Why Smart People Believe Weird Things
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Weird - really really weird - to see
Belle de Jour in a top ten of most
powerful people in UK New Media.
Slightly crack-fueled dreaming for that
particular journo tonight, I fear
Weird - really really weird - to see
Belle de Jour in a top ten of most
powerful people in UK New Media.
Slightly crack-fueled dreaming for that
particular journo tonight, I fear
07/13/2004 08:23 AMat least according to the woefully
misinformed
media.guardian.co.uk/top100_2004/index/0,14656,1247481,0
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six apart people have weird names
six apart people have weird names
08/18/2004 02:47 AMmakes me feel right at home
""I’m not the kind of artist who feels
that I have a mission of any kind
whatsoever. The 19th century was about
that. What right do I have? In many ways
it robs people of a lot of things. I’m
an average enough person to point to the
things that I’ve..."
""I’m not the kind of artist who feels
that I have a mission of any kind
whatsoever. The 19th century was about
that. What right do I have? In many ways
it robs people of a lot of things. I’m
an average enough person to point to the
things that I’ve..."
07/13/2004 03:21 AMThere are only four things that people
do on the web
There are only four things that people
do on the web
12/08/2003 04:32 AM"Things Other People Accomplished When
They Were Your Age"
"Things Other People Accomplished When
They Were Your Age"
11/10/2003 11:14 PMPeople and Things that Really Bug Me
Recently
People and Things that Really Bug Me
Recently
02/19/2004 12:09 AMFor whatever reason, a bunch of things have happened very recently
that either bug me or are just the latest in a series of things that
have been bugging me. Since this is a blog, I waste your time by
pointing them out. Howard Dean dropping out of the race. Thank god. I
was so sick of reading about how great this guy was on every third
blog I stumbled across. Get a life people! Bloggers don't win
elections, politics...
Little people doing huge things
Little people doing huge things
12/11/2003 10:55 AM Austrailian
pilot stuck in Antarctica That story is interesting enough, but
the background on the pilot (just your typical nurse-midwife homebuilt
avionics adventurer)
available
here is fascinating. I love reading these stories about common
folk following their dreams and accomplishing huge things. Dare I say
inspiring? Lifted from
SlashDot Things Other People Accomplished When
They Were Your Age
Things Other People Accomplished When
They Were Your Age
11/10/2003 11:35 PMThings other people accomplished when they were your age .. artists
and others continued creating ..
accomplished
museumofconceptualart.com/accomplished
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Meet the People Who Make Things Happen -
Videos
Meet the People Who Make Things Happen -
Videos
11/19/2003 11:35 PM"At Microsoft, when we talk about recruiting the best and the
brightest, we're talking about people who thrive on the excitement of
collaboration and the discovery of new opportunities. They like
setting their own goals and working hard to achieve them in their own
style.
They apply their talents in myriad positions, from sales and marketing
to technical design and programming to product support and consulting.
Why are they here? To create something that matters – to themselves,
and to millions of people around the world.
Hear what our employees have to say
What do they like best about their jobs and working at Microsoft? Let
them tell you in their own words by selecting an employee below, or by
viewing the video. They'll give you an idea of just how far a little
hard work and a lot of passion can take you.
"
It's fun singing and getting interviewed
by smart people
It's fun singing and getting interviewed
by smart people
09/25/2004 01:47 PMStephen O'Hears and his "In Search of the Valley" crew stopped by
to interview me the otehr day.
Here's his
report/post....
We drove down to Walnut Creek to spend some time at
Marc
Canter’s house. Marc is probably best known as one of the
co-founders of
Macromedia
(then called MacroMind), and is considered one of the fathers of
‘multimedia’. According to Marc, software is the new rock
‘n’ roll, and open source / open content is a form of
activism that is taking back control of the internet and it’s
content. He spoke passionately about the
Creative Commons licencing
scheme, and the promotion of ‘open’ standards and content.
What was now required was a way to join up and manage the digital
lifestyle. The solution:
Digital Lifestyle Aggregators.
After the interview Marc played some blues guitar for us and performed
some opera.
Contingency Design: Maximizing Online
Profitability By Helping People When
Things Go Wrong
Contingency Design: Maximizing Online
Profitability By Helping People When
Things Go Wrong
09/16/2002 10:43 AMVerbatim to Use U3 Platform to Make USB
Smart Drives That Move Applications and
Data to Any PC; People Can Car
Verbatim to Use U3 Platform to Make USB
Smart Drives That Move Applications and
Data to Any PC; People Can Car
04/18/2005 04:25 AMBusiness Wire UK Apr 18 2005 8:36AM GMT
Keeping Found Things Found: Web Tools
Don't Always Mesh With How People Work
Keeping Found Things Found: Web Tools
Don't Always Mesh With How People Work
12/18/2003 06:55 AMKe
eping Found Things Found: Web Tools Don't Always Mesh With
How People Workhttp://www.nsf
.gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm?pr03146Of all the personal
computers to be unwrapped during the holiday season, more than 80
percent will be used to go online and search the Web's more than 92
million gigabytes of data (comparable to a 2 billion-volume
encyclopedia). Getting online is the easy part, finding a useful Web
page is a bit harder—keeping track of a useful Web page is another
issue altogether.
