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Please use the suggestion and money boxes
Help expand my echo, echo, echo chamber, please. I try to link to things I find interesting in hopes that you too will find them interesting. However, my view of the world is as narrow as my own two eyes – and so I’m hoping you’ll help me find even more interesting things to link […]
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Apple’s iPhone takes Flickr top spot among camera phones!
All of the mobile photos you see here on my site are taken with an Apple iPhone and then emailed to my Web site for publishing. It appears that Flickr users are also using their iPhone’s to upload photos to the Web. As of: May 1, 2008 Somewhat recently, according to this graph (pictured), the […]
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Public night at the Astronomical Observatory
Last night Keystone College’s Thomas G. Cupillari Astronomical Observatory was open to the public, and so Eliza, Chris, Andrew, and I took the short ride out to take advantage of the exceptionally clear skies. I could not be happier with my decision to go. We had a great time learning about, and gazing at, our […]
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All I know about Moscow, I learned from a book
Sadly, the title of this note, is mostly true. The World’s Cities: Moscow. To help quench my perpetual thirst for knowledge about things I know nothing about (the very definition of learning, I’d guess) I read a book (pictured) about Moscow. This book is not very long, is filled with illustrations, and was written prior […]
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Galaxies Gone Wild!
GGW! Normally that accronym would be reserved for late-night commercials about incredibly inexpensive DVD-sets with future women that will sue Joe Francis. But not this time. This time GGW refers to NASA’s celebration of the Hubble Telescope being launched 18 years ago! And so they’ve put together a site of awe-inspiring images that Hubble has […]
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Jeffrey Zeldman: The vanishing personal site
Jeffery Zeldman on the trend of personal sites, or the one-stop URL for each person’s published goods online, going the way of the dinosaur and how more and more people are publishing their goods on many different services. I’d be remiss not to mention my goal of Bringing it all together and how I’m getting pretty […]
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The Mended Spiderweb series
I know it isn’t even 10am yet, but lets just call this the "link of the day" shall we? Nina Katchadourian decided, in 1998 no less, to repair broken spiderwebs around the home she was living in at the time. She used red sewing thread and a few dabs of glue. Here is what she […]
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Review: \”Times\” a new feed reader
The Apple Blog’s Bob Rudis reviews a new feed reading application called Times which is set to be released at the end of this week. As Bob states; feed readers are pretty prevalent, but I’ve never seen one that displays aggregated content in this manner. Here is a quick screenshot. An example view in Times. […]
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Review: \”Times\” a new feed reader
The Apple Blog’s Bob Rudis reviews a new feed reading application called Times which is set to be released at the end of this week. As Bob states; feed readers are pretty prevalent, but I’ve never seen one that displays aggregated content in this manner. Here is a quick screenshot. An example view in Times. […]
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Review: \”Times\” a new feed reader
The Apple Blog’s Bob Rudis reviews a new feed reading application called Times which is set to be released at the end of this week. As Bob states; feed readers are pretty prevalent, but I’ve never seen one that displays aggregated content in this manner. Here is a quick screenshot. An example view in Times. […]
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Review: \”Times\” a new feed reader
The Apple Blog’s Bob Rudis reviews a new feed reading application called Times which is set to be released at the end of this week. As Bob states; feed readers are pretty prevalent, but I’ve never seen one that displays aggregated content in this manner. Here is a quick screenshot. An example view in Times. […]
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Review: \”Times\” a new feed reader
The Apple Blog’s Bob Rudis reviews a new feed reading application called Times which is set to be released at the end of this week. As Bob states; feed readers are pretty prevalent, but I’ve never seen one that displays aggregated content in this manner. Here is a quick screenshot. An example view in Times. […]
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Review: \”Times\” a new feed reader
The Apple Blog’s Bob Rudis reviews a new feed reading application called Times which is set to be released at the end of this week. As Bob states; feed readers are pretty prevalent, but I’ve never seen one that displays aggregated content in this manner. Here is a quick screenshot. An example view in Times. […]
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Review: \”Times\” a new feed reader
The Apple Blog’s Bob Rudis reviews a new feed reading application called Times which is set to be released at the end of this week. As Bob states; feed readers are pretty prevalent, but I’ve never seen one that displays aggregated content in this manner. Here is a quick screenshot. An example view in Times. […]
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Eight new header images!
