Have you read Kevin Kelly's Cool Tools? It's a blog of neat-o stuff, written at first by Kevin Kelly (one of the Whole Earth Catalog originals) himself and now by a whole team of thoughtful individuals.
Okay, okay, so I only bring this up because I saw this photo from The Aviation Instructor's Handbook:
What a dick!
Update: There's going to be a Whole Earth talk at Stanford on Thursday, November 9th, with several panelists from the early days, including Kevin Kelly.
I think I've posted about Pandora before -- it's a great and free music service that not only plays the music you know, but also suggests other music you might like. And it's pretty good. It's replaced my use of radio, MP3s, even the regular streams I used to listen to at work. Commercial free, no DJs. It's like satellite radio at your desk, except customized.
What you do is enter the name of a song or artist you like, which then becomes the seed for Pandora's suggestion engine. That song also becomes a "station" that you can return to, and also send to others to have a listen. They've even created some blog-compatible sidebar modules that let you share your stations and bookmarked songs, which I've just installed. Feel free to suggest stuff for me to listen to, in the little forms underneath each one.
There's a whole lot of nerdosity behind this, but also some non- computer geek expert knowledge: the recommendations come via characterizations of each song, made by professional musicians. And it's all wrapped up in a smallish Flash player that you can load in a webpage or stick on your desktop as a widget.
I'm at Barnes & Noble and I pass the "In the Media" table, and what do I see but a Snakes on a Plane movie guide. I pick it up and what do I see on the first page that I flip to? A SoaP tribe -- complete with a screenshot and some text about it.
From the book:
A dedicated traveler on the information superhighway, Medusa first learned about the existence of Snakeson a Plane on one of the several messageboards she keeps tabs on. And, after doing some research and figuring out the movie was the real deal, she created her own "SoaP"-dedicated space on Tribe.net, a service that builds Web-based communities through friends near and far. But Medusa's site wasn't simply to pay heed to the "Snakes" experience. No, her plan goes one step further than that. She wants to develop a movement that will have people attend the first screenings of the movie... in groups... dressed like snakes.
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As of mid-june, she has forty-one signed-on members of her Tribe, including people she didn't even know. And while she has no idea how many of them, or how many more, will go all-in on this experiment in fun, she feels a responsibility to make it as easy as possible for those who want to take part to do just that. Accordingly, Medusa plans to introduce a section that will offer costume advice.
The Casio Exilim EX-S500 is proof of two things: the fragility of slim-obsessed design, and the robustness of Amazon's customer service. With the return of this particular digital camera, we will have sent back 3 of these feature-laden devices, with no questions asked:
We'll be getting a different camera this time around, probably a Canon. But you can bet that we'll be getting it from Amazon.
Sure going to miss that Casio battery life, though.
China is trying to shut down its first internet superstar! Furong JieJie ("Sister Hibiscus") got her start retaliating against two Chinese universities that rejected her -- by plastering their messageboards with suggestive photos of herself. Well, suggestive by local standards, anyway.
Dig the scrolling photos on the fan site. I love the hawt captions ("I_am_cute," "WoodNymph," "Famous'S'Body," etc.).
Yahoo has the background.
I just found these pictures on tribe. Looks like this couple dressed up like 30s gangsters and went out for a night (and day) on the town in Las Vegas. Or maybe they got married in Vegas and these are their wedding photos.
