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I’m ages behind in noting my reading and movies (pending: 11 books, 2 films), but before we head out to catch a Memorial Day parade in the Presidio, worth capturing some links in un-related paragraphs.
Obama’s Wesleyan commencement speech, via Jim Fallows.
Richard Feyman and the Connection Machine is an essay I plan to read, since I’ve [...]

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Pirillo Starts Large Scale Community CMS Project is TechCrunch coverage of Chris Pirillo’s announcement of Gnomepal. I’m trying to think of a company where its content management system is a sustainable competitive advantage. I’ve been involved in the building (and rebuilding) of several, and it’s hard to imagine a scenario where you wouldn’t start with [...]

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My friends Vin and Chris found time for favorite10 this year. f10 is for music lovers who are constantly on the lookout for new music. Honestly, I am not the target audience. Hard to remember the last time I looked for new music, whether online or off. But Vin was kind enough to invite me [...]

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Khoi Vinh watches another generation fall under Tintin’s spell. Been there, and also waiting for the movie. Some of the language in these comic albums isn’t PC anymore (e.g., “dirty gypsies”), but Tintin is never one to stand for injustice.
Google News finally answers some of publishers’ questions, and promises more information in the future. Wow…I [...]

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In an effort to start the week with a clean(er) inbox…

Nothing like bowling to bring a smile. Thanks for the pic, Cory.
I’m reading this book right now, so I’ll review this podcast after I finish it.
Wikis make a lot of sense to me, so I want to find time to listen to Jon Udell talk [...]

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Cleaning out the personal inbox, I find…

Long profile of Marissa Meyer at Google, from San Francisco magazine, strays from the tech, deliberately.
An interesting application for a tablet PC, where physics acts on 2D objects line-drawn with a “crayon.”
A mapping application for Facebook, which I haven’t installed.
Worry about how to back up a blog on WordPress.com [...]

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Rather than spend time trying to buy an airline ticket I don’t want, I’ll clean out the inbox with a few links gathering dust.
This weekend, I saw the $1 image stabilizer in action, and Rich got some great pictures of the kids. Pretty sharp!
Last year, I saw the Windows Vista packaging in person (not since, [...]

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(These three are courtesy DaringFireball.) I rarely play games on the computer, but Peggle comes recommended if I ever change my mind. While the main theme is ranging all over the Mac world, I mostly listened to the music at the bottom. I didn’t know about the Flickr guest pass either.

Seth Godin and Hugh Macleod [...]

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Since I’m disappointed with our Sony digital camera, I pay attention to roundups like this one: “Looking beyond megapixels” But I get annoyed when the links leading to the NYTimes branded version of CNET don’t lead straight to the right camera, though. The Fujifilm FinePix f50fd looks like a possibility. (I wasn’t impressed that the [...]

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I have a lot to be thankful for. I’d like to add a clean inbox to the list, so time for a link smorgasbord.
Randy Pausch’s video lecture is old news, but I haven’t set aside 90 minutes to watch it. Everyone who has says it was worth it.
California is still the #1 state where people [...]

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