Grok Headline matches for So, I guess we have a war on.
"Guess Who"
"Guess Who"03/25/2005 11:25 AM Ashton Kutcher and Bernie Mac try to bridge color lines in this
reverse take on "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?"
The end of oil? Guess again
The end of oil? Guess again09/15/2004 09:56 AM Sure, the easy-to-find black gold is getting scarce. But Big Oil has a
few cards left to play -- no matter what the cost to the environment
or the developing world.
Well, not quite. In fact, it's a Hello Kitty tissue holder. You
put a box of Kleenex inside it and pull them through the small opening
that looks like, well, err.
This message has been brought to you by WTF Finland.
Okay, I Guess I'm Sorry Too...
Okay, I Guess I'm Sorry Too...08/19/2004 08:46 PM "The iPod mini hints that much of Apple was on lunch break when the
'Power Mac G4 Cube: lessons Learned' memo circulated." is a good line
-- and one that I was loathe to waste. By Christopher Breen, Macworld
(via MyAppleMenu)
Guess The Starfighter
Guess The Starfighter08/27/2004 01:38 PM Wizards of the
Coast recently announced their new Star Wars TCG Sweepstakes in anticipation of
Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. Visit the WOTC site now and enter
for your chance to win a full deck of Return of the Jedi TCG cards, as
well as a set of Revenge of the Sith cards (to be shipped upon
released). Everyone who correctly guesses the name of the ROTS preview
card (pictured) will win an Anakin’s Starfighter preview card. Thanks
to Ashley Prester for the heads up. [Caution:
minor spoiler warnings apply]
Actually, it's not really an industry first. I don't guess i
Tomorrow, I have an audition to do voicework for Twisted Metal:
World Tour!
I've played so much Twisted Metal over the years that if I hear Rob
Zombie in the car, I have to change the station, or I may get a little
. . . aggressive.
This would be like a Trekkie getting to work on TNG, or me getting to
work on Family Guy or Futurama.
Apparently, a Video
game news site ran a story which quoted the entry, but incorrectly
asserted that I had been "cast" in the game. I sent them feedback and
asked for a correction, but they never ran it, nor did they respond to
my request.
And now, of course, Sony is pissed.
At me.
Because they think I claimed that I was cast in the project (except
that I didn't.)
They've asked me to issue a retraction, which I don't think is
appropriate, since I never made the incorrect claim in the first
place, but I love Sony's games, and I especially love the entire
Twisted Metal series, and since I don't want to hurt them, and I
especially don't want to hurt my chances of ever working with them
(provided it's not already too late) I would like to issue the
following clarification:
I completely respect Sony, and everyone involved with
the production of all the Twisted Metal games. I wrote about my
audition on my blog because I was so excited about the opportunity to
audition for something that I love so much.
I understand the importance of not revealing any confidential or
sensitive information, which is why I didn't talk about the characters
I read for, or discuss any storyline specifics. I've been a
professional actor for over 25 years, and confidentiality is nothing
new to me.
I deeply regret that I was misquoted by psp.ign.com, and I am very
upset that they did not respond to my request to clarify their story.
I hope this hasn't caused any harm to Sony, or anyone involved with
the production of Twisted Metal: World Tour, and I sincerely hope that
I will get an opportunity to work with them in the future.
If nothing else, I can't wait to get my hands on the wheel, and jump
back into Calypso's newest tournament, when the game is
released.
I guess he's not switching...
I guess he's not switching...01/11/2004 03:49 AM "Crash
Different" Well, I think this editor probably isn't going to
continue using a Macintosh if he can help it. A decent spoof video,
actually, on the "Think Different" / "Switch"
campaigns. [via MemeStreams]
"Well that was stupid, guess they shouldn't just do it."
"Well that was stupid, guess they shouldn't just do it."03/26/2005 12:44 PM A Child's
View of the Army "....Like every other boy he was going
through the little green army men phase....Gabe is roughly five years
old and very articulate. Thus it should have come as little surprise
when he began having one army man in charge, and the rest start
building something.
"Sir, we're ready to build the rocket." "
: Five year old Gabe explains - via stacked creamers and table
bricabrac, at an IHOP breakfast - the ramifications of mindless
subservience to authority.
I guess it really is in the hands of god, then ...
Handtops has nice
overview of the Antelope MCC, the 'modular computing core' computer
that uses swappable cores to allow you to move you environment from a
desktop dock to a handheld shell computer, enabling a complete
environment migration if you need to move on the go. And that would be
great and all if Antelope didn't completely shit themselves with the
price -- we're talking around $4,000 to buy all the pieces to take
advantage of it -- and that's without a lot of normal features
like Wi-Fi or Bluetooth built in.
They claim to be for the business segment, and that's fine, but if
you're going to charge a fully-premium price for something, you better
have an all-around premium product.
The Antelope has been out for almost a year, but it's been at least
that long since we've vented our impotent rage at it, so there you
go.
