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Monthly Archives: February 2009
Keys to the Kingdom
My Kindle arrived yesterday. First impressions were not quite up to the technolust I feel when opening a box “Designed by Apple in California,” but pretty darned good. Amazon has done a nice job with the packaging and merchandising here. … Continue reading
La Maison en Petits Cubes
You can watch Kunio Katô’s Oscar-winning short, La Maison en Petits Cubes online: It really is lovely.
Cooking: humanity’s ‘killer app’”?
As reported in The Economist, Harvard’s Richard Wrangham has a theory that “cooking and other forms of preparing food are humanity’s ‘killer app’”: Cooking is a human universal. No society is without it. No one other than a few faddists … Continue reading
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Good perspective on the Kindle
Molly Wood nicely expresses some of the same thoughts I’ve had on the Kindle (which is now due to arrive in just 5 days!): I’m not going to argue that the Kindle is any kind of a bargain. It’s an … Continue reading
Batch-adding ISBNs in Delicious Library
If you are ever looking to get a whole mess of ISBNs into Delicious Library (say, for example, from a different book database), and have DL2 freshly slurp all the books’ info from the web, you should use this Applescript. … Continue reading
Spotted in the wild
My thanks to my friend @drdrang for using a screenshot of Commonplace Cartography in his post about his experience with NetNewsWire. I stopped using NNW in favor of Google Reader awhile ago, myself—in large part because I didn’t care for … Continue reading
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Magazines
When you consider that a fairly hefty slice of the success of my company still depends on the health of print media, it’s a little alarming to note that I’m actually surprised by just how many print magazines we still … Continue reading
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Wrong on 1,000 Levels
I can’t remember where I first so this, but this might just win the Internet. The Meme Generation – You can shave the baby..
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Tweetfight
Wanna see how quickly things can get really screwy on Twitter? Here’s a fun little exchange between @aprildunford and @sirdavid, during which National Post reporter David George-Cosh gets pwned and implodes. Read it all here. I think it’s particularly amusing … Continue reading