Thanks to the tip from Merch, I made it to the paella demonstration and tasting at Big Ten Market. I don’t get to cook and eat seafood much (Lizz hates it), so the squid and mussels in the Big Ten recipe were a special treat. A shortened version of Bill’s “Five Easy but […]
The O’Reilly Radar links to the Social Explorer site, which offers an easy to use, web-based GIS (”mapping”) application for exploring US census data. Having briefly played with ArcGIS, a fancy and expensive GIS package, Social Explorer is a very exciting tool. It’s much more limited, but also much easier to use than […]
Ever wish you had access to the Umich Directory on the go? The University of Michigan Mobile Directory lets you to look up people in the directory from your phone. You do need Internet access on your phone, which must be on the compatible devices list. Too bad I’m too cheap to […]
The Washtenaw County web site has a great page for tips on where and how to recycle computers. Old electronics are toxic, so do us all a favor and don’t just chuck them. ScrapComputer.com also appears to take things for free, but I can’t find out whether they’re a sketchy send-it-to-China-and-pollute-it-over-there kind of […]
My friend Tim makes greeting cards.
Check out cards for mother — Mother’s Day is just around the corner.
The killer app on the Internet are people. It provides tools for people to enhance their social potential.
From Ross Mayfield’s notes from Yossi Vardi’s presentation at Les Blogs. Sounds like it’s an interesting gathering.
Not too long ago, Murph asked his geekier friends about how we might associate the various, free wireless access points around town to physical locations, so we might now who is around us and whether a friend or colleague is in the vicinity.
Plazes seems to have done this and more. For example, Joi Ito […]
Joining other bloggers in the area, posting photos of the snow-covered flowers and trees that greeted us this morning. More in this set at Flickr.
Update: Ypsi~dixit also posted a similar photoset today. Both Mark, Laura and I captured red, snow-covered tulips independently. It does seem to be the perfect image for the […]
Harvard University has dumped Eudora and switched to Thunderbird. Here is the Harvard Thunderbird Introduction. Make sense to me: cross-platform, powerful, Free, and even has a decent RSS feed reader built-in. (Thanks, Sat!)
I asked George if he wanted to go to the Grassroots Use of Technology Conference and he replied, “I’m not really an activist.” Not only is George an activist, he’s a community organizer. In the same way that new technologies are making media more participatory, they have the potential to make organizing and […]
