The Strokes, Room on Fire

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Bold Strokes, Few Details

Bold Strokes, Few Details 09/02/2004 10:54 PM
For a nation divided over his stewardship and dubious about the war with Iraq, President Bush had one overriding message: He's still the one.

Bush Offers Bold Strokes, but Few
Details in Speech

Bush Offers Bold Strokes, but Few
Details in Speech 09/03/2004 11:54 AM
For a nation divided over his stewardship and the war with Iraq, President Bush had one overriding message: He's still the one.

makeoutcity.com: 2004/05/23: Fire, Fire,
House on Fire

makeoutcity.com: 2004/05/23: Fire, Fire,
House on Fire 05/24/2004 09:56 PM
Jay McCarthy's house burned down

makeoutcity.com/Archives/2004/05/23/174730
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Under fire: Internet service provider
M-Web has come under fire for including
abortion in a package of 'taboo'

Under fire: Internet service provider
M-Web has come under fire for including
abortion in a package of 'taboo' 09/14/2004 08:57 AM
Sunday Times South Africa Sep 14 2004 1:26PM GMT

"Fire Fighters President Says Use of
Fire Fighter Images in New Bush Ads
Smack of Political Opportunism"

"Fire Fighters President Says Use of
Fire Fighter Images in New Bush Ads
Smack of Political Opportunism" 03/06/2004 02:05 AM

Fire Chief Stops Fire at School
Inspection (AP)

Fire Chief Stops Fire at School
Inspection (AP) 01/01/2005 10:33 PM
AP - Just call it good timing.

Fire Messages And Fire The Enemy, On One
Screen

Fire Messages And Fire The Enemy, On One
Screen 04/13/2005 03:06 PM
Electric New Paper Apr 13 2005 6:27PM GMT

Game Room: Welcome to the Game Room
Webl0g!

Game Room: Welcome to the Game Room
Webl0g! 03/31/2005 02:40 PM
Welcome to the Game Room Weblog, the place to read the latest game reviews, tips and analysis.

Where There's No Room for All Three of
Them

Where There's No Room for All Three of
Them 03/06/2004 02:02 AM
Foxes, bald eagles and pigs are finding it difficult to cohabit on Santa Cruz Island, 22 miles from the California shore.

Hey. There's a lot of room in here ...

Hey. There's a lot of room in here ... 05/04/2004 03:11 PM
Greetings. This is Siva Vaidhyanathan. You might remember me from such textual productions as Sivacracy.net, openDemocracy.net, and Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How it Threatens Creativity (New York University Press, 2001). Professor Lessig has been kind enough to let me blog-sit for a few days this...

The War Room

The War Room 08/20/2004 06:47 AM
Inside the fully immersive proving ground where tomorrow's soldiers are being trained by coalition forces of the Pentagon, Hollywood and Silicon Valley. By Steve Silberman from Wired magazine.

Get out of the Crimson room

Get out of the Crimson room 02/17/2004 01:14 AM
Get out of the Crimson room. [flash]

EFF: Press Room

EFF: Press Room 08/27/2004 01:42 PM
EFF: Music Publisher Settles Copyright Skirmish Over Guthrie Classic .. free of copyright infringement .. announcement .. JibJab wins

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Standing room

Standing room 06/23/2004 05:12 PM
Like some other well-known bloggers before her, Chris Nolan is working on turning her blog into more of a revenue-generati ng business. I like Chris's stuff, even as I sometimes disagree with it, because it's sharp and unpredictable and rooted in her years of experience as a reporter, and so I wish her well in her efforts to sell ads and subscriptions.

Lord knows it's not an easy road. Reading Chris's manifesto for "Stand-Alone Journalism" -- she argues that's a better label for what she does than "blogging" -- brought me back to some distant memories from the dawn of the Web. After learning HTML and participating in the San Franciso Free Press experiment, I thought to myself, hey, there's nothing to stop me from starting my own publication on the Web!

So I did. In January 1995 I took a week's vacation time from my job at the SF Examiner and published a site. I focused on what was then quaintly known as "multimedia"; I called it Kludge, as a nod to its essential clumsiness and improvised nature, and I posted an issue. This was years before personal content management software, needless to say; it's all just cruddy hand-coded HTML and crude self-designed graphics. But the articles weren't so bad (hey, here's an interview with Marc Canter! Here's a satirical take on the CD-ROM explosion/implosion!).

