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Technology

La Maison en Petits Cubes

February 23, 2009 Technology

You can watch Kunio Katô’s Oscar-winning short, La Maison en Petits Cubes online:

It really is lovely.

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Cooking: humanity’s ‘killer app’”?

February 22, 2009 Food

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 tries to survive on raw food alone. And the consumption of a cooked meal in the [...]

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Good perspective on the Kindle

February 20, 2009 Reading

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 expensive device that performs limited functions. if you’re not passionate about its value proposition—reading books, magazines, [...]

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Batch-adding ISBNs in Delicious Library

February 17, 2009 Technology

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. It saved me Lotsa Work™.
(I tend to prefer Bruji Software’s Bookpedia over Delicious Library from [...]

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A bucket is for carrying things somewhere, not storage

February 7, 2009 Making Life Work

Twitterman Alex Payne wrote a pretty interesting an provocative post the other day, titled “The Case Against Everything Buckets.”
Rather than try to recreate his argument for him, go read it yourself. I’ll wait here.
At least in principle, I agree with Alex’s assertion that it can be immensely better to have your information available in an [...]

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Prettify yer beige

January 17, 2009 Stuff I Like

I used to spend a lot of time customizing the appearance of my Mac. Tweaking desktops, icons, themes, everything. Now that I’m all grown up, I spend my time customizing the functionality of my Mac. It’s beautiful enough on its own.
But every once in awhile I still get the bug to inject a little more [...]

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History of the Internet

January 9, 2009 Technology

History of the Internet from PICOL on Vimeo.

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A Cultural Renaissance

January 4, 2009 Commonplace Book

The Undercurrent of a Cultural Renaissance:
The Web is sparking a cultural renaissance that is globally surging with free thought and insight. And, it’s changing how we think about life, how we go through life, and how we share experiences and stories…We’re going to see a fundamental shift in everything – especially our priorities.

(via Jesse Newhart)

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