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Tipping point reaches tipping point

Tipping point reaches tipping point 06/17/2005 04:25 PM
USA Today's front-page headline today: Poll: U.S. wants troops homeAmericans reach 'a tipping point' So now a tipping point is any change. Thus has the term reached the pinnacle of success: It's become utterly meaningless....

This to That - Insanely Genius

This to That - Insanely Genius 06/03/2004 03:44 AM
“We are here to help you choose the right glue for your bonding requirements. We are committed to keeping current with the adhesive market, but we don’t claim to know everything about every glue on the market. We recommend the glues that we have found work best for us. We do know one thing for sure: there is no such thing as the All Purpose glue. Every glue has its pros and cons. The secret to a successful bonding challenge is to consider the following glue philosophy…”

The insanely great MacBand

The insanely great MacBand 02/10/2004 02:41 AM

Last month, Apple released Garageband at MacWorld, letting any budding musician create music from its suite of sophisticated but simple audio tools. Given the potential for thousands of musicians recording new songs at home, we knew it was a great fit for Creative Commons and we're very happy to see a new community has sprung up around the software, at MacBand. They've just launched but have a system setup to categorize dozens of song styles and loops, with every song available under a Creative Commons license, letting you make remixes and new songs from others work. Garageband has the great potential to become a collaborative music tool and MacBand looks like a great way to facilitate that.

Insanely Destructive Devices

Insanely Destructive Devices 04/09/2004 03:57 PM
Defending against an attack of self-replicating weapons of mass destruction is probably impossible, so reducing the incentive to attack becomes paramount. By Lawrence Lessig from Wired magazine.

Help! I'm insanely jealous and full of
contempt

Help! I'm insanely jealous and full of
contempt 06/17/2005 03:33 PM
People who don't think things through but get what they want anyway are driving me insane.

Insanely great pumpkin carvings

Insanely great pumpkin carvings 11/01/2003 06:24 AM
The pumpkin gutter

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Twenty Years Of Insanely Great Macs

Twenty Years Of Insanely Great Macs 01/22/2004 02:09 AM
It seems like only yesterday: One commercial runs during the 1984 Super Bowl, and a new personal computer is born... not to mention a legend. By Gene Steinberg (USA Today via MyAppleMenu)

Benjamin-Popular.com –
http://benjamin-popular.com/ announced
Grand Opening the Computers and
Electronics store.

Benjamin-Popular.com –
http://benjamin-popular.com/ announced
Grand Opening the Computers and
Electronics store. 09/11/2004 03:37 AM
Benjamin-Popular.com – http://benjamin-popular.com/ announced Grand Opening the Computers and Electronics store. Benjamin Popular has thousands of computers and electronic entertainment which fit your need and budget. [PRWEB Sep 11, 2004]

The Insanely Great Story Of How The Mac
Was Made -- An Interview With Andy
Hertzfeld

The Insanely Great Story Of How The Mac
Was Made -- An Interview With Andy
Hertzfeld 01/04/2005 08:20 PM

Right away I knew Andy was my Apple historian of choice, at least for this slice of technology history. Now thanks to the release of his book, I have an excuse to correspond with him directly and ask him some of the questions I've had about the phenomenon we call the personal computing revolution. By Derrick Story, O'Reilly Network

Krystal Restaurants Get Wi-Fi

Krystal Restaurants Get Wi-Fi 06/01/2004 03:25 PM
Free Wi-Fi in about 10 percent of Krystal's restaurants by the end of June: This is a regional chain with 425 locations; 50 will have Wi-Fi this month, available for free. They'll filter content to avoid objectionable images showing up in a family environment -- just as Schlotzsky's does with their service -- but it's otherwise wide open. The restaurants are located throughout the south. Early locations include Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Kentucky, Alabama, Tennessee, and one in Texas. [link via Jim Sullivan]...

Five restaurants in Paris

Five restaurants in Paris 01/22/2004 02:19 PM

The NY Times had an article the other day about Comfort Food at Comforting Prices in Paris. While all five spots sound delicious, I'm especially tempted by Le Petit Pontoise if only because it's located on rue de Pontoise, the location of my mother's first apartment, rented for her 1996 sabbatical.

[O]n a recent visit, there was a wood crate filled with freshly gathered girolle mushrooms. It's the season, and the mushrooms were too tempting not to order. Quickly sautéed so that they remained juicy and slightly chewy, they were perfectly accented with garlic and parsley.

