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)
(Update: Added link to Internet Archive after the site had gone done)
Google Maps for Palm
So I just got a Palm T|X from work at Los Angeles Urban League. One of the downsides of working in this part of LA is there isn’t a lot of free wi-fi points to make use of the Internet capabilities. Meanwhile, my current favorite app for the handheld so far is Google Maps for Palm. It’s application built on top of the web based maps, and works quite quickly. They also have a Pocket PC edition as well.
Wordplay
When I first heard about the movie Wordplay, I thought it was about the New York Times Crossword puzzle itself and the people who solve it (the regular people and the famous like Jon Stewart, Ken Burns, and Bill Clinton to name a few). Don’t get me wrong, while the film is about the puzzle (how it’s constructed and by whom), it’s mainly the story of the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament and the puzzle fanatics who enter the contest. It is something not too many people know about, but really, I was hoping they would make the movie more about the puzzle.
Creating a Tumblelog
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.
Why bloggers should use Creative Commons licenses
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 and still retaining some control over how your content is distributed is using Creative Commons licenses
[via Creative Commons]
My pic of Bill Romanowski…
…is now the picture on the Wikipedia article of Bill Romanowski. I didn’t put the picture there (though I could have), but someone else found it on Flickr (posted below) and gave me the proper credit. That’s what having a liberal Creative Commons license allows for.
My pic of Bill Romanowski…
…is now the picture on the Wikipedia article of Bill Romanowski. I didn’t put the picture there (though I could have), but someone else found it on Flickr (posted below) and gave me the proper credit. That’s what having a liberal Creative Commons license allows for.
How They Do It Better
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.”
So funny and so sad at the same time
I used to save funny quotes in a file and append them to any old post. But this seemed to funny not to post on its on.
On Digg in response to the article According to Novell ads, Linux is a cute girl who needs a haircut:
Dude, this is a nerd site. There is more unfulfilled sexual desire here than in the Vatican.
Another personal website – Alew.org
So I’ve moved back down to Los Angeles to take a nonprofit technology job at Los Angeles Urban League. To coincide with this move, I bought a new domain: Alew.org.