Awesomest sign ever. Saw it on our roadtrip down the Oregon Coast. We passed it, stopped, turned around, stopped, took a picture, and then continued on our southward journey. I feel confident that the transmission mechanics who worked there are not aware of how funny this is.
Happy Holidays!
Some of you might have received a holiday mix from me last year, and my intention was to do the same this year, but I was slammed and even though I got it made, I wasn’t able to distribute it like last year’s. I’m hoping this might be a one-year glitch, and I can get back on schedule for 2011, but this was a good opportunity to go digital for the first time.
So here it is - Holiday Mix 2010
It’s a .zip file, so you’ll have to decompress it and then get it into your iTunes or whatever you use. Should be pretty easy for most of you, but that will be a good test to see if I’m overestimating how easy it will be. Drop me a line if you have any problems, and happy 2010!
Track list:
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Things are slightly dead here - I know. Not quite a ghost town, but still… I’ve started blogging in “The Web” section of TheFasterTimes.com. Come see me there. 
Here’s the beginning of their mission statement:
The print newspaper is in trouble. A lot of journalists joke about it. We don’t think it’s funny. Most of the writers and editors at The Faster Times have written for a print newspaper. They were our livelihoods, but they were also much more than our livelihoods. They were a way of pushing back the chaos of the modern world. Things happened, and the next day you could read about those things in your morning paper. The orderliness might have been an illusion, but it was a comforting illusion.
Time is always fast, but some times are faster than others. For American journalism, these are faster times.
Read the rest of the TheFasterTimes mission statement (go to the bottom of the page).
I heard there was a new JSON validator, so I decided to try to validate a well known JSON. Turns out Calacanis is not valid… hope he won’t hold this against me. (Click for full size view)
Kanyelicio.us is a new site that everyone should have fun with for a bout 3 minutes. Just enter the full http:// address of another site at the end of the Kanyelicio.us URL (e.g. http://kanyelicio.us/http://whatsupnah.com). Here’s what I did with my 3 minutes:
Please don’t judge too much, I was constrained by the client’s powerpoint template…
..is what I want now that Eric Schmidt is off the Apple board of directors.
Eric Schmidt, Google’s co-founder and CEO, and also member of Apple’s board of directors until very recently, has just stepped down from Apple’s board. There are all kinds of investigations being talked about, and news is coming out about a tit-for-tat agreement between Google and Apple not to directly poach each others’ employees (which would be, by the way, a violation of all kinds of legal thingamajiggers).
And while that’s all well and good, I’m hoping to get a little bit more out of this break-up. Google is the king of entering other people’s markets, especially when they’re getting stagnant and lazy and not opening up properly. Google Docs, Gmail, etc. So, there’s a little piece of my brain, way in the back of my head somewhere, that is hoping that now that Apple and Google are splittsville we may be looking forward to a Google Media Player.
iTunes is fine, but it’s not the end all, be all that some people think. It just happens to be the best thing available right now. Unfortunately it’s tied to the iPod. Sure, I own an iPod, but if someone could come along and make something even close to as good that’s more open than the iPod, I’d jump on it in a second.
There’s a wave of announcements and denouncements recently of high profile people like Jason Calacanis and Mike Arrington giving up their Apple addictions because of the closed nature of the platform. A Google media player that allowed any portable media device to sync would be awesome. Oooh… and maybe they’d have a default offer to buy tunes through the Amazon mp3 store or other non-iTunes services…
And a solid media player offering that meshed well and optimized with Android wouldn’t hurt either.
I may be dreaming, but it sure would be nice.
The whole clan took a trip to Southeast Alaska to see some amazing nature stuffs. Mission accomplished. We also happened to have time to do a little video while we were at it, and we were lucky enough to be on the same boat as The French Naturalist - the world renowned naturalist with expertise in being French, and also in nature. Enjoy! (or watch it on YouTube)
Unsubscribing is easy. In order to keep our listserve from being spammed by all these requests to be taken off, I thought it would be a good idea to put up a nice little tutorial on how to take yourself off the list. I can only hope that from now on, anyone who asks the list to be removed will receive a deluge of links to this page… Ahh… what a world that would be. On to the business at hand. read more »
If anyone was unsure of the echo chamber capabilities of Twitter, today was a great example. In the wake of reports of Michael Jackson’s death, a very smart and relatively unscrupulous person posted two fake articles about George Clooney and Jeff Goldblum having died in New Zealand in completely separate and unrelated circumstances.
Twitter bought in, and the messages started (and still are) flying around like hotcakes in a lumberjack food fight. I even bought in for a few minutes, but you’ll notice that the pages were fakes. If you rolled over, or clicked on any of the other links in the pages that looked very much like news sites with tabs like “Business” and “World News,” etc., you would see that all navigation links on the page link back to the page you are already reading. That is, there is no navigation. There is no rest of the site. There is just what looks like a navigation bar to give the illusion of a site.
Furthermore, if you took the time to scroll to the bottom of the site you would see this: read more »