Shark Tank: Guess again02/01/2005 09:06 PM It's 1999, and this dot-com CTO's wife is in labor with their first
child. Then a doctor arrives -- and points to an ominous flat line on
the fetal monitor.
guess who's coming to dinner?06/04/2004 12:38 PM I talk about this in more depth in Just A Geek, but for years I lived
with a very profound sense of shame. The huge acting career that I'd
hoped for when I left Star Trek never happened, and as I grew
through my twenties, I realized just what an epic asshole I'd been
throughout my teenage years. Regret was a constant companion, and it
was very hard for me to face friends and family, because I felt like
I'd let everyone down.
Of course, that wasn't the case. I had most certainly let
myself down, but to the people who loved me, how I was doing in
my career was unimportant. It took me several years to get over
myself, (to follow that process in every excruciating detail, just go
back to the beginning of WWdN's archives, and start reading) but once
I finally did, I realized how many years I just . . . wasted.
So last week, I called my mom. I've talked with her before about my
feelings of disappointment, shame and regret, and I recalled that
conversation.
"So now that I'm over all of that, I feel good, and happy, and at
peace with my life and career . . ."
"It's good that I can separate my life and my career. There's a
lesson I wish I'd learned ten years ago." I thought.
" . . . and I realize how much I miss seeing you and dad," I said.
"I'd like to make an effort to do more things together."
Read more at WWdN!
Entrepreneurs: Don't Second-Guess your First Impression
Entrepreneurs: Don't Second-Guess your First Impression04/18/2005 02:24 AM Attention entrepreneurs- while you're trimming costs and allocating
precious cash to build your company's infrastructure, you may be
neglecting a vital area: your logo. Charlotte, NC marketing firm
Asterisk Creative has created brand identities for over 20 firms since
2001. Their nationally-recognized design team discusses how to create
a logo that makes the right impression right away. [PRWEB Apr 18,
2005]
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Guess whose computer is broken?
Guess whose computer is broken?12/13/2003 10:27 AM Yes, friends, my PC is broken again. The motherboard (Asus P4P800
Deluxe) I put in this summer suddenly lost its onboard audio and NIC.
The audio revived when I reinstalled the drivers but nothing seems to
be bringing back the NIC. Further, my spare PCI NIC reports the same
problem: the drivers install but the system says that it cannot be
started. I have flashed my BIOS and it says that the onboard services
are enabled. (When I replaced the motherboard this summer, the network
capability shorted out within hours and I had to replace the
replacement. Hmmm.) I've also...
Jeff
Sandquist is trying to guess what Dave Winer is up to. He has a
great idea. Instead of putting the onus on weblog writers to add
metadata to our posts (I hate putting titles on my posts, for
instance, or even clicking a box when I post) why not give that power
to readers? Let them add the metadata that will make weblog posts more
useful to more people.
By the way, I added a title to this post, but not to the others.
Just so those of you who are reading in RSS news aggregators can see
what it looks like when I take the time to do that.
You know that saying that crime doesn't pay? Every day it's
becoming increasingly clear to me that spam does in fact pay.
As I delete comment spam after comment spam from PVRblog, I've noticed the products
being sold are almost all over-the-counter or shady pharmacutical
drugs that can be easily bought, sold, and shipped. Most of my email
spam mirrors that as well.
It's a low-risk thing when you think about it. You buy a minimal
amount of inventory, then broadcast your message from one of the
hundreds of businesses setup to help you, or free spam cannon programs
you can download. They say that some percentage of folks buy stuff in
spam, and even if that's only 0.1% success, when you send out 5
million messages, you can make $5,000 if each sale gives you a profit
of one dollar. If your profit is higher (and it should be), you can
sell much less and still make that much money. Imagine it: one day of
doing the devil's work and you've made as much as you will in a month
of work at a $60k desk job.
Four to five years ago, I used to spend quite a bit of energy on
combating spam. I read anti-spammer email lists and newsgroups, I used
a spamcop account, and I sent messages daily to every
abuse@hostingprovider address I could track down that hosted these
bastards. I watched hundreds of other vigilante spam fighters do the
same and as we shut down site after site and got person after person
cut off from their service, I noticed they kept coming back, only
multiplied. Eventually I grew weary of the work I put out that didn't
seem to have much impact on the problem and started filtering my spam
instead.
A few days ago I got some spam from a guy that has been sending me
the same exact niche spam for 8 years. I know the guy that is doing
it, I know where he lives, and I can tell you what dialup account he's
using right now if I looked. I've reported him a dozen times and
gotten him kicked off ISPs but all these years later he's still
hawking his crappy products. Obviously, the guy never gave up and I'm
convinced there's a financial reason for it. Spam pays, and it
probably pays big.
Even with my technical knowledge, a handful of custom filtering
server-side and client-side programs, spam is getting through to me in
such quantities that I wish I didn't have to rely on email so much.
Weblog spam is making me rethink commenting on any movable type site I
run. It's exhausting, pointless to fight, and I really wish we could
come up with a magic bullet that removes the economic incentive to
spam.
Guess what I'm holding in my hands...
