desideratum

Month

December 2007

43 posts

The Update

Everything has been so amazingly crazy this week. I’ve been up and down the city, seeing Juno, pigging out at Pinkberry, spending random times with Jana everywhere (coincidentally, of course), snowboarding and injuring myself, playing Rock Band with some of my closest friends, and other good ol’ stuff. There will be lots of pictures up at some point, but after I return to SF since I forgot my USB connector for my camera. Right now, I’m jailbreaking my new iPod Touch for the sense of accomplishment before tomorrow’s hellish NYE plans :)

Dec 31, 2007
Play
Dec 25, 2007
Two Weeks for Kina: Kina Grannis' Blog → twoweeksforkina.com

Cute. I just listened to the rest of her songs, and they’re pretty damn good. Maybe I’ll buy her CD’s off iTunes.

Dec 25, 2007
Play
Dec 24, 2007
[GameTrailers] Nodame Cantabile for Wii → gametrailers.com

Ok, this kind of makes me want to get one… even if only for the live-action videos of the person in the mongoose suit teaching you how to use the Wiimote + Nunchuk.

Dec 18, 2007
[NYT] On Facebook, Scholars Link Up With Data → nytimes.com

This isn’t really news, but it’s good to see that social network analysis is being more visibly formalized in the scientific community. I enjoyed the reference to Granovetter’s “Strength of Weak Ties” (albeit indirectly) and Kossinets and Watts’ “Empirical Analysis of an Evolving Social Network” (requires free registration to view full text).

Now that I think about it, analyzing how common ground is established through Facebook in my Info450 class at Cornell could have been taken so much further… que sera.

(Tangentially, here’s a Wikipedia article on lazy reason because it’s currently on my mind.)

Dec 18, 2007
Dec 17, 2007
Dec 17, 2007
#now
How to increase the screen resolutions available to Ubuntu in Parallels → simplehelp.net
Dec 14, 2007
Play
Dec 13, 2007
[Ars Technica] 63% of US Population Now Plays Video Games → arstechnica.com

Aha! Proof that you’re the weird one for NOT gaming!

Dec 13, 2007
phpBB 3.0 Released! → phpbb.com

… and with a whole new slew of features!

Dec 13, 2007
“Take heart; Norman Mailer wrote all of his novels by hand. And you’ve surely heard the phrase, ‘the pen is mightier than the sword’? It would sound absurd to substitute ‘laptop’ for the word ‘pen.’” —An amazing customer service e-mail from Amazon.com, as seen on Consumerist
Dec 11, 2007
Dec 11, 2007
Wheel of Lunch → coverpop.com

It takes your zip code, a query (e.g. brunch, lunch, lobster, etc.), and returns for you a retro-looking spinny wheel that picks where you should eat lunch for you. Take that, decisions!

Dec 11, 2007
Free DivX Pro = Happy Holidays! → divx.com
Dec 11, 2007
[Time] 50 Top 10 Lists of 2007 → time.com

There are way too many good top10’s here to wrap my head around.. so here’s the list of the.. lists.

Dec 11, 2007
Holiday Shipping Deadlines at Popular Online Stores → dealhack.com

This could be very helpful if you’re doing last-minute shopping, and want to make sure you won’t be spending hours driving all over the place dropping off gifts in order to pretend you hadn’t procrastinated.

Dec 10, 20071 note
[TechCrunch] Health Search + Patient Social Network = iMedix → techcrunch.com

Finally! I was waiting for something like this. This is along the lines of the idea I had to better doctor/patient interaction via online system. I’m talking about being able to schedule appointments, check on test results, and ask your doctor a question every once in awhile from online. Wouldn’t that be novel?

Dec 10, 2007
[TechCrunch] Spokeo 2.0: A Feed Reader for Your Friends → techcrunch.com

A Facebook news-feed’ish application for all of your social networks, huh? Sounds like a plan!

Dec 10, 2007
Next page →
2011 2012
  • January 6
  • February 1
  • March 1
  • April
  • May
  • June 3
  • July 1
  • August
  • September
  • October
  • November
  • December
2010 2011 2012
  • January
  • February 3
  • March 5
  • April 6
  • May 4
  • June 2
  • July 1
  • August 9
  • September 1
  • October 4
  • November 6
  • December 6
2009 2010 2011
  • January 198
  • February 87
  • March 162
  • April 113
  • May 77
  • June 64
  • July 55
  • August 23
  • September 61
  • October 42
  • November 15
  • December 14
2008 2009 2010
  • January
  • February
  • March
  • April
  • May 66
  • June 148
  • July 164
  • August 143
  • September 114
  • October 15
  • November 103
  • December 193
2007 2008 2009
  • January 51
  • February 51
  • March 28
  • April 6
  • May 3
  • June 3
  • July 12
  • August 3
  • September
  • October 4
  • November
  • December
2007 2008
  • January
  • February
  • March 9
  • April 12
  • May 6
  • June 3
  • July 8
  • August 8
  • September 13
  • October 49
  • November 86
  • December 43