This is a great bit about who Blogs and how: Protrait of a Blogger. Thanks to kpaul for the story...and I don't know if its the picture or that she keeps a good weBlog, but I enjoy TampaTantrum and Robyn Pollman's view that she Ain't too proud to Blog.
Also: Switch to the Dark Side. This is a hoot.
...and The Fibonacci ratio explained: THE PHI RATIO IN 1The Golden Section
The Fibonacci ratio explained:
THE PHI RATIO IN 1The Golden Section
As I am in a playful mood today, I thought it would be fun to post some of the great places you can waste some time on the web and have a laugh.
The first comes from Kiss This Guy where you can share your great misheard lyrics or just enjoy the fun of others. Some examples of those I found worth the visit are below:
Song: Torn Artist: Natalie ImbrugliaThe real lyrics were:
I thought I saw a man brought to life.
He was warm.
He came around like he was dignified.
He showed me what it was to cry.But I misheard them as:
I thought I saw a man born to life.
He was warm.
He came around like he was circumcised.
He showed me what it was to cry.The embarrassing moment of revelation:
I didn't know what it said until I actually looked up the lyrics recently!! I never sang it out loud. I told my friends that it sounds like she says that and they thought it was funny, but I never admitted that's what I was hearing.Age when I realized how wrong I had been: 20
Misheard by: Jenny
"Let the buyer beware" is the lesson for the day as I went on a panic buying spree and grabbed the first Top 100 I could find. I didn't bother to check it out or read the fine print. Using my head was Too Much To Dream. Ah, well. I might find something new this way, right?
I was just checking out the I'm feeling lucky! option of BlogRolling when I happened upon the opportunity to Go to Hell. May freedom of speech move us all to happier ground!
Thanks to the link from Ain't too proud to blog, I had a few more passersby this weekend. Me and 4 others were singled out for weekend reading pleasure. Thanks, Robyn. The other honors went to:
'round the bend - a little cheeky
adampsyche - makes me wanna holla
SquidBlog - day-to-day with Squiddy
hey-lisa.com - longing for simpler days
Click here to see past reading suggestions by Ain't too proud.
Thanks to CatSchwartz you can see a really great shot of Isabella - the much talked about storm in action. Scary and Beautiful.
Got pictures of suds or phone-booths and nowhere to show them off?
Try joining the public Beer Moblog. E-mail your pics to Beer.Blog@tamw.com
Or check out the Phonebox Moblog. E-mail your pics to PhoneBox.Blog@tamw.com
Dave Pollard's weBlog: How to Save the World offers the following:
The abandonment of 80-90% of blogs is a positive phenomenon - Media who just don't 'get it' have pointed to the abandonment of most blogs as an indication they're too technologically complex, or have no broad appeal, no staying power. What this abandonment really represents is a large number of people deciding that writing really isn't that important to them. The focus should instead be on the 10-20% who are still blogging. That's millions, potentially hundreds of millions of people regularly honing their writing skills, getting valuable commentary from readers on their writing and their ideas. Instead of a wasteland of abandoned effort, the blogosphere (along with perhaps IM) could actually be the most important development in written language since the printing press. As newspaper readership plummets and the next generation opts for oral communications over written, the timing of this phenomenon could not be more significant. From the article: THE MOST IMPORTANT IDEAS OF 2003
On that note, the following are some of my favorites places to visit (in no particular order) of those who are still writing, tossing ideas out there for discussion or sometimes “just for the heck of it”:
1 - Something...
2 - In the Trenches - who sadly is closing the site:
Taking the place of not only this weblog, but my parent site as well, will be a new url, a new website, and two new weblogs. The new url is my own name: jasonschneider.ca and will continue to host my graphic design portfolio. There will also be a section dedicated to any hand-crafted items that I produce for either sale or my own personal development. I will still continue taking pictures and post them in a photography section (essentially a photoblog). As if that weren't enough, I will also be launching a new weblog which is more of a conceptual experience (something I've been thinking about for a long time) that will NOT be about me for once.
3 - Soy Sauce and Garlic
4 - Commentary on..The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
5 - Everything Burns
Please visit and add your comments. If that doesn't satisfy your need, check out my really big list of places to visit.
More on PodCasting: Wanna know what it is? Wish to see how its done? Interested in the biggest players in the PodCast sphere and how they work? Need a software client? Check out these articles, forget the spell check and grab a microphone.
How Podcasting Works: by Peter Rukavina: I've been doing a lot of talking about podcasting recently: explaining to people what it is, and how they can do it, and how they can listen, and how it works. I thought it might be useful to provide a very simple step by step illustration of how to "subscribe to a podcast."
