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• A Public Service Message to My Fellow New Yorkers: Bedbugs are on Subway Benches
• Hitachi Asks Me Not to Use Their Products to Make Weapons
• In NYC, There’s a Free Ninja Sword on Every Block
• Soul Plane, iTunes $0.99 Movie of the Week, Still $1.00 Too Expensive
• Buying the New Raconteurs Album is Instant MP3 Gratification
• Safari for Windows, the Browser of Greener Grass?
• Your Hydrogen Prototype is a Jetpack.
• Arthur C. Clarke Goes Up to That Giant Crazy Space Baby in the Sky
• Pennsylvanians: How to change your party so you can vote in the Primary
• Vote!
• One of the obvious advantages to radio…
• Two Macworld 2008 Predictions: An In-Car GPS iPhone companion to the iPhone and an iPhone to AppleTV Connection
• Revisiting 2007’s Tech Predictions
• Three Free Apps for Every Mac
• An Interview with Syd Mead About the Future
• How to Go From ConEd to Wind-Energy in Three Minutes
• How to Buy CFL Lights That Don’t Suck
• Jon Stewart is a Mensch (Maybe?)
• Revising a Green Energy Experiment in the East River
• Great Utility for Web Devs: XRAY Bookmarklet
• Be Kind Rewind
• A Baboon Tried to Beat Up My Grandma
• HBO’s Flight of the Conchords: First Episode’s Free, Second One’s $62.90
• Perian 1.0: A Must Have for Mac Users
• Apple Won’t Allow 3rd-Party Apps on the iPhone Because AT&T Fears VoIP
• Youtube + AppleTV = Sweet Sweet Time Wasting
• Palm Introduces the Laptop Jr.
• Fantastic Spider Vehicle Video
• Introducing Simple Spark
• BusinessWeek Calls Windows Vista “Slow and Dangerous”
• Vista vs. Mac OS X Pricing and Versions
• Mario + Disney = Mushroom Kingdom Hearts for the Wii
• How to Speed Up Apple Mail.app
• NES Bodied Guitar
• Football, the Song
• Time Magazine Smacks Windows Vista
• Windows Vista is Slower Than XP, a Downgrade for Gamers
• It’s Far Cheaper to Save the World Than it is to Shoot at it
• Ze Frank’s Heading to Hollywood
• Run, Obama, Run
• The Future of Multi-Touch Screens
• Technology Predictions for 2007
• Does Tivo (the Company) Not Understand Tivo (the Product)?
• Asteroid’s Revenge
• “Cyber Monday” is a Lie
• Walmart’s Video Download Service Will Succeed as Much as It’s Music Service Did
• “Guitar Hero is proof that the Nintendo Wii will succeed”
• The Bottom Line Cost for Your 2006 Holiday Video Game Purchase
• Zune Missteps
• In all seriousness, I’m not dead or anything
• The Difference Between Blu-ray and HD-DVD in 30 Seconds
• Meet Our Emerging Nerd Leader
• I am 8 bit Art Show
• Little Rubber Feet for Your iBook
• Mobility Today says Prototypes are as Good as the Real Thing
• Technorati Hooks up with the Associated Press
• An Introduction to the Wii Controller
• Xbox 360 Games I Didn’t See
• The PS3 Controller: A Missed Opportunity
• E3 2006 Preview: Lord of the Rings Online
• E3 2006 Swag Roundup
• E3 2006 Nintendo DS Roundup
• World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade
• E3 2006 Celebrity Sightings
• E3 2006 Best PSP Game: Loco Roco
• E3 2006 Playstation 3 Games Review
• E3 2006 Xbox 360 Games Review
• The Most Beautiful Game at E3: Crysis
• The Most Innovative Game at E3 2006: Spore
• E3 Day One Update
• Xbox 360 Press Conference
• Nintendo E3 Conference Wrap Up
• Final PS3 Controller Quietly Loses Rumble
• PS3 Will Come In Two Versions, Unfortunately
• One E3 Predicition: Smash Bros for the DS
• Obvious Diversion is Heading to E3 Coverage Later This Week
• Will Nintendo Release Their Online Videogame Store for PS3 and Xbox 360?