People have devised many tricks—such as
sending e-mails to themselves or jotting on sticky notes—for keeping
track of Web pages, but William Jones and Harry Bruce at the
University of Washington's Information School and Susan Dumais of
Microsoft Research have found that often people don't use any of them
when it comes time to revisit a Web page. Instead, they rely on their
ability to find the Web page all over again.
Meg talks about how times change, people
change, webl0gs change but some things
endure
Meg talks about how times change, people
change, webl0gs change but some things
endure
06/05/2005 11:30 PMNostalgia isn't what it used to be
meish.org/014253.php
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When Things On Your Mac Do Cool Things
You Didn't Expect Them To... Or
Adventures In Mac-Based Audio
When Things On Your Mac Do Cool Things
You Didn't Expect Them To... Or
Adventures In Mac-Based Audio
01/03/2004 12:11 AMIf you play an instrument, write songs, sing, or wish you could do any
or all of the above, take a look at DigiDesign's amazing little Mbox,
a complete audio production system with many uses. By Bob LeVitus (Mac
Observer via MyAppleMenu)
Smart Box Design Rolls Out Farkle for
Palm OS Handhelds, a Lively Mobile
Rendition of the Classic Dice Game,
Featuring “Smart” Opponents
Smart Box Design Rolls Out Farkle for
Palm OS Handhelds, a Lively Mobile
Rendition of the Classic Dice Game,
Featuring “Smart” Opponents
09/13/2004 12:34 PMSmart Box Design announces the release of Farkle, a Palm OS version of
the classic dice rolling game. Farkle offers players an opportunity to
challenge friends or compete against a variety of “intelligent”
computer opponents with a wide range of personalities—from cautious to
daring—that will determine the level of risk each opponent is willing
to take when deciding just how far to push their luck. [PRWEB Sep 13,
2004]
Economy of Scales: Smart AV Smart
Console
Economy of Scales: Smart AV Smart
Console
12/24/2004 12:16 PM
Once a week, createdigitalmusic's
Peter Kirn highlights drool-worthy music and audio creation equipment,
from essential to oddball. This week's computer audio control surface,
invented by a former magician and priced like a yacht, hits the
oddball end.
Pilot wants to know if people flying in
his plane are "Christians" - asks people
to raise their hands
Pilot wants to know if people flying in
his plane are "Christians" - asks people
to raise their hands
02/10/2004 09:18 AMCNN.com - Passengers: Pilot promotes faith on flight .. Pilot's
proselytizing scares passengers .. FLYING THE
PLANES!!!!
cnn.com/2004/TRAVEL/02/09/airline.christianity/index.html
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"people it's somehow understandable how
some people might be driven to kill
"activist" Judges who make unpopular
decisions"
"people it's somehow understandable how
some people might be driven to kill
"activist" Judges who make unpopular
decisions"
04/06/2005 03:07 AMCorrespondences - News By the People For
People: Who captured Saddam Hussein?
Correspondences - News By the People For
People: Who captured Saddam Hussein?
12/22/2003 07:54 AMWell, the cat is out of the bag so to speak. Saddam Hussein was
captured by Kurds, not US forces. 12/22 .. (even more) ..
more
correspondences.org/archives/000507.html
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How smart is Microsoft's smart phone?
How smart is Microsoft's smart phone?
04/13/2004 08:56 PMZDNet Apr 14 2004 0:41AM GMT
Good things, bad things
Good things, bad things
03/06/2004 02:03 AMGood thing: to have surge protection on your computer array.
Bad thing: kick accidentally the surge protection thingy so that the
wall socket becomes loose, and have a big, catastrophic power failure.
Good thing: to be able to read your blogs while eating breakfast
Bad thing: to drop a bun in your cereal, and have milk splashed all
across your laptop
Good thing: iTunes for Windows
Bad thing: Windows
Good thing: actually having sunlight in the mornings.
Bad thing: the mornings.
Good thing: upcoming go
-tournament (http://takapotku.suomigo.net -
feel free to come by and say hi!) next weekend.
Bad thing: not sleeping enough before the weekend.
