Posts from ‘September, 2009’

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Wow, I feel so horrible for all the millions of people who have not gotten their Google Wave invite, wow are you missing out on the coolest experience since glow in the dark yo-yos… Ring-Dings…disco…
Even in just a few hours, I am finding my every conception of [...]

In my late night fiddling with my stream of Weird S*** Web sites, I stumbled into “Sponsors of Tomorrow”, which takes an uploaded photo of you, and melds it into a hideous video of some dorko Tom Cruis-ish type character. The photo used was my mugshot-like passport photo.
I warned you of the weirdness:

How much engineer [...]

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Twitter retweets are an interesting phenemona; another example of the informal communication started by users– to RT means more or less to forward another person’s tweet out to your own network. On one level it seems to be an action of acknowledgment, say, if I retweet something that Joan [...]

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I was pleased to be invited to give a keynote on Friday at Tulane University’s Tech Day… they run a great free event open not only to the Tulane community but they offer it to other local institutions:
Tech Day is an opportunity for the Tulane community to come [...]

Earlier this month I had some fun satirizing Wired magazine for what I thought was a real non-story as a cover item (like they care what I think?).
What I neglected to add later was as I read the issue, they had a real cover worthy story in Gone Forever: What Does It Take to [...]

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Need any more data for the superiority of dogs?

This may be closest the cogdog gets to bavanography…

And here’s a tip, blogsters- posting a lot of crap does not count any more than good cogdog crap.

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I have had a hair tearing hacked WordPress blog experience here over the last 2 days. I don’t know why, but it really knocked my knees out, and I am reeling to figure out why this has gotten to me on an emotional level. That even sounds silly seeing [...]

One of my chief enjoyable moments is when I accidentally learn something. Here’s another one for the pile.
On a trip earlier this month to San Francisco for a meeting, I was in a rather nice hotel, which meant that, according to Alexander’s Law, the internet would be sucky (Bryan Alexander has collected data to [...]

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It was not until I was done with placing these last stepping stones for my walkway, that I noticed that my playfulness with the angled rocks created an HTML tag.
My yard now has italic text and will ruin the layout of the rest of the neighborhood [...]