Brilliant, yet simple at the same time

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Simple but brilliant bag sealer

Simple but brilliant bag sealer 04/21/2004 12:47 PM
New patented Clip-n-Seal uses a plastic rod and clamp to seal a plastic bag. Invented by a dotcom burnout. Here's a profile of him. Link (Via idfuel)

Got the Time? At Grand Central, It Has
Never Been That Simple

Got the Time? At Grand Central, It Has
Never Been That Simple 07/05/2004 09:09 PM
For years, Grand Central Terminal's clocks have maddened riders. Soon, however, a new system will synchronize every second of every day with the Boulder atomic clock.

Round Up: Simple, fun and here in time
for Christmas

Round Up: Simple, fun and here in time
for Christmas 12/04/2003 02:26 PM
newmediazero Dec 4 2003 12:42PM ET

VIP Simple To Do List v1.5 Enhances Time
Management on Windows

VIP Simple To Do List v1.5 Enhances Time
Management on Windows 03/22/2005 03:38 PM
VIP Simple To Do List is a fast and convenient tool for household, students, teachers, and everyone who wants to bring order to the chaos of their everyday tasks. It will help you to quickly and easily organize your tasks, the shopping list, home cleaning plan, the list of things to do for a holiday or a picnic, into a prioritized to-do list, as well as to print or publish it in a form convenient for you. You can read more information and download Free Trial version at: http://www.vip-qualitysoft.com/ [PRWEB Mar 21, 2005]

Good time waster: simple sliding tile
puzzle

Good time waster: simple sliding tile
puzzle 04/09/2004 04:04 PM
My dad sent me the url to this java-based slider tile puzzle, and it has killed half my work day so far. He solved it in 48 moves. I guess 44 is the minimum. I can't solve it! If everyone who reads Boing Boing spends ten minutes on it, it will result in 312.5 man-days of wasted time! (It didn't work in Safari for me; I had to use IE) Link

Brilliant!

Brilliant! 08/18/2004 12:58 PM

I was at a Petco the other day buying some cat litter and before the cashier took my $20 bill, she said "your total is $17.86, would you like to donate the 14 cents change to the county humane society?" I not only said yes, but emphatically so. I hate carrying around change (especially pointless amounts like 14 cents), I like animals and donating to good causes, but I'm also incredibly lazy, so it was the best idea I've ever heard. It was as if a group was assembled to figure out how to make my day better while also helping out a charity that features cute puppies and kittens, and they came up with this.

I wouldn't be surprised if more specialty stores do it, and I wouldn't be surprised if I willingly give away more change in the future this way.

Brilliant.

Brilliant. 03/29/2005 02:17 PM
Clocky. An MIT student has designed an alarm clock with built-in wheels and motion sensors. Upon hitting the snooze button, Clocky will roll of your nighttable, bump around your room, and hide, forcing you to have to get up and look for him instead of hitting the button again.

brilliant

brilliant 06/17/2005 04:20 PM
A hilarious video clip advertising a pride event in Oslo. Possibly NSFW.

"another bit of brilliant bleatage"

"another bit of brilliant bleatage" 06/06/2004 03:13 AM

Sounds brilliant

Sounds brilliant 04/29/2004 03:11 AM
USA Today Apr 29 2004 7:24AM GMT

"Mickey Kaus' brilliant "

"Mickey Kaus' brilliant " 06/19/2004 02:50 AM

Ken Camp has a Brilliant Post

Ken Camp has a Brilliant Post 11/15/2003 12:09 PM

...without billing, it's just a hobby

Ken Camp has a brilliant post this morning that I recommned to all four of my readers!  Thanks for the reinforcement and the insights Ken.  I need that kind of poetic and yet common sense grounding.  here's a sample of Ken's work and wisdom...

Like my friends, I've felt change coming for a while. Felt it like small animals feel an earthquake before humans notice the tremblor. Felt it like deer sense flames racing through the underbrush. Felt it like a field mouse feels the shadow of a diving hawk before the talons clutch tight.

A fucking brilliant cover

A fucking brilliant cover 12/10/2003 12:06 AM
I've been keen on book design lately, especially the covers. I love looking at all the new arrivals at the bookstore and have been following...

PopSci announces its Brilliant 10

PopSci announces its Brilliant 10 09/16/2004 04:54 PM
read the list so you can feel inferior and unsuccessful!

Brilliant marketing in a good cause

Brilliant marketing in a good cause 06/05/2005 11:33 PM
Grocery Store Wars, the flash movie brought to you by the same people who did the Meatrix. Brilliant and fun. Hat Tip to Michael Stein...

Playlist: Brilliant Playlists

Playlist: Brilliant Playlists 02/05/2005 09:19 PM
As our music libraries swell to gargantuan proportions it can become increasingly difficult to manage the music we listen to (or would like to listen to if we could just find half the tunes we possess). Thankfully iTunes offers a leg up with Smart Playlists -- a tool for automatically creating playlists that contain exactly the kind of music you want in iTunes and on your iPod.

