Monthly Archives: January 2007

Daily Bookmarks

Links bookmarked on 2007-01-31

 Welcome to Cowgirls Espresso udderly the best!!
Business model of the day: coffee and cleavage. See also: how to differentiate from Starbucks.
Absinthe Films: More Trailer
Crazy snowboarding

Spellbot

As part of the day job I’ve had an index built that is fed from limited web crawling and blog pings. The point is to feed a data warehouse that is used for social media research and analysis, the sort of thing you might use Technorati to do manually until you realize just how […]

Daily Bookmarks

Links bookmarked on 2007-01-30

iSight capture
command line camera trigger
Sleepwatcher
Cool daemon that monitors sleep/wake and triggers scripts

Rendered with ink

I don’t order books online often. When I do, they’re typically gifts for others.
It’s not that I don’t read dead trees, I just prefer to browse in a bricks-and-morter store, even though I usually know what I’m looking for and don’t need to review before purchasing. Fond memories of childhood hours spent in […]

Daily Bookmarks

Links bookmarked on 2007-01-29

Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | Projects | Sparklines

This blog is now Safely Ignored

About a decade after putting up my personal website, I’ve finally come up with a name for it.
Wither “Safely Ignored”? Jason and I had just finished trying to introduce some clients to the 21st century and the whole Bubble 2.0 universe. This included the usual cluetrain rambling about conversing with your customers rather […]

Being erased

Inspired by a mention of Eternal September, I spent some time today trying to place my memory of it on the ol’ mental timeline.
Last time I researched myself, Google found many of my Usenet posts from 1993. Today, though, it finds only a handful, with the earliest discoverable message from November 1993 and a […]

Daily Bookmarks

Links bookmarked on 2007-01-27

Recreational Mathematics — from Wolfram MathWorld
Martin Gardner would love it.
Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
Numbers, numbers, and more numbers. Herein lie the patterns with which our universe is built.

Sinaisky in St. Louis

Just some brief observations from tonight’s performance of the SLSO:
Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet has been made cliche, so it’s a little difficult to get involved with. But Vassily Sinaisky, the guest conductor, was so enthusiastically animated and the entirety of the strings were so dead-on that this performance was surprisingly fun.
The Playbill had be […]

Instant buzz

How to create an advertising sensation with a low budget:

Buy cheap TV spots on major network affiliates during, say, daytime soaps.
Produce a commercial featuring headshots of petite morte.
Ensure the Parents Television Council (responsible for 99.8% of non-Janet Jackson FCC complaints) notices.