25 month ago
jimray : Faulty fax, mistaken as threat, prompts evacuation of stores - I've said it before, I'll say it again: we'll know that we're in The Future when people are no longer using fax machines.
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25 month ago
jimray : CNN.com beta is up - At a first glance, looks sharp.
Cameron Moll : beta.cnn.com - beta.cnn.com. They've really cleaned things up with this version. (thanks, Spencer)
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25 month ago
jimray : Dan Savage explains exactly why the whole eHarmony suit is so idiotic - "There’s room on God’s green Internet for gay personals websites and straight personals websites" Right on.
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25 month ago
jimray : Caught on Google Maps Street View - Including such hits as "Stanford co-eds sunbathing" and "coming out of a strip club"
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25 month ago
jimray : eHarmony sued for excluding gays - This is lame. There are plenty of alternatives to eHarmony. Do gay people (or anyone) really want to meet people at a dating site run by a guy connected to James Dobson? And what about dating sites that cater to gays and lesbians? Can I sue them?
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26 month ago
jimray : What the Immersive Media photo-car looks like - This is the company doing all of Google's street level view stuff with their fancy-pants 11 lens camera
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26 month ago
jimray : Google Gears - a browser plug-in to enable offline web apps - Get your Gmail on the plane! Kinda usurps the offline functionality that was supposed to be part of Firefox 3.0...
Rod Begbie : Google Gears (BETA) - Firefox and IE extension from Google which enables offline webapps. Currently works with Google Reader, but not GMail yet. [via] #
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26 month ago
plasticbag : The rumour is that last.fm has been bought by CBS for $280 Million - I find myself surprisingly depressed by this revelation, although it does sort of rather explain some of the conversations I had with them a while back about what it's like inside large organisations and how acquirees fare...
jimray : CBS Acquires Last.fm for $280 Million - Ok, you know things are crazy when a social music site with no business model goes for $280M, which is described as "a little on the low side." But good for last.fm, here's hoping CBS doesn't frak it all to hell.
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26 month ago
jimray : Rob Curley on washingtonpost.com’s new Facebook app - Pretty slick and the Facebook platform is pretty much why you should stop bothering with MySpace, kids
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26 month ago
jimray : Indie rock and yoga is all the rage? - Man, I've been doing this for over a year. I freaking hate the new age crap that gets packaged with yoga DVD's to help you "see with your third eye" or some other such non-sense.
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26 month ago
Khoi Vinh : Wiimbledon.net - “Wiimbledon is Brooklyn’s first — nay, the world’s first! — Wii tennis tournament.”
jimray : Wiimbledon is Brooklyn's first Wii tennis tournament! - Or, maybe it just has a clever name.
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26 month ago
jimray : Google maps introduces Street View - Yeah, it's an idea that Microsoft and Amazon have done, but holy CRAP, Google's implementation rocks!
Rod Begbie : Google LatLong: Introducing... Street View! - Cool new street-level 360º views on Google Maps. Only a handful of cities so far. [via] #
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26 month ago
jimray : Nick Douglas starts LOL the News - Not quite jumping the lolshark. Also, I love this.
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26 month ago
jimray : Seed savers exchange - Non-profit founded in 1975 made up of gardeners who save and exchange various heirloom seeds
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jimray : Niall Kennedy on why every good domain name is taken - A tiny evolutionary step above spammers on the chart of "Why the internet sucks in 2007" (like DJ Shadow said, it's the money)
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26 month ago
jimray : Google will now give you directions without highways - Nice for bikers or scenic traveler types
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26 month ago
gleuschk : Jonathan Lethem, Richard Posner, and others reveal their favorite fonts. - - Slate Magazine - it's important to have a favorite font.
jimray : Writers do it with 12pt Courier - Slate asked a bunch of professional writers to pick their fave font, an alarmingly high number picked Courier
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26 month ago
jimray : iTunesFS turns your iTunes playlists in to folders! - In the future, everything will be available as a filesystem. Everything.
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jimray : iPredict is a new news format based around predictive voting - My boss Rex built this and it's actually pretty cool
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26 month ago
jimray : Silverlight 1.1 for Macs will be Intel only - This is the version that integrates the .NET runtime. I don't have a huge problem with this as 1.1 is 6-8 months out anyway and a year or more from serious penetration.
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26 month ago
jimray : T-post - A subscription-based t-shirt company with designs based on current events. If this didn't exist, Rex would have to invent it.
Rod Begbie : T-post - T-shirt-by-mail club which sends a new shirt every six weeks, based on news events. [via] #
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26 month ago
jimray : ABC 4 Investigation: Emos exposed - God, I hope not, NOBODY wants to see a naked goth kid...
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26 month ago
jimray : Rob Curley's got some interesting thoughts on outsourcing “local” reporting - First I'd heard of this story of a Pasadena paper farming out local reporting to India
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26 month ago
jimray : Apple releases an open source scripting-to-Cocoa bridge framework - BridgeSupport is currently used by PyObjC and RubyCocoa
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jimray : My buddy Geoff Dougherty got Knight Foundation money for ChiTownDailyNews! - This is fantastic, he'll do great things with that!
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