Via arstechnica.com
„The command interface is conceptually similar to desktop launcher tools like Enso, Quicksilver, and GNOME-Do. Unlike those tools, it places a strong emphasis on web content manipulation and web services. In many ways, it's like an interactive mash-up system. Ubiquity can respond to user instructions in several different ways. It can directly alter the contents of a web page, it can manipulate the browser interface, it can load a page in a new tab, and it can display output in a notification pop-up."
Ubiquity, a new Firefox extension from Mozilla Labs.
First the new Javascript Engine, which surpasses Squirrelfish by large amounts, now this. As much as I love Safari, if Firefox continues to add exciting features at such a strong pace, I seriously have to consider switching back to the beloved fox.
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Via www.tuaw.com
„fear of switching is the foundation of customer loyalty for PCs."
From a Get-a-Mac Add. Tough one.
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Yearbook Yourself is an interesting idea. It allows you to upload a picture and builds a yearbook which displays your picture using the iconic “looks” of every class since 1950. You can see my results below, click for a larger version. It’s interesting to note that the 1956 looks so much like my father that I almost got goosebumps upon first sight.
Via twitter.com
„There are really two reasons I'm single: (1) incredibly picky, (2) when I like a girl I tell her she's my goddess instead of ignoring her."
Insightfull comment from Wil Shipley which just about fits me in every single way. Sigh.
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August 16th, 2008 in Music |
I‘ve had the lucky opportunity to having been able to listen to a lot of new music albums over the past year. This was due to two primary reasons: (a) I have to ride 2 hours by train each time I‘m heading for work, which results in lots of free time where I can listen to music. (b) While I‘ve previously owned several iPods, I never really carried them with me all the time. There were often situations where I‘d forgot the iPod or not expected to need it. Not so with my iPhone. I always have it on, thus resulting in a boosted music experience.
As a consequence of this, I could listen to a lot of interesting and new music during the past months. And I‘d like to write short reviews for those which really really impressed me. Beginning with ‚Maxïmo Park‘ – ‚A Certain Trigger‘.
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Via psychcentral.com
„The fact is that climate change, if it were caused by gay sex, or caused by the practice of eating puppies, millions of Americans would right now be massing on the street insisting that the administration do something about it."
Dan Gilbert (Stumbling on Happiness) on the task of social psychology to explain why people don't get as actively outraged over acid rain as other issues.
I'd wager that the main problem here is that there's no easy target to blaim. We ourselves are to blaim in terms of climate change. We can't protest against our own actions. People need easy targets to protest against.
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Via www.defmacro.org
„Programmers are procrastinators. Get in, get some coffee, check the mailbox, read the RSS feeds, read the news, check out latest articles on techie websites, browse through political discussions on the designated sections of the programming forums. Rinse and repeat to make sure nothing is missed. Go to lunch. Come back, stare at the IDE for a few minutes. Check the mailbox. Get some coffee. Before you know it, the day is over”
oh so true. actually a rather apt description of how I’ve worked for years – and still managed to output a lot of valuable software. I wonder what would happen if I were 100% effective.
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Via www.msnbc.msn.com
„Legend has it that, on his deathbed, Orson Welles exhorted his loved ones to make sure that Ted Turner — who, at the time, was determined to colorize every black-and-white movie in his library — kept his “goddamn crayons” off of “Citizen Kane.”
But who will stop George Lucas from destroying the legacy of George Lucas?”
Star Wars – The Clone Wars. Regarding George Lucas destroying the history of Star Wars, ever more with every sequel.
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Via wine-econ.org
„The story is told of a sales call that Ernest Gallo made to a New York customer in the dark days of the depression. He offered sample glasses of two red wines – one costing five cents per bottle and the other ten cents. The buyer tasted both and pronounced, “I’ll take the ten-cent one.” The wine in the two glasses was exactly the same. Clearly, the customer wanted to buy an identity – the image of someone who wouldn’t drink that five-cent rotgut- even if he couldn’t actually taste the difference.”
I love this story. It is in many ways verified but also superseeded by newer psychological findings. However, this quote, in a way explains a lot about the ‘why’ of people acting. Try to transfer this image of buying an identity onto other social acts, and you’ll see, there’s (still) much, oh so much, to harness.
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Via news.slashdot.org
„Remembering that the Patriot Act was dropped on Congress just 20 days after 9/11 — the Department of Justice had had it sitting in a drawer for years — Lessig asked Clarke if DoJ had a similar proposed law, an “i-Patriot Act,” to drop in the event of a “cyber-9/11.” Clarke responded, “Of course they do. And Vint Cerf won’t like it.”"
I don’t even want to imagine, how an i911 would turn out for the web as we know it.
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