Insomnia Film Festival
Apple is sponsoring a contest for college students to create a film in 24 hours called the Insomnia Film Festival. The grand prize is a copy of Final Cut Pro and an 80G video iPod. I went to look at the terms and conditions to see how odious they were, expecting the worst. I was [...]
Would You Let Your Children Take Candy From This Man?
Would You Let Your Children Take Candy From This Man?
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We had very close to the optimal amount of candy. The first year we were here, we had a ridiculous amount of candy left over and were eating Skittles until the following June. [...]
Halloween Meathead
The Make Magazine weblog has been presenting a metric buttload of Halloween projects but this edible zombie head hors d’oeuvres platter is the one I really feel like making. It’s time to gear up for kids! They let us out of work early in order to gear up for Halloween. I presume this is mostly [...]
Jeneane on PayPerPost
I hadn’t ever read Jeneane Sessum’s blog before the recent Ze-scapades. I was looking at some of the other recent posts and to my surprise, I saw her posting a very similar take to my on the whole PayPerPost thing. She struck all the same notes – hypocrisy of those making money blogging while taking [...]
Questions for Startup Founders
My friend Jason sent around a link to this page of interest to any of you entrepeneurial types. It is a list of questions founders of a startup should ask themselves and each other. Interesting stuff, and I don’t know that I disagree with a one of them. For an example of this working the [...]
BDP Referral Tracker Update
I noticed recently that things with the referral tracker in the sidebar didn’t seem to be working right. For example, despite a crapload of incoming traffic in the Ze-slide, none of those ever got counted. I went to look at the site for the plugin and I realized that the current version is 1.0.6 and [...]
Tags: bdpreferraltracker, wordpressSecond Life Thrash
Eric Rice has a post about things afoot in Second Life that have user/customers upset. Raising the prices is a serious one of those, but not the only one. In the post, he posits that user dissatisfaction coupled with the techno-alpha-geek makeup of people who have been early adopters might push the creation of an [...]
Tags: ericrice, secondlifeEGC Clambake for October 29, 2006
Here is the Bittorrent link and direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for October 29, 2006.
I play a song from Michelle Malone; I talk about Ze Frank, Andrew Baron and the Nerdfight; I talk about Halloween; I play a song from Tom Waits and try to get out gracefully.
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Let’s Fight
You know, I want to get my traffic up for this site and this podcast. The best thing for that is always to start a feud with someone. Bruce Sterling knew this back when he was doing cyberpunk zines in the 80’s – to get attention and mindshare, pick a fight with someone, anyone. So [...]
Monika Campbell, RIP
Chris, my longtime friend and frequent commentor here, lost his mother last week and writes about her in a very touching post. Losing the people that made you who you are is always tough, particularly at relatively young ages. Our condolences to Chris and his family.
Congratulations St Louis Cardinals
They entered all three post-season series as underdogs, and now they are the 2006 World Champions. They played great ball, they took advantage of the other teams’ errors, more often than not they answered all oppenent runs the next time they took the plate. Right on. You got a love a team that barely played [...]
You Hate to See This
I’m pulling for the Cardinals in the World Series, but that doesn’t mean I enjoy watching the Tigers throwing balls away, wild pitching, getting caught in rundowns needlessly and so forth. This is just plain a groups that isn’t playing like a championship team. I hope they didn’t let all the pre-Series hype go to [...]
You Might Be Delirious If…
You are looking at an SSL certificate in PEM format at your day job, and you suddenly decide that the public key and algorithm portion kind of look like ASCII art of the profile of a cartoon moose.
EGC Clambake for October 26, 2006
Here is the Bittorrent link and direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for October 26, 2006.
I play a song from Michelle Malone; I air my interview with CC Chapman from the Podcast Expo; I play some songs from Turn Me On Dead Man; that’s it kids, very simple agenda.
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Exhausting night
Lots of comments tonight. I didn’t expect all this furor about Ze Frank. I might have thought twice about posting if I had thought it would bring fundamentalists out of the woodwork to give me crap. I have me a World Series game to watch! As it happens at least things are calming down now [...]
Ze Frank vs. Rocketboom
Andrew Baron posted his end of an odd vidcast argument that Ze Frank started here. Chris Brogan comments on that episode as David Berlind does as well, although Berlind is not addressing the Rocketboom diss but the TV networks diss.
Having watched the show, I think his attack is milder than I was expecting from Drew’s [...]
Around the Podosphere
Craig Patchett emailed me to let me know that he had published the show with his interview of me from PME. At first, I had no recollection of getting interviewed by Craig although I know I ran into him several times. It wasn’t until I listened to the show that I remembered it. It must [...]
Tags: craigpatchett, mimiito, pme, podcastexpo, smartcityHow to Fix Your Broken mobiBLU Cube
I’m reposting this because a number of people have found the instructions for fixing the mobiBLU cube useful — especially in light of the fact that the mobiBLU website is useless. I want to extract just the cube stuff out of the original post, and hopefully this post will get the Google juice of the [...]
Tags: mobiblu, mobiblucubeOnline Poker Observation #1
The same guy who thinks you are an idiot for pushing your money in when you are beat and then catching a lucky draw will think he is brilliant when he does the same thing later on. The dumber they think you are, the higher amount they’ll call when you actually have the hand.
The Loneliest House
As the weather gets cooler, we get sadder again without our puppy to cuddle up with. That used to be the best part of cold days. It sure does suck without her around. Some days it’s hard to even want to get out of bed.
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