SF Skyline shown with permission by photographer Lane Hartwell 

Archive for January, 2007


My Firefox Add-on, WhoIsThisPerson Downloaded Over 25,000 Times

A year ago I wrote my first and only Firefox Extension Add-on (they’re called “Add-ons” as of Firefox v2.0) and it has now been downloaded 27,363 times, recently averaging about 250 downloads a week.
Who Is This Person is a simple right-menu option that appears when you highlighted a name in a Firefox browser window. You [...]

Helco: Mindful In The Storm

When I saw this happen, I had only the vaguest idea of who and what it was all about.
After years of considering existentialism something one read about in books written by dead people, or discussed in cafes, I had my first realization that instead of living with it’s weight, some people we’re embracing the [...]

3rd Street Light Rail Spotted In Action!

After years of construction, I saw MUNI’s 3rd Street Light Rail (aka The “T”) operating today! It’s running for free on weekend until it officially launches in April. It connects the entire eastern shore of San Francisco - SOMA, Mission Bay, Dog Patch, Potrero Hill, India Basin, Hunters Point, Bayview and Visitation Valley. - with [...]

Where’s Bode Miller?

Where’s in the world is Bode Miller? Actually he’s in Lauberhorn, Switzerland where he wonh his fourth World Cup race of the year. He won the 2.8 mile-long storied downhill slide/crashing across the finish line 0.65 seconds faster that local Swiss favorite Didier Cuche.
“Miller took an aggressive line through the quirky and perilous obstacles of [...]

Geek Entertainment TV Hits the Floor at CES (that giant electronics show in Vegas)

And they find the best crap. Irina and Eddie are really very funny people. Watch the video.

And! They met the guy who did the voice in Toy Story of the coin game aliens who revere they claw and when one is grabbed says my favorite line “I have been chosen, I go on to a [...]

For Anyone Tired of “Web 2.0″ Talk …

For anyone tired of Web 2.0 talk, I think respite is near.
As we all know in reality land Web2.0 is just Internet37, meaning it’s just one more advancement in a 40 year evolution of the internet’s server client data exchange environment.

What drives anyone crazy that works hard on the Web right now is all the [...]

Make Art Not Money

Banksy has once again, done it again.
The UK street artist that uses stencils to elegantly subvert just about everything, is subverting his own counterfitters.
Annoyed with the barrage of fakes being sold as his originals on eBay and elsewhere, he’s posted high-resolution originals that can be freely downloaded on his site.. He even gives directions [...]

Animal Sounds are More Obvious Than We Might Think

Joy Ward, Dogster’s Dog Blogger found a great article from Discovery on human potential to understand mammals and even birds.
Scruffy of Dogster has a lot to say!
Ever since watching Koko the signing ape speak with her trainer I realized that though we don’t know what animals are saying are thinking, we have to assume [...]

Peekvid. Another Good Place to find Produced TV/DVD

Hot on the heals of learning of David Galbraith’s new Smashing Telly, I found out about Peekvid.
Peekvid deep links to of produced TV programs and full-length movies. I’ve been wanting to see The Boondocks for a while now.

Maybe give it a peek.

Best Free TV you can Download

“Smashing Telly, not Gimmick Telly”
An old pal David Galbraith just launched a site tto find the best freely available tv programing on the internet. These aren’t warmed-over reruns you pay for or fuzzy youtube clips, but quality programming from other the years that are available for anyone to watch. If you’ve ever tried to google [...]