…and man’s.
Nature’s structures…
January 11th, 2005
Snug
January 8th, 2005
In Seattle again – snow has been forecast for the last two days but hasn’t arrived.
Meanwhile, at the Happels’, dinner time is very cosy.
Amawap
January 5th, 2005
My friend Seb has done a nice little WAP service which UK readers may find useful.
Type in an ISBN number on your phone while browsing in Borders and it tells you how much the book costs at Amazon. Seb has some reservations about the ethics of this, but it’s quite cute anyway! He decided it was up to you to decide whether or not to use it..!
More info at Amawap.
Would you like Francs with that?
January 5th, 2005
I hadn’t come across the Economist’s Big Mac Index before. Interesting. And here’s Lattenomics.
The exchange rates are rather different now from when these were published, though.
Great Photential
January 4th, 2005
John’s been posting some wonderful photos over on Memex recently. He claims the trick is to use a good-old 50mm fixed-focus lens with his (rather nice) Nikon D100. I think he may be right, but a large part of the trick is also to be a good photographer.
Dan Gillmor moves on
January 3rd, 2005
Dan has departed from the San Jose Mercury News after 10 years. I’ve enjoyed his writing there and will follow the news of his new venture in his blog.
LWM
January 3rd, 2005
Despite being one of the founders, I’ve been very bad at posting stuff to Living Without Microsoft in the last few weeks. But some of the other guys have been doing a much better job, and there has been some interesting news there recently. If you’re interested in alternatives to the Monopoly, check it out…
Oh, and please send in your contributions!
Gmail ATOM feeds
January 3rd, 2005
Interesting – if you have a GMail account, you can subscribe to it as an ATOM feed. (ATOM is very similar to RSS and accepted by most things that accept RSS). More info in the Gmail Help Center
IT Conversations
January 3rd, 2005
IT Conversations looks as if it has more than enough interesting stuff to keep my iPod topped up for a while!
And there are plenty of RSS feeds available. One thing that’s good is the option to download AAC files instead of MP3s. These provide better quality for a given file size, but the main advantage on iTunes/iPods, when playing long talks, interviews, audiobooks, is that the system stores a bookmark which remembers how much you’ve listened to. If you go and listen to something else and then come back, you carry on where you left off.
UK Police among worst in the world
January 2nd, 2005
Bad news about the British Bobby.
Low cost Macs?
January 1st, 2005
Now, this would be very interesting if true…
EcoBot II
December 30th, 2004
The EcoBot II is a robot which powers itself on a diet of dead flies and similar yummy stuff.
Wonder if they’re also doing a VeggieBot?
Follow-up: we talked about this at lunch today, and decided that the veggie version should probably be a TofuBot, tofu having no other obvious use.
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