Posts from — July 2006

Well, this place is pretty packed, and I Think it is smaller than the soho store. there are some <a href=”http://www.t-mobilepictures.com/7076872″>some pics on my moblog</a>. more or less just todays pics, yesterdays were from elmhurst in queens and such.

Apple Store – ProCare:
ProCare. Taking care of you.
The novice you, who needs a little help learning your way around the Mac. The creative you, who could use a few tips on editing and burning your own DVDs. Even the hurried you, who needs a repair turned around, pronto. ProCare offers everything you need to get the most out of your Mac — and out of yourself. All for only $99 a year. So go ahead. Ask us about ProCare. It’s only available at the Apple Store.

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on one level i think this is wrong, but it could be handy.

ianhenderson.org – megazoomer:
Megazoomer makes windows full-screen. Just press Command-Enter, and the front-most window grows to fill your entire monitor. Press the same keys, and it shrinks again. Like Graffiti, you have to download SIMBL in order for it to work.

Stop and Smell the Roses.:

Life can be busy and hectic, but please remember to stop and smell the roses, like these cute orangutans are doing – found at Daum.

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it smells nice, i bet.

Valerie Plame, Husband File Suit Against Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, ‘Scooter’ Libby:
AP reports: The CIA officer whose identity was leaked to reporters sued Vice President Dick Cheney, his former top aide…

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it is about time.

craigslist: blacksburg classifieds for jobs, apartments, personals, for sale, services, community, and events:

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personally, i never thought that i’d see the day… but… blacksburg has a craigslist.

Does your life suck? – Life – The Phoenix :
If Second Life truly takes hold, millions will spend hours doing business, meeting people, and just living inside the virtual world. As future upgrades are made, there will likely be short-term advances: voice-over technology, fewer system crashes, photo-realistic environments. But in the longer term, humans might someday be able to upload their memories, their personalities, their entire lives, into their avatars. And they might be able to program them to live and breathe and interact for all eternity inside Second Life. Humanity’s great quest for immortality might finally be solved.

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seems a bit optimistic…. hehehe

Amsterdam clinic offers gamers path back to reality – Yahoo! News:
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Addiction expert Keith Bakker hopes
the serenity of a 16th century townhouse on one of Amsterdam’s
canals will coax those snared in the fantasy world of online
games back to reality.

“Like many others he started out with a handheld GameBoy aged 12 but progressed to multiplayer online games that offer open-ended stories set in virtual universes that can support tens of thousands of players.”

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is it that bad?

social interaction online…. the new drug! not.

I have about 4 shelf-feet of dungeons and dragons, middle-earth roleplaying game and related materials that i’m selling for $75 plus shipping (probably close to $100). If you love rare and not so rare role-playing stuff drop me a note. They can be yours.

Also if anyone in blacksburg is reading this…. I have about a cubic meter of books that i’m going to give away to whomever comes to help me move… excellent reference, philosophy, ethics, sts, theory, and related things.

H-Info:
H-Info focuses on the interdisciplinary, international study of information and information institutions, broadly construed. It includes the foundations and history of print culture; reading and reception histories; the history and foundations of library and information sciences; and the history of libraries, archives, document-based cultural repositories, and other information institutions
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as i’m a knowledge junky… i signed up for this a few days ago…