Money and Sex: Two Great Tastes That Taste Great Together!
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Tastes Great! Less Filling!
Tastes Great! Less Filling!
05/24/2004 12:16 AMThere's an interesting dialogue going on between Robert Scoble and John Dowdell
regarding whether RSS feeds should be full-text or excerpts only. I
tend to like full feeds, even on my Treo, but to me it's a personal
choice and everyone is different. That's why I think every site that
is willing to offer a full feed should also consider providing an
abridged feed. That way, the user can pick the one she finds most
useful (or, in some cases both, depending on how she's reading it at
any given time).
For libraries, this is really a no-brainer, especially if you're
using Movable Type. Your
default index.rdf feed is an excerpt, so all you need to do is create
a new file, name it something else (like index.xml or rss.xml), and
change "MTEntryExcerpt" to "MTEntryBody" in the code. Just change that
one word, and you're in business.
Yes, it really is that simple. Please consider doing it.
Oh, and a personal plea to librarian bloggers - please consider
adding a full text feed for your own site!
Tastes of the Great Unwashed
Tastes of the Great Unwashed
02/17/2004 05:12 PM Traffic Island Discs
is a radio programme [on
Resonance FM]
about music,
people and spaces. We roam the streets looking for people wearing
headphones, stop them, and interview them while recording whatever
they are listening to. The result is a half hour tour of an area of
London, heard through people's personal tastes and rhythms. The
site has the archived shows [Broadband (or save as mp3s)].
[via
Ci
ty of Sound] Taste Filling! Less Great!
Taste Filling! Less Great!
01/26/2003 12:54 AMHave some fun with the full version of the crappy Miller Light ad with
busty chicks fighting in water and ?mud.? Anyway I beat iFilm,
O, SUSE, and a great big pile of money
O, SUSE, and a great big pile of money
09/03/2004 06:46 AMOverstock.com has a saying: "It's All About the O." But for Vice
President of Technology Shawn Schwegman and his IT staff, it's all
about the SUSE.
Your great-great-grandmother didn’t
have to surrender her children. What
happened?
Your great-great-grandmother didn’t
have to surrender her children. What
happened?
04/01/2005 11:00 AM
The
Underground History of American Education You
aren’t compelled to loan your car to anyone who wants it, but you
are compelled to surrender your school-age child to strangers who
process children for a livelihood.... If I demanded you give up your
television to an anonymous, itinerant repairman who needed work
you’d think I was crazy; if I came with a policeman who forced you
to pay that repairman even after he broke your set, you would be
outraged. Why are you so docile when you give up your child to a
government agent called a schoolteacher? Great-Great-Grandmother Shoots Robber
(AP)
Great-Great-Grandmother Shoots Robber
(AP)
04/15/2005 04:32 PMAP - A man accused of bursting into a convenience store demanding
money was in the hospital Friday — shot, authorities said, by the
great-great-grandmother working behind the counter.
"Howard Dean: "You Can Say That It's
Great That Saddam Is Gone And I'm Sure
That A Lot Of Iraqis Feel It Is Great
That Saddam Is Gone. But A Lot Of Them
Gave Their Lives. And Their Living
Standard Is A Whole Lot Worse Now Than
It Was Before.""
"Howard Dean: "You Can Say That It's
Great That Saddam Is Gone And I'm Sure
That A Lot Of Iraqis Feel It Is Great
That Saddam Is Gone. But A Lot Of Them
Gave Their Lives. And Their Living
Standard Is A Whole Lot Worse Now Than
It Was Before.""
01/26/2004 03:28 AMfrederick-the-great.com –
http://frederick-the-great.com/
announced Grand Opening the Computing
and Home Office store.
frederick-the-great.com –
http://frederick-the-great.com/
announced Grand Opening the Computing
and Home Office store.
09/10/2004 02:11 AMfrederick-the-great.com – http://frederick-the-great.com/ announced
Grand Opening the Computing and Home Office store. Frederick The Great
has thousands of electronics and home office supplies which fit your
need and budget. [PRWEB Sep 10, 2004]
Great Power, Great Restraint...
