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- Europeans also appear to have difficulty comprehending the idea of a game in which they can use their hands [More] |
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The Future (Oct 23 2003 18:33 GMT) - "If you want to see the future coming, 90 percent of what you need to learn, you'll learn outside of your industry. There is nothing that you can learn from inside your industry that will help you get ready for the future. Literally nothing, because you already know it." --Gary Hamel, author of Leading the Revolution[via Frank Patrick's Focused Performance] |
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Work It (Oct 23 2003 18:33 GMT) - With music throbbing and her proud family looking on, Amanda Draizin, 16, strutted down a runway, wearing a little black dress and her brand new nose. Corrine Hernandez showed off her breast implants. Roslyn Kaufman displayed her slimmed-down stomach and wrinkle-free eyelids. "They're coming to see me," said Ms. Kaufman, describing the 300 people tucked into Fox Hollow, a Long Island banquet hall here. |
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- Deftcode: Every language war, ever. |
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VisualAge (Oct 23 2003 18:33 GMT) - Ah. I'm removing VisualAge from my workstation as we speak. I fell so much cleaner. |
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West Wing (Oct 23 2003 18:33 GMT) - Wow. The writing on The West Wing really blows since Sorkin left. |
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Acrobat 6 (Oct 23 2003 18:33 GMT) - Hats off to Darrel Norton for figuring out how to make the bloated heap that is Adobe Acrobat 6 into something more useable. |
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He Switched (Oct 23 2003 18:33 GMT) - It looks like Mike Clark (of JDepend, Bitter EJB fame) just started using a Mac. |
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Tube Sand (Oct 23 2003 18:33 GMT) - The sad thing is that someone probably got rich from "tube sand." |
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- How do you walk? I think I walk like a happy, relaxed, moderately light woman. [please click the link for context on that last sentence]Link via Andres Aguiar. |
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- A continuing federal probe into America Online's accounting practices has reached top management, as the Securities and Exchange Commission issued subpoenas to Time Warner Chairman Richard D. Parsons, AOL founder Steve Case and other senior officials, sources familiar with the probe said today.The SEC wants to question them about the company's booking of $400 million in revenue from transactions with German media conglomerate Bertelsmann AG following the 2001 merger of America Online and Time Warner.Amid the new revelations about the probe, the company also revealed today in its quarterly filing that America Online lost 2 million subscribers during the past year, including 688,000 users who left the online service during the third quarter. [via The Washington Post]Ah -- that is good news. |
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- http://www. jacksonville. com/tu-online/stories/102303/m shtmlBut he's not seeing the Sun any time soon.It still freaks me out tremendously that I met someone who did something that horrible. |
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- http://denbeste. nu/cd_log_entries/2003/10/Thea shtml |
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TBN (Oct 23 2003 18:33 GMT) - Posted by Webmaster 10/23/2003 |
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- As I write this I’m still in Vancouver (doing my best to stay conscious during a conference call). Last night I went out to dinner for with Chris, whom I haven’t seen for a year since he went to the Philippines as part of an outreach/support program providing technology skills to a womens rights organization. We resumed our old habit... |
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- A new message was posted: Address: http://radio. userland. |
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- A new message was posted: Address: http://radio. userland. |
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- This can't be good.After just a couple of quarters of good behavior, companies are once again asking analysts and investors to ignore certain expenses on... |
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- Adrian Holovaty (no relation) wonders why there have to be three kinds of headlines at ESPN.com. Amazingly, the head designer... |
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- Adrian Holovaty (no relation) wonders why there have to be three kinds of headlines at ESPN.com. Amazingly, the head designer... |
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- The Late Late Show on Irish RTE television will be doing... |
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- Now, at Amazon.com, Search Inside the Book. Looks pretty cool, as anticipated these last few months. The press release is online, too. |
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Art Show (Oct 23 2003 18:32 GMT) - Remember, not only do we list SF shows, but also shows happening around the country. soon we will have a... |
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- First of all I forgot to mention that the buttons and game pad on the MadCatz Retrocon Gamepad are back lit and look totally cool in the dark. You can't turn it off but it... |
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- This is a table about Georgia Pecan Market Update |
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- This is a table about Kansas City Daily Feed Update |
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- This is a table about Australia -- Western Australia Weather Update |
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- This is a table about Australia -- New South Wales Weather Update |
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- This is a table about N.Y. Asian Produce Market Update |
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- This is a table about N.Y. Tropical Produce Market Update |
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- This is a table about N.Y. Fresh Vegetable Market Update |
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- This is a table about N.Y. Fresh Fruit Market Update |
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- This is a table about Florida Fresh Vegetable Market Update |
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- Ryan Adams, Rock N Roll (Lost Highway) Slouching from the stage, head bowed, like a bear looking for someone to... |
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- Bollocks to this, I'm heading back to London. Upon my return I'll reveal why it's better to watch Real Madrid on TV, and relate the celebrity-strewn tale of a night out with the very sadly departed Elliot Smith. |
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- So, I received this ADORABLE mug from one of my homies for my birthday, along with a box of St.... |
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- If you want us to improve, now we're getting someplace. Take a deep breath. Relax. Feel better? |
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- nVidia has today introduced its new NVIDIA® ForceWare™ release 50 graphics driver, a new Unified Driver Architecture (UDA) engineered to provide unmatched performance and image quality on both Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 and OpenGL® applications. In addition to its unmatched DirectX 9.0 application performance, this new graphics driver also delivers world-renowned compatibility, stability, and reliability across all NVIDIA GPUs. |
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- Senior executives of Taiwan PC maker Acer on Tuesday took swipes at Microsoft during an event marking the first anniversary of the software giant's Tablet PC operating system. Acer President Wang Chen-tang said Microsoft is charging too much for its Windows XP Tablet PC Edition operating system, which has resulted in disappointing Tablet PC sales. |
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- After much anticipation Microsoft has finally released version 6.1 of their popular IM client. MSN Messenger is an instant messaging program that lets you send instant messages with cool emoticons, send pictures and other files to your friends, call a phone anywhere in the world from your computer, see when someone is typing a message to you, page a contact's mobile phone, and much more |
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- Lew Rockwell | The National Defense Myth Donald Rumsfeld puts on a good face for the public, but an... |
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- Tonight. Blogorama on Kalorama. Be there.... |
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- "You won't understand a single word, and you'll beg for more, more, more!" praise for whatevs.org from our good friends over at Low Culture. depending how into Apple you are, this excellent post may or may not be stale. I was just perusing the always e |
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- Wired magazine did a very unusual thing today: they published a story online before printing it -- because news broke. Amazon has a new, searchable book archive which amounts to a huge leap toward making books searchable. Wired had an exclusive on it -- a really smart piece by gary wolf -- but it wasn't going to hit newsstands for three weeks (ah, the wonderful 19th century world of magazine publishing), so editor Mark Robinson and others at the mag decided to put it online at wired.com. |
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- UK Sport launches a telephone hotline for tip-offs about suspected use of illegal drugs. |
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- Approximately 10% of Blog*Spot Plus sites will be unavailable for a few minutes starting at 2pm Pacific Time. |
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- the [american] media is supposed to counter-spin the official spin [text below]... |
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- Via Crooked Timber, I see that Eminem's lyrics are now being analyzed in The New York Review of Books. |
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