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What I would do with $149,995

michael — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 15:17:55 +0000

It has come to my attention that K.I.T.T., the ride of choice for vigilante crime fighters who are above the law everywhere, is now for sale. Interestingly enough, my 30th birthday is also next month. ’nuff said.

Starcraft Origami

michael — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 04:49:39 +0000

OMG. If you’ve ever spent hours building up your puny Terrans and mighty Protoss forces to withstand a Zerg rush – you know what I’m talking about. Here are those same terrifying pixels, gently shaped and folded to look something like this – 야후! 이미지박스. I should have guessed that it was a Korean who did it, it seems like everybody mainlines the stuff over there. If you ever get the chance, try to watch Starcraft TV. Who says video game spectating is boring? It goes a little something like this.

Polyphasic Sleep

michael — Tue, 02 May 2006 06:44:44 +0000

Hacking your body is old news, but hacking your mind is always fresh. Topics of conversation, like email forwards, seem to spread virally, and one of the topics that dominated conversation at SXSW was sleep. Polyphasic sleep to be exact. I’m not sure if I’ll ever get to the stage of wanting to take 6 naps a day, but it’s definitely an interesting way to tweak the conventional human experience.

Shackwatching’

michael — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 13:04:40 +0000

The other day, I met Ejovi for lunch and unwittingly suggested heading to the Shake Shack in Madison Square Park. OMG. What a mistake. It was like the great wall of people. The line snaked down almost to 23rd St. Where, I asked, was the light social technology that enabled the community to combat this menace and ensure that waiting 1hr+ for a burger was somebody else’s problem? Today, my prayers have been answered. Thank you Shake Shack Watchers.

Simevolution AKA Spore

michael — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 16:55:38 +0000

Spore Gameplay Video – Google Video

Awesome awesome awesome. Will Wright does it again. This looks like it’s going to be the timesuck of the decade.

He Safire to the facts! [in the style of Cartman from South Park]

michael — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 01:20:04 +0000

Kottke led me to this post by Wes Felter rightfully criticizing William Safire’s rough’n'far from ready article ostensibly reviewing the jargon of the blogosphere. Among the numerous factual errors, Safire’s primary source for these facts – blogossary.com gets things so wrong it’s almost laughable. Here’s a quick example of their entry for ‘meme’: “A meme is a type of online chain letter where bloggers answer questions or participate in a quiz designed to give a quick overview of the author’s personality.”

I can’t believe that such a well-respected writer at the Times uses a single (barely visited) site as a primary source for his article. Even five minutes spent googling or hell – askjeevesing (get it before he’s gone) - would have exposed Safire’s factual ‘malfunction’ with a teeny bit of evidence.

IM Quotes

michael — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 21:03:17 +0000

hey, if you type in your pw, it will show as stars
********* see!
hunter2
doesnt look like stars to me
*******

QDB: Top 100 Quotes

Ace Bar for sale

michael — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 01:00:13 +0000

eBay: ACE BAR NEW YORK CITY MANHATTAN EAST VILLAGE BUSINESS (item 4420176447 end time Dec-19-05 16:27:21 PST)

Yeah. The Ace Bar in the East Village is being sold on Ebay. I hope it comes with the Hologram Werewolf and the collection of vintage lunch tins – cos those things are worth like 1/2 a million alone.

How T-mobile reinvented SMTP…

michael — Sat, 19 Nov 2005 16:06:56 +0000

So I was doing a bit of googling to fix up my new Nokia 6682′s email capabilities and I found some useful information via Google and then this

complete nonsense (see image on left) from T-mobile – my trusted cell phone provider, to whom I pay large chunks of cash every month to provide me with limited data speed, shoddy connection and erratic SMS delivery. Now I know why – they don’t even bloody know what SMTP is! Perhaps I am wildly off the mark, and what I have thought of for many years as the Simple Mail Transport Protocol (defined in RFC 821), the cornerstone of email is actually the Short Message Transfer Protocol. Hmm… 371 hits on Google, zilch on Wikipedia and precious little everywhere else.

Perhaps they were confusing SMTP with SMS – the Short Message Service – which is sometimes also called text messaging. These acronyms are difficult to sort out, especially if you’re one of the largest carriers in the US with other things on your mind, like working out how to squeeze more $$ out of your millions of customers. Frankly, if they can’t even copy and paste definitions of easily understood acronyms, I shudder to think of the incompetence lurking within their billing department. Sheesh.

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dack.com 2.0

michael — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 07:34:44 +0000

Go to the Web Two Point Oh! site and get yourself a new company pre-made for VC loving. I am the President and CEO of the Welsh-sounding Secwy, who specializes in tag-based classifieds via Ruby on Rails.

Ah.. the good old days.... found while perusing apophenia