dataPortability.org

Non-geeks may not understand why this is an important issue. I think this video explains it well:

DataPortability - Connect, Control, Share, Remix from Smashcut Media on Vimeo.

Google Blog/RSS Reader trick

I just noticed that if you go into “Settings -> Goodies” on reader.google.com they give you a link to a “next” button that you can put in your bookmarks. It brings up the next unread page... the entire page, not just the RSS-apportioned text. You gotta try it to understand.

Link mania

A hiliarious photoshop tutorial:

10 Suckin’ Years: John Oliver looks back at ten years of Lewinsky jokes - and Jon Stewart fashion.

Scoble shows SpaceTime.com’s neat demo of a 3D web browser: link



Trivia:
Q. If you were to spell out numbers (one, two, three, etc.), how far would you have to go until you would find the letter ‘A’?
A. One thousand


Library of Congress gets a Flickr account. They post 3,000 pictures at extremely high quality. Great... now I’m going to waste my entire weekend :-)

Happy Birthday, cartographer!

HBTY!
HBTY!
HBDC!
HBTY!

Review: Cloverfield (no spoilers)

FUN!

ANNOYING!

STUFF ‘ASPLODIN’ FUN!

(if you don’t have an HDTV and DVD player, it it on the big screen... see it at a discount matinée)

Jerry Springer: The Opera ...comes to NYC!

Two nights only at Carnegie Hall! January 29 and 30, 2008.

If you dislike Jerry or if you dislike opera... it doesn’t matter, you will love this show. Heck, if you read this LJ I can almost promise that you will love the social commentary.

http://www.jerryspringertheopera.com/

(I saw it in London. There are youtube videos of scenes from it if you search.)

Two AI Pioneers. Two bizarre suicides.

Long article, but worth the read.