Great Power, Great Restraint...
08/05/2004 02:26 PMAnakin learns that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the one
in
Star
Wars: Republic #67, released this week. Randy Stradley,
Brandon Badeaux, and Brad Anderson tell a tale that balances power and
restraint as Anakin and Obi-Wan face off against the Separatist forces
on the planet Zaadja, while Master Tohno infiltrates the Geonosian
droid factory on a demolition mission she is not expected to survive.
Ever wonder why the Mandalorians are nowhere to be seen in the
Clone Wars?
The answer may lie in this issue! All under a cover by Brian Ching.
You can check out an online preview
here<
/a>.
Great Hacker != Great Hire
Great Hacker != Great Hire
08/05/2004 03:49 AMGreat Hacker != Great Hire .. Eric
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"Great Hacker != Great Hire"
"Great Hacker != Great Hire"
08/06/2004 09:45 AMGreat Wall Getting Less Great (Reuters)
Great Wall Getting Less Great (Reuters)
01/26/2004 10:19 AMReuters - The Great Wall of China is shrinking as
tourism and development take their toll on one of the world's
most famous monuments, state media said Monday.
Hostetler Great Lakes Capitol, Inc.,
located in the Great Lakes region of
lower Michigan, just announced plans to
build an enormous organization with
Freelife International, using the
Himalayan Goji Juice as the leading
product.
Hostetler Great Lakes Capitol, Inc.,
located in the Great Lakes region of
lower Michigan, just announced plans to
build an enormous organization with
Freelife International, using the
Himalayan Goji Juice as the leading
product.
07/26/2004 02:14 AMDavid Hostetler, with a Master’s degree in Marketing, has been a
successful marketer on and off the Internet since 1977. Having built
several other successful businesses in the past, he is now well on the
way to building a million-dollar business and has chosen Himalayan
Goji Juice and Freelife International as the leading product. Do you
want to come along? He is looking for entrepreneurs who want to team
up with millionaire marketers under a specialized and unique Internet
marketing system. If you are a marketer/MLM distributor and think you
deserve more, now is the time and this is the place. Don't wait for
your destiny... make it happen! [PRWEB Jul 26, 2004]
What is the A Great Portal website
about, what is so Great and what is a
Portal?
What is the A Great Portal website
about, what is so Great and what is a
Portal?
05/31/2004 01:51 PMA Great Portal, Great Links to Great websites has moved to a new
website address, of http://www.agreatportal.com This is part of
on-going improvements. The website has lots of links to various and
interesting subjects as well as a Multi-search, a news headlines
search and free website promotion. Is it a Portal and is it Great? See
what you think. [PRWEB May 30, 2004]
An Aspiring Money Man Gets to Taste the
High Life
An Aspiring Money Man Gets to Taste the
High Life
07/28/2004 09:44 AMIn return for raising $50,000 for John Kerry's campaign, a California
lawyer got a pass to be in the same room with some of the country's
richest and best-connected political money people.
- 3G: Great. Great. Great
- 3G: Great. Great. Great
01/02/2005 09:33 PMIT AsiaOne Jan 3 2005 12:51AM GMT
Cul de Sac is great
Cul de Sac is great
11/17/2003 07:48 PMSac-re-licious
suburbanblight.net/archives/001259.html
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Can IBM Get Great Again?
Can IBM Get Great Again?
06/01/2004 02:00 PMFortune Jun 1 2004 5:51PM GMT
Well, that's just great.
Well, that's just great.
08/21/2004 10:46 PM
Child Pimp and Ho Costumes. That's... what it says.
Its great
Its great
08/20/2004 08:22 AMTechTree Aug 20 2004 12:35PM GMT
"Great mess, A+"
"Great mess, A+"
01/03/2005 03:18 AM
Messy desks were submitted for
a contest at
bash.org. Most of them
are
n't that messy, but
a few are unforgettable.
