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 may […]
Not Enough People use T.P.? (??)
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 […]
One Laptop Per Child Project Continues to Inspire
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 […]
Beautifully Designed “5” Gum
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 […]
Not Enough People Love Typography
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 having to trace […]
iPhone for the Ubuntu Crowd
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 480 (better than the […]
Sin City or King City?
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 have […]