The more information you have, the harder it is to manage it. I’m sure you’ve experienced this when trying to sift through 20 pages of Google results.
Grokker is a search application that tries to simplify those result by displaying them graphically. Searches return results in clusters (represented by spheres) that are created by grouping similar [...]
Add this to the list of ideas I’ve had but wasn’t able to implement (OK, fine, the chances that I had this idea first are slim, but it feels nice to pretend.)
Trailblazer is a very lightweight browser for Mac that has a great graphical interface for looking at your history. It shows all the pages [...]
There is a leak in my ceiling. This is what I had been dreading.
Well, not the leak in particular. No, I wasn’t sitting around worrying about when a leak would spring in the foamy ceiling tiles above the family room (previous post on ceiling tiles, in the kitchen that time, is here).
But when you own [...]
Buenos Aires is a nervous city. It’s the opposite of the palm-tree paradise people imagine when they think of anyplace Latin.
There are some palms, yes, and it’s hot. But that’s it. The rest is like blood pulsing through the veins of a hyperventilating aerobics student.
At the airport, waiting for my grandmother to bring the car [...]
As long as you’re posting from outside.
Thank god for warm spring days and wireless. I’m posting from the corner of Washington Ave. & Church street in Minneapolis, while I wait for my girlfriend to come pick me up. Imagine me trying to do this five years ago.
Of course, five years ago, I probably wouldn’t have [...]
Sorry, really, I am. But you should be outside anyway. What are you doing inside on the NICEST DAY OF ALL TIME?
It’s too nice out to post anything. I’ll see you next week.
Wow. What more can you really say about that?
Here’s the article.
What kind of teenagers decide that a fun way to pass time is to endanger their own lives and the lives of others (not to mention the poor antelope) by chasing a herd of the poor creatures in their SUV?
Heh. That makes it sound like [...]
Spring arrived yesterday, and there was a general craziness in people’s expressions that was akin to an astronaut finding oxygen on the moon.
I can sympathize. Just last week I was looking out the window at work – it was a bright but frigid day – and I can remember thinking, “It’s never going to be [...]
Well, I wanted to write something about how annoying it is when people justify what they’re writing about by pointing out how many search results Google turns up on the subject, but I was scooped – Lies, Damned Lies, and Google by Lionel Beehner (and it looks like he got paid, too).
Of course Google turns [...]
Trying to describe the plot of “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” would be like trying to relate a complex dream that you have already started to forget.
Like dreams, the story that develops in “Sunshine” is breathtaking if you see it for yourself, but confusing and mildly boring to have retold to you.
It’s not [...]