If you would like to cut to the chase: here is
the
winner and here is
the Honorable
Mention (NSFW). (Many of the comment threads are also NSFW)
Great IIS Site
Great IIS Site
03/14/2005 06:07 PMThis
place saved our necks yesterday (at work, not Gadgetopia). If you
ever find yourself working with an IIS box and run into this little
monkey:
The server failed to load application '/blah'. The error was 'The
server process could not be started because the configured identity is
incorrect. Check the user name and password'.
The "Synciwam.vbs" script will actually work as advertised. We
installed some software that hosed all the user accounts on our IIS
box yesterday, and were left scratching our heads as to what the
bloody hell happened.
Apparently, this script can cause problems of its own -- so be careful out there.
My apologies if this is a well-known thing, but I hadn't seen it
prior to yesterday.
(Credit goes to Ryan for finding this one.)
Across the great divide
Across the great divide
09/04/2004 09:18 PM
I first pointed to this stunning
Valdis Krebs infographic
back in March
2004, when the New York Times published it. Krebs has long been
fascinated with the clusters that emerge from an analysis of Amazon's
related-purchase data. I was reminded of his chart the other day when
I heard
this
exchange (Real, 1 min, 40 sec) between Terri Gross and Norman
Podhoretz, which includes this quote:
I have almost no friends any longer who are liberal, and I suspect
this is true of most people on both sides of the divide. Since the
sixties, the polarization has become more intense, and there are fewer
and fewer friendships that can be sustained across the divide in this
country.
What religious differences used to be, and aren't any more (in our
world, not the Muslim world), political differences have become.
They've acquired a kind of religious intensity, and are tinged with a
kind of intolerance that used to characterize religious differences.
[Norman
Podhoretz, inteviewed by Terri Gross on NPR's Fresh Air, Real, 20
min.)
Having lived on both sides of the chasm -- he was a radical liberal
before he became a founder of neoconservativism -- Podhoretz seems to
have a rare appreciation of the great divide. I suspect the majority
of us, not having lived on both sides, lack that same gut-level
appreciation.
...E-Mail From the Great Beyond
E-Mail From the Great Beyond
11/12/2003 01:22 PMTreading where others have failed, mylastemail.com promises to let its
customers deliver their last words to their survivors. By Amit
Asaravala.
Great shot
Great shot
12/22/2004 01:49 AM
(originally uploaded by jperkinson)
I know there are millions of photos of kids online, but jperkinson's
are amazing.
Great Big Stuff
Great Big Stuff
09/07/2004 05:49 PM
Rob and I were just discussing Deane’s
habit of meticulously editing our posts for proper grammar, spelling,
and markup. It’s one of the things that (I think) makes
Gadgetopia a good read, but we were wishing for a giant red pen to
use, either as a gift or an instrument of blunt force trauma.
Of course, if you think of something, someone on the web already did it :
Many years ago, I was delighted to find a store called
“Think BIG!” in my local mall. Over the years I purchased
a number of their larger-than-life products. However, I was dismayed
when their retail stores shut their doors.
I discovered that I was not alone feeling their absence. I took
that as a call to action to fill the void — and a BIG void it
was! That is why I started GreatBigStuff.com.
We have made great strides in providing a wide selection of
oversized items. Many of the items are original “Think
BIG!” merchandise which had been locked away in a warehouse. We
continue to find manufacturers and suppliers around the world to
expand our line of products.
There are so many cool things I could buy at this store. Giant
Crayons? Got
‘em. 5-foot toothbrush? Check. My favorite
is the huge computer
key stools (pictured above). Sadly, no giant red pen.
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The Great iTunes Rip-Off
The Great iTunes Rip-Off
06/21/2004 08:30 PMMusic lovers in Britain are being charged 20 percent more than those
across the Channel to buy songs on the Internet. By Peter Zimonjic,
MacNewsWorld (via MyAppleMenu)
The great 64-bit shootout.
The great 64-bit shootout.
09/20/2004 09:22 PMInfoWorld:
The great 64-bit shootout. I don't agree that percent of peak is
a useful metric for customers, but otherwise it's a decent article.