"this brilliant offering on Craigslist"

"this brilliant offering on Craigslist" 03/26/2005 05:08 AM

Colour number 10 is brilliant

Colour number 10 is brilliant 11/15/2003 08:59 PM
Photos by Matt Stuart - the weird and wonderful around London.

A Brilliant Sky, and Muted Security

A Brilliant Sky, and Muted Security 07/04/2004 11:44 PM
America found expression across the New York area on a sunny Fourth of July filled with ceremony, celebration, security and old-fashioned fun.

pure dead brilliant

pure dead brilliant 12/13/2003 02:35 AM
pure dead brilliant. Not as good as Edinburgh , probably more horrendous than goatse , my fellow metafilterians , i give you - Glasgow.

Segways are brilliant, you idiots

Segways are brilliant, you idiots 07/30/2004 11:50 AM
Letters Whatever you say...

Brilliant Bekele takes gold

Brilliant Bekele takes gold 08/20/2004 09:33 PM
Kenenisa Bekele wins a classic 10,000m encounter with the great Haile Gebrselassie back in fifth in his track farewell.

Brillian Hoping for Brilliant Future

Brillian Hoping for Brilliant Future 04/19/2004 09:38 AM
The HDTV company's shares got a big bump last week on the promise of new revenues.

the (c) office asks a brilliant question

the (c) office asks a brilliant question 02/01/2005 10:04 PM
As is old news (but everything on the Lessig Blog is old news), the Copyright Office has asked for comments on whether a solution is needed to deal with "orphan works" -- works still under copyright but whose owner cannot be identified. This, as PublicKnowledge notes, fantastic news. For many years, many have been trying to refocus this debate on copyright from the binary questions that p2p sharing seems to raise ("seems to") to the more pragmatic and fundamental questions that this insanely inefficient and bizarrely complex system of speech regulation called copyright raises. When Congress shifted our system of copyright from an "opt-in" to an "opt-out" regime, it transformed copyright from a system that automatically narrowed its protection (and hence regulation) to those works that had some continuing need for copyright protection, to a system that totally indiscriminately spreads copyright to every creative work reduced to a tangible form -- automatically, and for the full term of copyright. This issue is the focus of our challenge in Kahle v. Ashcroft. It is something I've been whining about in every publication that will have me (see, e.g., this op-ed in the LA Times). But this is an issue that I've only become aware of because of the writings and emails from many who visit this space. And it is time for you to speak to government. No one who read the emails that I've collected could think that this was not a problem. But the copyright office doesn't accept email inboxes. It reads submissions only. The requirements are simple. Submission is free. We'll be organizing as many submissions as we can at eldred.cc. But please help spread the word: The Copyright Office needs to hear about every example of where the existing system is stifling the cultivation and spread of our culture. Not because Congress extends the term of copyright for Mickey Mouse. That battle is over. But because the way in which it protects Mickey Mouse blocks access to the balance of our copyrighted culture - for no good copyright, or free speech, related reason. This point is clear to many. You need to make it clear to the government.

Holmes takes brilliant gold

Holmes takes brilliant gold 08/23/2004 02:04 PM
Britain's Kelly Holmes storms to a sensational Olympic 800m gold in Athens.

One year after Bray's brilliant tactic

One year after Bray's brilliant tactic 07/07/2004 02:24 PM

Paul Boutin notes, as I did, that MSN readers are uniformly polite and informative. Then I read a brief post from Tim Bray, who has been the opposite to me in the past, and he says he's seen the growth that is going on today in the weblog world, in the Web, ten years ago. This reminds me that Tim compared my contribution to that of Charles Goldfarb, the inventor of SGML, in a totally condescending post last year, and ignited a flamewar, and that's been his major contribution to this space, as far as I'm concerned.

I tried to explain to Tim then (not that he was listening of course) that RSS was just part of the picture, and to see it only as an XML format was to miss the point, that there were applications on both sides of RSS, content management software and aggregators, and lots of people, that made it really work. To think you could swap out the format was as silly as thinking you could swap out HTML or HTTP in 1994. Yet that is exactly what Tim and his colleagues tried to do. If instead there were a pause for thought, just a tiny bit of respect to balance the bluster, he could have saved a bunch of time and effort. He still could.

Steve Gillmor tagged Bray then as a master tactician, I guess so, but at least a little strategy should be behind every tactic. It's still not too late to get back on course Tim, I'll accept your retraction when you make it, but so far, that hasn't happened.

Like so many others, you came to conquer, and fa iled. Now what?

Ian McDonald's brilliant new novel,
River of Gods: Bollywoodpunk

Ian McDonald's brilliant new novel,
River of Gods: Bollywoodpunk 06/12/2004 05:23 PM
I just finished reading Ian McDonald's latest novel, "River of Gods," and my mind is whirling. River is the story of India's 100th birthday, when the great nation has fractured into warring subnations on caste, religious and cultural lines. Like McDonald's other great novels, the story is beyond epic, with an enormous cast of richly realised characters and a vivid, luminous vision of techno-Hinduism that beggars the imagination. Take, for example, Town and Country, a soap-opera acted out by AIs (or "aeais") who lead double-lives -- each AI character has another role, as the actor who plays the character, in a "meta-soap" where their squabbling, indiscretions and marriages are tabloid fodder for the soapi magazines that dote upon them.

