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Tom Coates has published

January 11, 2006 by Michael Boyle

Tom Coates has published

the best post so far (it’s early though) summarizing the spyware issue with Apple’s new version of iTunes: Cynicism and stupidity at the iTunes ministore. If Apple had only made this opt-in instead of opt-out – and informed users of what opting in meant – everything would be different. It’s disappointing that Apple didn’t know better.

Tags: Tom Coates

I never really paid much attention

January 6, 2006 by Michael Boyle

I never really paid much attention

to ThinkGeek before, but this PowerSquid Outlet Multiplier – basically a power bar that you can use without wasting outlets on power bricks – got my attention. I wish there were a Canadian ThinkGeek though. Is there?

Tags: Curiosities

The art news today

January 6, 2006 by Michael Boyle

The art news today

comes from Paris, where a man attacked Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain with a hammer on Wednesday. What some stories – but not all – are neglecting to mention is that the man, a 76-year-old, is himself a performance artist, he’s not simply a disgruntled classicist or anything like that.

Tags: Visual

Visualizations

January 4, 2006 by Michael Boyle

Visualizations

flickr photo: sc-40 Special

Originally uploaded by GustavoG.


I’ve probably linked to it before, but the work that was done in early 2005 on visualizing flickr networks is super interesting. GustavoG has done a bunch of other interesting analyses since as well.

Rebecca McKinnon is following

January 3, 2006 by Michael Boyle

Rebecca McKinnon is following

a story in which it seems that Microsoft’s MSN service has taken down Chinese blogger’s site. Note that the suggestion is that MSN has done this, not that the Chinese government is responsible. Definitely a story to continue follow very closely.

Tags: International Affairs

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