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Entries from January 2006
Motorola and Burton Create Bluetooth Jacket
January 27th, 2006 ·
PR Week mention
January 23rd, 2006 ·
My other blog, Online Dating Insider, was mentioned in PR Week.
Visualcomplexity
January 23rd, 2006 ·
Visualcomplexity is a gallery of hundreds of visualization projects. There are some fascinating projects here.
Super Cool Toilet
January 18th, 2006 ·
This is awesome, a toilet with one-way glass.
I’m a kikikomori with a social life
January 18th, 2006 ·
Interesting story in the NY Times about kikikomori, teens (usually in Japan), who shut themselves in their rooms for years at a time.
Hyperwords Firefox Plug-in
January 17th, 2006 ·
Many moons ago I worked with a company who was a precursor to HyperWords. Basically, you select text on a web page and right-click to see a contextual menu with all sorts of useful options. Search, buy, dictionary, etc. Problem is, at least in Firefox, when I select text, the menu comes up automatically. This [...]
Stardust Returns
January 15th, 2006 ·
NASA’s Stardust sample return mission returned safely to Earth when the capsule carrying cometary and interstellar particles successfully touched down at 5:10 a.m. Eastern time (3:10 a.m. Mountain time) in the desert salt flats of the U.S. Air Force Utah Test and Training Range. Learn more at NASA.
Top 10 blogger lies
January 13th, 2006 ·
top ten blogger lies from gapingvoid.
Bruce Sterling on 2006
January 13th, 2006 ·
Bruce Sterling is holding court over at the Well. I absolutely love hearing what he has to say about the world, from China and India to Turkish hip hop to Sars and on and on. Amazing stuff.
Podcasting is old skool
January 12th, 2006 ·
This is a classic, from TUAW.
The best question of the evening was asked by a kid probably no older than 10. He asked why did Apple release a pro Mac (sorry, the Macbook Pro) when the pro apps aren’t ready, and many people need those to work properly. The way he said it, and what [...]
