Words of Waldman: The hunt continues...

Quick links

New Scientist: The dangers of ecotourism
Apparently the animals don't like it one bit
The rise of the Water sommelier
via [Memetank]
The double Black album
Jay-Z vs Metallica. Black is the new grey.
CNN.com - Very few bloggers on Net
Yep, that's right. There's practically none of them at all.
Cooke posts last Letter from America
Skulls Unlimited
Does what it says on the label..
Clayton Christensen interview
As reported by Dan Bricklin. I knew quite a bit about Christensen, but I had no idea he was 6'8"
LinkMachineGo: the Face catches up with Belle
I sense we're going to be hearing a lot more about her in the not too distant future
The tale of the runaway Parcel Force truck
with photographic evidence. A quite frightening tale from Pixeldiva.
Guardian not going tabloid
The Hospital
By Dave Stewart and Paul Allen. Fantastic new venture? Doomed vanity project? Bit of both? [via Haddock]
Virtual Keyboard
Quite peculiar. Can't believe someone thought this up...and then actually made it.
Gizmodo: Alpine launch iPod car stereo system
Downloads outsell DVD and vinyl singles
BBC NEWS: Apple investigates iPod batteries
"In its quarterly financial report ... Apple said it ... would be looking into the claims alleging "misrepresentations by the company relative to iPod battery life". More on fool.com
Excellent photos of San Francisco Chinese New Year Parade
Via BoingBoing
ETech Adjunct: Weblogs and Journalism...
Thanks to Tom C
What business can learn from the Church
Forbes magazine on lessons from 'The Purpose-Driven Church'
Chew on this: new research on Qat
"The Home Office's drugs and alcohol research unit ...will report in the autumn. If they conclude that qat is dangerous, they may well recommend that it should be classified along with other illegal drugs such as cocaine, cannabis and amphetamines, bringing UK law into line with the majority of western countries."
Innovation management: how to let it thrive
From the Innovation Weblog
UW Seattle Library and Information Science program offers a course in Google
Via bboing boing
The balanced view on Moveable Type bloggers
"You are all pretentious twats. Every last one of you. You're all latte-sipping, iMac-using, suburban-living tertiary-industry-working WASPs who offer absolutely no new insights on anything whatsoever apart from maybe one specialist field if we're lucky."
US father names son 'Version 2.0'
Doesn't quite have the ring of 'a boy named Sue', but a similar affect.
Beware: rubber dragon
Thar she blows! Dead whale explodes
Whiskey Bar: Davos Discovers the Blogs
The Morning News on IKEA
"IKEA is a fully immersive, 3D environmental adventure that allows you to role-play the character of someone who gives a shit about home furnishings."
Ephilosopher
I link, therefore I am. [via Ben]
How many more books will I read?
Following a more modest version of their maths. I think I've got less than 400 left. And half of them are likely to be rubbish.
Curveball
Utterly addictive. Also stolen from Bifurcated Rivets. Obviously, I'm too busy for such things...but just in case you're not.
How to annoy everyone near you at work
Pretend to be a cow playing a drum solo on Moo TV. Yes, really. (via Bifurcated Rivets
The best of British blogging
They're really rather good
A love letter in Excel
most amusing. for the accountants among you.
Two held for park attacks on women
Hope this will bring an end to it....
Anti-Semitism, real and exaggerated
The foreign editor of Die Welt syndicated to Ha'aretz. Well worth a read. He concludes: "The European reality [of anti-semitism]... is less threatening than the Israelis believe but more worrisome than the Europeans want to think."
Blumenthal on Dean and Gore
"Gore's endorsement of Dean is the most important since grainy film was shown at the 1992 Democratic convention depicting President Kennedy shaking hands with a teenage Bill Clinton."
Julie Burchill: The hate that shames us
The follow up to last week's starter on anti-semitism. Quite an unspectacular romp through some of the usual suspects (Tom Paulin, Tam Dayell and the supression of the EU report).
A Fistful of Euros: Anti-semitism take three
Interesting collection of rants and opinions....
Pop idols - the perfume
I kid you not: "It's a bright and clean citrus complex with very subtle, fun, fruity overtones."
Competition for a less geeky name for RSS
High times in magic mushroom business - and it's perfectly legal
Ecstasy is 'yesterday's dance drug'
"Home Office ministers claimed yesterday that ecstasy use has fallen for the first time and that wider class A drug abuse among young people, including cocaine use, has stabilised after rising in the late 1990s. " Home office press release. Anyway, I thought it was all Ritalin these days...
'No Frills' is no excuse
A moving tale from pixeldiva - to make you think twice about RyanAir.
The Wi-fi express
Wi-Fi on trains. Wonderful.
This is a Magazine.
Well - only in the loosest meaning of the word. But well worth your clicks.
Iraq Phase three: civil war
Simon Tisdall in today's paper: "An orderly transition and the assertion of legitimate, democratic governance is by no means assured. Continuing, escalating civil strife, scattering the seeds of a possible civil war, could yet turn out to be the Bush-Blair legacy in Iraq. "
The Guts of a New Machine
NYT on the iPod. Via Plasticbag
Anti-Zionism is anti-semitism
Emanuele Ottolenghi writes in Saturday's Guardian (the same one that carried Julie Burchill's farewell)
Is there new antisemitism in Britain?
Collection of essays as referred to by Julie Burchill in her much linked farewell. Think I should read this before I start to comment.
Ha'aretz on 'The new anti-semitism'
Actually quite old...but interesting in the light of recent events. Will be coming back to this later

Friday, July 25, 2003

The hunt continues...

...for the perfect desktop set up. Here's the problem: I love the tabbed browsing I get with Firebird and Opera, but...I've given up on Opera because I don't need the e-mail client, and it just feels like waste to use it without that, and generally, I'm now getting a few too many compatiblity problems when I don't use IE (banking etc). I also really like using Oddpost for mail...and for news reading...which only works with IE.
The answer? Currently trying a couple of options. At work, I'm trying iRider, at home, I'm trying Avantbrowser (I won't link to their site as it hasn't really been working).
Currently rather a fan of iRider. It's perfect for someone like myself who normally has about 3,000 browser windows open. Anyway: this will run and run.

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