There are only four things that people do on the web
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""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 AMLittle 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 11:14 PMThings 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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People 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...
Why Smart People Believe Weird Things
Why Smart People Believe Weird Things
06/21/2004 08:54 AM
On Cognitive Dissonance
"As a behavioral psychologist, I have studied people's
reactions to contradiction and inconsistency. We are capable of
convincing ourselves of something, and the more evidence that builds
up to contradict us the more we believe it.
For more than 40 years, social psychologists have studied the
phenomenon of "cognitive dissonance" - what happens when
people have pieces of information on the same subject that are
inconsistent. The presence of contradictions is psychologically
unpleasant, and people do whatever it takes to resolve the
inconsistency."
Many in the field posit that tension between contradictory thoughts
and feelings are what constitutes consciousness. It doesn't seem to
me this qualifies as it appears to be highly dysfunctional and not a
natural and normal tension. What say you who are more qualified?
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.
"
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 AMKeeping 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)
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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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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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.
"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 PMThere 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]
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
monochrom.at/markenzeichnen/index-eng.htm
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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!)
""We're saving more people than should
be saved, probably," Lt. Col. Robert
Carroll said. "We're saving severely
injured people. Legs. Eyes. Part of the
brain.""
""We're saving more people than should
be saved, probably," Lt. Col. Robert
Carroll said. "We're saving severely
injured people. Legs. Eyes. Part of the
brain.""
04/29/2004 03:19 AM[etech] People-to-People (Microsoft)
[etech] People-to-People (Microsoft)
02/11/2004 09:36 PM Lily Cheng from Microsoft Research is talking about how people
represent themselves on line. The closer the friends, the fuzzier they
want the representations. We need to make social tools fluid enough to
account for the way people's lives change. We need easy access to
friends and people important to us. We want sponatenous interactions.
Lily's group went to a mall and asked people to draw their social
interactions, and gots lots of circles and lines. Microsoft studied
this and built a "personal map" that clusters people based on who they
send email to (TO and CC) and how...
"You thought these people were saying
that the fight against Iraq was part of
the fight against the people that
attacked us on 9/11? Psych!"
"You thought these people were saying
that the fight against Iraq was part of
the fight against the people that
attacked us on 9/11? Psych!"
06/19/2004 04:26 PMPeople hurting other people for fun.
People hurting other people for fun.
08/06/2004 04:54 PM
Is phonebooking illegal?
No. Well...yes. Assault is assault. Just don't get caught.
Guns don't kill people, bongs kill
people
Guns don't kill people, bongs kill
people
12/18/2003 01:01 AM Tommy
Chong in prison. 3 months into his 9 month prison sentence for
selling bongs, the LA City Beat talks to Tommy Chong and the LA Weekly
talks
with his family about the details of his case. [Via
Drug WarRant.]
"43 things"
"43 things"
01/03/2005 05:15 PMThings to do...
Things to do...
02/10/2004 02:46 AM
Font for post-its remains Coates.ttf
as made with Fontifier.
Read the comments
Getting Things Done with Your Mac
Getting Things Done with Your Mac
03/14/2005 05:33 PMMacDevCenter.com: “Being a smug Mac user is one thing,
but even the smuggest of us (including me) have problems staying
organized.”
39 things I should do
39 things I should do
06/05/2005 11:56 PMIf you're into food, and wondering, "what the heck should I do
next?" check out the [UK] Observer's list, The top 50
things every foodie should do.
To celebrate OFM's fiftieth edition, we asked some of
our favourite bon viveurs what they considered most essential to do
before they died.
Amazingly, I've already done ten of the items they've listed! Is
that because I'm a "bon viveur"? Maybe a little, but also I've liked
cooking and food for a very long time. Of what they've recommended,
I've already completed the following:
3) Dismember a chicken
I learned this last summer when I was working at a restaurant. Our
chef said everyone needed to know how to break down a chicken. Now I
do. I haven't done it since.
6) Dine at the French Laundry
May 2002. I can't imagine you're reading my site and haven't read my
review, but if that's the case get thee to It's All About Finesse immediately! Now start saving your
dollar a day!
18) Shuck an oyster
I first learned this in 1994 on Cape Cod, where indeed just as they
recommend, I enjoyed 'wild native oysters, from a forgotten oyster
bed'. I last shucked two dozen for my family at Christmas.
20) Wolf down a hotdog on Coney Island
July 4, 2003. I ate one. Japanese super-eating legend Takeru Kobayashi
ate 44 1/2 in twelve minutes. A photo of Kobayashi in action!
24) Be cooked for by a legend
(See #6)
32) Shop till you drop [at La Boqueria in
Barcelona]
When I visited Barcelona in October, 2003 I spent many hours exploring
this amazing market, though I never bought anything because I was
staying in a hotel and had nowhere to cook.
33) Catch your own dinner
They recommend deep-sea fishing for tuna in Barbados. I went fishing
for bluefish off Nantucket in August, 2003 and cooked up the riches
for dinner with my family. Bluefish is my favorite, and I think one of
the best meals you can eat (but only if you're in the northeast of the
United States in July or August) is bluefish baked with breadcrumbs,
butter, and lemon; steamed sweet corn, with butter and salt; and
boiled red potatoes. If you don't have strawberry shortcake for
dessert, with real whipped cream and homemade shortcake, you haven't
gone all out.
