Via Reuters, the latest research from Penn:
Apparently their research standards have gone down since they stopped braining live monkeys.
Over at Daring Fireball, John Draper consults his magic 8 ball on why Napster won’t dent the iTunes Music Store.
My question: 10,000 songs is just under 42 days of non-repeating music, at 12 hours per day. This would be a bit longer than a month. So does anyone really think of “filling my iPod monthly” as a selling point? Most of what you go through the trouble to select and download, you’re never going to actually get to.
But my entire music library would fit easily on an iPod shuffle, so maybe I’m not the guy to ask.
Go to TiddlyWiki. Bounce around the site for a bit and enjoy its interesting user interface. So far, just another wiki implementation.
Now, save that page you’re playing with as a local HTML file. Close your browser window. Open the file. Note that it’s exactly the same. Whole thing is self-contained within your browser.
Reattach lower jaw to head.
The one thing that makes this less than orgasmic (well, if you’re as into information tools as I am) is its horribly painful save method (which the author apologises for), and the charming feature that since your browser won’t recognize a changed page, it’s all too easy to close the window and lose everything you’ve worked on. But still… wow.
If you’re a bit disappointed that success in life no longer involves acing the SATs, stop by the Difficult Analogies Test. Really, though, I’m only blogging this so I can brag that I scored 23/30.
Simply breathtaking. As reported by I, Cringely:
Yeah, but what about that wireless TV? How does that work? Andrew’s server runs Myth TV, an Open Source digital video recorder application, storing on disk in MPEG-4 format (1.5-2 megabits-per-second) more than 30,000 TV episodes, movies and MP3 music files.
“Fiorina never understood that you have to spend a little money to make money. That’s why HP went from a respected, innovative company that made quality products to one that makes most of its profits off printer ink.” Quoted in Technology Review.
The same discussion that led me to the deranging panic also took me here, where I learn with interest that I’m not the only computer professional who has had “learn to drive” on his to-do list for 15 years.
Which reminds me, two of my favorite places these days are Merlin Mann’s 43 Folders, and its corresponding Google discussion group. Fascinating discussions, ranging from how to use emacs as a project planner, to setting up a CVS system to allow “multiple computers, one calendar”, through the merits of manila folders versus clasp envelopes as part of a GTD filing system.
I don’t want to think about how many of these behaviors I exhibited in college. (But not anymore. Nosirree, bob.) Adapted from Red Dwarf by Grant Naylor, 1989.
Because five days now had to accommodate three months’ work, the first thing that had to go was sleep. To prepare for an unrelenting twenty-four hours a day sleep-free schedule, Rimmer would spend the whole of the first remaining day in bed – to be extra, ultra fresh, so he would be able to squeeze three whole months of revision into four short days.
I’ve been playing around with iCalViewer for a few days now. It’s an interesting hack which pulls your iCal calendar and splashes it across your desktop, below your windows and icons, but riding above your background screen.
Right now its best feature is that it’s making it easier for me to keep timeblock appointments with myself to get things done; harder to ignore something when you can see it creeping up to the “now” line all day long. But even if it weren’t particularly useful, it still gets plenty of points for looking cool.
Just got a call at 2:10 AM from a friend of mine—a usually stolid and reserved friend—who was bouncing off the ceiling giddy. The purported reason? Red Bull and vodka, mixed in with his usual quota of alcohol for the evening. Guy’s state was altered enough that I wondered if someone had spiked him with something harder and less legal.
So I’m going to have to give this a shot sometime, without the alcohol. Working theory: mixed in with my usual estimated daily intake of 18 mg of nicotine and 1,890 mg of caffeine, the only effect I’ll see is a lighter wallet. Either that, or my head will explode.