43 Things Web Service API on 43 Things
43 Things Web Service API on 43 Things
04/17/2005 10:05 PM43 Things Web Service API on 43 Things .. 43things adds web services
API
43things.com/about/view/web_service_api
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There are lots of bright people out
there but only so many Bryght people
There are lots of bright people out
there but only so many Bryght people
08/27/2004 01:47 PMCongrats to Roland and Boris and.....
They've just launched Bryght -
a Drupal hosting service. I hung out with these guys a bit when I was
in Vancouver and they're certainly a compelling reason for moving
there.
Vancouver is hot.
Here's Roland's post....
Our latest venture is Bryght, a hosted Drupal
service, "the Salesforce.com of community content". I am working with
Boris, Richard, Adrian and James on this
one. Yes, we are all Bryght
guys :-) !
We have taken Drupal and combined it with web hosting and email to
give you a one stop shop for your community content. No IT required,
no muss, no fuss! Check out The lights are on at
Bryght for more background on how this started. And if you know
of an individual, organization or company that could use a Bryght
site, please contact us.
Whither StreamLine you might ask?
StreamLine continues and it will continue to resell Blogware blogs because we
still believe that Blogware is the best individual blogging
platform.
[Roland Tanglao's blog]
"Correspondences - News By the People
For People: Who captured Sad..."
"Correspondences - News By the People
For People: Who captured Sad..."
12/22/2003 04:17 PMWeird
Weird
11/02/2003 04:18 PMReading about it being 71
degrees for the NYC Marathon, I was about to go running today (I
did the LA marathon in 1997 and was hoping to do one next year) but
was surprised to find the rain just turned to snow and is piling up on
the roof and streets. New York? 70 and partly sunny. Oregon?
snowing.
That Was Weird...
That Was Weird...
07/17/2004 04:40 PMI just posted a new item, and suddenly there were 22 comments under it
-- all from another posting from more than a week ago. I deleted them,
but this is just bizarre.
weird referer
weird referer
01/07/2004 04:31 PMRecently (but I just noticed it today) I started getting HTTP
referers that are a variation of the following:
"XXXX:+++++++++++++++++++++++" (the number of plus signs varies). A google search with
appropriate terms quickly turned up discussions like this one
that suggest that the referer is someone using an anonymizer or
internet security product of some kind. Without that information it
smells like an attempt at an exploit of some kind... but of what kind
(and if so, I've never heard of it)?
Anyone knows about this? Has anyone else seen it? I'm curious.
:)
The Weird Als of Finland
The Weird Als of Finland
06/30/2004 06:07 PM
Finland has a dance called the humppa, but it's spoken of with the
same disdain that disco gets in the US these days. It's for the
geezers. I have been told it is something like the German polka only
without the lederhosen, which is good since I'm half German and, after
a few Straßenfests where people jump around in lederhosen with
buckets of beer in their hands barely able to stand up, much less
dance, the costumes just don't really add much to the overall
aesthetic. I had a biology professor, a Bavarian who was really into
opera singing, show up for a lecture in lederhosen and dance a polka
for us while we sat there speechless. Everyone thought he was nuts,
but I just thought he was hopelessly homesick and I couldn't imagine
him doing that dance without the full costume in his usually
disheveled professor uniform. I have been spared, so far, the
spectacle of drunk Finns hopping around much like drunk Germans to
goofy music. So far.
While we were off at the lake for Juhannus, my ear picked up
something that sounded a lot like Viva Las Vegas but....not. I
was informed that it was a group called Eläkeläiset [the
pensioners] who are the humppa song gods in Finland and, well,
everywhere else people like to humppa. I fried a few neurons just
thinking about an Elvis tune done in humpaa/polka time. I can't
describe their music except to say that they are the Weird Al
Yankovics of Finland. Sample the Peljätty Humppa [2.2mb] and try to guess the song they are
covering and be very, very afraid. It's like Ethyl Merman singing a
disco version of No
Business like Show Business [yes, she really did...], as it's
so bad that it transcends the badness and is irresistibly brilliant. I
must have more of their music. The guys actually have a regular band,
Kumikameli, but I can't
really tell the difference between the samples on that web site and
the humppa music so it may be just a nuance only a Finn can hear. :)
The lyrics are
very clever and, unsurprisingly, the music is popular with the
polka loving Germans. There even seems to be an OpenBSD-Humppa
connection which does help explain a few things about OpenBSD. Weird
Al has done a polka album so perhaps it is time he teamed up with
Eläkeläiset and did a humppa album. Disturbing thought. *zot* There
went another neuron.