I'm really longing for a trip to Paris, it's been just long enough (seven months) that I'm missing it very much, especially since my favorite mittens from La Samaritaine got a hole in the thumb! I mean, I could replace my mittens here in NYC, but somehow French mittens seem superior, certainly these ones are, except for their hole.

Why do restaurants have menus?

Why do restaurants have menus? 06/06/2004 09:39 AM

Just back from seeing the movie "Super-size Me" and it occurred to me that, in an age of limitedless wealth, cheap food, and universal private automobiles, nutrition is best not left to amateurs (i.e., us).  Consider the process of going to a restaurant.  You, a completely ignorant and probably somewhat fat person, walk in and they hand you a long menu of potential dishes.  For each dish the menu lists a tiny fraction of the ingredients but does not fully disclose sauces or overall calories.  Even if the content of each item were fully disclosed it wouldn't do most of us much good because most of us don't know how many calories are appropriate.  Finally there is the problem that everyone gets the same quantity of food.  If you're a 5'-tall woman and order "Chicken surprise" you get the same quantity of food as a 6'-tall man who orders the same dish.

Here's an idea for a restaurant...  You walk in and give them the following information:  (1) height, (2) weight, and (3) whether or not you have exercised today.  They come back to you with a few choices, e.g., "fish, chicken, steak, or vegetarian?"  You choose one of those and finally an appropriately-sized quantity of food shows up on your table.  This is, I think, how the $1000/day fat farms operate.  But in an age of computerization it doesn't seem as though it would cost a standard restaurant anything more to operate this way.

Thoughts?

[P.S.I went through a 3-month period in which I ate almost every meal at McDonalds.  This was in 1993 while driving to Alaska and back (see Travels with Samantha).  I was a graduate student and the 59-cent hamburgers, 99-cent chicken fajitas, and drive-thrus were hard to resist.  I was about 30 years old and a tiny bit pudgy when I started the trip.  I probably lost at least 5 lbs. during that period.  I didn't order fries or regular (sugar) Coke and I was riding my bike every few days.]

Some Wis. Restaurants Rationing Napkins
(AP)

Some Wis. Restaurants Rationing Napkins
(AP) 05/17/2004 01:35 PM
AP - Fierce competition for fast-food dollars has some restaurants taking an extraordinary measure to cut the bottom line — napkin rationing.

McDonald's Restaurants Down Under Unwire

McDonald's Restaurants Down Under Unwire 02/19/2004 12:43 PM
Telstra said last year that it would build hotspots in McDonald's restaurants and now Wi-Fi is available in 44 restaurants in Australia: Telstra plans to build hotspots in as many as 500 McDonald's over the next 12 to 18 months. McDonald's has been really aggressive in building out Wi-Fi globally, but has yet to make a decision on a single provider in the United States as the company indicated it would....

Tipping

Tipping 04/10/2005 09:48 PM
The professor of tipping with tips (pdf) on the age old art of tipping(pdf)

Tipping the Red Hat

Tipping the Red Hat 03/13/2003 11:27 AM
Red Hat delivers new products, gives rosy subscription forecast.

Sushi restaurants as economic indicators

Sushi restaurants as economic indicators 04/23/2004 10:43 AM
Tyler Cowen, economist and co-proprietor of the excellent Marginal Revolution, recently gave a talk to the International Association of Culinary Professionals and offered some food-related investment advice: If sushi restaurants are new to a country, and are succeeding, buy shares in the stocks of that country. Raw fish, of course, can be toxic. Quality can be hard to monitor with the naked eye. Sushi consumption is a sign that people...

effective bribing at nice restaurants

effective bribing at nice restaurants 04/09/2004 04:06 PM
the story's a few years old, but i bet that money still talks

A tipping point

A tipping point 04/09/2005 08:45 PM

The notion of on-demand news has always been at the base of the blogosphere.

But before the blogosphere there was Interactive TV - and the base of that (besides the hype of on-demand movies) was on-demand news. TV news.

But it didn't surprise me that in the late 90's anyone brave enough to go and try and offer on-demand News - was gonna charge for it. We were working (at the time) on some new tools that combined TV broadcasting and web portals - so I was tracking this sort of stuff.

S o the word is out that CNN has decided to abandon their 'walled garden' and (heaven forbid) make their news on-demand service free. I wonder how much stuff it really is?

I wonder if they'll go and just put EVERYTHING up? I wonder if Fox and MSNBC will follow? Still more - I WONDER WHAT FORMAT THEIR META-DATA will take?

Don't you?

