Lessig on the CC

A good overview of the CC movement and also some very entertaining digital remixes.
 

Best Computer Setup EVER!

This is probably the coolest computer (or screen setup) I've ever seen!

 LOL nevermind what the advert is for ;).

Uhhhh What?

Not sure what this advert is pushing... weird.

The Palin Fallicy!

Sarah Palin speaking at the RNC:
 
 *shudder* And so it begins.

Do you have time to think?

David Levy is a professor at my alma mater, and was my graduate school adviser. Excited to see him presenting at Google.
 

Chrome... shiny!

Google has released its own browser: Chrome http://www.google.com/chrome ARS Technica Reviews: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080901-google-opens-up-new-front-in-browser-wars-with-chrome.html One of the most impressive technical innovations that Google has brought to Chrome is a multiprocess design. So if you are surfing to myspace and it crashes your browser... you don't have to worry about filling out that job application for the 3rd time. you can just close the tab for myspace and be done with that unholy cest pit. I haven't had a chance to use it yet... but it seems really promising!

Smashing Magazine: Blog engines

Smashing magazine wrote an article up on the top 10 web blogging engines. http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/08/29/10-weblog-engines-reviewed/

I have a special place in my heart for Drupal (this site runs on drupal if you couldn't tell). Mostly because of its tight integration with a taxonomy, and the incredible versatility of the overall package. I've used most of the top 10, they are all fun to play with, and great ways to learn stuff about what makes the most sense to you when setting up a website.

Check Ubiquity

These types of things make the internet exciting again:
Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.

lightning at sunset

lightning at sunset, originally uploaded by wvs.

beautiful sunset/lightning shot

Peak Miley!

So I grabbed my headphones and started watching some long overdue video podcasts this morning. Last one from The Onion.... today.
Entertainment Scientists Warn Miley Cyrus Will Be Depleted by 2013

Less strictly constitutional and more strictly awesome

Supreme Court Rules Death Penalty Is 'Totally Badass' I'm thinking The Onion is about the best/most honest news group in existence.

Yummy or not?

 from the "meca" for fried oreo's http://fairy.mahdzan.com/story/189.asp

I'll see you at the debate bitches!

Paris Hilton accepts your challenge of presidency! FIGHT!

See more funny videos at Funny or Die

this is in response to this video: Man he's old.

April from the wedding

0112, originally uploaded by fotophly.

A great photo of April shot at Dani's wedding

New Kid on the Block

A new internet search site Cuil (http:www.cuil.com) has lauched. They claim to have indexed 3x's the number of pages as google and 10x's as many as live.com.  Impressive numbers, but I'm not sure they have it just right yet.

First off, they have some dead links... yea i'm not talking about their search results... i'm talking about pages off thier "information" section http://www.cuil.com/info/ of the cuil website... oops is right guys! If you want people to think you got your shit together and that you can compete with Google... probably should have your site figured out and locked down... and I don't know... working, before you launch.

Secondly, I'm not sure if this is some cool feature of the search, but they have what seems like mostly random images associated with their search results. Like... why is there a photo of direction on how to hook up a washing machine (or what looks like a photo of a dog sled race) associated with a dead link to what is supposed to be an Eve Online mining guide (an online video game)? ahhh what?

Thirdly, I have no idea how the results are ranked... or how current they are. Maybe this is a function of my Google paradigm... but I like to know how results are ranked in relation to each other. So is the result at the top of the 2nd column more relevant then the 2nd result in the 1st column? If not then why is the 5th most relevant item pushed off the page, while the 10th most relevant sits at the top just to the right of the #1 result? I'm not saying its bad... but it is confusing, because I don't know what is going on.

Fourthly, and this is mostly a personal thing. Even though they have indexed 3x's the number of articles they seem to be missing a few. Namely, THIS website. A quick search on Google for "schwerzler" puts this site: Schwerzler.com at the top of the search results. Cuil doesn't even have schwerzler.com IN its search results.... I mean come on... it is IN the domain name. Rest assured I like being the #1 search result for Schwerzler on google, but I don't need to be #1... I do however expect to be included in the results for schwerzler. Maybe in the 121,617,892,992 (as of 11:24 AM July 28th, 2008) pages they have indexed has not brought them to schwerzler.com yet... but Google found us... and ranked us highly relevant to people looking for information about "schwerzler".... just sayin.

The site claims that Cuil does search in a new and exciting way... but i'm not sure how they expose that to the user, and the site being unable to provide the information is not helping much either.

Hopefully they will adjust after the release and we will see some cool new search technology coming from Cuil... they seem to have some talented people, now lets see what they can do.

Sorry!

Partially because of my own negligence and partially because of a failing of the "auto renew" feature of the Go Daddy domain registration/renewal system the domain schwerzler.com lapsed and I supposed technically was not owned by me for a few days.

Some of you may have noticed a page similar to the one attached saying the site was parked "free of charge" by Go Daddy.

Apologies to anyone who may have been inconvenienced by the interruption. Once discovered on Monday morning the sittuation was fixed ASAP.

It still leaves a bad taste in my mouth however, GoDaddy didn't notify me that my account was expiring, nor that it had expired, nor that the auto renewal did not work for some reason (probably because I'd long since cancelled the credit card I used to originally register the account), nor that they had pointed my domain to one of their "make Go Daddy money via our advertising landing page" sites.

It is not entirely their fault, I should have been more diligent in making sure the domain was renewed, but at the same time... some communication would have been a nice touch, given that they contact me constantly for "upgrading" my account anyway... UGH.

A break from the norm.

A friend linked in a website on twitter and I've spent a great deal of time lost in it this morning. It is contageous, and it is spreading to the people around me.

It is a touching chronicle of a mans relationship with his father. Not only that it has an interesting navigation method.

I highly recomend you check it out!

http://www.dayswithmyfather.com

ICHC FTW!

I haven't had bacon in TOO long...
more cat pictures

CUTE!

more cat pictures

Cool Acrobatics