My comment on Marvel comics and @techcrunch http://tinyurl.com/66lz3q #
turning in early. See you in San Diego tomorrow. Anyone going to be @jetblue at JFK tomorrow am early? #
@jeffpulver assume you’re not at jfk anymore #
@tedmurphy are u still at jfk- want to have coffee? #
at the @jetblue computer lounge at JFk, noticing how many people [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Twitter Updates for 2008-04-30″, url: “http://howardgreenstein.com/blog/archives/2008/04/twitter_updates_for_2008-04-30.html” });

Oh, right, a possible third route is that they might provide an *actual* friend timeline over Jabber. No clue when that might happen though.

All Streets by Ben Fry shows the landscape that emerges from the act of drawing only the streets in the lower United States. The data is sourced from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Tiger data set and created the 26 million road segments that comprise the full image. Stunning.

 
It knows that I have no time to search for people I know and therefore recommends people it THINKS I might know based on network connections formed upon the basis of me agreeing with others that we do, in fact, know one another and under what precise conditions we establish that assertion to be true. (Hooray for [...]

WayMarkr technology was most recently showcased in the Olafur Eliasson show at the MoMA.
“Each weekday during the course of Take your time: Olafur Eliasson, MoMA and P.S.1 lend selected visitors special cell-phone cameras to wear as necklaces. These devices take pictures at random intervals, documenting the visitors’ journeys through the exhibition in a candid and [...]

ShifD is a mobile application that provides users the capability to seamlessly shift content back and forth between their desktop computers and mobile devices. It was created by Michael Young and Nick Bilton, two members of The New York Times Company’s Research and Development Lab.
Check out Shifd Beta.

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living in the dream
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arriving to the depth of millage
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listening again and again
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midnight abyss
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sand and wind, bubble and puddle
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grasp them before disappearing
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special 6 panel digi pack with photos of maki kaoru
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available at 12k shop, sawako’s petite shop and iTune(coming next month, i think), shops in the world.

Botanicalls is continuing with open source initiatives on several fronts. We’re applying for the Rhizome commission and members should remember to vote…for us…so that we can continue to bring humans closer to the natural world.
There’s also serious work underway to make kits available to the public, spurred along by an upcoming exhibition in Chicago. More [...]

A documentary on painter Francis Bacon from the BBC program The South Bank Show. Found via Dean Allen.

“Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.”

- Peter Drucker, by way of Evan Williams

The WayMarkr bro makes a comeback.

Design and the Elastic Mind @ MOMA runs until May 12, 2008 New York, USA If you can make it…

IFAI Advanced Textiles 2008 Berlin, Germany June 12 - 13, 2008 Program: Download 08AT_ebrochure-FINAL250408.pdf IFAI Advanced Textiles 2008, taking place…

apologies. i think my host upgraded to a newer version of php, and my main site seems to be giving some odd error messages (i am also not running the most recent wordpress on my backend, as i worry about my custom plug-ins, and this may be causing a few issues, too). I’ve mailed support [...]

Smart Fabrics 2008 Double Tree Guest Suites Charleston - Historic District Charleston, SC, USA May 5 - 7, 2008 Unfortunately…

watching http://tinyurl.com/55c6s8 the Jabbo and Crabbo show #
@loiclemeur wow, sorry to hear, make sure you’re ok - whiplash/back stuff can take a day to come out. Take it easy! #
going for an exercise bike ride before sitting at the desk all day. See you in a little while. #
@chrisbrogan - left you a photo about [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Twitter Updates for 2008-04-29″, url: “http://howardgreenstein.com/blog/archives/2008/04/twitter_updates_for_2008-04-29.html” });

Who is the core audience of “Iron Man” the movie? Geeks. Computer hugging, email sending, twittering geeks. Geeks with big Mac Book Pros who have money to spend.
And the pied piper of the Web 2.0 geeks, Mike Arrington of TechCrunch, had invited geeks to a special pre-screening of the movie. And Mike got the theater [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Marvel Comics pisses off core audience”, url: “http://howardgreenstein.com/blog/archives/2008/04/marvel_comics_pisses_off_core_audience.html” });

Fortune on the future of computing: Behold the server farm - Jul. 27, 2006 “A colleague tries to explain why the site they’re visiting on this hot May afternoon might work: It’s big enough to accommodate a 750,000-square-foot complex…

Mayor Daley speaking at UIC’s Daley Urban Forum named after his father Richard J.

The Forum featured a number of Mayors from Arab countries. Many of them have troubles that are common to countries in the 3rd World (lack of funding, infrastructure, etc.)

Particularly moving however was the account by the Mayor of Mosul, Iraq.