Guess what I'm holding in my hands...10/28/2003 11:09 PM ...no, it's nothing that won't fit on a relatively G-rated weblog.I'm
holding the very first print issue of php|architect! The copies have
arrived at the MTA offices yesterday afternoon and while we've been
working the weekend to label and sort...
Guess there are New Toys coming
Guess there are New Toys coming10/28/2003 11:08 PM So, I popped over to the online Apple Store this morning to price out
airport base stations, and what do I see? A "We'll be back soon, busy
updating the store!" page instead. On the one hand, bummer... I wanted
to get the prices. On the other, as it's far from urgent, I wonder
what New Toys they're going to be rolling out later today....
Just spastic enough to be charming, I guess.
Just spastic enough to be charming, I guess.03/08/2004 11:09 PM iGetMovie (scroll to the bottom) - save Quicktime movies from your
browser. Hence, the entire afternoon spent at Apple Trailers
Meanwhile, I'm realised I'm a complete sucker for sportswear
copywriters. Faced with the realisation that in five weeks I'll be...
How to Save Energy: Just Guess
How to Save Energy: Just Guess05/04/2004 05:05 AM Exact calculations aren't always necessary, so engineers are using
Probabilistic Bits in chips that basically guess at the right answer,
thereby saving energy. By Michelle Delio.
"Well, I guess they didn't like Al Franken.
What were they thinking?"
Hi honey, I'm home! Guess what!...03/13/2003 10:25 AM Face Transplants : "...the
harvesting or ''degloving'' of a face would take approximately two
hours, depending on the depth of the excision. It is possible to
remove not just skin and subcutaneous fat and muscle but....part of
the donor's bone and cartilage as well. Still, the deeper the cut, the
more complex becomes the reattachment."
OK - so one of the first complaints I get about FOAF is
privacy. And I blindly just keep repeating the mantra: "each
system is repsonsible for their own security." And then someone
asks "do you think everyone will want their FOAF files sent around"
and I reply "then don't put anything into your FOAF you don't want
others to know about".
OK - so I'm sitting here - waiting for the results of two FOAF
based systems to sucessfully import and export FOAF files between each
other - and others have said "we can just spider and scarf" - just
like any other red-blooded web developer.
And I answer "yes - but we want to get the end-user involved in all
this".
So this morning I get an invite into a new
system - called AskMyNetwork.com - truly a YASNS. But this one's got
some twists. It's a recommendation (read: reputation) network,
enabling folks to recomend services, people, restaurants, etc.
And it (apparently) has scarfed up a bunch fo FOAF and they're using
it for..... well let me tell you how.
1. So I'm looking around this YASNS and there's a button that
says:
You have at least 48
potential connections - users that the network believes
you already know, but haven't added to your connections list
yet.
2. So I click on it - and sure enough, there's good old Mr.
Joi Ito. "Ah" - I say, someone warm and fuzzy. So I click
on it - and the system asks me for Joi's email. Huh?
3. Now wait a minute - how did they know a) that I
know Joi and b) that they DON'T know Joi's
email......
4. Hmmmmm - there was also a long list of 48 other people
there. Hmmmmmm. Think. Think.
5. Oh shit - they scarfed a FOAF file from
somewhere (I think it's the set of FOAFs I have on Phil
Pearson's TopicExchange!
Ouch - now I have to eat my own dogfood!
6. Solution? Give the end-user the explicit control
over exporting FOAF. That's what the FOAFnet is going to do.
7. So Dom Ramsey - if you're reading this - please make
AskMyNetwork.com a FOAFnet compliant site and work with us to make ALL
FOAF based sites adhere to these simple rules.....
A) No one's FOAF is exported without their explicit permission.
B) No one gets bothered if they don't provide their email - get the
hint!
C) Please stop collecting FOAF files as if they're little trophies
to be put up on a mantle and admired.
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Next week I'l critique the entire premise of AskMyNetwork and why
these recommendations should be locked up inside some data silo -
or set free - and placed onto open servers.
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Epilog - they do have some coolio animated gifs though........
i guess you need to be told that the sonyericsson t610 was j
Shark Tank: Guess they just like him better as a consultant
Shark Tank: Guess they just like him better as a consultant06/05/2005 10:55 PM Consultant pilot fish spots the need for personalized service to one
of his firms biggest clients, and that lands all of their business --
and a new job opportunity for fish.
I was thinking of doing a bunch of "micro-content" dinners
on my roadshow at the end of the summer.
No one would be allowed to talk about status quo bloggy kind of
issues. We'd only allow discussions of FOAF, OpenReviews, OpenEvents,
Openmedia, OpenReputations, OpenListings, PeoplesDNS,
PeopleAggregator, DLA kind of issues.
New kinds of everything, but not blogging.
Grok Description matches for So, I guess we have a war on. GrokA matches for So, I guess we have a war on.
So, I guess we have a war on.
The following phrases have been identified by the grok system as matching this entry:
OK - so one of the first complaints I get about FOAF is
privacy. And I blindly just keep repeating the mantra: "each
system is repsonsible for their own security." And then someone
asks "do you think everyone will want their FOAF files sent around"
and I reply "then don't put anything into your FOAF you don't want
others to know about".