Doop de doo...: Archive

Jan 1st

Dec 30th

Working Class Cats →

Kittehs!

Dec 27th

It's A Wonderful Internet! →

“I’m no angel, my name is Al Gore. I invented the Internet so you and me could do things that we love a bit more easily.”

Dec 27th

My Trip Home from Christmas →

Yay, I got a GPS logger for Christmas. Here’s my trip back to SF. I get on the BART at the Pleasanton station. Apparently it doesn’t do too well in my pocket once I get out on the SF streets.

Dec 27th

Dec 21st

Watch

RadioHead Blog Widget. Awesome. via Matthew Ingram: Not content with helping to destabilize the traditional record business, Radiohead has whipped up a widget featuring some of their videos, music and news (using Clearspring’s widget-making service).

Dec 20th

Profilactic →

Another personal activity aggregating site that I just found out about. Thanks Jamie! So, I’m now aware of these sites in the “Bring all your online activity back into one place” business: ReIntegrate.Us, of course! FriendFeed, still in private beta. Spokeo, though they’re really focused on aggregating your friends’ activities and now, Prophilactic Let me...

Dec 20th

Is Facebook Competing with OpenSocial? →

Facebook announced that they’re opening up their platform architecture, licencing their Facebook application hosting systems to other sites so that developers can write a Facebook application and host it on multiple sites, not just Facebook. That’s exactly what OpenSocial is trying to do. I suppose the competition will be good for the internet, but if they both take off then...

Dec 20th

ReIntegrate.Us frontend Revamp!

Yay! ReIntegrate.Us got a frontend revamp. Among the cosmetics: A bit of blush for the homepage’s text. Some sexy mascara for the homepage’s sample post selection algorithm. A bunch of rouge for your public page, with some outliner pointing out the date of your posts. My Email address on the homepage for your requests, comments, and musings on the state of capitalism and free...

Dec 20th

Garfield Minus Garfield →

Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic strip about schizophrenia, bipolor disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life? Friends, meet Jon Arbuckle. Let’s laugh and learn with him on a journey deep into the tortured mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against methamphetamine addiction...

Dec 20th

Warning sounded over 'flirting robots' →

Fantastic, humanity’s genius has built another advanced AI system that passes Turing Test, and what is it? An flirtatious chat bot built by Russian identity thieves that quickly establishes a relationship and steals your personal information. Love ‘em and leave em’… broke. Apparently it’s not much of one for long-term relationships: The artificial intelligence of...

Dec 11th

“Lusophone? Here, I have extra phone!”

– Philippe Campbell

Dec 11th

Spokeo →

Another similar service has entered the social reaggregating space. Spokeo asks you for the email addresses of your friends (by giving them take a peek at your GMail address book, for instance), and finds your friends’ accounts on all the interesting services out there — flickr, blogger, last.fm, etc… You are then given a feed reader that aggregates the activity of all your...

Dec 10th

Dec 7th

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RSS in Plain English →

A great, fun description of what RSS is, how it’s used, and how you can use it. I’ll probably be posting a link to this from the ReIntegrate.US homepage for less internet-addicted users.

Dec 7th

Some photos of the World Beard and Moustache... →

Thanks Jen!

Dec 7th