Oh yes. Thank the Lord for Japan. For they have given us water bottle jet packs.
While we’re on video, check out “Building on the Past” - a two minute video advertising Creative Commons, and Trusted Computing - an honest appraisal of the motivations of the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance (TCPA). We need a geek version of a formalised public service announcements.
Donovan Watts: “Looking forward to taking a dip in the river of news”. Despite the fact that it’s December, I am too.
Dave has a post on Kosso and Dan MacTough’s efforts in Flash and WordPress (PHP) respectively. I’m not bothered about getting OPML in to WordPress, but I might be able to think of some hacky uses for MacTough’s renderer, since I do, apparently, have some PHP hack-fu.
A nice little video of Doc Searls.
The newsRiver.root is available.
Holy shit. It works. This is the best thing ever. Thank you, Dave. You have saved me from Bloglines!
Hmm. Got some weird scratchpad.args window pop up just a minute ago. No idea what that is. I’ll report if it happens again.
Came up again. Plus I got a “Could not find the translation string at ‘viewNewsItems.noStories’.” once I deleted all the stories (what I did when I used Radio).
BBC News - Uniforms to boost exam marks: “I believe that having the uniform will help pupils to be professional and help them with their learning.” You see lots of professionals wearing school uniforms. Doctors, lawyers, MCSE’s…
The BBC have an article called “Asbowatch”. It’s rather entertaining.
Amyloo on newsRiver.root: “It’s superfast, like the editor itself because a lot of what’s happening is on your own computer. I like it.”
Dave has fixed the problems I reported. Now to test.
A project called Wiki-Law has launched, Lessig reports. Funny how my good ideas always come to fruition.
Scott Matthewman: “a GTA: London set in the Swinging Sixties, or the Sweeney-era Seventies, could do something really original, while at the same time retaining the strong musical background that made Vice City so much better than its follow-up, San Andreas.” Grand Theft Auto. In London. In the sixties. I’m sure I’ve seen that somewhere before. If only I could remember where.
Go and take a gander at Intel’s new logo. Then go and buy an Athlon.
TechCrunch: Web 2.0 Companies I Couldn’t Live Without.
Robert Scoble knows what he wants: “I¹d like to see good information make a comeback. Reviews anyone?”
John McKay has a bizaare story about Jack Cuozzo, a very, very deluded creationist.
The Lippard Blog has some quotes from Mel Gibson proving that he’s not the smartest of cookies on the matter of evolution: “I think it’s bullshit. If it isn’t, why are they still around? How come apes aren’t people yet?” (via MeFi)
Techdirt has a story about how the (UK) government’s planned computer system for the Police is three years behind schedule. Somebody would think that our elected representatives might realise that the moment you get government and IT companies together, it’s always a disaster.
The BBC have a round-up of the launch games for the Xbox 360. For me, a jaded PC gamer and RPG lover, it looks like a big “meh”.
Dave at the end of 2004: “I want to lose some weight, get some color in my face, and surprise people who don’t expect much innovation in 2005”. Very pleasantly surprised, very much innovative. newsRiver.root and the OPML Editor has been the best gift since I started blogging back in 2002. And Morning Coffee Notes has livened up a number of boring Tube journeys. My 2006 goal is pretty much the same as Dave’s 2005: lose some weight and innovate, plus try and get some essays with the university equivalent of gold stars - first class marks.
Instapundit doesn’t read very well in either Radio or newsRiver. Andrew Grumet seems to have the solution. I’ll probably set that up later to test.
Damn right. A new years’ resolution for Web 2.0 people: stop using the word “beta”. It’s bullshit.
Michael Jennings describes how the old media should approach webloggers.
Socialism is dead, at least on Salon’s UserLand-run blogs. Perhaps now is the time to create a replacement for dear-old socialism.
Ben Barren: “Now why Dave’s product is perfectly positioned to kick a few goals, the competition in some ways, have in fact regressed, let alone [had any] new ideas.”
Phil Wainewright (ZDNet) on RSS readers: “I’ve just realized that 2005 was the year I stopped using my RSS reader. I expect it was for many other people too. What’s more, I’m willing to predict that 2006 will be the year the RSS reader effectively dies out as a separate, standalone application”. I stopped using my RSS reader in 2004. Throughout 2005, I have used Bloglines and NetNewsWire (using the latter’s Bloglines API). As I’ve chronicled, I’ve just moved back to a desktop (or at least semi-desktop) RSS reader. Now, since I’m going to be using my laptop, I think it’s time I bought it some RAM.
Deadbrain are reporting that a mysterious, white substance has appeared all across the United Kingdom and authorities have no idea what to do about it.
Virginia Postrel has a post on what happens when litigation gets crazy.
I must say, I’m very proud of having bought no CDs this year. When the record companies try and pull shit like this on their customers, I feel very happy not giving them money.
Lawrence Lessig reports that Microsoft have just made a $25,000 donation to Creative Commons which has got them to their target.
