April 16, 2005
Boston’s leading Jesus-crazy
As much a Boston landmark as the Citgo sign, this evangelical half-wit is a regular sight whenever there's a sporting event or concert. He's our version of London's Winner or Sinner bloke.
April 15, 2005
Schneier on Security: Mitigating Identity Theft
Excellent article by Bruce Schneier, explaining that “Identity Theft” is just a catchy name for the age-old problem of “fraud”, backed by banks and other data-gatherers acting in ways that hurt consumers.
April 14, 2005
April 13, 2005
Music Lab
Columbia University research project attempting to understand how people form their musical tastes. Free music downloads, too!
Creative Archive Licence Group
The Beeb’s “Creative Archive” scheme launchs, with Channel 4 and the BFI also contributing. It’s early days, but this is a really exciting turn of events.
April 12, 2005
Round Two
Folks putting money into the Firefox extension community. Presumably they’re going to start selling extensions (or providing pay-for services) some time soon. Gorgeous Bryan Bell design too.
Bisnation
The folks from Bis, one of my number-one all-time favourite bands of all-time, have reformed in a new band called “Data Panik”. 7” single on sale now. Hurrah!
April 11, 2005
Googlest.com - Making Your Site The Googlest Online!
The highest-paying Adsense keywords. Look forward to my new blog entry “Yahoo laser mortgages domain”.
Unlicensed Poultry - Temporary Spy
Bostonfolks! Come see the 48 Hour Film that I was involved with (along with some of my vastly-talented friends). Tomorrow night at Kendall Square. Or if you can’t make that, we should have it up online some time this week.
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Saw this reviewed in Entertainment Weekly, and it sounds really interesting. Added to my Amazon wishlist for when I have some spare cash.
Not particularly green, but definitely a card
This is what all the sweat, paperwork, and panic attacks lead up to: My "green" card.
April 10, 2005
Don't Go To Bed Angry | Ourmedia
The fabulous free storage space at the Internet Archive means that we now have a new, permanent URL for this fantastic clip from our wedding. TC Cheever & Cheryl Singleton, with Steve Gilbane on keyboards, improvise a song. Thems folks is talented.
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