July 2007
“Because if this frigtard Dvorak now likes our machines, I think we must have...”
– The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs
Official Google Maps API Blog: Microformats in... →
Today we’re happy to announce that we are adding support for the hCard microformat to Google Maps results. By marking up our results with the hCard microformat, your browser can easily recognize the address and contact information in the page, and help…
Daring Fireball Linked List: July 2007 →
Michael Tsai on FogBugz â
Iâm currently using OmniFocus as my issue tracker and am loving it. Itâs also rigid, in a way, but the workflow that it enforces happens to be a close match to what Iâve always tried to achieve with other tools.
Aug 14, 2007: LA G33k Dinner
Please be sure to RSVP on the wiki in addition to upcoming. http://barcamp.org/BarCampLA-Geek16
(via Upcoming: klaxon’s Events)
lastminute.com: Save up to 70% on last second... →
For the DeLorean, it's back to the present - Los... →
Their manufacturing plans are modest â maybe 20 or so cars a year. But it would be quite a comeback for a car that was given up for dead more than a quarter of a century ago.
Rhetor has posted a comment:
If the Simpsons never existed and you sent this to me, I’d wonder why Matt G warps everyone’s normal face into looking like they were beaten senseless with the retarded stick. I now realize he does that with every character.
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“The news media have carried reports alleging that AT&T is participating in...”
– AT&T- News Room
“Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them...”
– Francois De La Rochefoucauld 1613-1680
Ori: at Malibu beach houseparty. Some dude is actually jetskiing in the dark by the light of the tiki torches… Thats how crazy it is over here. (via Twitter / Ori)
Ori N. @ Yamashiro 1999 N. Sycamore Avenue Hollywood, CA 90068 (via Ori N.’s checkin history)
Ori: @ create::fixate in hollywood (via Twitter / Ori)
Ori: @ sixspace gallery in culver city (via Twitter / Ori)
Ori: @ mahalo offices for facebook devel platform meeting, Kareem is giving opening remarks (via Twitter / Ori)
Campaign Expenditure Reports: Where Are The... →
The success of microtargeting in 2004 guarantees that the use of expensive information technologies to identify key voters through their consumer preferences and other data points will become a major factor in the 2008 election.
Ori: Just got Chromaphile: http://tinyurl.com/29q7rv Too bad my co-workers have now gotten me addicted to Ragnar cuz his artwork is expensive (via Twitter / Ori)
Paramount and DreamWorks: Splitsville? →
Could Paramount lose Spielberg and the DreamWorks studio it bought just 20 months ago for $1.53 billion? It’s entirely possible. People close to Spielberg say he is vexed that Paramount treated his team shabbily and grabbed credit for DreamWorks productio
Computer program can learn baby talk - Yahoo! News →
A computer program that learns to decode sounds from different languages in the same way that a baby does helps to shed new light on how people learn to talk, researchers said on Tuesday.
Ori: Post-hhill event party now raging at Jones. This place is packed. Oh hi Crystal! (via Twitter / Ori)
Ori N. @ Jones 7205 Santa Monica Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90046 (via Ori N.’s checkin history)
Muslim support for suicide attacks down sharply -... →
“The marked decline in the acceptance of suicide bombing is one of several findings that suggest a possible broader rejection of extremist tactics among many in the Muslim world,” the Washington-based Pew Research Center said in a report that accompanied
Ori: Tonight’s HHill event http://tinyurl.com/2apakn is gonna rock. 150 guests & just arranged a meeting for the speakers at the mayor’s office. (via Twitter / Ori)
Marketcircle: iPhoney →
iPhoney gives you a pixel-accurate web browsing environmentâpowered by Safariâthat you can use when developing web sites for iPhone. It’s the perfect 320 by 480-pixel canvas for your iPhone development. And it’s free.
City of San Francisco →
Brad Templeton’s Panoramic Photography
High Resolution Stitched Panoramic Photos
WatchChicken John for Mayor of San Francisco
oyayubizoku →
the term âoyayubizokuâ literally translated from japanese equates to âthumb-gangâ or âthumb-tribeâ referring to the masses of young people in japan that use mobile phones for texting, email, and mobile phone conversations.
Ori N. @ Psychobabble 1866 N Vermont Ave Los Angeles, CA 90027 (via Ori N.’s checkin history)
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furbo.org →
My name is Craig Hockenberry and furbo.org is my place to write for the web.
You can learn more about me or view my résumé. I also have some production notes available.
For fun, click on my picture at the Iconfactory website.
“All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.”
– Nietzsche
Google Enters the Wireless Fray? →
Although we hate to link to a press release, we feel its safe to make an exception for this one as it contains the full text of a letter sent from Google to the FCC. In it, Google seems to hint at how it might revolutionize wireless technology in America even more than the iPhone:
In a filing with the FCC on July 9, Google urged the Commission to adopt rules for the auction that ensure that,...
Ori: headed over to google in santa monica to hear director Kevin Smith talk (via Twitter / Ori)
Drunk Dialing v. Drunk Texting: An Online Cage... →
How, and why, Drunk Texting is a complete and total killjoy, often replacing the fun times of yore; aka, the Good ol’ Days Drunk Dialing. A shocking exposé with real life examples!
“The difference between me and [Ernst] Lubitsch is that he shows you the king on...”
– Erich von Stroheim (1885-1957)
Ori: heading over to see a Jean Renoir classic playing at the Aero Theater http://www.americancinematheque.com/Aero/aeromastercalendar.htm (via Twitter / Ori)
Study: Americans Don't Understand Others - Yahoo!... →
Most of the 20 Chinese participants, however, were not confused by the hidden block and knew exactly which block the director was referring to. While following directions was relatively simple for Chinese, it took Americans twice as long to move a block.
Ori: Friends had a spare ticket for Sonic Youth @Greek Theater this friday. Rock On. (via Twitter / Ori)
Jul 20, 2007: Sonic Youth - Dreamday Nation - ATP...
Sonic Youth plays Dreamday Nation in its entirity as part of ATP’s Don’t Look Back Series. Don’t know the start time but the entry field required one.
Tickets go on sale March 31st.
(via Upcoming: klaxon’s Events)
Ori: DVD box set of “The Prisoner” has finally arrived. I am no longer a number - I am now a free man. (via Twitter / Ori)
Let the Net Video Advertising Wars Begin! →
Veoh has started to become popular recently since YouTube and other sites have started to implement automatic copyright filtering (and Veoh does not). But Veoh has also introduced VeohTV, their new online video application that aggregates videos from several popular sites including the traditional broadcast TV networks:
Veoh does not ask for permission to play material from other Web sites,...
VentureBeat » Mideast quagmire affects new... →
Ressler, who wouldnât disclose his ethnic background but is nonreligious, says that Gill acknowledged to him by email that he couldnât make the screenplay because of his investors.