2006 Archive

2006

68 posts

Mossberg on Zune

...to buy even a single 99-cent song from the Zune store, you have to purchase blocks of 'points' from Microsoft, in increments of at least $5.

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Ad-free blog

Punch the owl and win!

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False Advertising

It appears that oil interests in other states have produced a bogus California voter info guide for Democrats. Bastards!

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First version of Digg cost $200?!

Audio file of Kevin Rose from Future of Web Apps summit talking about using Elance to find a developer for Digg.

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Siren Bath on Drawball

Imagine a view of the Mona Lisa being painted but in Adobe Illustrator one layer at a time. Amazing site.

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CrossOver Mac

Run Windows-native applications on Mac OSX without Bootcamp or Parallels. Crazy.

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Doug Bowman joins Google full time

Doug is part of the secret sauce behind the Blogger redesign and the excellent Google Calendar, so having his full attention should bode well for Google.

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Picasa for Linux

The Picasa you know and love - for Linux. Of course now I'm dying for a Picasa for Mac version.

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New Mac TV ads

Great new ads starring Justin Long from Dodgeball and Ed fame.

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Tom Cruise @ Yahoo!

All the best controversial Scientologists end up visiting Yahoo!, when will Google catch a break?

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Google Finance launches

Now I'm completely Yahoo-free... except for Flickr.. and delicious... and Upcoming.

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World Water Day 2006

More than 20% of the Earth’s population lacks clean, safe drinking water!!!

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His MySpace odyssey

The movie is pretty funny too, you can find it on YouTube by searching for MySpace.

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Fair & (Un)Balanced

Fox shows how Bush thwarted attack by aliens...or something.

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Since Sliced Bread

Rock the Vote is holding a contest to come up with ideas for social change. They are down to 7 final ideas.

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TuneCenter for iPod

Add a hard drive and I thought this was what Apple would announce at MacWorld. Looks pretty cool.

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Napoleon Explosive

Version of Napoleon Dynamite that was subtitled in Chinese, then translated from Chinese back in to English.

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Overheard in the Bookstore

Overheard in NY is one of my favorite daily reads. Perfect content for compilation as a book. Nice work!

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The original: Flicker

Not Flickr, Flicker. An open-source stand-alone computer program for visually comparing 2D gel images.

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You've been chipmunk'd!

Audio recording is weird. Some of my podcasts sound chimpmunk'd in Odeo - this is an explanation why.

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