Weird Swing Bug
Weird Swing Bug
06/22/2004 11:54 PMWe ran into a weird issue with Swing today at work. The small class
below reproduces this. 1 import javax.swing.*; 2 import
javax.swing.event.TreeModelEvent; 3 import
javax.swing.event.TreeModelListener; 4 import
javax.swing.tree.DefaultMutableTreeNode; 5 import
javax.swing.tree.DefaultTreeModel; 6 7 public class Blah extends
JFrame implements TreeModelListener { 8 9 private JTree tree; 10 11
public Blah() { 12 setSize(150, 150); 13
setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE); 14
DefaultMutableTreeNode root... (294 words)
Weird Cats
Weird Cats
05/20/2004 01:13 AM
Feline medical
curiosities. Polydactyly, conjoined-kitty-fu, "freaks of
face," cleft palates, and plain old huge. (Not safe for after
lunch).
Weird-o SMS behaviour
Weird-o SMS behaviour
02/05/2005 09:13 PMOuti sent me yesterday a sweet text message about mice. True to the
nature of these beasts, that SMS started multiplying: for some reason,
T-Mobile (yes, I'm in Germany) has decided to deliver that message to
me eleven times within the past 24 hours. Even though it has been
sent only once.
It seems that every SMS sent from Finland is replaced by this same
SMS message - so if you've tried to contact me, I have only seen a
message about a mouse from Outi. Sorry. You gotta try and resend, if
you had anything to say (or just email me).
Weirdosity++.
Weird science
Weird science
12/31/2004 04:43 PMIt didn't take long for politicized debate to get roiling over the
nature of the tsunami disaster -- some of it rather murky.
Steven Milloy of the Cato Institute and
Junk Science.com is
now blasting environmentalists for "shameless exploitation" as they
"surf the tsunami tragedy" in order to bring attention to the problem
of global warming. Milloy wants to give the impression that he's
navigating through truer waters, but clearly he's looking to ride the
wave in a direction of his own:
Weird Presents Anyone?
Weird Presents Anyone?
12/25/2003 04:20 PMNews of the Weird... NOT!
News of the Weird... NOT!
01/02/2005 09:23 PM
Though not the web institution of
Jim Romenesko's Obscure Store
or as overexposed as
Dave Barry's
Blog, Chuck Shepherd's
NEWS of the WEIRD
is a fairly good source for news stories that are... well... WEIRD.
And Chuck's the only one who has collected a list of stories that
"now occur with such frequency" that they are
NO LONGER
WEIRD. Quite a resource for judging how our society has changed in
the last umpteen years.
In semi-related news, Barry is
semi-retiring his weekly column, but we still
have
AutoDave, the
automated Dave Barry column generator. Still, I suspect he did it
just to upstage
Dan Gillmor's farewell column, as he gives up the
old-media columnar life in favor of
"Grassroots
Journalism".
To Dave Berry, 'Grassroots
Journalism' is writing about the brown patch in your lawn directly
over the septic tank. An attempt to evaluate the actual power
of brands by making Austrian people draw
a total of twelve logos (nine
international, three typically European)
from memory, 25 people per brand
An attempt to evaluate the actual power
of brands by making Austrian people draw
a total of twelve logos (nine
international, three typically European)
from memory, 25 people per brand
01/03/2004 07:05 AMmonochrom Brandmarker
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Jack Valenti says stupid things --
really, really stupid things
Jack Valenti says stupid things --
really, really stupid things
08/03/2004 07:46 PMTim Wu has rounded up some of the dumbest things that Jack Valenti
said -- and he's found some real howlers, things that make Jack's
infamous condemnation of the VCR ("the Boston Stranger of the American
film industry") look like a walk in the park.
On the nascent cable industry, in 1974
"[Cable will become] a huge parasite in the marketplace, feeding and
fattening itself off of local television stations and copyright owners
of copyrighted material. We do not like it because we think it wrong
and unfair."
On the dangers on media concentration, 1984 Op-Ed
"Will a democratic society allow just three corporate entities to
wield unprecedented dominion over television, the most decisive voice
in the land? There are now only three national networks .... There
will never be more than three national networks."
On the public domain, 1995
"A public domain work is an orphan. No one is responsible for its
life. But everyone exploits its use, until that time certain when it
becomes soiled and haggard, barren of its previous virtues. How does
the consumer benefit from the steady decline of a film's quality?"
Link
(
Thanks, Patricio!)
Weird color problem
Weird color problem
01/05/2005 10:26 PMMark Frauenfelder:
(Click thumbnail for enlargement.) Anyone know why the body copy shows
in gold in IE on OS X? It seems fine on Safari and Firefox. Please
email me if you know the
answer. (Also, thanks to everyone for your great design suggestions.
As you can see, I've incorporated quite a few of them.)
Weird and wonderful - the year's top ten
Weird and wonderful - the year's top ten
01/06/2005 09:48 PMManchester Online Jan 7 2005 1:48AM GMT
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