39) Visit Pierre Gagnaire in Paris
I did this in June 2003. For some reason, I never wrote about it.
Drat, I wish I had.
40) Bake a loaf of bread
I can't even remember the first time I baked a loaf of bread, but it
must have been around 1986. I started my culinary adventures in the
baking arena (cakes and sweets) before moving into the savory world of
cooking. Of course, the Guardian says, "If your loaf is a true San
Francisco-style sourdough then all the better." And I say, "No!" Yuck.
I don't like sourdough. I had enough "San Francisco-style sourdough"
when I lived in San Francisco to last my whole life.
47) Kill a pig
The last on the list, I did this over the 4th of July weekend, 1994.
Some folks I knew in college had a little tradition of doing this. At
a farm in New Hampshire, we (by which I mean a friend named Danny)
killed the pig and bled it. Then we all took part in gutting and
skinning it (writing now, it sounds more "Lord of the Flies" than it
was). We roasted it in a pit for a very long time, and the result was
the best thing I'd ever tasted. I had never liked pork before that,
and I didn't for a very long time after. But everything we ate that
day was incredible.
They also recommend that you:
9) Pick your own [mushrooms]
But I've never done this. I had a class in college called Plants and Humanity and we
learned from our biology professor never to pick mushrooms in the
wild. He said it was too dangerous, even with books and training,
because the possibility of making a mistake was too great. I learned a
lot from Prof. Ellmore, and to this day I
still recall much of what he taught, so I'm going to trust my gut and
skip the picking of wild mushrooms. The 39 remaining items could
easily take the rest of my life as it is, I don't want to end it
prematurely by eating a Death Cap!
Five Things I Know About Me
Five Things I Know About Me
07/13/2004 02:12 PMCollect them all!
Oh, the Things They'll Know
Oh, the Things They'll Know
04/11/2005 11:32 PMBrent was playing outside with his friends after dinner tonight.
When he came inside, he plopped down on the couch next to me and
watched me respond to some email. After a few minutes, he said,
“Can I talk to one of your friends?” I said, “You
mean you want to chat with one of them online? Sure.”
So
we opened up Trillian and found
Karen was online.
Even though I know she’s terribly busy, she was kind enough to
chat with Brent for a few minutes. I told him she had been in the
military, so he asked a couple of questions about that. She most
graciously responded. As I watched their conversation, I noticed Brent
using IM language that I didn’t even know he knew. In fact, when
he threw “nvm” out there, both Karen and I were stumped.
(Turns out it stands for “never mind.”) Then he threw in
ppl, kewl, and cya at various points. Astounded (remember, he’s
only nine-years old and he hasn’t gotten into IM yet), I asked
him where he was learning all of this. Guess where?
Yep –
Runescape.
One of the
big motivations for Brent learning to read has always been video
games. He played Playstation before he could read, and when I used to
tell him it was time to shut down, he’d pull up the options
screen and ask how to save his game. My response was always,
“You tell me. Find the one that says ‘save.’”
Runescape has helped him learn to read faster, because the text others
type can scroll by pretty quickly.
So now he’s learned to
read (certainly faster), learned to type (certainly faster), and now
he’s learning IM slang, all thanks to Runescape. Interesting
literacy lessons there.
Of course, I wonder what else he’s
learning….
"26 Things"
"26 Things"
11/02/2003 09:45 PMThe Two Things
The Two Things
06/12/2004 04:45 AMThe Two Things: People love to play the Two Things game, but they
rarely agree about what the Two Things are .. Glen Whitman's Two
Things .. has put up a
webpage
csun.edu/~dgw61315/thetwothings.html
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"ten things"
"ten things"
11/14/2003 03:32 AMAll things come to an end.........
All things come to an end.........
11/13/2003 05:20 PMThe journey of my jacket is quickly coming to an end. Can you guess
who the last person in the...
Things that shouldn't need to be said
Things that shouldn't need to be said
02/10/2004 02:49 AM
But sometimes arguments cross a line beyond which everybody gets hurt,
including the Net. I see that happening here. Even though I'm no
technologist, it's clear to me that the Net has been improved,
radically and fundamentally, by RSS and other standards like it (even
if they come, as Mark claims RSS does, in 9 incompatible versions).
[Doc Searls]
Must we
still, at this late date, reiterate and underscore
Doc's point? Apparently, we must. Sigh.
...The little things
The little things
11/12/2003 08:00 PMWe put together a bookmarklet today that allows our editing staff
to jump instantly from looking at a story on one of our web sites to the
interface for editing it within our current content management system.
It took about 5 minutes development time, plus an extra 15 minutes
spent showing it to people, setting it up on machines and
demonstrating how it works. It's hard to over state how well this new
shortcut was received by the people who spend hours every day using
the system. For end users, a little feature can sometimes go a very
long way.
Getting Things Done?
Getting Things Done?
07/17/2004 01:15 AM"wish you hadn't said certain things"
"wish you hadn't said certain things"
06/15/2004 12:12 AMGrok Description matches for There are only four things that people do on the web
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