Obvious Diversion

If the presidential race was between a lit match and an ice cube, you would still have undecided voters telling you that they just don’t see much of a difference between the two candidates.

I ran into another TivoToGo ad today, but this one is actually an official Tivo advert. It has a little footnote at the bottom of the page specific to TivoToGo though: “When available.” I found it in the September issue of Real Simple magazine. (Not a regular read for me. I prefer Plywood Shack Monthly.) [...]

According to The Register, Simon Phipps, an evangelist from Sun, is trying to portray the company as a friend to open source. The article includes this lovely line: Phipps cites OpenOffice.org and the Sun Java Desktop as example of the vendor’s support of the open source movement. Has something changed or has no one informed [...]

It’s always strange when your gum comes in a case that looks like the backside of a Japanese MP3 player.

In the process of shedding items before the move, I ended up with many books that I needed to find a new home for. They ultimately ended up in the hands of a Harlem charity, but I considered selling them for a while to The Strand, a very popular New York bookstore. In my research, [...]

Creative Commons is teaming up with Wired Magazine to distribute tracks from sixteen artists, including the Beastie Boys and Paul Westerberg, under a Creative Commons license that allows for sharing and sampling. This is a fantastic idea and will help raise awareness of Creative Commons licenses. The licenses are a fantastically empowering tool and it’s [...]

I found a Tivo advert in a Good Guys insert in the Sunday Seattle Times, but it had a little side piece that advertised Tivo to Go as a “coming soon” feature. Tivo to Go was originally announced at CES back in January of 2004. It will let Tivo users watch programs on their laptops. [...]

While traveling on JetBlue from New York City to Seattle, I watched the debate live since they kindly have individual screens with DirecTV in each seat. It’s nice to say the least and they can break in on the audio to let you know if there’s turbulence ahead and things of that sort. Anyway, back [...]