• Prediction: New Apple MacBooks (iBooks) Next Week
• Chris Kohler Defends Wii (And Does It Well)
• The Future of Global Marketing The Nintendo Wii
• The .mobi Domain is a Big Mistake
• Replace That Stale Feed Icon With a Fresh New One
• Classic Sega and Hudson Games for the Nintendo Revolution
• Google’s and Earthlink’s Wifi for San Francisco is Terrible for Consumers
• Inquisitor Search for Safari & Camino
• It Isn’t About Ugly Design, It’s About Functional Design
• Boot Camp and a Windows Exodus
• Xara Xtreme Graphics App Linux Source Released!
• Apple’s Boot Camp Will Turn Gamers Into Switchers
• When Companies Find Design Religion: The Belkin Flip
• Quiet Hybrids and Pedestrian Deaths
• Incredibly Lame Problem With iTunes Multi-Pass
• Apple Offers Per Show Subscription for The Daily Show & The Colbert Report at Only 63 Cents an Episode
• Zeldman Does the Wrong Thing With IE7
• Tempo Thermo Tag From Vessel
• The Luau Portable Lamp from Vessel
• NPR Should Lead the Way On Open Podcast Pricing
• The Most Delightfully Horrifying Photograph I’ve Ever Seen
• Western Digital’s Transparent Hard Drive and the Preservation of Geek Folklore
• Finally, A Real WiFi Phone: The Linksys WIP300
• Internet Explorer 7 is the Frankenbrowser
• My Superbowl Prediction
• How to Destroy the Internet, Part 1: Yahoo and AOL Want to Tax Email
• A Review of the Shiira Web Browser
• What Country Am I Living In? Cindy Sheehan Arrested For T-Shirt
• The Coming Mac-Centric Name Change
• Andy Rooney on Not Getting Things Done
• Bedford’s Law Examples Flawed
• Why You Should Buy Windows Vista, Translated
• Amazing View of the Aurora from Space
• FedEx is Worse Than the Cable Guy
• The Bloggies: Rewarding Popularity & Harassment
• Technology Predictions for 2006
• Political Predictions for 2006
• A Quick Review of iPhoto 6
• Sometimes Buses Break
• Vegetarian Dim Sum in Seattle Vegetarian Bistro
• My Safari vs. Firefox Results
• Gains and Losses with the MacBook Pro
• Nice Logo We’re Having
• Nintendo’s Miyamoto Hints at Videogames that Don’t Use the Television
• Wordpress 2.0 is Out
• Obvious Diversion Album of the Year: Year of Meteors by Laura Veirs
• The Xbox Was a $4 Billion Charity Will The Xbox 360 Be Any Different?
• Movie Trailer for Cthulhu is Out
• Is Blueray Really the Last Physical Format?
• The Ricky Gervais Podcast
• An Update on the Mayoral Auction
• Testing out Free Rolling Wifi on the Bus
• Should I Buy Lunch With the Mayor? The Stranger Thinks So…
• When a Blogger Meets a Blogger Coming Through the Rye
• Vote in the Treehugger Contest
• Firefox 1.5 New Features (Geeky and Non-Geeky)
• JCPenney Price Gouging on Xbox 360
• Graffiti in Iran
• Breaking Up Thick Books: Visually Less Impressive But Easier to Use
• My Podcast Debut on Bruno and the Professor
• The Obvious Diversion Holiday Gift Guide
• Secret $5 and $10 Vonage Plans
• Xbox 360 Getting Tepid Reviews From the Mainstream Press
• Obvious Diversion in Seattle Magazine’s Best of 2005
• Washington Mutual ATMs No Longer Free
• GTD Accessory: Doorhanger Notes
• Good Information Design: The Struggles of Getting Past Knowing It When You See It
• Cool Solution for Building a Fence Around a Tree
• Get Out and Vote!
• Urban Craft Uprising and My Never Ending Search for a Skull and Crossbones, Bunny and Carrots Shirt
• Last Week In The Stranger
• Seattle, As Seen Through The Cold Electronic Eyes of My Weather Widget
• Newspapers Die By Their Own Ignorance
• Xara Will Be the Open Source Illustrator, Looking for Experienced Mac and Linux Developers
• Engadget.com Bought by AOL, Immediately Stops Working
• August Wilson Public Viewing on Capitol Hill Today and Tomorrow
• Marketing 401
• Is It Time to Make Driving on Your Mobile Illegal?