Podcast to broadcast: Think podcasting is just for geeks and gadgeteers? Think again. Podcasting went mainstream last week when San Francisco’s KYOU 1550 AM began broadcasting listener-generated podcasts over the airwaves. Playlist’s Mathew Honan explores this bold radio experiment.
Wizards Podcast brings you the exclusive release announcement for iPodderX 3: It's a 'very special' Wizards episode, as the Wizards welcome August Trometer and Ray Slakinsky from iPodderX.com, who make the worldwide release announcement of their brand new podcast client,...
iPodderX adds features, gives away iPods: Thunderstone Media has released iPodderX 3.0, the third major update to its popular podcast client. Version 3 includes a host of new features such as SmartSpace file management, the NewsCaster text-to-podcast converter, complete integration with iTunes and iPhoto, Playlist Builder, full-screen video, and much more. In celebration of the release, Thunderstone Media is giving purchasers of iPodderX a chance to win one of four iPod shuffles or a grand prize iPod photo. iPodderX 3.0 retails for US$24.95 and is a free upgrade for all current iPodderX users. A 30-day free trial is available.
And now, if that wasn't enough. There's RoadCasting: Capture your friend's radio and tell him how you really feel. Or listen in to George & Martha's marital issues.
Watch for Roadcasting Rage: An in-car entertainment system is on the way that will allow drivers to tune in song collections from other vehicles as they whiz by. Roadcasting -- 'me-to-me' sharing -- could be perfectly legal. By Daniel Terdiman.
And then, there's always the drunk guy: He ruins it for everyone, but not anymore.
Steering Clear of Drunk Drivers: A patent is pending on a steering-wheel skin sensor for cars that tests a driver's alcohol level before allowing the car to start.
And you thought PodCasting was a fad!
While writing this I listened to the PodCast: [ ep 03.v ] foodies' revenge from the album "The Invincibles in "So... you want to be a foodie?"" by The Invincibles.
Fun stuff to do when you're feeling smarter than a computer, and need to correct that stance: 20Q.net is a simple game that will "guess" you right most of the time. Try it.
Kevin Kelly -- Cool Tools: Play 20Q: Ten-dollar AI. Burned into its 8-bit chip is a neural net that has been learning for 17 years. Inventor Robin Burgener programmed a simple neural net on a DOS machine 1988. He taught it 20 questions about a cat. He than passed the program around to friends on a floppy and had them challenge the neural net with their yes/no answers to the object they had in mind. The neural net learns only when it plays a game; no data is added except for the yes/no answers of visitors. So the more people who test it, the more they teach it. In 1995 Burgener put the now robust neural net onto the new web where anyone could play it (that is, train it) 24 hours a day. And they did. Burgener's genius was to turn the hard tedious work of training a neural net into a fun game for humans.
20Q.net: Twenty Questions - The neural-net on the Internet. 20Q.net is an experiment in artificial intelligence. The program is very simple but its behavior is complex. Everything that it knows and all questions that it asks were entered by people playing this game. 20Q.net is a learning system; the more it is played, the smarter it gets.
Sadly, it doesn't know much about backyard swimming pools as it doesn't know about swim-rings or life preservers. But it will tell "you" where you went wrong in telling it about what you were thinking. For example: Rubber Ducks are NOT round; and are (apparently) NOT used at night. But it gets things like "Ex-wives are un-pleasurable" just fine. I guess it comes down to "garbage in, garbage out." Either way, its fun; and if it has what you're thinking about in its database (and you answer accurately) it'll guess it soon enough to make you want to try again.
I always find it fun to read your horoscope a little into the period rather that just before. The more that you can say, "hey yeah, that is how it happened" gives you more reason to consider the second half of the month's potential outcome. Again with the money, guys (Wink to Navarco)? This is getting rough.
AstrologyZone:
Yet JOINT financial matters are a different story. You took a partner or agent so that you wouldn't have to carry the entire responsibility of the endeavor (or relationship), but now you see you have had to do so anyway - in addition to taking care of your partner! Clearly, this is not what you had in mind, and the past two months have been a real test of patience.
Mars, now touring your eighth house, has been retrograde since October 1, so if there is a financial matter you need to fix, or need your partner to help you with, this person has probably been missing in action. You feel like you haven't made progress at all, that everything you say has gone in one ear and out the other,.. ...until February 16, so your intense focus on joint finances will continue until then, but with a difference. No more delays! Finally you will get the other side to speak up. Where there is communication, there is hope.
...the moon will be in Libra from December 23 until late afternoon December 25, a time you'll emit a magnetic, radiant glow. These days will be so outstanding that they may even supersede the fun of New Year's Eve...
