HyperBike.

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Jan 312007
HyperBike.

Crazy, but it looks strangely fun to ride: Ultimate Hybrid

To the comment spammers hitting my haiku site: There is something buggy with one of your scripts. I keep getting these comments that contain nothing but a bogus email address and a single word:
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Now, come on. You call this comment spam? Not even a link to a phentermine or Cialis site? No keywords touting hotels [...]

What happened to iTunes?

Generally, Apple does software reasonably well. The company understands that the user experience doesn’t end with the plastic and the circuits, but also encompasses the on-screen interface, the dialog boxes, and even the fonts used in its applications.
So what happened to iTunes? Version 7 is, frankly, one of the slowest, most annoyingly designed applications I’ve [...]

Jan 292007

Somebody has spent a lot of time putting hex codes and swatches for every imaginable color into wikipedia, along with links to related color entries. This is actually useful. Some examples: safety orange – chartreuse – ecru – but not, alas, Pantone 292

Jan 292007

Carl Malamud explains 10 tricks for making government work for you. Mostly practical, a few idealistic: Internet Archive: Details: Hack 1: Be Media (Internet Governance in a Nutshell)

IP lawyer humor.

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Jan 252007

Shocking — an IP lawyer with a sense of humor: Blogger gets ‘don’t cease-and-desist’ letter for his Second Life satire

Jan 242007

Best headline of the month: The purloined sirloin. Why Americans love to shoplift meat. – By Brendan I. Koerner – Slate Magazine (thanks Scot)
Also, 25 million of us have stolen movies.

Jan 232007

Steve Martin, Tony Trischka, and Bela Fleck together on NPR. For banjo fans, this is like the harmonic convergence: NPR : Tony Trischka Has More Than One Banjo on His Knee

Thank god for telecom deregulation, eh? YouTube – Stephen Colbert explains the whole AT&T thing!