Just a quick note to say that this site now has a total of nine header images. To see them all, just refresh the page and a new, random header image should be loaded in. I’m not sure how long I’ll keep this set, but I do have some goals in mind with the random […]
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\”Internet Asshattery, Armchair Scaling Experts Edition\”
Leonard Lin takes out the laundry. Lin decides not to sit idly by while "tech journalists" and "experts" tee off on some of the engineers and programmers behind a few of the more widely used social applications about "scaling issues". First, he speaks about Michael Arrington’s crack at Blaine Cook of Twitter. In short, Arrington […]
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\”Internet Asshattery, Armchair Scaling Experts Edition\”
Leonard Lin takes out the laundry. Lin decides not to sit idly by while "tech journalists" and "experts" tee off on some of the engineers and programmers behind a few of the more widely used social applications about "scaling issues". First, he speaks about Michael Arrington’s crack at Blaine Cook of Twitter. In short, Arrington […]
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\”Internet Asshattery, Armchair Scaling Experts Edition\”
Leonard Lin takes out the laundry. Lin decides not to sit idly by while "tech journalists" and "experts" tee off on some of the engineers and programmers behind a few of the more widely used social applications about "scaling issues". First, he speaks about Michael Arrington’s crack at Blaine Cook of Twitter. In short, Arrington […]
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\”Internet Asshattery, Armchair Scaling Experts Edition\”
Leonard Lin takes out the laundry. Lin decides not to sit idly by while "tech journalists" and "experts" tee off on some of the engineers and programmers behind a few of the more widely used social applications about "scaling issues". First, he speaks about Michael Arrington’s crack at Blaine Cook of Twitter. In short, Arrington […]
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\”Internet Asshattery, Armchair Scaling Experts Edition\”
Leonard Lin takes out the laundry. Lin decides not to sit idly by while "tech journalists" and "experts" tee off on some of the engineers and programmers behind a few of the more widely used social applications about "scaling issues". First, he speaks about Michael Arrington’s crack at Blaine Cook of Twitter. In short, Arrington […]
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\”Internet Asshattery, Armchair Scaling Experts Edition\”
Leonard Lin takes out the laundry. Lin decides not to sit idly by while "tech journalists" and "experts" tee off on some of the engineers and programmers behind a few of the more widely used social applications about "scaling issues". First, he speaks about Michael Arrington’s crack at Blaine Cook of Twitter. In short, Arrington […]
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\”Internet Asshattery, Armchair Scaling Experts Edition\”
Leonard Lin takes out the laundry. Lin decides not to sit idly by while "tech journalists" and "experts" tee off on some of the engineers and programmers behind a few of the more widely used social applications about "scaling issues". First, he speaks about Michael Arrington’s crack at Blaine Cook of Twitter. In short, Arrington […]
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Newton rec
Where I sometimes shoot the rock. It doesn’t look like much, but it is always available, free, and never crowded.
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Sake!
Date taken: April 28, 2008 Dinner at Mirakuya in Wilkes-Barre, PA. Delicious.
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The Ansel Adams Gallery Blog
Ansel Adams, considered one of the best American West photographers, had a studio which is still owned by his family and is named The Ansel Adams Gallery, now has a blog. Still very fresh, this blog is cataloging some of the activities of the studio, its members, and fans of Ansel Adams. I am of […]
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The Eliza drink
Since it has no name, that is what I’m going to call it. Either way, it is darned good. Simple. Refreshing. And contains vodka.
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Understanding Depth of Field
You know when a photo gradually gets more "blurry" as the distance from the camera increases? That’s the Depth of Field. Here is a better way to describe it. "Depth of field is the range of distance around the focal plane which is acceptably sharp. The depth of field varies depending on camera type, aperture […]
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Regarding writing style when messaging instantly
Some time before the turn of this last century I began to pay much more attention to my writing style in everyday communications. My email correspondence needed more attention to detail, editing, and focus. This is something I’m still striving to get better at, but some times the constant ticking of the clock inhibits any progress on […]
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Timeframe, a better calendar
Timeframe is "Click-draggable. Range-makeable. A better calendar.", and is open-source. It is thoroughly impressive, a great implementation, and works best in Safari! Timeframe demo The demonstration (pictured) is by far the best calendar "widget" I’ve seen in a browser. One of my favorite things is the date range tools which is where Timeframe strived to […]
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Highway growth
Under I-78 between Hellertown and Bethlehem, PA the trees are blooming.
