A lot of the smart, interesting people I’ve met lately have come frm Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU and the School of Information at UC Berkeley. What other interesting information- and design-focused grad schools are out there? Update: Symbolic Systems at Stanford.
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free music from verve
I found a card at SXSW for a free music sampler from Verve. They want you to go to verveforecast.com/sxsw, then register, thenenter in the “download code” of vforecastsxsw. The music sampler (Jamie Cullum, Brazilian Girls, Jackie Greene, Rhett Miller, Susan Tedeschi, Teddy Thompson) comes in four formats, all of which are annoying: WMA, zip …
Better Google Finance URLs
It would be nice if Google Finance allowed you to use easy-to-type URLs, i.e. http://finance.google.com/goog Which could redirect you here: http://finance.google.com/finance?q=goog Perhaps something like: RedirectMatch /([a-z]{4}) http://finance.google.com/finance?q=$1
Best discovery of SXSW
I saw a lot of great music at SXSW. But one performer stood out. Just after midnight Thursday—making it Friday—I walked in to the Hotel Café showcase at Copa. I was immediately impressed. No. Amazed is more like it: the woman on stage did in 30 seconds what nobody else did at all night. She …
My favourite Tiger feature
The title here is a bit misleading. My favourite Tiger feature really is Spotlight. But I want to talk about something really cool that nobody is talking about: kABWithinIntervalAroundTodayYearless kABWhat?
T-Mobile and Amazon don’t really like you
My sister likes to talk on the phone. A lot. And Cingular charges use $85 for a family plan where we share 1250 minutes. And 35 cents/minute for extra minutes. Highway robbery! With T-Mobile, we could get 1500 minutes each with two $50 individual plans. Great, I thought. However, T-Mobile doesn’t work in my house. …
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Why Asian Muslims didn’t explode
After the cartoon fiasco, Karim Raslan of the The New York Times wrote Why Asian Muslims didn’t explode. He doesn’t really answer why, but he does cite several cultural differences. Some of hsi strongest rhetoric: Whether we are conservative or liberal, many of us are appalled and angered by the stupidity and insensitivity of the …
music for me to check out
Amy and Kevin suggested: Vanessa Morrison Carvell Wallace Kyra Brown Joe Henry
Windows 2006 = Mac OS 2003?
Re-Introducing the Real Windows Vista.
waterfall 2006
interesting software conference this spring. Sessions include: Take Control of Your Team’s Decisions NOW! by Ken Schwaber Avoiding the Seven Pitfalls of Lean by Mary Poppendieck Pair Managing: Two Managers per Programmer by Jim Highsmith Two-Phase Waterfall: Implementation Considered Harmful by Robert C. Martin User Interaction: It Was Hard to Build, It Should Be Hard …