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• 09.29.08 | Posted By jason kuhn
  MIT uses rain water in toilets… impressions | (2)

  [caption id="attachment_197" align="alignnone" width="225" caption="beginner's track"][/caption] ...but uses paper towels. Ironically, The Wi-Fi was disappointing. The Strata Center architecture was awesome.
• 09.24.08 | Posted By jason kuhn
  iTunes U impressions | (3)

  I had never heard of iTunes U until this morning when my boss linked our group to Columbia University's New Media in Education '08 Conference. I'm not exactly sure how I feel about it; in fact I'm rather torn! iTunes already has a great content delivery system that millions of people use every day. The interface is familiar and certainly more comfortable than any LMS I've ever used (Moodle, BlackBoard, etc). Does it make sense to use an already proven system for entertainment delivery for education? Is it wise to keep the two so close together?
• 09.23.08 | Posted By Lee
  Dictionary.com gets a face lift Design, brain monkey, impressions | (3)

  Looks like the dictionary.com group has given the website an updated UI. I'm glad since I have been using this web service as long as I can remember. I am assuming this is the start of a new UI for the ask.com group as well since they own dictionary.com. Might be an interesting one to follow. The new UI is very web 2.0 in its style which is good. My only complaint is the new results layout. i had become so used to the last layout that this one gets to me a little. But I'm sure they did their homework ...
• 09.17.08 | Posted By C Hill
  Web2.orbius expo brain monkey | (1)
• 09.17.08 | Posted By jason kuhn
  Arranging Hues brain monkey | (1)

  xrite.com has a test that asks users arrange color tiles from one hue to another. The lower the score the better; Zero being perfect. I managed to score an 11 in approximately 6 minutes. I'm not sure what this means, but it was a fun exercise!
• 09.17.08 | Posted By jason kuhn
  Google Audio Indexing Bad Idea, Good Idea | (0)

  They did it again. Google has an experimental search feature on the labs section of the google site. Audio indexing currently searches through video and finds matches of words and phrases and provides shortcuts to jump straight to the result. Is this the next stenographer killer? Will closed-caption/subtitle programmers have to find a new job? Will the RIAA have a hissy fit when lyrics are ultimately indexed by someone they can't afford to sue? Time will tell!
• 09.11.08 | Posted By Bryan
  Connect the Dots Good Idea, impressions, iphone, opinion, outside, review | (2)

  Do you remember playing connect the dots in first or second grade? Drawing lines until you were delightfully rewarded with a crude drawing of a butterfly. Swype is like playing connect the dots with an onscreen keyboard. Swype is a gesture based text input method for mobile devices and tablet PCs using a stylus or fingertip, but there is no reason why it couldn't be used with a standard PC and a mouse. Continue Reading...
• 09.11.08 | Posted By C Hill
  Among other things brain monkey | (2)

  I'm thinking about the way I look up words - or the way I used to look up words. You know, like in a dictionary. I employ some quick fuzzy math to calculate the depth of the first letter and then I eyeball the thickness of the book. I estimate how many letters, how many words and how many pages come before. How many after. I open the book and if I am really really lucky I might be close. Now the flipping and skipping begins. Half steps towards the word. Single page scans and turns. Ah ha!
• 09.10.08 | Posted By Lee
  Almost there blog, brain monkey, proposal, suggestion | (3)

  Just thought I would make it known that Phixda is coming up to its first year of being together. The official date of the first post is October 4th, 2007 by The Magician. In honor of this I say we hold a little competition among ourselves and the group at large. What I am lacking however is ideas for what to do. We could make backgrounds, try designing a theme for the site again, build an RIA etc etc. So lets discuss what we could do and make it happen. We should set a deadline of next Wednesday for a ...
• 09.10.08 | Posted By C Hill
  I tapped my laptop iphone | (1)

  It was bound to happen. I'll make a short story long... For years we've had $23 analog cable from comcast. 2 weeks ago our cable went out. 1 week ago comcast came out to fix it. Comcast no longer supports the old analog boxes so they fixed our cable by forcing us to go digital. There is a considerable improvement in the picture but we now get fewer channels. We get 3,6 and 10. We don't get comedy central. Which means we watch the daily show on our laptop at hulu.com. Last night, during one of the short advertisement breaks I ...

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