Archive for May, 2006
Infoglut
There’s a new trend among people who suffer from info-glut (=too much info coming to you digitally). The trend is: Delete everything. One example: But I’m not waiting until then. As of now, my fancy-pants, community-generated, emergent-behavior data-sorting heuristic is: a calendar. If I haven’t gotten to something in a week, it dies. Stick that [...]
The paradox of choice
Spend an hour watching this (An hour???! Are you nuts? This is the net, 20-seconds chunks is the most we can comprehend). Anyway, spend an hour watching this: If you read brilliantdays.com from a news reader, you may have to click through to this article, to see the video. Or use this URL: “The Paradox [...]
What if…?
BBC has posted an article where you are faced with dilemmas like this one: A runaway trolley car is hurtling down a track. In its path are five people who will definitely be killed unless you, a bystander, flip a switch which will divert it on to another track, where it will kill one person. [...]
New apple ads…
…at Apple.com. Just coming back from Japan, I liked the “Network” one best…
Delicious Library needs a huge update
I bought Delicious Library over a year ago, and immediately entered several hundred books, and most of my games. I also wrote lots of feedback to Delicious Monster, telling them how to improve this cool app. Then my Powerbook chrashed. And I couldn’t find the file containing all my books and games in the backups. [...]
