From the monthly archives:

January 2006

Americans are growing with their houses

January 24, 2006

Gluttony fans — you will be happy to know that the increase in American home sizes is keeping pace with the physical growth (weight, not quantity) of the collective U.S. population. 
Who cares if you’re fat–just get a 4,000 square foot house, and you’ll feel relatively the same as the skinny you who lived in [...]

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The new NBA: Drunken, unaccountable fans and players in the stands

January 19, 2006

I knew when the NBA came down HARD on the players in the Indiana-Detroit brawl last year, but didn’t make much of a point about the drunken behavior exhibited in the stands, that we’d hear more about all of this.
Last night we did.
I’m not saying what Antonio did was acceptable (although, playing for Isiah’s Knicks [...]

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SpotRunner

January 12, 2006

I don’t want to gush too much until I actually try it…but at first glance, SpotRunner looks AWESOME.  How long before Google buys them, and assimilates their service into AdWords?

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Talk bad about the Bush, you no fly

January 9, 2006

The author of Bush’s Brain, a book critical of President Bush and Karl Rove, has been placed on the government’s no fly list. 
REMINDER: Yes, this is still America.  We’ve just temporarily suspended a few amendments, during this difficult time for our President’s approval rating.  Bare with us.

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Google at CES

January 6, 2006

Engadget did an excellent job of providing live play-by-play.  Be sure to read their wrap-up.
To sum it up — there was a Video announcement (premium content for about $2/show will be available in the near future for download thru Google Video), but contrary to my earlier report, it didn’t have anything to do with Google [...]

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Apple TV

January 6, 2006

If this prediction of Apple’s Macworld announcement is true, then I get to say "I called it" and I’m pretty sure that means I earn my Web 2.0 wings, or something like that.

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Best. Sign. Ever.

January 5, 2006

(from lushlush)

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Get ready for your Google Pack

January 5, 2006

The Wall Street Journal’s reporting that Google’s big CES announcement is in fact video-related, as earlier suggested by Om Malik. 
According to WSJ (via Reuters UK), Google will announce new video distribution partnerships (with content creators/distributors) and new software to enable rights-managed video to be purchased thru Google Video.  The new software is supposedly called [...]

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OM: No Google Cube…improved Google Video

January 5, 2006

Om Malik’s saying that Google’s big announcement tomorrow at CES is related to Google Video, not a "Google Cube" announcement.

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Massively Multiplayer Lifehacking

January 4, 2006

I’ve got too much USC football on the brain to go into detail about this, but I love the ideas represented in Steven Frank’s Massive Multiplayer Personal Productivity post.  I’ll grok further as soon as time permits.

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Letterman and O’Reilly

January 4, 2006

Letterman: I’m not smart enough to debate you point-to-point on this, but I have the feeling about 60% of what you say is crap.

Classic.

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So long, Blue

January 1, 2006

LOS ANGELES – Patrick Cranshaw, who achieved cult-like status as
fraternity brother "Blue" in the 2003 comedy "Old School," has died. He
was 86.

[AP/Y! News]

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Friday! Friday! Friday!

January 1, 2006

This Friday, January 6 at 4pm, to be exact.  That’s when Larry Page will be giving a keynote at CES 2006.  It could also be when we get a big announcement about what’s next from Google. 
According to an article in today’s L.A. Times, it sounds like it could be a super-cheap PC with a [...]

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Cory Doctorow: Full-time Writer

January 1, 2006

I can’t believe he wasn’t working as a full-time writer before, considering his annual output of books + BoingBoing…but Cory Doctorow has officially quit his day job at the EFF, to work on books and blogging full-time.  w00t!
Congrats Cory.

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