Check out this interview with my favorite francophile and geekette from TheBigWordProject (which I’ve blogged about before). Be sure to read the full post, which also features the geeks. [swoooon]
Catégorie : Surfin’
The Vet Who Did Not Vet
Definitely worth two and a half minutes of your time.
Stop the Presses
Another Microsoft Music Video
You may remember Microsoft’s surrealist Vista Rocks video. Well, following the Vista fiasco, Microsoft tries to move on, with a Boys Band singing the virtues of the upcoming Windows 7. Appalling. (Via Daring Fireball).
iPhone Tips
I’m enjoying version 2.0 of the iPhone OS, which ushered in the era of third party apps. I spoke about a few early favorites in a previous post, to which I would add the following: VisuaRadio & Liveradio, great Internet radio apps Shazam & Midomi, magical apps that identify music that’s playing around you or…
My US Election Post
Not so long ago, I would have written about the US election, at length, repeatedly, foaming at the mouth. These days, I just flag a few things that I run across in my Google Shared Items. I feel vindicated in everything I’ve thought about the US, when I lived there in the 80’s and since…
20,419
Following-up on last Friday’s 20,000 post, here’s a nice, digestible article, Report: cyber-hacktivism, botnet effectiveness on the rise from Ars Technica, which sums up Secure Computing’s latest findings about the state of spam and malware on the Internet. I won’t try to summarize the summary here, except to say that these numbers and trends are…
20,000
I’ve spoken about blog comment spam before. It’s disheartening to start your day erasing spam caught by the Akismet WordPress plug-in. And this morning, I’m sad to report that I passed the 20,000 mark on the Geeks. That’s twenty thousand spam comments in 18 months. And you know what? That’s nothing. Small potatoes. The Geeks…
Tenori-On
Check out this demo of the Tenori-On, a new electronic musical instrument, based on an innovative UI. It is well thought out and actually seems usable, allowing for an interesting mix of controlled music-making and random elements. A much simplified version is apparently due to arrive for the iPhone.
iPhone Apps
When the first iPhone came out a year ago, it was criticized (among other things) for the lack of third-party apps. They weren’t allowed, except for so-called Web-apps, which were « just » Web pages. So hackers unlocked the iPhone, developers developed unsanctioned third-party apps, and eventually, Apple released a software development kit for writing native iPhone…