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Entries for Monday, October 2, 2006

October 2, 2006

Fossil Bluetooth Caller ID watch

Cunning idea — a watch that connects to your watch via Bluetooth, then vibrates and shows caller ID information when you get a call or a text, so you don’t have to go raking through your pockets/bag for your phone. Of course, it’ll be a total battery drain, but a lovely innovation nonetheless.

GigaOM » DVD Jon Fairplays Apple

Could be interesting — DVDJon reverse engineered Apple’s DRM, and is looking to license it to other companies wanting to sell DRMed tracks. Of course, Apple can break it again with a firmware update, so who knows where this is going.

Mouse Print

Cataloguing the smaller-than-small print associated with advertising claims.

PhishTank | Join the fight against phishing

New open database of user-submitted Phishing URLs. Somewhat reminiscent of Mark Fletcher’s old “Trustic” startup. Not sure how well the submission/validation system will scale, or deal with gaming, but it could be interesting to watch.

DejaVuWiki

Bitstream’s open-sourced Vera fonts, tweaked to include masses of Unicodery. Vera Sans Mono has been my text-editor font of choice for a while.

TPS report cover sheet [pdf]

We’re putting new cover sheets on all of our TPS reports now before they go out.

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