It’s funny how micro-focused I can get. I am continually reminded of how much I live in a bubble world, and it’s always nice to have that bubble popped.
Working in technology, I tend to assume that other people are geeky like me. They have Tivo, broadband, Macs, iPhones, blogs, hundreds of “friends” on Facebook/Twitter/network du [...]
I guess we’ll see. Steve Jobs joined Mix on Wednesday. No kidding, here’s his profile.
Is it the man himself? Or perhaps Dan Lyons in character? Maybe some dude named Steve Jobs who is neither the founder and CEO of Apple nor the editor guy at Forbes who used to be funny and currently is just [...]
This tweet from friend of the ‘Lab Michael Krigsman triggered my inner economist.
Even though I’m essentially a geek, I studied economics in college and have always been fascinated by supply, demand, utility and especially modeling that stuff with a nice tidy graph. Needless to say, I’m a big fan of Chris Anderson and his Long [...]
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Matt Topper, a friend of the AppsLab, apparently has way too much free time.
He has elfed us using the Office Max ElfYourself doodad. My wife was messing around with this application a few weeks ago, and it took her about half an hour to do one elf. So, kudos to Matt for his patience and [...]
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For some reason, every day this week has felt like Friday. Did anyone notice the either of the following articles?
Merriam-Webster names w00t word of the year for 2007. Facebook came in second, which does not bode well as the Year of Facebook winds to a close. I wonder if the Project Beacon fiasco had [...]
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Steve Chan sent me a note today asking me if I’d seen this blog, called Oracle Applications DBA APPSLab.
Apparently, the blog’s owner, Famy Rasheed, was asking Steve to list his new blog on Steve’s blogroll. Steve is a very conscientious (and popular) blogger, who has been plagiarized in the past, so he was doing the [...]
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This post from Mashable got me thinking about something that’s eaten at me ever since I got into tech many moons ago. Watch the clip from “CSI”, observe the Twitter plug, chuckle at the pithy dialog.
Some people just don’t value privacy.
They don’t expect privacy; they value openness.
Whatever.
The best part, aside from wondering if Drummerboy19 [...]
All this talk about social software and swimming pools is making me crazy. We need more stupid pet postings on this blog. It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything, but today is Friday and it’s time to lighten it up a bit.
I was looking through the numerous junk mail catalogs we got [...]
I need to share this right before I sit on the couch watching NFL goodness for the rest of the day.
You’ll probably have 10 or so other references to this by the end of next week.
Click through for the answer(s). Enjoy.
Update: By way of O’Reilly Radar, I realized that the T&C prohibit embedding any part [...]
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We all know what spam is by now, the digital variety, not the gelatin-coated mystery meat in a tin. The attendees of PodCamp2 in Pittsburgh have coined the term bacn to describe “email you want, but not right now”.
Examples of bacn:
Social network alerts
Electronic bill pay alerts
Basically anything you solicited by providing your email that is [...]
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This has been a humor-free zone for way too long.
Aside from a lackluster Spot the Hoax, I haven’t posted anything intentionally funny lately. But today, I ran into two gems that I think will make you smile or laugh.
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After slogging through a full week’s worth of feeds and fighting the urge to use the Mark All as Read button several times, I have a fun idea. Despite this being a no-fun zone for a while, I want to play a round of spot the hoax.
The game is simple. I’ve listed a handful of [...]
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I was so sad to hear the news that FSJ had been outed by Brad Stone of the NYT. Apparently, Daniel Lyons, a writer for Forbes, no less, has been moonlighting as FSJ.
Why does this make me sad? Let me count the ways:
I have to assume you read FSJ. If you don’t, you should, and [...]
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This is classic Onion. I saw this weeks ago, but it took Lifehacker to remind me how funny it is. Enjoy the Internet Crash of 2007.
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First, it was Steve Ballmer. Now, Eric Schmidt? What is going on here?
I’m surprised Eric would want to befriend me, since I called him coy in this space not once, but twice.
Maybe he wants to hire me and doesn’t know I have no PhD, or even masters. D’oh.
Seriously, can anyone shed some light on this [...]
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Mashable reported yesterday that MySpace was blocking the letter “i” in all MySpace blogs and replacing all the i’s with “..”.
Courtesy of I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER?
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Fellow AppsLabb’er Rich, just informed me via IM (which is so 1999, why aren’t we Twittering?), that Steve Ballmer friended him on Facebook. Turns out that both Paul (AppsLab poobah) and I were also friended by Steve.
Maybe the rumor is true, and Microsoft is digging out $6 billion for Facebook (Techmeme coverage). [...]
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By way of John Battelle, Googleblogoscoped and Waxy. DEC gives us a great prediction of things to come.
Remember the DEC Alpha? It wasn’t forced to compete with unknown companies, unless you consider Intel a little company. I do like seeing the classic Mosaic browser in action. I’m reminded of the Internet Archive [...]
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In case you’ve been wondering, I collect these stories, and when I get a few, I dump them. Like it, don’t like it, tell me in Comments.
Details on Taser’s XREP electric shotgun shell emerge
From Engadget, cool and frightening all at once.
Chinese Youth Killed By Cell Phone Battery Blast
It’s supposed to be in the high [...]
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Check out this gem from the online banking registration of a credit union, by way of Tom Kyte:
