Microsoft Tag
Is it me or does the Microsoft Tag service seem like another one of their efforts to make a proprietary version of something that already works? What is the added value of Microsoft Tag over QR codes? Am I the…
Christen Booth
Creatively Distracted
Christen Booth
Creatively Distracted
Category rant
The Wave
So lately there’s been a lot of hype about Google’s upcoming product, Wave. I won’t deny that the features in the demo seem very productive/handy/slick, but its the name I can’t get over. Surely I can’t be the only person…
Nutrition in Public Schools
I came across this [TED] talk by Ann Cooper who is working to make school lunches healthier and teaching children about food and nutrition. I really like how she describes tying gardening and cooking together in the classes she has…
My Google Reader is Borken!
Someone please tell me that I accidentally changed a setting in Google Reader that made it start loading web pages into inline frames when I click on post titles... and I can change back to my old setting ...NOW... Whose crazy idea was that anyway?
RSS feed to Newspaper?
In the most irritating way possible, FeedJournal offers to bring the technological advancement of feeding/reading news full circle by enabling you to generate a newspaper from your feed content. Kill trees AND read slower with no mechanism for sharing –…
Andrew Keen: The Internet is Destroying Culture
Seriously, it sounds like a joke, but it is true. This post by Roo Reynolds reminded me that I had seen Keen on the Colbert Show promoting his book and was left with such an absolutely foul taste of ignorance…
Human Powered
I’m no engineer, or an expert on generators or power grids, but it seems to me that with all of the health and fitness clubs in the United States – and with all of the users of cardio equipment, sweating…
XP Help & Support Sucks
I hate the Windows XP Help & Support Center. I only ever think to pop it open when I’m at my wit’s end trying to fix something… but it is NEVER helpful. In fact, over the course of the eleven…
The Problem With OpenID
I’ve come to use my OpenID a lot recently, but today the MyOpenID server seems to not be playing well with others. How do I log in to sites I want to use without it? I’ve wondered about this in…
Unbelieveably Priced
While scanning through books in my zotero collection sorting my latest “To Buy” list I came across Foundations of Augmented Cognition, which of course I added to the list… until I looked it up on Amazon and saw it was…