Category Archives: collected

WORK ALERT: new site: headautomatica.com

We just launched a new site for Head Automatica The site is our first foray into Drupal based sites, and uses prototype.js, moo.fx and other Javascript libraries intensively. Some AJAX inside, but mostly its based on RSS feeds and standard Drupal modules (Story and Event). We also on the back-end, customized the admin to make [...]

Laptops in Class = BAD (for some situations)

USATODAY.com - Law professor bans laptops in class, over student protest: back story: I started using a laptop computer in class when I was 16. This was about 1995. I used that thing to cheat, as a way to stay awake, and as a way to do homework for other classes in another class. I [...]

How long….

…. before eHub becomes FuckedCompany, only by putting strategic strikethroughs between profile links? If nothing else, it could be a new business model for her. Never hurt Mr. Kaplan.

Microsoft censors Chinese blogger | CNET News.com

Microsoft censors [tag]Chinese blogger[/tag] | CNET News.com Software companies acting as governing bodies enforcing national politics in what should be an apolitical media scares the living hell out of me.
You’d think that the Internet was founded as a system that was outside the intervention of spacial and temporal causality. Meaning that since it is inherently [...]

My Year End Lists

In practice, I hate year end lists. It seems slightly silly to even think of compiling one for anything to do with the technology industry, as the industry operates on such tiny increments that things like my running blog (see right) seem more appropriate. In the past two days, I’ve been doing software development, something [...]

TechCrunch » PostSecret Book Arrived

TechCrunch » PostSecret Book ArrivedCome on now. Calling Post Secret a Web 2.0 company is disingenuous to its purpose and its meaning. In fact I find it insulting. Just because it bridges the divide between public/private, and relies on an open data exchange does not a Web 2.0 company it make.
I’d call it Situationist 2.0, [...]

TechCrunch » Newsvine to Enter Social News Ranks

TechCrunch » Newsvine to Enter Social News Ranks - OK, I hate to sound cynical, but is it wrong to be unimpressed by the notion of Newsvine? And unimpressed by the hubris of the announcement? Anyhow, I want to see this in action, because if done well, it could be very cool. On the other [...]