Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Found via Blogebrity a debate between Anil Dash and Catarina Fake in regards to Flickr’s new interestingness concept. Interestingness is a variation on online popularity, except that rather than links it’s based on an equation of number of comments, number of visitors, and number of times a photo has been listed as someone’s favorite. When you search on […]
The theory of relativity explained
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I called Amtrak to ask about the mysterious extra hour in the schedule, due to Daylight Savings Time ending, and the very nice lady I talked to said that the train actually does stop around 2 in the morning, and waits for time to catch up. So at 2 in […]
Please…do evil
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Google Blogoscoped Terms of Service: By submitting, posting or displaying Content on or through Google services which are intended to be available to the general public, you grant Google a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to reproduce, modify, adapt, publish and otherwise use, with or without attribution such Content on Google services […]
Don’t mind me, just carry on as usual
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Different perspectives can cloud our perception of what each other is saying. For instance, Amtrak’s baggage rules state that I can take two “carry-on” bags, as well as a “personal” bag on to the train with me. I gnash my teeth and roll in ashes before putting on the sack […]
That sucking sound you hear
…is me getting into the new toys at Flickr. Now you can print, have a book made, stamps, or burn a DVD of your photos. This, now, is a very, very good business model–something extremely tangible AND something made with Web 2.0 technologies. I feel so with it and ubber cool. Or is that über, cool. I’ve set […]