• What Will Apple Do With All That Cheap Flash Memory?
• Dwell Mag and The Promise of Prefab Homes
• Permission to Freak Out! (Nintendo Shows It’s Revolution)
• Extremely Important Monorail Meeting Tonight at 5:30
• Any Sufficiently Advanced Technology is Indistinguishable From Magic
• Seattle’s Pizzazz is No More
• 826 Seattle Benefit Concert
• Of Warnings and Disasters in the Places We Call Home
• Blu-Ray is Clearly Winning (and I’m Glad)
• When a Video iPod Will Be Released
• Swoon in the New York Times
• Online Activism in Three Days Flat
• Incredible Watch Design: The Rotolog
• Why I Won’t ‘Tag’ Any of My Content
• Bamboo For Your Hair
• The Accord Hybrid Sucks, Only Saves Two Miles a Gallon
• Grant Theft Auto Scandal Lesson: Violence is Tolerable Consensual Sex is Not
• Commodore 64 Mashup Game Art
• Brendan Monroe’s Sour Crop
• Seattle in the New York Times Travel Section
• Crazy Prediction: People Will Buy Videogame Consoles to Play Videogames
• The Space Needle at about 10 pm
• Futurama is Coming Back On DVD!
• The Mayor Speaks on the Seattle Monorail
• Microsoft Working With The Web Standards Project
• Why This Tivo Fan is Saying Goodbye To Tivo (and Television With It)
• Bizarre Taiwanese English Education Site
• The Unfortunate New Design for the World Trade Center in New York City
• London Bombed in What Looks Like a Terrorist Attack
• The Monorail Hearing in Central Seattle
• Technology Choices for Bad Parenting
• Nintendo is Taking Their Cues From Apple
• What You Can Do in the Next Few Days to Save Your Seattle Monorail
• Of Zombie Movies & Simulations
• Japan Gets an Even Cooler Bullet Train
• Oh Boy Notebooks Are Back!
• MIT Blogger Survey
• Ignore Microsoft’s RSS Moves
• Commentary Soon on Supreme Court File Sharing Decision
• Freakonomics (or How to Get People to Read a Book About Economics)
• Congressman Jim McDermott
• Note to Scoble’s Son About Math Skills
• Why Orlando’s WiFi Program Failed
• A Prime Example of Why the Computer Industry Fails in Consumer Electronics
• The New York Public Library is DRMing Public Domain Works
• Why Are Some Japanese Sites Japan Only?
• Upgrade Your Hipster PDA with a Clock
• Cringely Didn’t Factor Notebooks in His ‘Intel and Apple Merger’ Equation
• How to Fix Tivo Desktop on Mac OS 10.4
• Correction: Classic Nintendo Games Not Free
• When and What You Should Buy in Light of Apple’s Transition to Intel
• Nintendo to Offer Classic Games for Free
• Seattle Monorail Negotiations Complete!
• 3 Reasons Why Apple May Be Going Intel
• I Shouldn’t Have To “Save” a Document
• That’s Mr. Deep Throat to You
• Hacking Biometrics with a Knife
• Even Dogs Get To Go To SIFF
• The Best of Both Portable Gaming Worlds
• Amy Sedaris Lil’ Smokey Cheese Ball
• Various Photos from New York City
• Firefox Clue on Jeopardy
• Fuel Efficient Vehicle for the Laid Back
• The Depths of New York City
• Engadget Joystiq Mar Their E3 Coverage
• Some Swoon Street Art Pictures
• Anyone Want to Buy Bose QuietComfort 2 Acoustic Noise Cancelling Headphones?
• Nintendo’s Revolution Has Yet To Be Televised
• Playstation 3: You Don’t Need All Those Ports to Play Games
• Xbox 360 Mantra is “Christmas Launch”
• The Seattle Cinerama Star Wars Ep. 3 Line
• Back from NYC and Catching Up
• The Nintendo World Store in New York City
• Put Full FTP Support in Mac OS X
• Miserable Airport WiFi Options at Sea-Tac
• Google Removes Web Accelerator
• How Apple Can Improve Spotlight Search (Or How Microsoft Can Beat Spotlight)
• To All: Don’t Use Google Accelerator To Google: Don’t Be Evil
• Speakeasy Soaks Seattle in Bandwidth
• Your Plans for When Gas Costs Too Much?
