Designer Clouds

Designer Clouds --

This paves the way for all sorts of interesting guerrilla art installations. I wonder if they've tried adding dyes to the foam, or combining smaller 'clouds' into larger works.

posted: 2008-06-01 23:34:54 30 comments Read More

Books from my childhood

Books that I remember from my childhood:

• The Perpetual Learning Machine - a gift from my grandmother.


• The Great Brain series - borrowed from Brian Rudolph as a kid.


• The Mad Scientists Club - bought through a grade school book club.


• The Funk & Wagnel Encyclopedias of animals and insects - my parents picked these up one volume at a time from Krogers when we did our grocery shopping.


• The World Book Encyclopedia - my parents bought the set for the family.

I wonder if my son will even have fond memories of specific web sites ...

posted: 2008-05-03 05:26:28 176 comments Read More

Test driving DropBox

Just got my DropBox account set up. For those not familiar, it is versioned storage that you can just mount on any of your machines. Instant synchronization, and versioning. Behind the scenes I think it is just svn, macfuse, and growl, but having such a simple interface is very nice. I'm only just starting to play with it, but you can think of it as off-site-timemachine without the star trek interface plus it has the ability to selectively share content/photos/etc publicly or with friends..

posted: 2008-05-01 01:03:00 87 comments Read More

Twitter versus RSS Smackdown

I have been in the RSS camp for many years. Originally, I really panned twitter. Then I joked that pownce was the new twitter, and eventually that twitter was the new twitter. But lately I've been embracing twitter, though mostly as a travel tool. This got me thinking...

Media companies have been wrestling with RSS for quite some time. People who 'get it,' get it. People who don't, just don't. And so it has been for quite some time.

I think the problem has been in getting ...

posted: 2008-04-20 00:40:25 2324 comments Read More

Me too! Me too! Me Too!

DangerMouse-2:~ gfranxman$ history|awk '{a[$2]++} END{for(i in a){printf "%5d\t%s\n",a[i],i}}'|sort -rn     
  102   vi
   58   ls
   56   python
   47   cd
   43   ssh
   28   curl
   22   date
   18   crontab
   12   cat
    8   ifconfig


franxman@franxman.com:~$ history|awk '{a[$2]++} END{for(i in a){printf "%5d\t%s\n",a[i],i}}'|sort -rn    
  175   vi
   65   nosetests
   39   python
   31   ls
   28   export
   26   cd
   25   pstree
   19   kill
   11   cat
    8   easy_install

posted: 2008-04-18 08:33:28 96 comments Read More

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