Archive for July, 2008

WordPress iPhone App

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

Look ma, it works! Posting this non-article from my iPhone! (Thanks Ken at ibiblio for opening mod_sec so xmlrpc.php works.)

Also, picked up my iPhone 3G today from the Apple Store. On my third attempt. AT&T sucks. That may be a subject for another post…

OMG You Can’t Be Serious

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

From HuffPost:
Elizabeth Dole Tries To Name AIDS Bill After Jesse Helms

And my head explodes in 5….4….3….2….

BlackBerry Waving the White Flag

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

The Joy of Tech comic

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Via Gizmodo

Joss Whedon’s Wacky Web Experiment Kicks Off

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

Joss Whedon’s Wacky Web Experiment Kicks Off

GigaOM writes about Joss’s new experiment: forget the studios (like Fox, that screwed him over by canceling Firefly), put it on the web, then straight to DVD. It looks amusing and I’m upbeat about it generally. Will this become the future of TV Series distribution? Will we need a new name for it besides “TV Series”?


Teaser from Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog on Vimeo.

Via GigaOM

UPDATE: Also, check out Wired’s interview with Joss.

Precipitate: Search Google Docs and Bookmarks from Spotlight

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

Precipitate: search Google Docs and Bookmarks from Spotlight:

“Google’s Mac group has released Precipitate, a plugin which allows you to search Google Docs and Google Bookmarks from the same interface that you search you Mac. It works with both Spotlight and Google Desktop for Mac….”
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Via The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)