• Before You Start Podcasting, Read This
• Why is Adobe Reader So Terrible?
• Tivo Desktop Incompatible with OS 10.4
• Bill Nye’s The Eyes of Nye
• 10.4 Release Photos and John Wiley
• Correct Attire for the Mac OS 10.4 Launch
• My Final Taipei Gallery is Live
• David Pogue Sings (and Scares Me)
• Safari Passes the Acid2 Test!
• Pop-up Flash Fake Browser Mini Interface
• Trade Your Time on Timebucks
• The Why and How of Removing nofollow From Wordpress 1.5
• Are Mac OS 10.4’s iCal and Address Book Hipster PDA Compatible?
• Safari 1.3 Gallery Problem
• Pare Umbrella’s Spring Summer Collection
• Tivo 7.1 Not Seeing Mac Photos and Music
• Review of Belkin Wireless Pre-N Router
• The Acid 2 Test and Apple’s Safari
• Safari Gets an Upgrade to 1.3
• Is Tivo Abandoning the Mac?
• Apple’s Core Image as Photoshop Threat
• Subscribe to Comments Wordpress Plugin
• The Best Mac OS 10.4 Tiger Prices
• Good Mac Mini As Web Server Tutorials
• King County Library Responds to My Public Domain - Privite DRM Concerns
• Clocky, Machines and the Idea of Fear
• Bjork Medulla Karaoke
• The Best Gift Wears an Orange Bear Outift
• Getting Things Done Tip: The Hipster Bookmark
• Dot Mac Needs to Catch up To Blogware
• An Alternative to Oh Boy Notebooks?
• Bob Jones University Advert on BoingBoing
• The War Room on Capitol Hill, Seattle
• April Fool’s Day The Day the Web Becomes Useless
• Candela Gets Greener With 2005 Model
• They Might Be Giants at Easy Street Records in Seattle
• Seattle Times Joins PC Magazine in the Mathematically Challenged Club
• Will Xbox 2 Nickel & Dime You to Death?
• The Capitol Hill Farmer’s Market in Seattle
• Anyone Want Tivo Window Decals?
• Internet Explorer 7 Won’t Support CSS2?
• Hipster PDA Template for Apple Pages
• Public Library is Distributing Public Domain Works With Private DRM
• What if Tivo’s “Branded PC Experience” is Simply Tivo Without the Television?
• Star Wars Darth Vader Lawn Sprinkler
• Compact Fluorescent Lightbulb Confusion
• Tivo’s Death is Television’s Future
• The Worth of Accidental Data
• Craigslist Endorses Firefox
• Edward R. Tufte’s The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint
• It’s Not a Tumor
• Book Review: Understanding Open Source & Free Software Licensing
• Exhibit 5a Redesigns and Upgrades to Wordpress 1.5
• Xbox 360 May Be an Instant DVR Success
• Paul Rusesabagina at Town Hall
• Some Airport Express Feature Requests
• Favorite February Search Term
• Delivering a Stove for the View
• Visa Wastes Both Time and Money
• Carl Sagan on Discerning the Truth
• Why I Chose Speakeasy for My DSL
• Shabby Chic Means Crap
• Product Registration Cards Have No Sense of Good Manners or Privacy
• WordPress 1.5 is Out!
• The Greatest Firefox Extension Ever
• Speed Problems with TivoToGo Update?
• Google Maps Reveals a Flaw in SpaceTime
• David Byrne’s I Heart PowerPoint
• The Sincerest Form of Flattery and What I Did About It
• The Inevitability of a Mac Virus
• Tivo Without the Television
• There is Such a Thing as Truth
• Goodbye Danger Sidekick, Hello Hipster PDA
• How Do You Search for a Sound?
• A Review of Apple Pages
• Retro Tech: The Frigidaire Custom Imperial Flair Oven Resource Page
• TivoToGo First Impressions
• The Mac Mini: Friendly Flexible Power and My Dreams of a Soho Pro Version
• iPod Shuffle Misses the Power of iPod
• The Sadness of Hotel Rwanda
• Consumer Reports Rates the Dyson DC14
• Get on the Priority List for TivoToGo
• TivoToGo is Here!
