if you go to the full version of the above example news items, both of the stories include a link to the same page on the Microsoft site, a page about this update to Office.

Were that link to be included in the feed, with that item, as a special link-to-the-source link, then an aggregator could know that the news items were really about the same thing.

One nice thing about this is that it’s likely that the folks at MacMinute and MacCentral would pick the same link. They wouldn’t have to coordinate, it would just work. (At least in this example. It wouldn’t always be so clear-cut.)

The bad thing about this idea is the potential for abuse—or just plain laziness. What if people make the link-to-the-source link just a link to http://apple.com/ for any story about Apple—you’d end up with stories that are not about the same thing being marked as read. Nuts.

Another problem is that you still might miss something interesting. Say MacX posted a basic news report, but MacY posted a lengthy piece with interviews and and all kinds of goodies. You wouldn’t want to miss MacY’s report—but you would, since it was marked as read when you read MacX’s news item.

In other words, I don’t know what the solution is, but it’s worth thinking about.

The in thing: Outsourcing

The in thing: Outsourcing 05/14/2004 01:37 PM
CNET May 14 2004 5:39PM GMT

Thing you don't want to see in the
morning

Thing you don't want to see in the
morning 08/05/2004 03:56 PM

Click to view the complete scene.

Very early in the morning, I walk out with the firm purpose of taking the garbage out. I walk in, turn on the lights by waving my arms frantically (the motion detector apparently works only if your body mass exceeds 120 kg - the local cats apparently can grow very big) and something is not quite right. I see shoes from the corner of my eye.

"Shoes?", I think to myself. "Shoes, dangling from the ceiling?"

I look left and yeah, a pair of mens' shoes is hanging a meter and a half off the ground. With pants and all.

My stomach curls up in panic.

Half a second later, my brain catches up and I laugh.

Definitely another one in the category of things you can do with your laundry but probably should not.

that bad journalism thing

that bad journalism thing 06/15/2004 03:18 PM
i think it's the Tribune's way of saying they think nobody read Choire's NYT piece

This week's best thing ever

This week's best thing ever 03/14/2005 05:37 PM

Kelly Clarkson, the first American Idol winner, has a breakout hit called "Since U Been Gone" that you've probably heard. It's totally addictive and I think may just be this year's Hey Ya. Even my indie rock friends all adore the track (even Mike Doughty of Soul Coughing fame puts it in his top three favorites).

So when word got out that indie rock legend Ted Leo covered it, we searched and searched and a bounty was even offered. Eventually, it was found, at UGO.com. Worlds colliding!

I ripped the audio from the streaming video file on their site and here's the song: Ted Leo doing a cover of "Since U Been Gone" (192kbps, MP3)

It was worth the search and the wait.

It's a Canadian Thing

It's a Canadian Thing 03/14/2005 05:36 PM
A funny standard has shown up on larger Canadian retail sites that doesn't appear in other sectors.

BlogPet, best thing ever

BlogPet, best thing ever 07/29/2004 08:45 PM
oh please oh please oh please english version!

How Do You Steer This Thing?

How Do You Steer This Thing? 07/16/2004 05:22 AM
Can biker moguls Senior and Paulie Teutul of American Chopper leverage their brand?
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