December 2008
18 posts
Fractals of Change: How a Gas Tax Increase Can... →
A gas tax is a great idea and this is a nice proposal for a gas tax.  I don’t think there is the political will to get it done but it would be a huge coup if an Obama administration could pull it off.
Dec 31st
The Twitter API
bijan: I’m enjoying two new Twitter products. And the most powerful part is that the Twitter didn’t have develop them. They came from 3rd parties using their own creativity + Twitter API. Dabr I’m using a Blackberry Bold these days and I’m not a huge fan of any of the existing twitter clients for the blackberry. Dabr is mobile web interface to Twitter. It’s clean and fast. It’s just what I...
Dec 30th
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Coding Horror: My Software Is Being Pirated →
Dec 27th
Local News | Seattle refuses to use salt; roads... →
Dec 23rd
“Python would be Humanism: It’s simple, unrestrictive, and all you need to...”
– Aegisub: If programming languages were religions…
Dec 19th
Dec 16th
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99 Cent iPhone Apps Not Significantly More Popular →
Interesting analysis.
Dec 13th
Dec 12th
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WatchWatch
Jon Stewart talks to Mike Huckabee about gay marriage.  Jon tears to shreds any seeming logic in the Mike’s case.
Dec 10th
50 Most Beautiful Icon Sets Created in 2008 |... →
Dec 10th
Honeybees are found to interact with Quantum... →
Dec 9th
“Of course, such a change in the assignment plan is a move toward neighborhood...”
– Seattle neighborhoods need more, not fewer, schools
Dec 9th
Could VC be a Casualty of the Recession? →
There is a lot of truth here.  And it will be interesting how the VC industry reacts.  Paul is mostly talking about sw/web startups here but there are still areas where a lot of capital is required.  VCs are already moving there but it remains how critical VCs will be to sw/web startups.
Dec 7th
Dec 7th
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Dec 7th
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Dec 5th
XBOX & Netflix
Used the XBOX to view Netflix last night.  The picture quality was actually pretty good.  The biggest con in my book is that you have to queue things for streaming on the web.  Then you view and choose from your queue on the xbox.  Really you should be able to browse the whole library on the xbox.  Interesting times…
Dec 2nd
First look: can Songbird 1.0 replace iTunes, WMP? →
(via studioartist) Here’s why this has a chance.  DRM for music seems to be going away and the DRM was always the piece that tied the music to a given player.  Remove DRM and you remove a large reason why people have to be “tethered” to a given player.  I wrote a blog post about it some time ago.  http://bit.ly/1CAq
Dec 2nd