In doing to research on the Wired wiki article, I came across this fellow: A.J. Jacobs. Someone (a critic) once describe him as a “bag person’s Dave Barry” — to which he replied: “I am actually a bag person’s David Sedaris.” Mostly, he’s an author for Esquire et al who has some pretty remarkable ways [...]
Amateur Stings
Jason Fortuny isn’t a cop, nor does he play one on TV. But, apparently after staying at a Holiday Inn, he acted like a moral cop a few weeks back in setting up a web-based sting operation to expose a bunch of cheating spouses. This is old news, but I’m taking a break from my [...]
Photo of me at WikiSym
In searching for some other stuff, I found photo of me at WikiSym giving my talk. Just before I went on, the photographer — Mark Gaved — spoke on Wikis of Locality and his work with an Open Guides wiki for Milton Keynes.
I quit the Ph.D. program
I had a dream last night, while dozing on the couch in between study sessions, that I quit the Ph.D. program in a huff. Erik was in the middle of our doctoral academic gym — apparently the 11th-floor office wasn’t big enough, so they moved us into a gym, where we could sit against the [...]
Big Honkin’ Spider
This is making a man-sized web in our front yard:
It is about the size of the top of my thumb, which I’m convinced it is prepared to eat. Any insect scientists out there who might tell us whether we need to feed it birds, or call animal control?
Justin’s music thingy
So while I’m waiting to get the tech working for a test, Justin went and did his own blog entry on the MyStrands music playlist visualizer. (Some nerve. What, does he think this is his project or something? Sheesh.) Justin gave a presentation on Tuesday to the Networking group at the School of Informatics, fresh [...]
HyperScope
On September 4, HyperScope was released by a development team that included Blue Oxen’s Eugene Kim and Doug Engelbart, who had to cancel a trip to IU to speak a couple years back. Engelbart is the inventor of such things as the Mouse, Hypertext, Videoconferencing, and the chording keyboard — all of which were part [...]