There’s been a lot of talk about Clocky, an alarm clock that hides from you after you hit snooze. It’s a great idea and I enjoy any interaction with machines that makes us rethink that relationship, but I’ll be seriously impressed when I can no longer discern if a machine is hiding from me [...]
If you sang a song from Bjork’s Medulla at a Karaoke bar, would the backing track just be silence? As much as I like Bjork, Medulla makes me want to crazy glue my ears shut.
I received a really nice gift from a near stranger a little while ago of a Kigurumix that was brought back from Tokyo.
It’s a toy person in a bear costume who dances when you play music. It seems to have about a half dozen different dances and comes with a second green hat to [...]
Many GTD (Getting Things Done) tips can be properly filed under “Well, duh!” and this one is no different.
When reading any book that would benefit from note-taking, use a standard 3×5 card as your book mark. You can jot notes and/or summarize each section as you go along. Then, when you are all [...]
I helped my mother renew her Dot Mac account the other day. It serves her well as she primarily uses the iDisk, but Apple’s Homepage feature really needs to catch up to what’s going on with blogware. It just looks sad and outdated at this point. We’ll see soon what OS 10.4 [...]
Thanks to commenter “notebook addict”, those seeking a notebook to fill the void left by the death of Oh Boy 9 to 5 notebooks may have their answer: The Anvil Modern Paperie Notebook Scribble
As notebook addict says:
Try these: http://www.amadonweb.com/anmopanosc1.html — made at the same factory as the Oh Boy! notebooks. (I just ordered [...]
Text ads based on the current page’s content can make for some strange company, but I don’t think I’ve seen a stranger match than this. While reading a boingboing story about censorship in public school textbooks, I was served up an advert for Bob Jones University Press. If you aren’t familiar with one [...]
Last week, I went to the opening night of The War Room on Capitol Hill. I had walked by the location a number of times as it went through it’s transformation from previous failed venue to a wood paneled mystery. When I heard that on Sunday they would be open for business, I [...]
It’s probably fair to say that on April 1st, aka April Fool’s Day, the web and in particular the blog part of the web becomes nearly useless for finding any legitimate information. I’ve read my fill of mediocre jokes with a few genuinely funny ones here and there and I’m just going to shut [...]