Great to meet Ted
Great to meet Ted
04/11/2004 04:13 AMOK - multi-post sequence - all based upon this post......
See my comments at the end........
Here's Ted Leung.......
Back. Well,
I"m finally back in the saddle after a week at OSAF. It was five
months since my last visit, which was probably a little too long. Some
of the things that I talked about this week included several meetings
on Item Clouds, a long clarifying discussion on our Data
Model, and several discussions on Item Sharing. Anthony Baxter dropped by to tell us
about shtoom,
encourage us to think about voice in Chandler and suggest some ways to get more involved with the python
community, so I suppose I'll forgive him for greeting me by telling me
that I looked like ****. It was also a good time to be around to
accelerate the coordination needed for planning the 0.4 release, and
since we've hired a number of new folks, it was good to meet all of
them, and spend some time developing existing relationships.
This trip I also managed to have an active evening social calendar.
I spent one evening with our old family friends David and Katherine Fedor.
It's been entirely too long since I saw them -- hopefully we'll be
able to get the families together sometime soon. I spent another
evening with fellow Brownies David Temkin and Sarah Allen who are both at Laszlo. David and I worked on
Newton together, and it was interesting to hear his reflections on the
project now that a number of years have passed.
I also ended up spending an evening with Marc Canter, his wife Lisa, and
Phil Wolff. Marc is doing a bunch of open source style projects in
addition to his consulting with various companies in the social
software space. A lot of what he's doing right now centers around
FOAF, and I'm looking forward to seeing the results soon. I think that
there could be a nice tie in between the PeopleAggregator and
Chandler's "sharing circles". One thing that Marc's
interested in is being able to build another user interface on top of
Chandler functionality. If we do a good job at MVC in CPIA, then this
shouldn't be that much labor. Something that struck me as I talked
with Marc was the long term view that he's taking of the stuff that
he's working on. He's thinking multiple years worth of effort, a point
of view that's been in short supply / disfavor since the dot com boom
and "internet time".
Phil Wolff has gotten a fair
amount of reading in our house -- he's hit both my and Julie's
aggregator. In fact, when I told Julie I was meeting Phil too, she
exclaimed "the thousand beers guy". You never know what will stick...
Phil's been doing a lot of work with the Kerry campaign, and thinking
about the issues related to taking the software artifacts created by
campaigns and making sure that they have a life so that succeeding
elections/campaigns could make use of them. He also asked me some
interesting questions about Chandler. How will Chandler compete with a
"Google in a box" appliance that includes search, e-mail, etc? How
will Chandler do calendar support for events like Muslim prayers which
occur a sunrise and sunset in your current location? This requires
knowing where you are in the world so that you can compute when
sunrise and sunset are. Food for thought, indeed. Phil had two thought
provoking posts earlier that day, one on the 'Perfect' Corporate
Weblogging 'Elevator Pitch' Competition (which he is judging) and
another on social network
software.
Lisa, Marc, and Phil got me the last night I was in town, and by
then I was slightly draggy (I didn't say that Anthony was wrong), so I
hope that I was suitably interesting company. [Ted Leung on the air]
It was great to meet Ted Leung - someone who I have been reading
and who's working at one of my favorite entities - OSAF. When
Mitch and Andy were on their original road show - showing off version
.1 of Chandler - they promised me that we'd be able to build on the
APIs and data structures - utilizing what's known as an 'object
store'.
Dave Winer had built an object store - it was called the XML storage system
- so I knew that the world needed an open source of of those.
When I heard Chandler had one - I got excited!
So we all have vested interests in seeing the OSAF succeed.
It never ceases to amaze me how many people all come up with the
same conclusions on FOAF, sharing and multiple accounts being
aggregated together. This meme is taking off.
such great heights
such great heights
08/13/2004 03:25 AMNot too often as of late that I will dedicate an entry to a single
movie. Garden State is one...
