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Happy 10 Years
It’s hard to believe it’s already been 10 years for the commercial web! All you kids out there (that’s all of you 13 year olds that are signing up for livejournal at…
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Looking South
The Transamerica building looking south from Telegraph Hill.
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Ajax the Web
In his essay, Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications, Jesse James Garrett articulates a new use of several existing technologies – XHTML, CSS, DOM, XML, and Javascript, which, when used together…
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Blobjects & Beyond
The blobject has so much appeal. Learn more at the exhibition page at the San Jose Museum of Art… Beginning Saturday, March 5th the San Jose Museum of Art’s first floor galleries…
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Ideacodes is Born
Sometimes the least likely event turns out to be a blessing in disguise. That’s how I’ve been feeling lately. I’m no longer working for the marketing consulting company for higher education where…
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Smart Cars
The MIT Smart Cities research team’s car. Image: Franco Vairani/MIT Department of Architecture Two recent articles reveal the possible future of cars – powered with intelligent algorithms, semi-autonomous, and made for urban…
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Night
Creativity and French martinis.
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Mt. Sutro at Sunset
View from our loft Today I turned 33. Spent the day feeling extremely grateful for everything I have in my life. There are still things I’m burning to do and specific challenges…
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Two Web 2.0 Apps Challenge the Status Quo
Two new web apps caught my eye this evening as I scanned my email: Nuvvo and Newsvine. The two sites are very different in their concept and functionality, but both share the…
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Holidays
Dan Flavin, East Wing, Washington DC (photo by eric). More about the show.
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Help Tsunami Victims
There are many places to donate aid to help Tsunami victims, but here are some of them: Tsunami Relief http://www.google.com/tsunami_relief.html International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent http://www.ifrc.org/helpnow/donate/donate_response.asp Save the Children…
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Asimo Robot Running
Cool video of Honda’s Asimo robot running. People-Friendly Robot: “The robot’s size was chosen to allow it to operate freely in the human living space and to make it people-friendly. This size…
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99 Windows
Launched a new site today, 99 Windows, an art project about windows and the idea of looking in, looking through, and reflecting — seeing both the imaginary and the real, the periphery…
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Cranes at Sunset
Looking west towards the Metreon, the Moscone Center (the brightly-lit glass building), and the Civic Center dome in the distance. Notice how the various metal cranes, though separated by many blocks, all…
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Risk Society
1) On Bush’s plan to turn America into an ownership society at the New Yorker. “The ownership society promises freedom, but at the price of a huge shift in risk, away from…
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New Point of View
Switched from East Coast small-town greenery to West Coast city views. I’m loving it.
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White Boots, Red Bag
Looking down at Market and 2nd St.
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So Blue
The BBC has a map that shows red and blue states from past elections dating back to 1948 (click on the tab “Past Elections”). Now how do we get the map to…
