Monthly Archives May 2008

Friday Fun Link – Flickr Tag Galaxy (May 30, 2008)

Continuing last week's theme of Jason finding extremely exciting, anything that presents typical linear information in a cool, revolving circular format, I present to you: Tag Galaxy (via Reddit)

Google X: A Tribute to OS X

Here's some love for you Mac people out there… What if Google modeled its interface on the OS-X one?  I like it and am thinking of changing my default search to this one.  Seriously.

Myers-Briggs and Facebook: Match Made In Heaven?

Okay, maybe not but the Facebook MyType application is the first application I've installed on Facebook in a *long* time.I'm not sure what I got in high school but I think every time I've taken the test (official or an unofficial variation) since then, I've gotten ENFP.Here's a summary of what that personality type is […]

What Not To Do On A First Date…

Reddit (nice redesign by the way!) had a post about the 15th anniversary of  “True Romance“, a film that bombed in its initial theatrical release but has gone on to be a cult-classic due to a classic Quentin Tarantino script, a star-studded line-up (Brad Pitt does more with a quickie cameo than any actor in […]

Kiva.org

Kiva is a web site that helps facilitate micro-credit loans to entrepreneurs around the world.   (As always, Wikipedia has more information about this organization if you're interested.) Shea got a Kiva gift certificate as a Mother's Day Gift and is helping two people:  Ruth Celenia Santana Morales who sells clothes and jewelery in the Dominican […]

Jason Is Officially A Soccer Mom

"I Hate Hate" – Jason's Pick For Song of Summer 2008

If you're a music fan, one of the rules is that there must be one song each year that becomes your Song of Summer.  Criteria for a successful Song of Summer include originality, catchiness and general sense of fun.  Ability to play the song about eight zillion times in a row, preferably in a car […]

Friday Fun Link – Spectra Visual Newsreader (and Some Thoughts on Some Other, More World-Changing Future Technologies) (May 23, 2008)

Spectra is a new visual news reader from MSNBC.  I haven't played around with it much but it looks cool, mostly because the news spins in a circle instead of the old-fashioned columnar approach. Whoo-hooo!  On a much broader scale, I've recently come across a couple lists predicting of technologies that will change the world […]

Where You Sit in A Classroom and What It Says About You

I don't do a lot of posts that earn the “libraryschool” tag anymore but this one seems appropriate.  I was both a “back row” and an “against the wall” type student but also tended to sit furthest from the exit which means I'm “too cool for school”, sensitive and apparently committed (assuming people who sit […]

The Quest for Every Beard Type

As you may have noticed in the Flickr pics from Pace's birthday, my “winter beard” is gone (“winter beard” being a very loose definition – some years it doesn't appear until January as happened this year, some years it sticks around for pretty much 11 months as I think was the case while I was […]