Category: Misc

Hurricane Katrina and the Power of Photography Despite all the daily descriptions of flooding and complications printed in the newspapers and elsewhere it is the photos that have had the biggest impact on me. Words simply can not to justice to what took place over the past two weeks.

Eric Rice gets funding to launch podcast and videoblog service and portal in Japan, Korea and China I’m excited to announce funding, as well as a partnership between Audioblog.com and Transcosmos Investments, (The US investment arm of Transcosmos Japan) and Tokyo-based J-Stream, a media infrastructure provider. Together, we’ll be launching our exis

Bandnews.org Bandnews.org is a great bot-driven music news aggregator that spiders over 800 bands’ websites to bring you the latest news about your favorite artists.

Scratching at Fido’s door 29 days into my love affair with an unlocked Treo and I have discovered why it’s nice not to be married to any one cell phone carrier.

Evolution and Intuition I think there are three major reasons why a lot of people have trouble accepting biological evolution:

KK opening @ Wicked Cafe Here’s a few photos from my friend Neil of last Friday’s show. Thx for coming and shooting Neil. 🙂

Ty West Performs on the Scot Free We were treated on Monday August 22, 2005 to a awesome hippy-boy set by Ty West on the Scot Free moored somewhere near Yaletown

Drupal for Education Crushes WebCT This may be the most significant endorsement of Drupal I’ve ever seen. Charlie Lowe just asked his Technical writing class to give an end of course evaluation comparing Drupal and WebCT.

Wow, my cousin Taylor… a 2nd LT in the US Army… has started a blog. He’s leaving for Iraq in October and is going to use it to report in and stay in touch with friends and the family.

Want to start a company? We found 11 venture capitalists sitting on business ideas they’re dying to bankroll. All you have to do is send them exactly the right business plan.

Flock rocks (or Chris Messina is a demo god)! From Roland “At OSCON 2005, I was lucky enough to get a demo of Flock, the new “social web browser” based on Firefox, from Chris Messina, Flock CSS and design guru, at their launch party. I was blown away!”

Rebel This lone man on the streets somewhere in America is a rebel. Rebelling against authority and the structure of society.

Event blogging with Drupal From Alex Samuel “This is Information Society Week in Capetown, and one of the events taking place is the first telecentre.org workshop to use the new Drupal-based event platform that I’ve helped develop.”

Bootyliscious West Coast Style Sam runs around SF talking fasion and taking sniper photos of some of the city’s worst dressed women.

Canon 5d There are a couple rumors floating around this morning about a new Canon dSLR, the 5D.

Booty Call…Should I Answer? Seriously…should I? Should I give in to the tempation that everytime I pass a mirror I have to turn my head ever so slightly to make sure the same booty that poured in to the Serfontaine jean in the morning was still able to pass the “other woman test.”