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Pretty awesome tool for doing affinity maps. Look forward to trying it out.
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An inspiring presentation about the state of the music business. No, not for the labels: for the artists and fans.
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I’ve wondered the same thing about Google’s iPhone search results. They clearly went to a lot of trouble for the optimized look, so why wouldn’t they enable it for the most common search scenario on the iPhone?
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I’m guilty of 24/7, myself.
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I missed this announcement about Citigroup ending the CitiAssist loan package at Harvard, Sloan and others. CitiAssist was the best loan package at Sloan, much more responsive to interest rate changes and much more affordable than the MIT Tech Loan, which looked predatory in comparison (7+% interest rate in 2001). Sloan just got a lot more expensive.
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Killer plugin for WordPress. Considering looking at it, but will wait until I can futz around with some caching plugins–not eager to take a half-second hit for each page just for hyphenation.
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Very cool WordPress theme that takes off on Die Neue Tyopgraphie, Tschischold’s early sans-serif + grid manifesto.
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Nasty last minute surprises from the outgoing administration.
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Oops. Motrin touches the live wire. I’m surprised that no one at the agency had a clue that the baby carriers are much, much better for the back than carrying the child in your arms.
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Discussion of “Angler” with the author and the book’s critics. Sounds like pretty essential reading for foes of the outgoing administration.
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Interesting study of the sociology of combat troops in Afghanistan.
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Delicious review of something that should go on the shelf next to my copy of Mencken’s “The American Language.”
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This article is why an independent software security testing service, like that provided by Veracode, is so important. We promise not to insert /*Flawfinder: ignore*/ in your source code.
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That’s my old friend Rob (also Robb) Munro, now a law intern in the North Carolina State Supreme Court and a law student at UNC — and a great photo of him and his service dog Pilaf. Way to go, Rob.
Day: November 18, 2008
Google LIFE archive: where’s the usage rights?
I’m impressed by the new LIFE photo archive at Google Images–it’s a truly significant work of digital content. But it’s missing one important thing: a usage policy. The images are marked (c) Time Inc., so it’s clear they aren’t public domain. But is there any way to purchase usage rights? The only reuse provision seems to be a framed print purchase.
Compare it to what Flickr does with the images in its commons, or anywhere else for that matter–a clear licensing agreement, selectable by the poster, that explains how images can be used. The LIFE archive may be visually striking, but it would be much more valuable if the images could have a life beyond Google’s servers.
Ubiquity memory issues on Firefox
I may have to stop using Ubiquity for a while. I’ve used it exclusively because it, plus the share-on-delicious script, provides a great keyboard-only way to tag web pages for Delicious, simply by ctrl-space and typing share Delicious bookmark description tagged delicious tags entitled title“.
Alas, there are definite memory issues with Ubiquity or with the script. I currently have three tabs open in Firefox and the memory is more or less stable at 112,988K. If I invoke Ubiquity and start typing:
share This is a sample Delicious post that's not too different from one I would normally do, except a bit shorter and more fictional. tagged ubiquity entitled foo ubiquity test.
then suddenly memory usage spikes up to 571,028K !!! The memory use gradually falls back down, but it climbs steadily and precipitously while I’m typing, and there’s a point beyond which Firefox becomes unusable. Maybe I’m a canary user because I’m a touch typist, and I’m typing faster than Firefox can garbage collect memory? I still can’t believe that Ubiquity could be consuming so much, though.
(Update: apparently I’m not alone.)