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Aurora Borealis in Murmansk
The Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights, is a natural phenomenon worth researching. The hows, whys, and whens are not as stunning as just sitting back and looking at it though. This series of photos gives us a glimpse of what the Aurora looks like from Murmansk, Russia. I’ve never had the opportunity to shoot the […]
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Can you help cure juvenile diabetes?
This Sunday my friend Chris Fehnel will be helping out a few of his friends, by walking in the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation’s "Walk to Cure Diabetes". Chris is trying to raise just $100 through donations to "sponsor his walk" which will then be given to the JDRF as a donation during Sunday’s walk. If you have anything […]
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Hacking Pownce’s view count
Fun, harmless, hack. You can hack Pownce’s view count on links by clicking anywhere near the link. Here is a video (that you can see on Pownce) to show you how. [viddler id-4ae7133c h-297 w-340] Hack away people!
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Midday tennis
When the weather is perfect and you need a quick break from work, tennis is a good choice. Thanks for taking me along Andrew!
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Drainage
Date taken: April 18, 2008 A storm drain.
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Spring is budding
Date taken: April 18th, 2008 The trees are waking up.
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Twitter is definitely down, sorta
digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/tech\_news/Not\_seeing\_your\_Twitter\_updates\_Here\_s\_the\_very\_simple\_fix‘; Over the past few days the number of Twitter statuses popping up from those I follow on Twitter have been scarce. At first I thought it was because I was beta testing the latest version of Hahlo. Then, I thought it was a problem with the API and so Twitterrific would also […]
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Diner food
It may not be good for the body, but it is good for the soul. Now to play basketball to work it off.
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iPhone moon
So glad I took my telescope out for a few minutes. Really nice weather and a clear sky for a good look at the moon.
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Nike Air Assault
My current pair of basketball sneakers. Review: Great ankle support. Outside of sneakers holding up really well. Inside of sneaker is beginning to bunch up. I’ll update this post to say how old they are when I figure that out.
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Panera on Wednesday
A shot from this past Wednesday. I get a lot of work done in the energy of Panera Bread.
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R. D. Jr.
Going to be great.
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Runners 2-way
Essentially this is saying that runners can go both ways. Err.
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50c to play
One of these beautys could be your’s for just 50c.
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Gary Vaynerchuk, published author
My friend Gary Vaynerchuk, who you may know as the host of WineLibrary TV, is now a published author and you can pre-order his book Gary Vaynerchuk’s 101 Wines Guaranteed to Inspire, Delight, and Bring Thunder to Your World on Amazon. Gary’s book is currently hovering at number 101, which will probably change before I even publish […]
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How the advertising experiment is going so far
In very early January I decided to run an experiment where I’d put Adsense on this site for a few months, not do anything differently than I normally would, and see how much a personal site could earn. Although I only planned on having ads on this site for January and February, they were so […]
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Pennsylvania might as well be in Israel
Robert Scoble recently quipped that Israel is too far away from Mike Arrington’s house. To qualify that headline; Mike Arrington founded TechCrunch, a web site that covers news related to business on the Web mainly in Silicon Valley. Scoble’s argument is that companies doing really great things in Israel may, or may not be, getting […]
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Yearbook Project: Excelsior 1968 by John Martz
Why, oh, why did I ever stop reading John "RobotJohnny" Martz’s blog? Somehow in my efforts to slim down my number of feeds, his site got the axe, and hasn’t returned – until today. John recently redrew his mother’s entire yearbook from 1968. Or, at least the portraits therein. I like how he described his […]
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Help me build the Viddler Lab
I’m building a complete developer resource, piece by piece, for developers that are interested in building on top of Viddler’s platform. But, I can’t do it alone, so I’m asking fellow developers to help me build out a "developer resource roadmap". If you are a developer, whether or not you are interested in building an […]
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Leo Laporte’s photo kit
[viddler id-79cb0e9a h-211 w-300] Leo Laporte recently went to Tasmania on a photography adventure. Sponsored by O’Reilly and Adobe’s Photoshop Lightroom, the Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Adventure on the Australian island seemed to be a blast (and you can consider me jealous). Recently Leo went through his bag and showed off his photo kit that he […]
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