Showing posts with label web tools. Show all posts
Showing posts with label web tools. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

The conspiracy lives.

There's a new bot in town and it calls itself "Majestic-12." Where's Greg Bishop when you need him?

[Follow me on Twitter.]

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Twitter unleashed





I snapped this picture today while nursing a cold at a sidewalk cafe. Could this be the real-life avatar of the iconic "Twitter bird" reminding me to check the "replies" column on my TweetDeck?

(You can "follow" me here.)

Sunday, March 15, 2009

Google Mars



I just downloaded Google Mars. What I've seen so far is fascinating, although the requisite commentary on the "Face on Mars" is facile and alarmingly one-sided. Here's a scientifically literate page that should have been referenced.

Sunday, January 04, 2009





If you like this blog, you might enjoy following me on Twitter. If you don't have an account, creating one takes all of five minutes.

Wednesday, December 03, 2008



Yep, that's Facebook all right.

(Thanks: Next Nature.)

Monday, December 01, 2008

Facebook Aims to Extend Its Reach Across the Web

Facebook Connect, as the company's new feature is called, allows its members to log onto other Web sites using their Facebook identification and see their friends’ activities on those sites. Like Beacon, the controversial advertising program that Facebook introduced and then withdrew last year after it raised a hullabaloo over privacy, Connect also gives members the opportunity to broadcast their actions on those sites to their friends on Facebook.


I used to be an intermittent Facebook user -- until I realized I could enjoy most of its worthy elements more quickly and efficiently with Twitter. There's nothing exactly wrong with Facebook, but it's cluttered and inordinately time-consuming.

Friday, November 07, 2008

My Top 10 Most Useful and Informative Twitter Users

What? I wasn't included? An outrage!

;-)

Thursday, November 06, 2008

Maybe it's just me, but certainly seems like the word-verification ("weevie") spam-filters used by Blogger have become mostly pronounceable. I've even noticed actual words where once was pure gibberish.

What do you think?

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

A friend assembled some of my recent tweets into a passable poem. Like, dig it, man:


Enduring the pale
accusatory banter of semi
estranged lovers.
'It's such a lovely day to have to always feel this way.'
Chattering med students enamored
of textbook infections.
The flow of inevitable tourists
as the evening dies.

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Drop whatever you're doing and give Tag Galaxy a whirl. As an increasingly avid Flickr user, I think this just might be the coolest photo visualization out there.

Monday, September 22, 2008

Gospelr: it's Twitter for fuckwits.

Monday, September 08, 2008

What should I read next?

Saturday, August 30, 2008

Because Twitter is so 2007 . . .

Thursday, June 26, 2008

I just set up a Twitter account. Go ahead -- follow me. I dare you!

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Solar-powered bra displays text, holds drinks

The green, high-quality cotton bra features a waist-mounted solar panel that powers a small, chest-mounted electronic billboard or any other electronic device you choose to connect. A pair of reusable drink containers attach to the bra cups, allowing the wearer to reduce consumption of aluminum cans and plastic bottles while increasing bust size.


Saving the planet and increasing bust size, you say? That has to be worth a Nobel Prize or two.

Pink Tentacle also points the way to this hypnotic collection of black-and-white animated GIFs.

Wednesday, April 23, 2008



I've grown incredibly skeptical of online dating -- so much so that, at my most cynical, I'm tempted to suggest it's a failed concept best abandoned. But the interface portrayed in the video is so conceptually interesting that I'm willing to suspend my grudges. Will it revolutionize algorithm-based match-making? Probably not. But I've seen much clunkier attempts to reinvent the user's relationship with the Net.

Learn more here.

(Found at Information Aeshetics.)

Friday, April 11, 2008

I finally got around to creating a rudimentary Flickr photostream. More to come.

Sunday, August 19, 2007

"Ficlets" you ask?

A ficlet is a short story that enables you to collaborate with the world.

Once you've written and shared your ficlet, any other user can pick up the narrative thread by adding a prequel or sequel. In this manner, you may know where the story begins, but you'll never guess where (or even if!) it ends.

(Via Reality Carnival.)


Part of me is inclined to suggest that this meme just might take off. I should test the waters by posting a couple shorts from my fiction blog, Extracranial.

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

This is great: an energy-saving alternative to Google called "Blackle." Bookmark now!

Friday, July 13, 2007





Maintaining fictional galaxies not your bag? Try finding real ones:

The simple answer is that the human brain is much better at recognising patterns than a computer can ever be. Any computer program we write to sort our galaxies into categories would do a reasonable job, but it would also inevitably throw out the unusual, the weird and the wonderful. To rescue these interesting systems which have a story to tell, we need you.