August 2, 2012
For some reason beyond my understanding, the song that Bugs Bunny first sings in the episode Long-Haired Hare got stuck in my head, a few days ago. And after kind of humming it quietly to myself, I came upon a sudden realization: I could look it up on the Internet!
I’ve never known the name of the song, and I’m not sure why it took me all this time to actually look the thing up. It’s been a bit of a mystery to me, and it’s silly to realize that I could have easily looked this up 5+ years ago.
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February 19, 2012
On arriving in Orlando, Liz and I decided to get a car for the day. We saw a ton of rental companies at the airport, but several turned us away saying they didn’t have cars, and they were only giving them to people with reservations. A few places had signs saying “Cars Available.” We ended up getting quoted something like…
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January 23, 2012
Shirky does a remarkable job articulating the history and the problem of copyright violation, and why measures like SOPA/PIPA are incredibly problematic. He is clear, concise, and is able to summarize a complex topic and make it digestible. More than that, he’s able to describe the inherent problems way better than anyone else I’ve read or heard.
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January 18, 2012
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December 27, 2011
A lot of the discussion has been going on for some time, but I ignored it until very recently. Back in November, there was a full-page ad in the New York Times from several major Internet companies, claiming SOPA would hurt innovation. More recently, a group of 83 Internet engineers wrote an open letter to Congress, warning against both bills.
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December 3, 2011
Having one of those days full of sad rainclouds, where nothing’s quite going right? Well swing on over to the nicest place on the internet, and we’ll see if we can’t make you feel a little better.
Made entirely from user submissions, the site features a rolling display of people hugging their webcams – and is surprisingly moving. Users can also create their own videos on YouTube and submit them to the site for possible inclusion.
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October 9, 2011
Plink is a great sound experiment by Dinah Moe. Using a combination of Chrome, NODE.js and the Web Audio API… users are able to switch “instruments” and collaborate musically.
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September 24, 2011
In hindsight, I feel like I should have prepared some activities or had some goal/task in mind. Once we had several folks hanging out together, we were all like… well, now what? It felt like I had sent out invitations to a party, and then when folks showed up… I had neither food nor music nor drink.
We mostly just, well… hung out.
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September 23, 2011
So here’s a little experiment I want to try: anyone up for hanging out via Google Hangout, later on today? Say around 3:00 PM, CST? I’ll come back and update this page with all the necessary links and whatnot.
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September 21, 2011
Yesterday morning, I was chatting with Justin, Ben, Allison and Chris about Google Plus.
The biggest competitor to Facebook showed its face at the end of June, and lots of people jumped on board very quickly at the start. But in the months since its launch, activity seems to have tapered off. A lot of folks have it, but not a lot of folks use it.
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September 20, 2011
Last week, I happened across Qwiki – a kind of audio-visual variant of Wikipedia. It seems to pull data from Wikipedia, but combines it with audio and related multimedia (both images and video). The whole thing is packaged up into a pretty nice presentation style, complete with a timeline that you can pause and replay, as you wish.
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February 19, 2011
I happened to be searching on YouTube for the song Bears, as sung by Lyele Lovett. I know the song through his cover, from the album Step Inside This House (the song was originally written by Steven Fromholz). So I did track down a version of the song, here: But then, in the search results, I found this surprising video:…
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February 18, 2011
Yesterday, I found myself listening a lot to Ukelele player Lil’ Rev. I first heard him when Justin and I visited Alex and Linda in Green Bay and attended Ukelele Night at Kavarna. I liked his singing so much, I snatched up two CD’s right there on the spot. I was stuck on one song in particular: Nobody Knows You…
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January 19, 2011
So apparently, there’s a Internet Movie Firearms Database… which does basically the same thing as the IMDB but for guns. It’s good to know that I now have a place to go to, the next time I need to identify a gun from a specific movie. While the look of the site is your typical, basic Wiki… the entries themselves…
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August 19, 2010
Twelvestone is a forum I’ve been visiting for a long while now. It sprung up after the very popular were-here.com Flash site went down – a sort of refuge for folks who were left with nowhere to gather (Flashkit wasn’t viewed as an alternative). Since that time, I’ve participated in online discussions, watched flame wars come and go, and know…
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