Great ideas 101
Great ideas 101
12/03/2003 02:57 AMBoston Globe Dec 3 2003 1:55AM ET
With Great Color...
With Great Color...
08/31/2004 01:25 PM
Spiderman
Reviews Crayons (via
YesAnd.com)
From Good To Great (Maybe)
From Good To Great (Maybe)
01/04/2005 01:59 AMInformation Week Jan 4 2005 6:23AM GMT
A Great Value in the Oil Patch?
A Great Value in the Oil Patch?
12/29/2004 06:03 PMPetroKazakhstan may have some risks, but it can yield benefits, too.
great photolog
great photolog
12/30/2003 01:33 AMRan across an excellent looking photolog today - Jose Luis Visual
Journal (via pixeldiva) This is one of the few sites I've seen that
uses the archive calendar view in a good way -- it fits perfectly into
the layout....
More Great Flash
More Great Flash
01/06/2005 02:48 PMExxon
Secrets: This is fantastic work with Flash. It reminds me of that
tsunami
Flash tool of a week ago. This one is just as good and shows how
Flash can be used to really let the user explore a "space" of
information.
Note: I'm not endorsing or condeming the subject matter here. I'm
just commenting on the skill of development and strength of
presentation.
Hey thats great. I want to know who this
eerthcet from Hyd
Hey thats great. I want to know who this
eerthcet from Hyd
09/19/2004 08:14 AMTechTree Sep 19 2004 11:40AM GMT
Where Do Your Great Ideas Come from?
Where Do Your Great Ideas Come from?
02/05/2005 09:32 PM
Some more 'fun with numbers'
today. A while ago I mentioned IdeaChampions' When & Where
Do You Get Your Best Ideas? survey. If you haven't taken the
survey already, you can still do
so.
But before you click to post your answers, write them down. Then you
can use this article to create your Personal Creativity Profile, as
I've done above. The Profile will tell you:
- When and where you get your best ideas
- How your
sources of great ideas differ from others, and why
- How you can
make more time and space for creative activities
The chart above compares my scores on the 36 questions with the
normalized* answers of other respondents. If you want to create your
own chart like this, using Excel or a similar spreadsheet software,
here's how to do it:
- From the IdeaChampions' survey page, copy the 36
questions, and paste them to the first column of your spreadsheet
using Paste SpecialText.
Copy your scores into the next column. Then copy the normalized
average
scores from the bottom of this post into the third column, using Paste SpecialText.
Highlight the entire table you've created and sort it in ascending
order by your scores. Then add a row at the top of the chart and type
in column headings.
- Then highlight the entire table you've created and
Insert a bar chart, which
should look something like the chart above.
Interpreting your
Profile:
In my case, brainstorming, creative thinking techniques, talking with
customers, taking time just upon waking, taking breaks, and listening
to music are my six 'sure-fire' ways to generate creativity, so I
should learn to draw on one or more of them whenever creative thinking
is needed. I should keep a pencil and paper beside the bed for
waking-hour inspirations. And since I take a lot of breaks and walk
around, I should get wireless headphones so my music goes with me. I
should study creative
thinking techniques so that they become second nature. And I
should spend more time talking with, and listening to, current and potential customers.
What's more, the last three of these six creativity sources are
unusual
to me, and not effective for most others, so if I'm in a group
creativity setting I should be cautious about suggesting others take
breaks or listen to music. I should be sensitive to the fact that
happiness is an essential precondition to creativity for most people,
though it isn't for me, and also that most others will be more
creative
if they take a walk, read books, talk with friends, or spend time
thinking just before bed, even though those techniques don't work
particularly well for me.
There are some other interesting differences between my creative
places
and times, and those of most others. I find flying and commuting very
stimulating -- perhaps it's the movement,
and the fact that my commutes are off-rush-hour and hence fast-paced
and relaxing. I find television stimulates my thinking more than it
does for most others, but that's probably because of what
I watch -- documentaries, mysteries, in-depth investigative reports
and
foreign programming. And the least effective three sources for me --
internet surfing, vacationing and exercising, are all fairly intense,
focused activities for me, that don't leave many 'cycles of
brainpower'
for creative thinking, though I can appreciate that others who find
these activities more recreational could also find them more
creatively
stimulating.