This is just one of dozens of conceits in a novel that combines the best themes from books like Out on Blue Six and Desolation Road, handles them with the masterful hand visible in Scissors Cut Paper Wrap Stone and the Sturgeon-award-winning Tendeleo's Story, and folds in all the contemporary themes in sf like the Singularity and the cratering of cyberpunk memes and spits out a 575-page epic that I couldn't put down until I'd finished it.

Ian McDonald has been one of my favourite writers for some 15 years now, and the amazing thing is, he's getting even better. Link

Mossberg: BMW iPod solution brilliant
but crude

Mossberg: BMW iPod solution brilliant
but crude 08/05/2004 12:24 PM
The Wall Street Journal's resident technology columnist Walter S. Mossberg calls Apple and BMW's iPod integration "a brilliant concept," but calls the current implementation "crude." His remarks appear in a new Personal Technology column.

"Brilliant Krugman Column: George W.
Queeg 3/14"

"Brilliant Krugman Column: George W.
Queeg 3/14" 03/14/2003 03:47 PM

MP unleashes brilliant anti-spam plan

MP unleashes brilliant anti-spam plan 10/29/2003 01:36 PM
Citizens can sleep sounder in their beds

Brilliant Krugman Column: George W.
Queeg 3/14

Brilliant Krugman Column: George W.
Queeg 3/14 03/14/2003 12:58 PM
Paul Krugman in the New York Times .. Register at NYTimes.com .. my hero:

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"he has a brilliant piece in the Wall
Street Journal doing exactly that"

"he has a brilliant piece in the Wall
Street Journal doing exactly that" 05/15/2004 08:41 AM

"another brilliant analysis of the
significance of the torture memo"

"another brilliant analysis of the
significance of the torture memo" 06/11/2004 03:17 AM

CBC radio's brilliant science show as
MP3s

CBC radio's brilliant science show as
MP3s 04/05/2005 04:48 PM
Cory Doctorow: Every Saturday morning for as long as I can remember, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has aired a brilliant science show called Quirks and Quarks, currently hosted by the erudite and fascinating Bob McDonald. Listening to these shows growing up is partially what's responsible for my interest in technology and science today. Since moving away from Canada, I've really missed my Quirks and Quarks -- so imagine my delight at discovering that the CBC is now making every episode available as a downloading MP3! Link (Thanks, JohnD!)

Reflex: brilliant, page-turning sequel
to Jumper

Reflex: brilliant, page-turning sequel
to Jumper 03/23/2005 01:19 PM
Cory Doctorow: Steven Gould's Jumper was one of the great sf novels of the 1990s -- one of those rare books that can be read either as a young adult novel or a book for adults; like Ender's Game or vintage Heinlein.

The story concerns Davy Rice, a young man from a flyover state who is about to receive a beating from his alcoholic father when he flinches away and discovers that he can teleport. The story is a really thorough working-over of all the ins and outs of what being a teleport would really mean, as Davy goes from picked-on kid to terrorist-fighter who's being chased by the NSA.

Gould is a master of many things, but first and foremost, he's the king of pacing. I've read Jumper half a dozen times, each time after the first only intending to find a beloved passage and getting sucked into reading the book from cover to cover.

Now there's a sequel to Jumper, called Reflex, and last night I ended up burning about two hours' worth of jealously hoarded sleep-time to finish this thing.

Like Jumper, Reflex is a snappy, cracking yarn that you will bee hard-pressed to put down. Like Jumper, it is a thoroughgoing exploration of the implications of teleportation, and like Jumper, it is a relatively subtle and interesting investigation into the nature of terrorism, anti-terrorism, power and atrocity.

Reflex concerns itself mostly with the travails of Millie, Davy's girlfriend from Jumper, now his wife of ten years. She's as strong and likable a female character as Davy is a male hero, making this a perfect bookend to book one.

This kind of book doesn't come along all that often, and when it does, it's cause for celebration -- run, don't walk. Link

$249 For Apple's New 'iPod mini' Is
Brilliant Pricing Strategy

$249 For Apple's New 'iPod mini' Is
Brilliant Pricing Strategy 01/07/2004 06:15 PM
By Steve Jack (MacDailyNews via MyAppleMenu)

Humanitarian effort yields brilliant
technology, teamwork

Humanitarian effort yields brilliant
technology, teamwork 07/25/2004 07:50 AM
SiliconValley.com Jul 25 2004 10:36AM GMT

FC Now: The Office: Brilliant Satire or
Tired Facsimile? Discuss.

FC Now: The Office: Brilliant Satire or
Tired Facsimile? Discuss. 03/25/2005 06:57 AM
As promised, I watched the premiere of The Office on NBC tonight. (Remember that I am coming into this with only word of the legend of the BBC version; I have not seen the series on which this American rendition...

Rico the collie borders on brilliant,
scientists say (USATODAY.com)

Rico the collie borders on brilliant,
scientists say (USATODAY.com) 06/11/2004 06:44 AM
USATODAY.com - Man's best friend might be even smarter than we thought - at least judging by one clever border collie, scientists say.
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