David Galbraith’s weblog: Kissinger resigns as head of 9/11 commission due to a conflict of interests. More like: ‘An interest in conflicts’. Baroom Ching.
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“Demi, stunning at 40 after a $US700,000 ($1.2 million) makeover… is said to be smitten with the man Bruce has branded ‘the Silver Fox’.” NEWS.com.au | Demi ‘dating’ Bill Clinton (December 16, 2002)
In New York and had drinks at Nick’s lair in a hollowed out volcano – sorry, in his too-roomy-by-half NY appartment. Other members of Spekter were also there, Jason, Meg, Jeff, Cameron and Elizabeth. Jason pointed me to Metacritic which seems better than Yahoo for aggregated scores for critic reviews. My favorite being a review of the all-time low scoring movie, “Divorce: The Musical” “The movie climaxes with an entire audience farting — a more concise review than this one.”
“Because clean dishes remain in the washer, the table becomes an ersatz cupboard between meals.” The new York Times lists the ‘self cleaning dinner table’ as one of the ideas of the year. – What year would that be, 1958? I have a big problem with dish washers – I hate unloading them – it seems pointless to move dishes from what is essentially one storage place to the next. The solution for slackers like me is to have two small dishwashers – pull clean dishes out of one and put dirty ones into the other. No unnecessary unloading exercise for me. Ho hum, now I guess I’ll drive three miles to the gym and walk for half an hour on the treadmill. NYT: Self-Cleaning Dinner Table – login required
“due to conflict of interest” There’s a joke there somewhere.
“Former Home House of Eminem Marshall Mathers” “Cat looking at cat looking at eminem house” “Pic me looking at guy guy cat Eminem’s house” Via Who Would Buy That
The iPod is a work of art and it brings back the utility of the original walkman, without the hiss. The promotional material for the Walkman 2 showed it hidden behind a compact cassette box. The iPod does the same thing – but contains 400 cassettes. Cassette tape Walkmans have always been more ergonomic than CD Walkmans, which can’t fit the into most pockets. In fact, clothing dictates one of the most successful form factors: ‘pocket size’. Regardless of any other issues, MP3 players don’t have the problem that CD players have, and the iPod is almost exactly the same size at that other design classic Sony’s 1983 WM-20, cassette tape sized Walkman. The CD was never a successful portable form factor. Walkman History
Lets play a game and imagine that we are in charge of Google strategy. The diagram above is my stab. There are two principal axes, both of which Google has started on, but do not yet appear to form part of a core strategy. In other words, the Google appliance currently looks like a distraction and distinct business compared with the core search business in which the adwords service is the biggest initiative. Continuing from the idea of Google beating Microsoft to desktop search, the vertical axis proceeds from Internet search to Unix server based intranet search, followed by Windows client desktop search and, lets say, a Symbian cellphone/PDA client. Components of each search, such as desktop email, and cellphone contacts, can be hosted by Google or combined for access from any machine anywhere via a thin client. Value added services such as sync and backup and security are offered….
Good Experience – Interview: Rick Robinson, VP of Community Products, AOL “Weblogs, over the last several years, have migrated to replace, in some cases, people’s home pages. It’s natural that the blog and the home page would combine. And when you remember that AOL has the largest collection of home pages in the world, it kinda gets interesting.” via Anil
Great works of architecture a relatively rare, even rarer are those buildings that define an entire movement. One of these buildings has just been built, Foreign Office Architect’s Yokohama Port Terminal. It is the first building to use the type of organic, contoured surface that defined the style of many University projects a few years ago, as 3D computer models evolved from illustrative use for presentations to being the primary design tool. foreign office architects
Ikea, who are usually known for bringing modernism to the masses are threatening to demolish a building by Marcel Breuer, best know for his classic modernist furniture. ArchitectureWeek – News – IKEA Threatens Breuer Icon – 2002.1204