What I quickly realized was that, as much fun as writing, editing and designing all that material was -- bringing me back as it did to my teenage roots in mimeograph publishing -- it was just the beginning of getting a Web site going. If I was serious about making it something more than a labor of love -- if I wasn't going to do all that work on my vacation days -- I'd need to figure out how to get people to visit the site, and how to sell ads, and so forth. My best efforts involved dumping a pile of flyers in the lobby of a multimedia conference at Moscone Center. (While I was doing that, a couple of guys named Jerry Yang and Dave Filo stood at a booth under a big Yahoo banner, giving away T-shirts.)

After briefly toying with the notion of applying to AOL's Greenhouse program for funding, I thought, nah. When David Talbot started talking about a new publication he wanted to create, I helped persuade him that he should do it on the Web instead of in print. Salon turned out to be a great place for me to write and edit and build Web sites without having to wear all the hats myself (though there have certainly been times during the last decade when my pate has felt a little crowded).

Today, would-be "Stand-Alone Journalists" can rely on much better software tools to create and publish their work. They can plug into far better organized online networks to spread the word of their activities. And they can even turn to simple plug-in approaches to advertising, like AdWords or BlogAds, to try to bring in some cash. But being a "Stand-Alone Journalist" still requires a combination of journalistic and entrepreneurial traits that's rare. Being a good journalist requires the ability to not mind pissing people off sometimes (Nolan, whose career has had its share of controversy, is no shirker in this regard); being a good entrepreneur demands the ability to charm people as often as possible. Both pursuits, of course, demand persistence, patience, and, in the face of indifference, a stubborn belief in the value of one's undertaking.

When I read Nolan's proposed label for the solo-blogger-journalist, the first thing that popped into my mind was the famous quote from Ibsen's Dr. Stockman in "Enemy of the People": "The strongest man in the world is the one who stands most alone." Standing alone has many wonderful advantages -- it's a stirring posture. But remember what happens to old Dr. Stockman: He is right to blow the whistle about the polluting of his town's waters, but he's dreadfully naive about the world around him, he's ultimately ineffective, and he fails to accomplish much besides his own martyrdom.

So I'm not sure the "Stand-Alone Journalist" label is one that will stick. The linked nature of the Web is ultimately even more important than the independence of the blogger. Standing alone is useless without being connected.

Saucony Has Room to Run

Saucony Has Room to Run 06/07/2004 10:40 AM
Despite a recent run-up in price, Saucony shares are still attractive.

Hotels That Spy On You When You're In
The Room

Hotels That Spy On You When You're In
The Room 06/08/2004 02:05 PM
There was an urban legend story that made the rounds a few months ago about how those hotel room keycards contained private info about you on the magnetic strip. This was quickly debunked, but that doesn't mean there aren't other privacy questions involved with staying in a hotel room. While this NY Times article starts off with that urban myth, it then follows it up with stories about how certain hotels do track when you enter or leave a room. It's not entirely clearly how they know when you've left the room (since you don't use the key when you leave, and it's unlikely - at this point - that they're using RFID chips on the cards to check where you are) but it does raise some privacy issues. Should the hotels you stay in be able to track you so closely? What's to stop them from adding that RFID chip as well? In the past we've written about practical reasons for having such info, such as keeping the heat off when no one is in the room, but adjust it when people are checking in. However, the privacy concerns of being tracked everywhere you go in a hotel could become a concern for many travelers who aren't comfortable with the idea.

this room is my castle

this room is my castle 03/14/2005 05:43 PM
I really like the way my backyard looks right now. I don't want to be prideful about my gardening efforts,...

Get Your Own Sleep Room

Get Your Own Sleep Room 06/14/2004 03:33 AM
Some people take sleep very seriously. Not getting enough sleep is much more dangerous than most people realize, but it's become more common in our society for people to be chronically sleep deprived. The problem is apparently quite an issue in Japan, where Matsushita has developed a $30,000 sleep room system designed to help ease you into and out of sleep. The system includes an automatically adjusting bed, a TV showing soothing images, a sound system playing relaxing sounds and (my personal favorite) a bed designed to massage you gently into sleep. The system can be used for a cat nap or a full night's sleep. Either way, it appears that folks in Japan are quite excited about this sort of research - as an associated picture with the article shows Japanese office workers taking their naps in the company's showroom that demonstrates a number of recliners.

Room Juice 0.2.0

Room Juice 0.2.0 02/15/2004 10:29 PM
A multi-user jukebox Web frontend.

Your Living Room is Theirs, Not Yours

Your Living Room is Theirs, Not Yours 01/09/2004 09:58 PM
I moderated this panel on high-definition TV at the CES show today, featuring some of the top people from the cable and satellite industries, plus several members of what's quaintly called the "content" business. The topic got around to DRM (digital restrictions management), of course, and the panelists' answers were -- to put it mildly -- unsatisfactory.

