A blog entry of mine over at our company blog, that may be of interest to the geeky: Inflection Points.
Monthly Archive for April, 2008
A review of Outside (i.e. the outside world) as if it were a video game.
Genius, and very amusing. via Kottke.
A marvellous idea implemented very simply, Soundamus is extremely satisfying. Give if your last.fm username (are anyone elses I guess) and it provides an RSS feed of new and upcoming releases from your favourite artists.
Since I’m an avid user of Google Reader anyway, RSS is how I consume most of my Internet, so this fits brilliantly. My only problem is that I don’t scrobble so much any more. I listen to music in the car, from which I cannot scrobble. I listen to some music on the stereo at home, on CD (although I’m sick of CDs and may give up on them soon). We have a jukebox in the office though, that scrobbles to it’s own account, so I can watch this — but some of the stuff played on there is horrendous. New releases of Andy’s pixie music I do not want.
I fear there’s no good solution to this one - what I’d love is some way of tracking what I play in the car on my iRiver, so I can scrobble that when I sync. A quick google makes me think Rockbox might be able to do this, so could be time to give it another shot. Watch this space.
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Configuration and system management
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really nice idea for collaborative help in fixing bugs
From the Friendly Atheist:
Nearly a third of the inmates in the Creek County Jail were baptized Thursday night in a corrugated steel horse trough set up in the jail’s kitchen.
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Seventy men and 12 women were baptized Wednesday, the second time baptisms have occurred in the new jail, which opened nearly three years ago.
The Rev. Luis Torres, chaplain of the Creek County Jail and pastor of the First Assembly of God in Sand Springs, said a baptism was held in the old jail six years earlier.
He attributed the high number of baptisms to the work of the 75-some volunteers who lead worship and teach Bible studies at the jail and to convicted inmates’ realization that they soon will leave the jail for hard time in prison.
“And,” he said, “in the last four years, there’s been a surge of the move of God, a revival. Inmates that have found the Lord are telling other inmates about it.”
Inmates are not allowed to be baptized until they have gone through an orientation, with teaching about the meaning of baptism, and have “accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as their savior and want to follow him,” Torres said.
Mr Atheist, as an American, is mostly concerned about The Constitution - but surely there’s a wider point here. So lets imagine they weren’t becoming Christians, but were joining Islam.
How do y’all reckon everyone would feel then?
So, apparently prayer isn’t 100% effective at treating diabetes. The parents believe she died because they didn’t have enough faith. The mother believes the girl could still be resurrected.
The really scary part of this is the comment thread, where one of the commenters uses it to push some local medical insurance outfit, on the grounds that maybe the parents prayed instead of going to the doctor because they couldn’t afford it. That would be attributing them with too much sense, clearly, but the idea that an 11-year old girl might not get medical treatment for diabetes because her folks can’t afford it is frankly even more objectionable than their dangerously irrational beliefs.
Go, Team America.
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