April 2009
22 posts
“Instead of delivering up a bunch of links, the Wolfram/Alpha search engine tries...”
– Wolfram/Alpha’s demo: Search results meet analytics | ZDNet.com
WatchMichael Kontopoulos’ sculptures that almost tip themselves over - Boing Boing
From the post:
Michael Kontopoulos made these wooden sculptures that hit themselves with a hammer and almost tip over. He calls it “a system of sculptures that is constantly on the brink of collapse. My intention was to capture and sustain the exact moment of impending catastrophe and endlessly repeat...
Billy Corgan is full of bad ideas | guardian.co.uk →
The ticketmaster slurping, shitty music making, irrelevant has-been known as Billy Corgan is trying to alienate the few actual fans he has left. The professor X look-alike is aiming to charge fans $40 to get updates from the studio. Who the hell is going to pay for this when you can see better musicians actually playing music that was written this century here and here for free.
I’m hoping...
Prezi - The zooming presentation editor →
This is really cool. I wish that the places we work didn’t rely so much on PowerPoint as the language of presentations. It is stifling.
Apparently We Can Turn Carbon Dioxide Into... →
I really hope this is real and can work on a large scale. If not we can always choose to believe Boehner, Inhoff, and Steele, and not do anything because nothing is wrong and carbon isn’t harmful and this is all tree-hugging hippie crap.
via Gizmodo: Singaporean researchers at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology have devised a way to convert carbon dioxide into...
SeeqPod Playable Search - Find. Discover. Watch.... →
I’m ashamed that I learned about this last night and not months and months ago. This is the kind of site I need. Instead of stumbling through music that I may like I can take recommendations from friends and actually find those songs to stream without going to the giant shitshow that is myspace.
Great article on Salon about the new and worse... →
First let me say that I voted for him and am still very happy we have him and not the alternatives but this story is disturbing at best. I thought we were heading to a new era but in fact maybe not. If I’ve learned anything about the new administration then the only way to remedy this is to really scream about it. I wonder if any larger news outlets will pick up the story. I bet with the...
AP to Content Aggregators: Free Ride Is Over -... →
Here’s the deal: The Associated Press is all up in arms about the linking that is happening online to its content. I understand completely what they mean and am a firm believer that the Internet is not free. However, it is the height of hubris to think that if they start charging they will have anyone willing to pay for it when you can get the same basic information for free in 1000...
KILLER APP: DiggBar Keeps All Digg Homepage... →
I’m not sure anyone grasps the kind of capacity for domination that the new diggbar gives its creators. From an advertising perspective it is everything that google, facebook, and microsoft have been trying to do for years. It keeps all traffic in the digg ecosystem. Its like you never leave digg’s house to go anywhere no one cares because you get what you’re looking for,...
