I’m thankful to Tony and Camille Chatman for including us in their family Thanksgiving celebration β and then humbling us hard at the family domino game. π The Chatman family and me at dinner; not pictured because heβs taking the
The prez warns kids to be careful what they share on Facebook; of course, you should be, too
Asked by one student how he could become President someday, Obama issued a warning about Facebook. βI want everybody here to be careful about what you post on Facebook (), because in the YouTube () age whatever you do, it will be pulled up again l…
Yay for new Smart Add feature from Remember the Milk
Smart Add First, we have a new “Add Task” field that’s always on screen (you can still jump to it with the keyboard shortcut t). This field is a little bit special: it supports entering all your task’s properties in one line, with our new Smart Ad…
No really, I do wish I had a tail.
via icanhascheezburger.com I often think, while watching our cats, how much fun a tail would be.
The “What Type of Nerd Are You?” Venn diagram, via Mashable
via mashable.com This is utterly perfect. Almost exactly the nuanced distinctions I would articulate if I’d put enough thought into it. My social skills are largely intact, so I’m clearly a geek, at least in reference to the web, about which I adm…
Google PageRank Powers Endangered Species Hierarchy
In the circle of life there are many players and while there’s no shortage of people, there are unfortunately thousands of endangered animals and plants. Biologists have been looking for ways to determine the most important species based on the nu…
My new Posterous blog
I know, folks are probably sick of me having so many sites. But I like the idea of a Posterous-style tumbler blog, and I want to see if I actually use it. Subscribe or don’t, it’s up to you. π
How cool is the Nashville Number System?
Not sure if I’ve ever talked about this here, but I just happened across this article about the Nashville Number System and wanted to point out how cool it is to watch session players use this. As the article points
Bad news for Nashville music in pairs yesterday
It was a little bit of a shock to me to learn yesterday that Ticketmaster has decided to close Nashville-based Echo, which is a company I’ve danced close to for some time but never danced with, if you know what
Depeche Mode, iTunes, and the state of the music industry,
I hadn’t heard about the Depeche Mode iTunes Pass fiasco: Just recently, Apple introduced its iTunes Pass program with Depeche Mode, only to find the proposition dismantled by the internet itself.Β The Pass builds extras around a formal album release