• 404, With Attitude
• Make a Best of 2004 iTunes Smart Playlist
• Priorities
• Ripesense = Purchasing Fruit for Morons
• Newsfire, David Watanabe and the Advantages of Public Beta Development
• Turn Your Heat Up To 77º F
• Obvious Diversion Album of the Year: Heroes to Zeros by The Beta Band
• Typo or iPod Mini Upgrade Confirmed?
• My Dear Mr. President Letter
• The Toyota PM is Real
• Make Mail.app Always Send Windows Friendly Attatchments
• Is the Dyson Vacuum All It’s Cracked Up to Be?
• What iTunes Pays Independant Artists
• John Lennon’s Jukebox
• Swoon Show in London
• Ken Jennings Should Host Jeopardy
• Tivo vs. Windows XP Media Center 2005
• Schmancy Gets Themselves a Website
• Back in the Saddle Again
• Toyota PM Concept Vehicle
• Prediction: Bush will Nominate John Ashcroft to the Supreme Court
• Is Halo 2 Only Half a Game?
• Wired Magazine CD Now Available as MP3s
• Why a Wireless iPod Will Redefine Cool
• Democrats, Do Not Despair
• Why I Won’t Use Delicious Library
• Will Republicans Refuse Stem Cell-Based Treatments?
• Coolest Tricycle Ever
• People Outside the US, Please Send Me Your Jeopardy Screen Shots
• Is Amazon About to Change UIs?
• Jack Spade Man Purse Review
• Available Domain Names for Your Site
• Cricket Cola Doesn’t Contain Crickets
• Thank You Seattle and Washington State
• Why you Should Vote for John Kerry
• Seattle: Why You Should Vote No on the Monorail Recall
• My Election Prediction
• Jeopardy Kids Week
• Boycott Washington Mutual
• Looking for Notebook Suggestions since Oh Boy Notebooks Are No More
• PC Magazine Needs Better Titles
• John Stewart Schools CNN’s Crossfire
• Cool Seattle Store: Schmancy
• Happy Birthday Jonny!
• Will Apple’s Core Image Spawn Mini-Photoshops?
• Four Debates, No Questions about Gas Prices
• Pare Umbrella: Cool, Stylish Umbrellas
• Undecided Voters
• Another Tivo To Go Ad Sighting
• Sun Defends Open Source Cred Badly
• Gum Packaging Looks Like MP3 Player
• Buying Books by the Foot
• Wired & Creative Commons CD Problem
• Tivo to Go Advertised by Good Guys
• The Perils of JetBlue Debate Coverage
• Goodbye Spanish Harlem
• Tender New York Moments
• Sun Sells Out OpenOffice
• Cardboard is Not a Baby Toy
• Best Cracker Box Graphic Design Ever
• How Google Images Doesn’t Work
• I’m Moving to Seattle
• Anyone Want Apple Stickers?
• Color Choices Affect Web Usability
• Vazu Click: Send the Web to Your Mobile Phone
• Is the Failure of Bluetooth a Failure of Windows?
• Download Firefox to Surf the Web
• Epiphone Texan Guitar for Sale in NYC
• Back Home and a Little Under the Weather
• A New Accessory for your iPod: the iMac
• Insult Comic Dog Kicked out of Republican Convention
• All I Want From RSS is Notification
• Two New Taiwan Galleries
• Mikro Man: 150 Micron Steel Toys
• iPod + HP is a Big Deal
• WordPress Needs an Integrated Design Gallery
• Is Google working on it’s own Linux?
• The Case Against the Archive Calendar
• Boing Boing Reader Survey Interesting, but a Little Flawed
• Interview with a Linked Stranger:David Lanham
• New Taiwan Gallery Up
• How I Change Images on Top of My Site
• What will the 2004 iMac Look Like?
• My Old Photo Galleries are Back Online
• Obvious Diversion v2 is Now Open
• About Obvious Diversion
• Creative Commons License
• Accessibility Statement
• About Christian Gloddy
• Notes on the Site Design
• Jon’s Birthday at Swim
• Random New York City Pictures
• My Brother Visits New York
• Taipei at Night
• Up Tiger Mountain in Taipei
• Christian Has a Snack: Taiwan Edition
• A Day Trip to Danshui, Taiwan
• Taipei During the Day
• Charlie and Ingrid Get Married
• Boxing in Soho