Archive for November, 2005
Monday, November 28th, 2005
Admin note
Off for the world’s quickest business trip to Los Angeles.
A friend thinks my hotel is the one where Alias’s Mr. Sloane first encountered his evil doppelgänger last season; if so, I intend to spend all my free time riding up and down in the ominous external elevators.
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Monday, November 21st, 2005
links for 2005-11-21
Boing Boing: iTunes creates a security hole?
“DRM systems are an attractive nuisance, the cracker’s best pal.”
(tags: security drm writing)
Back to utopia - The Boston Globe
Joshua Glenn on Frederick Jameson on sci-fi’s estrangement effect
(tags: criticism literary sci-fi theory ideas)
1 Comment » - Posted in Links by Misha
Thursday, November 17th, 2005
links for 2005-11-17
Modules and Wholes: games people (and interfaces) play
“…three games that people and computer interfaces play with each other”
(tags: interface technology)
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Wednesday, November 16th, 2005
Back in the saddle again
After a three day outage which I’m sure no one noticed, we are once again live and broadcasting in cyberspace. Aren’t you astonished?
Even more shocking, I finally redirected the home page of the domain to this blog, and took down the under construction notice that featured this excellent and tasty baby. How […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Administrivia by Misha
Friday, November 11th, 2005
links for 2005-11-11
Jan Chipchase - Future Perfect: Why do People Carry Mobile Phones?
Research for Nokia on what people carry when they leave the house, and why.
(tags: mobile technology research culture)
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Friday, November 11th, 2005
Decisions, decisions…
2 Comments » - Posted in Interface design, Technology by Misha
Thursday, November 10th, 2005
links for 2005-11-10
Barbelith Underground > Policy & Help > The Psychology Of Trolling
Discussion on what makes a troll, from a web community. AFU cited in the definition of the term. What a legacy, eh?
(tags: internet onlinecommunity)
Resurrecting Classic Rock: The Hold Steady
somewhat pretentious but interesting piece on The Hold Steady’s Separation Sunday, focusing on the story […]
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Wednesday, November 9th, 2005
Tech note and query
Spam Karma 2 finally fully assimilated, and comments are reopened to everyone but Vicki, of course.
I’m still not entirely comfortable with the way WordPress handles registering users, so I haven’t flipped that switch yet, which I recognize is just asking for trouble. So I would be very interested in hearing from people […]
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Wednesday, November 9th, 2005
Random observations
Some entirely unrelated items of note:
- Stephen Metcalfe on rock snobbery. The article in turn inspired Belle Waring’s Crooked Timber post complaining about how the rock snob is always imagined as male, which of course turns into an orgy of rock-snobbery in the comments. I will admit in chagrin that my first […]
5 Comments » - Posted in Culture, Technology by Misha
Friday, November 4th, 2005
links for 2005-11-04
Private del.icio.us bookmarklet
(tags: delicious tools privacy)
