Arianna Huffington: "Now that the Democrats have won the battle over the nuclear option" Oh please – this was a bi-partisan victory a victory for moderation. Claiming it as a win for the Democrats just does not do any good at all. link » tags: [politics] permamark in: Wists
Phil Spector in court, looking like he has just grabbed the end of a stray 1,000,000 Volt cable.link » tags: [weird] [dgblog] permamark in: Wists
HuffPo scoops Richard Dawkin's first weblog post. I am waiting for the day he has his own blog. Dawkins on creationists: The standard methodology of creationists is to find some phenomenon in nature which Darwinism cannot readily explain. Darwin said: "If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down." Creationists mine ignorance and uncertainty in order to abuse his challenge. "Bet you canâ
Google are launching a personalizable portal as their homepage later today – this post links to the mockup. This is the critical step for Google – get it right and they have jumped over the interface complexity hurdle the Yahoo passed years ago, but then Yahoo was never minimalist. with personalization people are less likely to switch from Google if another, better, search engine comes along. Get it wrong and, well, remember what happened to AltaVista when CMGI made that a portal. via Nick Aster link » tags: [google] [scoop] [news] permamark in: Wists
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I have finally pieced together and laminated the 25ft long aerial view of Manhattan that I have been working on. Its currently stuck to the floor of our apartment. I'm going to spend the next week or so looking for interesting places to visit and organize an architectural cycle tour.link » tags: [flickr] [architecture] permamark in: Wists
I hate paper – it seems mad that in 2005 there aren't more, readily available, solutions for small businesses to get rid of paperwork. In 98 before XML took off I had a stab at mapping existing EDI meta-standards to have a forms that create HTML forms for things such as purchase orders etc. See EDML Although you could argue that any online transaction is a form of EDI, existing efforts to migrate to XML have been slow. Perhaps there is a lesson to be learned from RSS – a trivial standard that the people working on large scale syndication standards such as ICE, used to scoff at. Perhaps EDI needs an RSS equivalent , something that handles just purchase orders and invoices, for example (which account for the majority of EDI messages), maps to existing standards such as EDIFACT and ANSI X12 (does not re-invent the wheel), and keeps…
As a two-person team, Alex and I have taken dodgeball about a far as we can alone. Since we finished grad school (ITP @ NYU), we've been trying to figure out how to grow dodgeball and make it a better service along the way. We talked to a lot of different angel investors and venture capitalists, but no one really "got" what we were doing – that is until we met Google. Congrats to Dens and Alex!link » tags: [news] [google] permamark in: Wists
Was pleasantly surprised the other day to find out that a favorite architect of mine, Lebbeus Woods, lives in the same building as me. Outside of architecture, Wood's designs have featured in the films Alien 3 and 12 Monkeys. (as you can see I am messing around with Wists' new blogging tool)link » tags: [books] [apt] [architects] permamark in: Wists
Pixagogo – great site with classic Jazz LP covers. Autumn Leaves on Somethin' Else (shown) is that track that made me fall in love with Jazz. See it on Wists in [jazz] [art]