No Room for Daddy

No Room for Daddy 12/02/2003 02:00 AM
Uncle Daddy's ex-girlfriend decided to raise their biological child with another man. She's a legal assistant. The other man's a lawyer. Famous last words: "We didn't want to have lawyers involved." (11-26)

Room Juice 0.2.1

Room Juice 0.2.1 06/01/2004 08:29 PM
A multi-user jukebox Web frontend.

The Game Room

The Game Room 09/18/2004 03:51 AM
By Peter Cohen, Macworld (via MyAppleMenu)

Chat Room

Chat Room 05/07/2004 12:02 PM
Micros copic fragments of plastic are a "major pollutant", floating in the ocean, settling on seabeds, and washing up onshore - with unknown consequences for marine ecosystems, according to a new study. "We've found this microscopic plastic material at all of the sites we've examined," [lead researcher] Dr Richard C Thompson [of University of Plymouth, UK] said. "Interestingly, the abundance is reasonably consistent. So, it suggests to us that the problem is really quite ubiquitous."

If you want me, I'll be in the Infinity
Room.

If you want me, I'll be in the Infinity
Room. 12/24/2004 12:21 PM
The House on the Rock.
Mentioned in Neil Gaiman's American Gods, worked on by the mysterious Dr. Evermor... in your face, Frank Lloyd Wright!

More living room

More living room 12/02/2003 01:06 AM
Speaking of iTunes, its release for Windows did finally motivate me to rip the rest of my music and organize it, so I don't have the mess of its physical artifacts laying around my small living area. (Instead, I put them in a handy place.) Which is nice. But, damn, now I have to buy an iPod for car listening, just like Jobs was planned!

Room Disservice

Room Disservice 09/15/2004 09:53 AM
Cendant hooks up in a deal with IAC/InterActive, but it's what isn't said that matters most.

Red room [Flickr]

Red room [Flickr] 12/26/2004 09:06 PM

mathowie posted a photo:

Red room

Getting Out Of The Engine Room

Getting Out Of The Engine Room 04/28/2004 09:30 PM
Internet.com Apr 29 2004 1:57AM GMT

A Web Room With A 3D View

A Web Room With A 3D View 06/22/2005 01:52 AM
Ask anyone why they spend an inordinate amount of time at a certain Web site and typically the word "addictive" gets brandished about. That's the word that "Chimahead," the chief roadie for the band Nightmare Prophecy used when describing his attraction to the 3D Web sites at Gogofrog.com. And it would appear he is not alone with people from around the world building 3D webspaces and sharing a common attraction to the unique form of expression the 3rd dimension offers. [PRWEB Jun 20, 2005]

Why do houses have more than one room?

Why do houses have more than one room? 07/31/2004 05:40 PM

In http://ph ilip.greenspun.com/materialism/house-design/ (commentable) I put forth some ideas for building houses that are designed for single people.  The document asks the questions "Why have more than one room if you live alone?", "What about creative space if you don't have an office or studio?", and "Is it feasible to build an industrial loft in the middle of the woods or suburbs?"

Comments appreciated, especially from folks with some experience in architecture or construction.

Your room with a view

Your room with a view 05/15/2004 09:37 PM
US News May 16 2004 1:17AM GMT

Yahoo FareChase Gets You a Room

Yahoo FareChase Gets You a Room 04/04/2005 07:03 PM
Internet News Apr 4 2005 11:08PM GMT

"The Living Room Candidate"

"The Living Room Candidate" 07/06/2004 02:58 PM

Retail With Elbow Room

Retail With Elbow Room 01/23/2004 04:14 PM
Opportunities in retail stocks? You bet!

mail room veterans

mail room veterans 08/06/2004 01:33 PM
M ail Room Veterans for Bush
Not exactly your Swift Boat Veterans, but staunch defenders of all things holy and honorable and patriotic just the same. Submitted for your Friday fun.

The green elephant in the room

The green elephant in the room 01/16/2004 11:26 AM
A growing chasm divides moderate and right-wing Republicans over a broad range of issues -- environmental policy chief among them.

VoIP still needs breathing room

VoIP still needs breathing room 12/11/2003 08:31 AM
Jeff Pulver says federal regulators are poised to play Scrooge this holiday season by slowing the spread of Internet phoning technology.

Game Room: Aquadot!red

Game Room: Aquadot!red 04/04/2005 07:05 PM
Aquadot!red is a variation on Pac Man that adds deeper gameplay and includes a maze editor.
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