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Jim Dupree wishes you a Merry Christmas
As is my custom on this day, I’d like to wish you all a Merry Christmas by re-posting the 2005 holiday classic Jim Dupree: Christmas Enthusiast: “There’s skin cells in my egg nog!” “You got tricked! We bathed in it! We bathed in the egg nog!” Hard to believe it’s been five years since Tristan [...]
Google Latitude on iOS
A week after launching, then pulling its Latitude client from the app store, Google has officially released an iOS mobile location tracking/sharing app. Personally, I’m quite excited about this. Previously, I’d been using a clunky combination of a friendless Foursquare account + Mayor Maker as a “tell my wife where I am” system.
National Public Internet
Bill St. Arnaud, on the need for a National Public Internet: it is well within the realm of possibility to deploy both a wired and wireless National Public Internet (NPI)– that is committed to the principles of an Open Internet. I am not advocating that we replace the telcos and cableco and their “Internet-like” service. [...]
How should I live my life
Ira Glass, in an interview with Marc Maron: There’s this thing that Keith, my mentor, used to say, where he says, “A story, if it’s working, is always an answer to the question, ‘How should I live my life?’” What an interesting lens.
If I built iPhone apps, this is what I’d build
Thanks to built-in GPS and compass sensors, many modern smartphones have a very good sense of where they are in the physical world. And when connected to a service like Google Maps, it’s easy to get directions to almost anywhere. But sometimes, isn’t GPS precision just a little too perfect? Sometimes, don’t you wish your [...]
Zombie Apocalypse
Though it’s not strictly speaking a Hallow’een song, I still thought I’d share “Zombie Apocalypse” by Craig and the Collaborators, the occasional novelty band/recording project I’m involved with in Halifax. Zombie Apocalypse What do I do now? What do I do now? Zombies came and ate all my friends. I’m so lonely I’m so lonely [...]
Reminder: The In-Between Stuff Matters
Christopher Schanck compares his iPhone to his Droid X, and in doing so, highlights the interface paradigm introduced by the Android back button: You know how every Twitter app on the iPhone has its own built in browser? And how each embedded browser works almost, but not quite like, all the other embedded browsers? With [...]
Gone to pot
The Chronicle-Herald reports on a grow-op raid in Lake Echo, NS, and includes this choice detail in the description of the grow house: The 1,135-square-foot home is about 40 years old and includes a high basement No kidding.
Hello hello hello hello hello. Yeah, hello.
I love Google Voice, but sometimes I get the strangest messages: Transcription: “Hello hello hello hello hello. Yeah, hello.”
Linkdump: some more programmer-journalist resources
A while back, I wrote about my plan of self-directed study to become a programmer-journalist. Since then, I’ve started plugging away at Google’s free Python class. I’ve also come across a few articles and resources that may be helpful for others with similar ambitions. Will Columbia-Trained, Code-Savvy Journalists Bridge the Media/Tech Divide? from Wired.com’s Epicenter [...]