Don't you wish they'd have tagging, RSS, a giant taxonomy of all things, the most amazing set of APIs and namespaces - that brings to us what NewsML promised?

God wouldn't life be great - then. Maybe they're watching the BBC and saying "hhhmmmmmmmm".

But at least we'll get SOME of that news - huh? Now I just wonder if there's any meta-data in it - at all - or is it just another version of podcasting - but this time from a major media entity.

Afterall - who would have thought that a major grass roots media revolution would be launched on a standard that didn't even say "what's inside it, who's in it and when and where was it made?"

Oh - well maybe next time. Or maybe CNN will get it right. Afterall - they are professionals.

The Tipping Point

The Tipping Point 10/28/2003 11:06 PM
In every band I've been in there's been a point where in addition to being a particpant, I've become a fan. After listening to the recording of our rehearsal for tonight's show at Slim's, I've turned the corner. I want...

Home Is Where The WiFi Is (And In Some
Fast Food Restaurants)

Home Is Where The WiFi Is (And In Some
Fast Food Restaurants) 01/07/2004 06:35 PM
A new study shows that more and more homes are likely to get WiFi connections. This seems like one of the more obvious predictions around, but it's still interesting to look at the numbers. The study points out that there are currently about 100 million broadband connections to the home worldwide - and only 5 million home users have WiFi. However, with the technology getting cheaper every day, and the clear benefit of having a wireless network in the home, it's likely to grow pretty rapidly (and, of course, that 100 million number isn't static either). This leads to two thoughts: (1) we still need to make setting up a WiFi network easier. Early adopters will mess around with finicky access points, but most users won't. It really needs to be plug and play. (2) Once more homes get WiFi, expect the unexpected in how they're used. Just like businesses are discovering - once that wireless network is there, there's no reason not to use it for other purposes as well. More devices are going to come with WiFi, and if they can just hop on an existing network, people are going to come up with all sorts of creative uses. Meanwhile, McDonald's continues their "we'll test a different location every few months" rollout of WiFi, as they've agreed to WiFi up over 500 restaurants in the UK. It looks like they're just teaming up with BT to be a part of BT's Openzone WiFi offering. That doesn't seem like the best choice, since already there are (reasonable) complaints that Openzone's pricing is way too high for what people get. In early tests in the US McDonald's was using a very smart pricing plan (buy a meal, get an hour of free service). It's unclear why they're not going with a similar plan in the UK. By offering up service with a meal, the internet access becomes a promotion to get more people into the restaurant. By charging insanely high fees for it, it doesn't bring in too many extra people, and certainly won't bring in much money.

Los Angeles bars & restaurants of the
40's & 50's

Los Angeles bars & restaurants of the
40's & 50's 04/15/2005 03:11 PM
Los Angeles bars & restaurants of the 40's & 50's

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Restaurants Closed for Opium Soup, Stews
(AP)

Restaurants Closed for Opium Soup, Stews
(AP) 06/17/2004 10:37 PM
AP - The soup wasn't just good. It was downright addictive. Narcotics police in southwestern China shuttered 215 restaurants found to be mixing opium poppy into their soups and hot pot stews, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Friday.

Skype tipping point?

Skype tipping point? 04/07/2005 07:50 AM

James Enck: "[M]ore than 1% of the world's broadband population is running Skype at any given time."

Sounds like a killer app to me.

10 Years To Tipping Point?

10 Years To Tipping Point? 02/01/2005 09:18 PM
The International Climate Change Taskforce has produced a report that argues governments must take decisive action if irreversible climate change is to be avoided.

Tipping the scale on scaling

Tipping the scale on scaling 07/03/2004 01:20 PM
PHP vs. Java: the war continues, this time in terms of which language scales best. Of course, most of the people who make this distinction don’t even know what scaling means—or, at least, don’t agree on the meaning of the terms. My perspective is that George, of all, got ...

Keep tipping those bottles, it still
works

Keep tipping those bottles, it still
works 02/05/2005 09:07 PM
About this time last year, MacMerc worked its way into the soft drink hall of fame... Or Pepsi's hit list, but I really prefer to think of it as the hall of fame. Anyway, we let the world know that instead of buying just any iTunes Pepsi (and hoping for a winning bottle), a simple twist of the wrist and a watchful eye could reveal if a bottle had music in its future. We received many media accolades over the piece, but also buckets of hate mail, which just goes to show how seriously some people take this stuff. So why am I using this space to tell you a year old story? The trick works for the new contest.

I was able to find some of the bottles for the new contest today and I'm happy to report that tipping the bottles still works. It appears a little more difficult (though I could just be imagining this, I would need to secure a bottle of year old suds to confirm), but it is indeed possible. Most caps have a little interior ridge, though I don't see how this obscures the view. Overall it seems the caps are shorter. But again, this could be complete poppycock.

You can find photos of both winning and losing caps on Flickr.

Still need the trick? You can check out our original report for full directions and a lengthy commentary--no need to try to piece it together from poor copy cats.

Gore: The tipping point

Gore: The tipping point 12/08/2003 05:57 PM
Gore's endorsement of Dean tomorrow should be the Tipper, um, Tipping Point. I believe Dean now will win Iowa and will be unstoppable, short of a major gaffe or scandal, of course. Please keep in mind that I have never once been right about anything in politics....

The Broadband Tipping Point

The Broadband Tipping Point 04/19/2004 04:27 PM
Internet News Apr 19 2004 7:50PM GMT

The Tipping Point in VoIP

The Tipping Point in VoIP 01/07/2004 02:32 PM

From Jeff Pulver:

"the fact remains that this week, the week of December 8th may in fact be the most memorable week for the VoIP industry, ever, and this month, December, 2003 will be known in our history as the month that consumer VoIP happened in the USA"

Mad cows: No tipping allowed

Mad cows: No tipping allowed 01/18/2004 08:17 PM
During a Google search on the Web - where there is an endless amount of misinformation about cow-tipping - I came across a real sermon titled "Cow Tipping" by ...

What's the Presidential Tipping Point?

What's the Presidential Tipping Point? 07/24/2004 09:18 AM
The question that voters seem to be wrestling with now is not whether President Bush is a legitimate president but whether he is a trustworthy one.

Marginal Revolution: What do we know
about tipping?

Marginal Revolution: What do we know
about tipping? 04/12/2005 05:56 AM
Some interesting stats and observations about tipping .. Marginal Revolution: What do we know about tipping? .. a post about tipping today

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How's Your Digital Dinner? Restaurants
Go Hi-Tech (Reuters)

How's Your Digital Dinner? Restaurants
Go Hi-Tech (Reuters) 05/24/2004 10:47 AM
Reuters - Some of the world's biggest technology companies are setting their sights on the U.S. restaurant industry, to help them improve operations ranging from hiring wait staff to planning menus to buying appliances.

"Some interesting stats and observations
about tipping"

"Some interesting stats and observations
about tipping" 04/11/2005 11:43 PM

dog or higher: Tipping Firefox across
the chasm

dog or higher: Tipping Firefox across
the chasm 02/05/2005 09:55 PM
some interesting things to say

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"Tipping Point: Blog Spam"

"Tipping Point: Blog Spam" 06/21/2004 09:19 AM

Client uses wacky dummy text for real
website: "We are truly the finest of all
possible restaurants."

Client uses wacky dummy text for real
website: "We are truly the finest of all
possible restaurants." 04/11/2005 05:12 PM
Mark Frauenfelder: A Boing Boing reader read my earlier entry about text greeking and sent me a hilarious anecdote. He designed a website for a restaurant called Windows On the Bay. The client had not yet given him the copy for the site, so he filled the page with what he describes as "incredibly overblown, remarkably pretentious text."

He says the client ended up using the copy!

Windows on the Bay is the finest restaurant on the Jersey Shore. We are the alpha and the omega in seashore dining and freshly prepared gourmet seafood. No other restaurant in New Jersey looks out over such a commanding view. We are truly the finest of all possible restaurants.

Our chefs have all been trained at the finest schools in the world, and they put every ounce of that training to work for you. We create each made-to-order dish fresh and put every ounce of our considerable skill and knowledge to work to make you the best meal possible.

Our highly-trained wait staff are here to serve your every need. They are ready to bend their skills and energy to every table, every serving; you will be waited on as you have never been waited on before.

We are sure you will come back for more. Once you've come to Windows on the Bay, you will never want to leave.

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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can
Make a Big Difference

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can
Make a Big Difference 03/30/2005 05:47 PM

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell

My rating: 5 out of 5

A great book on guerilla marketing via memetics. "The best way to understand the dramatic transformation of unknown books into bestsellers, or the rise of teenage smoking, or the phenomena of word of mouth or any number of the other mysterious changes that mark everyday life," writes Malcolm Gladwell, "is to think of them as epidemics. Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread just like viruses do." Although anyone familiar with the theory of memetics will recognize this concept, Gladwell's The Tipping Point has quite a few interesting twists on the subject.

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