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Tweets
- Someone has been kind enough to point out that this is *exactly* the luck of the Irish, BTW. (I am irony-blind!) 19 hours ago
- Microsoft keeps bugging me. http://alex.halavais.net/ms-for-your-protection 20 hours ago
- I do not have the luck of the Irish. Got 2 flat tires on my way back from school Weds night. Replacements won't arrive for a week. 22 hours ago
- Much better title than "Steal This Book": http://is.gd/aIpF3 4 days ago
- Each year, more of the clocks in my house spring ahead on their own. 5 days ago
- At ikea. Just bought a room's worth of furniture. Power has failed & so no systems for delivery. Sooo, sleeping here tonight? 6 days ago
- Yeah, yeah. Lady Gaga video. But I like the new Kate Nash: http://is.gd/anfMX 1 week ago
- Not cool enough for #sxsw this year. But *am* strategizing for chaperoning some grad students next year. 1 week ago
- These notes, taken by @TreborS when I was a guest in his classroom, should look familiar to former students: http://is.gd/aeoq1 1 week ago
Archives
Monthly Archives: February 2006
Dewey Defeats Truman
The Chicago Tribune joins a number of folks declaring the end of blogging as a phenomenon. This falling dead on the heels of Web 2.0. Thank goodness; it’s about time. Time to move on to The Next Big Thing.
What? You don’t trust the Trib to correctly call the game?
In an editorial titled Bloggy, [...]
Wired News: MySpace Parent Cheat Sheet
Wired News is running a brief guide to MySpace for parents, because, if you are a parent who is clueless about MySpace, there is a good chance you track on Wired News, right? Oh, maybe not.
But something there caught my eye: danah boyd is quoted as saying “Don’t go on and engage in surveillance. [...]
Is Internet Explorer passing notes
Paul Visco was playing with some of his pages and discovered the “clipboard exploit,” which allows a web page to capture whatever happens to be on your clipboard. If you are using IE, check it out. But don’t have anything interesting on your clipboard, ’cause I bet Paul is watching…
Do I need to mention: get [...]
Fading Love for Gmail
I was tentative in starting up with Gmail. Email is the lifeblood of everything I do, and I couldn’t risk not having it work. Luckily, it did work, consistently and well. And I love the little bits and pieces that Google keeps throwing at it. I like when it automatically offers to map an address [...]
Must-see TV (ads)
There has been much hand-wringing over the effect of time-shifting on television commercials. This becomes particularly acute with systems like BeyondTV that automatically strip out commercials. The frightening prospects of automatic commercial deletions has led to questions over whether it amounts to theft. TiVo made an effort to combat the economic effects by layering their [...]
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