Jawbone Up detailed: tracks activity, food intake and sleep cycles, available November 6 for $100 (video) — Engadget

Jawbone Up detailed: tracks activity, food intake and sleep cycles, available November 6 for $100 (video) — Engadget. “At last, the company’s ready to talk specifics. We just got word the Up will be available in the US November 6th for $100, and will continue its world tour on the 17th. With that price, it’s [...]

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Map of “my” earthquakes > 3.0

The 3.8 one on 10/20 doesn’t really count, I was in Boston. But that’s where we start this map of earthquakes I’ve experienced here in Oakland, CA. Last Updated: 11/5                

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Remix Culture, David Byrne, Imelda Marcos

“…like this one, use news and archival footage to, well, show that every word of the song is true! Most of the lyrics on this one are lifted gently from interviews and quotations — the “please don’t” chorus especially. At some point as first lady, Imelda began to feel that she could help Philippine interests [...]

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It’s about voice. Have one. (A good one helps)

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Notes in the margin

CNN.com recently published the article, Want to work for Obama? Get ready to spill all. In a sidebar, they also posted a PDF of the questionnaire the transition team is sending to every Cabinet and “other high-ranking positions”. The PDF is an optical scan of a printed questionnaire. Other than being posted on the CNN [...]

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Historic Day at CERN (and Twitter)

With possibly the best opening tweets in Twitter history, CERN announced the successful start up of the Large Hadron Collider. twitter.com/cern

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Top 9 Records of 2004

“Van Lear Rose”, Loretta Lynn “A Ghost is Born”, Wilco “The Revolution Starts Now”, Steve Earle “Contraband”, Velvet Revolver “Hot Fuss”, The Killers “The Delivery Man”, Elvis Costello “Good News for People Who Love Bad News”, Modest Mouse “College Dropout”, Kanye West “Los Lonely Boys”, Los Lonely Boys Jimmy seemed to need some help remembering [...]

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Everytime you add this to your email, a kitten dies.

Seriously, everytime I see one of these I feel icky. I don’t know, maybe don’t use color in your email, and done include three months of quoted correspondence below your signature might be a better place to start. Oh wait, here’s an idea, don’t email back “Thanks!” every time, my brain is part of the [...]

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Hi Nokia!

I spend a few weeks back in the late 90′s in Espoo & Helsinki Finland installing and configuring some web apps that I developed which were deployed behind their firewall. Nokia was great and Helsinki was tremendous. Recently one or two of my posts must have been linked on some internal nokia site. This blog [...]

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Your laptop dies now what?

Last week my MacBook died. It may have just pulled a Rip Van Winkle on me I’m not too sure because I had no time to waste; I needed to get back to work as soon as possible. After an hour or so of generally freaking out I learned I had the following options:

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