Next I asked myself how I could find more time and space for the
creative activities that work best for me. To answer this I added
another column to the spreadsheet, and entered for each of the 36
activities the amount of time
each week I currently spent on each. I again used a scale of 1-5 for
this:
- Activities that consume >20 hours of time a week --
5
- Activities that consume 15-20 hours a week --
4
- Activities that consume 10-15 hours a week --
3
- Activities that consume 5-10 hours a week --
2
- Activities that consume <5 hours a week -- 1
Now I added one more column that showed, for each of the 36
activities, my rating (1-5), divided
by
the amount of time I spend at it each week (1-5, using the scale
above). If you do this and re-sort the 36 activities in ascending
order
of this last 'Personal Score/Time Spent' column, the resulting chart
looks like this:
What this second chart reveals is what, ideally speaking, you should
try to spend more time doing (the activities at the top of the chart,
which you've rated as a source of great ideas, but which you spend
relatively little time doing) and what you should try to spend less
time doing (the activities at the bottom of the chart). In my case, I
should 'get out more' -- spend more time brainstorming with others and
just moving around, and less time in front of the computer. I also
need
to use creative thinking techniques more often. My 'catch-all' #36
'other source' answer was spending time in the hot tub, which I
suppose
must somehow work for me the way showers work for others. What is it
about being in the water that gets us thinking creatively? No wonder
dolphins are such imaginative creatures! Though to my surprise,
others'
top 'write-in' answer for question #36 was 'on the toilet', so perhaps
we should see whether porcelain has some mysterious power to spark
ideation.
While others spend their time in airport lounges, airplanes and
traffic
either bored or fuming, I find these activities 'transport' me and get
me thinking very creatively. Because it's dangerous to write while
driving, I've learned to use mnemonic
devices
to capture and remember ideas that occur to me until I can safely
write
them down (works in the shower, too). If I could find a dictating
machine that worked with my voice-recognition software I'd probably
use
it instead -- maybe even write a whole paper or blog post simply
thinking out loud while I drive. It's quite possible, though, that
since much of my travel is early-morning, it's actually that time of
day that's responsible for the flurry of ideas, rather than the
movement. Though since I'm a night-owl, usually miserable in the
morning, I'm not sure that my body clock, or the ones around me, could
handle it if I tried early-to-bed, early-to-rise. It hurts just
thinking about it.
What works for you, and why? Are there times and places and techniques
that aren't on this list at all that seem to surface great ideas for
you? In what ways does your ideal environment for idea generation
differ from mine, and from the other survey respondents'? And are
there
ways you could be spending your time a little differently to allow
your
right brain to get some more exercise?
* How I normalized the 'average' answers to the survey:
First of all, I double-counted the '5' scores, the proportion of
people
who found each time or place a 'sure-fire' source of great ideas,
because I think that's just as important as 'average' score. Then,
because when you average scores you get most of them clustered around
the 3 average, I 'stretched' the results so that the top-scoring
source
(brainstorming) received a normalized score of 5 and the
lowest-scoring
source (being sad or depressed) received a normalized score of 2.
Finally, I rounded the results to the nearest 0.5. The results then
more closely map, in standard deviation and distribution of results,
an
individual's scoring.
Here are the normalized scores in order for the 36 questions (for
copying and pasting into your own spreadsheet):
4.0
4.0
3.0
3.5
3.5
4.0
3.0
4.5
3.0
3.5
4.5
4.0
5.0
3.0
3.0
3.5
4.0
3.0
2.5
2.5
3.5
3.0
3.0
4.5
4.0
4.0
2.0
3.0
3.5
4.0
4.5
4.0
4.5
5.0
3.5
4.0
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Great Hackers
Great Hackers
07/29/2004 01:44 PMwhat defines the best hackers .. Paul Graham: Great
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