Allen Lew’s Thoughts

Nike is planning to unveil transforming Megatron and Optimus Prime shoes. They sound cool, but could be painfully uncomfortable to wear. (via Boing Boing)
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(Update: I’ve changed plugins to provide OpenID. See this post.)
Comments can now be signed with OpenID, thanks to this plugin.
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Thanks to a plugin by Alex King, this blog now has a Mobile edition, so it’s readable on a PDA. To get the plugin, check out his plugin page.
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NY Times:
“Dr. [Richard] Gross, a professor of chemistry at Polytechnic University, in Brooklyn, is turning plant oils, of the kind already used to make biodiesel, into “bioplastic.” The plastics can be films or rigid, as are commonly found in food packaging. Then he uses a naturally occurring enzyme to break down the plastic into [...]

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I’ve reimplemented asides on this blog, thanks to this tutorial on implementing asides with Cutline. I’ve talked about making asides briefly before.
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A demo playing two Nickelback songs shows them to be nearly the same song. Sadly, this can probably be done with way too many popular music acts today. (via Kottke)
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Lifehacker has a great guide on Tumblr and Tumblelogs. It’s basically makes blogging even easier with no writing, just collecting what you see from the web. Wonder if I can get some of my friends to do this instead of typing everything into AIM profiles.
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Why bloggers should use Creative Commons licenses by Paul Jacobson discusses the reasons bloggers need to use Creative Commons.
If your intention, as a blogger, is to have your content and your thoughts distributed as widely as possible, then reserving all your rights to your content is counterproductive. A more effective way of distributing your content [...]

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US News “offers 30 lessons [the United States] can learn from other countries.” For example, “American travelers to Europe find themselves particularly charmed by the vitality of the Continent’s plazas and squares. Open areas carved from dense neighborhoods, they are markets by day and restaurants by night.”
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Lance Bass of ‘N Sync Reveals He’s Gay-Kids used to joke about N’sync being gay. Now they know one of them was.
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