He talked about the challenges the Municipal government faces there. These include setting up a “prostheses factory” to deal with all the people, including children, who’ve had limbs blown off due to bombs. The Mayor reported with pride that a number of Healthcare Centers had been set up despite the fact that many of Iraq’s original medical workers had fled the country.

Even here, success was not complete however, since one or two of these Centers had subsequently been bombed.

Despite this hell, the Mayor was optimistic. He would have shown us pictures only they stopped him from bringing them at Baghdad Airport.

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Mayor Daley speaking at UIC’s Daley Urban Forum named after his father Richard J.

The Forum featured a number of Mayors from Arab countries. Many of them have troubles that are common to countries in the 3rd World (lack of funding, infrastructure, etc.)

Particularly moving however was the account by the Mayor of Mosul, Iraq.

He talked about the challenges the Municipal government faces there. These include setting up a “prostheses factory” to deal with all the people, including children, who’ve had limbs blown off due to bombs. The Mayor reported with pride that a number of Healthcare Centers had been set up despite the fact that many of Iraq’s original medical workers had fled the country.

Even here, success was not complete however, since one or two of these Centers had subsequently been bombed.

Despite this hell, the Mayor was optimistic. He would have shown us pictures only they stopped him from bringing them at Baghdad Airport.

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This guy named Brent, from the UK, was fined because he blogged about a police officer’s newborn baby and, according to the magistrates, “any reasonable person would find the comments menacing.”
Can that actually happen?! Well, yeah.
Moral of the Story: Be careful what you blog about. Double-check to make sure it isn’t menacing or susceptible (dictionary.com totally spelled [...]

Oh, right, that’s called reality. But with more of me finishing my projects on time.

Hey, welcome to the return of teendrama recaps! (um, my first in forever?) A few weeks back my Dad threw my Mom a surprise 60th bday party so me + J + K snuck back to Mills Bowl (oh btw, it was at a bowling alley) for the birthday event of the millennium. Recap here - featuring such bonus good times as GuessWho Tournament of Champions, a tour of Medway High School and - of couse - Mom in the air-powered money booth trying to collect some dollarz!

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Hey, welcome to the return of teendrama recaps! (um, my first in forever?) A few weeks back my Dad threw my Mom a surprise 60th bday party so me + J + K snuck back to Mills Bowl (oh btw, it was at a bowling alley) for the birthday event of the millennium. Recap here - featuring such bonus good times as GuessWho Tournament of Champions, a tour of Medway High School and - of couse - Mom in the air-powered money booth trying to collect some dollarz!

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My friend Todd’s movie portmanteaus are pretty great: “No Country for Grumpy Old Men: Anton Chiguhr, now in his late 70s, has a humorous feud with his cantankerous neighbor over the new hottie who has moved next door.”

How to unlock everything in Mario Kart Wii—and there’s a lot of stuff to unlock. I think it’s a great touch that you get Rosalina quicker if you have a saved game of Super Mario Galaxy, and it’s nice to have another female character to play with, even if her voice/lines in the game are incredibly annoying.

Today I asked Peter Shankman to send out a query on his “Help a Reporter Out” list. I’m writing a piece for the NY Enterprise Business Report on small to mid-sized businesses using Facebook, LinkedIn and other social services (such as Twitter). What are they using these services for? Branding, marketing, recruiting, promoting? What else? [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Twitter - Loving and hating it at the same time”, url: “http://howardgreenstein.com/blog/archives/2008/04/twitter_-_loving_and_hating_it_at_the_same_time.html” });

[from RWW]
Up-and-coming mobile social network Brightkite faces some serious competition from a myriad of mobile social networks, all of whom are fighting to win the emerging mobile market. However, Brightkite has a few tricks up their sleeve that they hope will make them stand out from the rest, the most important of which is their [...]

  
I finally got over my unnecessarily neurotic fear of iPhoto and went back (not too far this time!) to the photos from Whistler from about two weeks ago. I created a photo album and went to save them on my desktop for PSD batch process.
Lo and behold- “scratch disk is full,” exclaims my 5yr old, aka antiquated, [...]

The interplay of electronic textiles and wearable technology, wearables for short, and fashion, design and science is a highly promising and topical subject. Offered here is a compact survey of the theory involved and an explanation of the role technology plays in a fabric or article of clothing. The practical application is explained in detail [...]

Munich-based Austrian Isabel Haase creates objects, installations, photos. The reference and subtle critique of fashion in Beauties intrigued me and…

Wanted: a game with awesome graphics, realistic physics, edgy story line where the outcome is that I have finished all my projects on time.

At the risk of treading into the overheated realm of politics, we were intrigued by The Atlantic’s article on what could be described as the Clinton brand. Putting aside the political analysis, this article points to larger shifts in branding…