I’m now the proud owner of the top link on Google for the search terms incinerator toilet. I thank each and every one of you who has searched on that phrase (or “incinerating toilet” or “Incinolet” or “toilet that incinerates”) and then clicked through to read my story about the incinerating toilet at our cabin.… Read More »
If you’re interested in trying out PhoneBlogger, there are a couple options. I give you a guest account on my test blog I give you instructions for setting up your own PhoneBlogger installation I help you set up your own PhoneBlogger installation If you just want to try out PhoneBlogger, but aren’t sure you’re ready… Read More »
Well, enough fooling around with development and alpha code. I now have a version of PhoneBlogger that is in good enough shape to demonstrate. Click on the “recorded message” link in my post before this one to hear it in action. PhoneBlogger is an automated voice application. After asking you for info about which pre-configured… Read More »
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I purchased Fever Pitch on DVD for my wife for Xmas and we watched it this past weekend. Fever Pitch was originally released in the UK in 1996 or 97, but has been available in the States only for a few years. Many of the people who reviewed the movie on Amazon were offended that… Read More »
A Leader of the Clash Dies at 50 Joe Strummer suffered a heart attack and passed away yesterday at the age of 50. The Clash’s three LP masterpiece Sandinista! was the first really great, life-changing music I experienced. One of my brother’s high school friends was exposed to the Clash’s music while DJ’ing at Johns… Read More »
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software by Steven Johnson This book received a lot of what I think was overly harsh criticism for not providing a significant amount of in depth technical coverage of the cross-functional area of emergence, i.e., cellular automata, self organization, complexity theory, etc. Obviously, one book on… Read More »
The semi-annual letter from Rice president Malcolm Gillis just showed up in my mailbox. The letter isn’t published to the Rice website, yet, but click on alumni letters on the Office of the President’s page if you care to see old alumni letters and eventually, the fall 2002 letter. In addition to pointing out the… Read More »
Ed Felten is excited that Princeton ranked #22 on Seventeen Magazine’s list of 100 Coolest Colleges. I was quite surprised to find my alma mater, Rice University, ranked #1. Rice is a fantastic school and I had an incredible experience there, but the first item on Seventeen’s list of desirable qualities “From frat parties to… Read More »
AlterNet: Does Trent Lott Speak for the South? Trent Lott’s continued appalling statements make me embarrassed to have been raised in the State of Mississippi. The reputation of Mississippi is already sadly too low in the eyes of most US citizens, but Lott seems compelled to drag it deeper into the white trash. In case… Read More »