Aug
28
Yahoo Pipes
August 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Yahoo Pipes let’s you build your own mashups by dragging modules. The Yahoo Pipes project makes it easy for you to easily direct data through a series of loosely connected applications. Tony Patton offers a really great tutorial.
This video introduces the mashup concept.
There are a few cool Pipes currently running: (note, you [...]
Aug
27
Not Enough People use T.P.? (??)
August 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Need a gentle reminder that your bum is not as clean as you think?
Yikes!
There I sat, innocently browsing Gizmodo’s post on the super-secret reveal of the nano iPhone. To the right of the text, I was jolted upright from my slump: bare bums. arses. Excuse my language, bare arses staring at me, SMILING at [...]
Aug
23
One Laptop Per Child Project Continues to Inspire
August 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment
This project that offers laptops, the XO, to the underdeveloped countries of the world is truly astounding on both a humanitarian and a technological level. A surprisingly well-written and insightful review by a 12-year old appeared in August of this year.
How It CONNECTS
This box connects wirelessly to the ‘net and other XO users [...]
Aug
22
Beautifully Designed “5″ Gum
August 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment
I love gum: a Haiku
I LOVE gum all day,
Bad habit I can’t escape,
Model I’ll never be.
I just bought three packets of beautifully designed gum. Admittedly, this was an impulse buy. I just had to get my hands on that beautifully-designed packaging. Opening the box is a delight, flip the lid and you are [...]
Aug
22
Not Enough People Love Typography
August 22, 2007 | 1 Comment
ILoveTypography.com: This site makes me fall in love with typography with every visit. In my daily toil using Microsoft Turd Word, Excel or just working in code-view all day, I forget about the power of typographic design. In my college days, I remember not being very fond (understatement of the year) of [...]
Aug
10
iPhone for the Ubuntu Crowd
August 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment
This Open Moko Neo 1973 Linux handset is probably what the iPhone SHOULD be: a gadget to freely tweak and customize. the Open Moko software is in very early ‘pre-alpha’. It’s about the size of a Treo 700, with a significantly longer screen ( not wider) VGA display supports 640 x [...]
Aug
10
Sin City or King City?
August 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Okay, so I’m being very “dramatical, as John Leguiziamo would say… Actually, I think I’m done drywalling for a long time. The king has been working on getting our office set up on our second floor. In fact, since the only air-conditioned space in our home is the area shared by our bedroom/office, we [...]