...Venus will retrograde from December 24 - February 3 and life will slow down. You may reconsider a relationship or reverse yourself over a key plan.
Ugh to that last part. Money issues are somewhat easy to handle, but key plans and relationships being put in limbo is not fun.
While checking out various websites for Apple Mail add-ons - HawkWings.net being a good one - I stumbled upon a logo/seal generator at Say-It.com via the jump form 43Folders.com. It was a round about journey, but the results were fun. Be sure to visit and try one out.
While designing this one, I played: Cherry from the album "Crawford Street" by Josh Woodward.
This is a test of Writely.com's ability to post to my weblog. According to the ABC News Story: REVIEW: Writely Mostly Hits the Mark, By JESSICA MINTZ AP Business Writer:
From: REVIEW: Google's Writely Mostly Hits the Mark, but It's No Word Killer: By JESSICA MINTZ, Oct 5, 2006 (AP)
With Google's backing, Writely has a jump on its competitors, which include AdventNet Inc.'s Zoho Writer and ThinkFree Corp.'s ThinkFree Write. (There are even rumors Microsoft will jump into the online word processor space.)
But as several substantial open-source alternatives have shown, it's tough to take market share from Microsoft Word. Even with the search leader's name attached, there's little danger Writely will crush Microsoft or its pricey boxed programs any time soon.
Copyright 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
So,...lets test if it hits my weblog. OK. It did. But I had to go back to my usual editor: Ecto and make some adjustments to things like "category", even though Writely said I could assign them and to the Title of the post - which I did adjust in Writely, but it didn't take - and I had to clean up the line breaks a bit as well as the "quoted" text. But, all-in-all, I would say that in a pinch, or when using another computer with internet access, it works.
I took a lazy Sunday today. Woke up mid-morning. Brushed my teeth and crawled back into a warm bed until noon. Had some naked time with my lover and later shared an omelet and bacon (the real stuff) while the fall air drifted through the windows. Afterward, it was time for her to pick up her studies and for me to do some work - research mostly for a new project. But then I got the latest email message from MacWorld saying that my new issue was ready for download. I said to Sybille, “You get sports on Sunday in Switzerland?” I explained that I wanted to skip work and have a lazy, fall Sunday - the kind where you sit on the couch, reading a book (or on-line magazine) with the sun on your shoulders while high priced athletes do acts representing physical activity on the TV...that you don't watch it but know that its somewhere in view, with the sound turned down to a “background” level. I also explained that the sun and the warmth of the laptop in your lap combined into a sort of slumber-like elixir that Sundays were meant to be.
At any rate, this is Europe and there isn't baseball. And there isn't football. There's racing and there's snooker. But it did the trick. So what did I learn while I electronically flipped through my magazine subscriptions?
Hope you had a good Sunday, too. Enjoy your week. I'm off to Frankfurt to see about the future of business. While reading and writing, I played nothing on iTunes but listened to snooker.
If you're in the market, check out these guys as your next design agent. Anyone that produces a calling card like thins is worth the look. Check 'em out @ Coudal Partners - and their video. What a trip. What a fun bunch. Well done. If I need a design firm in the future, I'm hiring these guys.
Eddie Izzard has always brought tears to my eyes when he explains that American's pronounce the word *herb* as “erb”, while the English pronounce it as “hu-erb”, because there's a “fucking H in it”! Today, I was checking out RSS feeds and stumbled upon this tidbit of information concerning the plight of the “H”:
From: Krulwich on Science, by Robert Krulwich
An American Story: Give Me Back My 'H!' - Morning Edition, October 23, 2006 · Not that you would have noticed, but a long time ago, on Sept. 4, 1890, the president of the United States quietly began to attack the letter “H.”
Not all “Hs”. Just the ones that sit quietly at the ends of many city, town and village names. Like the “H” in Pittsburgh. You don't speak it. You can't hear it, and so the United States Board on Geographic Names, created by President Benjamin Harrison, announced: “In names ending in 'burgh,'” the final 'H' should be dropped.“ This was more than a pronouncement. It had the power of law. In 1891, Pittsburgh, Pa., and Newburgh, N.Y., and Williamsburgh in Brooklyn and Vicksburgh, Tenn., and burghs all over America had their final, silent ”H“ removed from all Federal maps and agencies. The Post Office, for example, called Pittsburgh ”Pittsburg.“
What happened then is the subject of my story...
Give it a full read @ npr - An American Story: Give Me Back My 'H!'.
While multi-tasking, And You Tell Me from the album ”Hunting High And Low“ by a-Ha played in the background.
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