Archive for October, 2005

Google Print

I haven’t written specifically about Google Print (although I’ve alluded to it a couple of times), but I thought, hey, better late than never.
There are literally millions of posts all over the Web about this, so I won’t bore you with a recap. What I will do is ask a question that has been bothering [...]

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HOW TO: Tune an HDTV with a THX-Optimized DVD

I wonder how far off our TV is.
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Why Does God Hate Amputees?

A totally biased, simple, attack on the religious. It’s the same, tired, “religious people are mindless idiots” argument. WIth a clever title. And lots of straw men. Actually, one big straw man, but that never seems to matter.
By the way, God is bad because men are mortal. And he doesn’t exist because the Bible is [...]

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Digital Lust - Deskloops

Imagine all of your windows in a continuous strip, accessible by moving your cursor to the side of your screen. Imagine being able to save an entire set of windows and load them later on. This is Deskloops. Eye candy? Oh yeah. But since when has that stopped anyone (I’m looking at you, iTunes)?
Download Deskloops [...]

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Common Census

Via S.S. Trudeau we get a link to the Common Census map, drawn not by political boundaries, but by influence. Influence in this case is measured by respondants to the (brief) survey about what you feel is your community.
This is a very interesting map and illustrates a commonly held perception about Michigan; that of [...]

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Attack of the Blogs - Let the Games begin

BoingBoing, Dan Gillmor, Steve Rubel, Robert Scoble, Paul Kedrosky, Mike from Techdirt, and Gary Stein have all weighed in. Can’t wait to see what Jeff Jarvis has to say about this.

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Attack of the Blogs

Congratulations to Forbes for having one of the most poorly written articles on blogging ever. Daniel Lyons, who obviously falls squarely on the side of the older styles of journalism (those would be nepotism, invective, and abuse), pens a mighty blow against “the ultimate vehicle for brand-bashing, personal attacks, political extremism and smear campaigns”, blogs. [...]

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