Entries for Friday, July 14, 2006
➠ July 14, 2006
Pearl & Dean - new version of our classic tune
Pa-pa, pa-pa, pa-pa, pa-pa, pa-pa-pa. Pa-pa, pa-pa, pa-pa, pa-pahhhhh…pah!
Apple Computer Nike + iPod Sport Kit
Looks like a splendidly well designed and smartly integrated piece of kit. Uses a small shoe sensor to count your steps, an iPod nano to track them and store the data, iTunes to sync it, and a Nike-run website to visualize it over time. If I were ever planning to get off my arse, this would probably convince me to drop $80 on Nike trainers.
Boston Restaurant Week 2006
Reservations open today for $30.06 dinners at restaurants across Boston. I think we might go to Todd English’s Bonfire this year.
The Pig and the Box
A beautifully illustrated storybook fable explaining to ver kiddiewinkies why DRM is bad. Lollipop Jones!
WidSets Beta
More software cluttering up my cellphone! This is a kind of like Konfabulator or Apple Dashboard — A website to manage your widgets (mostly RSS feeds at the moment), and a very simple, but attractive, on-phone interface for reading.
twttr
New mobile friend-tracking social-network system from some Odeo folks. It reminds me of the way my friends and I used to use our AIM Away and Profile messages to pass on information and injokes.
Hot or Not Captcha Mashup
Finally, someone has harnassed the power of “Am I Hot or Not?” for good. Pick the three hot people to prove you’re human.