Category Archives: General

Facebook Friend Wheel – awesome data visualization

Posted on December 23, 2007 by keith

Facebook is pretty silly, but somehow, I keep getting people adding me as friends, and I add them as friends if I vaguely know them. I occasionally change my status message, and ignore all the zombie, etc. requests, occasionally watch … Continue reading →

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John Maeda: next President of RISD

Posted on December 21, 2007 by keith

I just noticed a rather terse announcement on John Maeda’s blog announcing that he was stepping up as the next president of Rhode Island School of Design. Following a link to RISD itself, I got some more info. That’s quite … Continue reading →

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The new LineRider. Where's the lines?

Posted on December 20, 2007 by keith

One of my “hero” Flash games is LineRider. Here’s something put together by a student for his design class that becomes a viral hit, gets bought up by a development company to port to Nintendo DS and Wii. Unfortunately, I’m … Continue reading →

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Java 6 for Leopard, finally

Posted on December 19, 2007 by keith

Apple just released a developer preview of the long overdue Java 6. It’s Leopard only (10.5.1 actually), requires 64-bit (Core 2 Duo or Xeon), and again is a “developer preview” only. To get it, go to the developer site, http://developer.apple.com/ … Continue reading →

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New NetVibes on the way

Posted on December 18, 2007 by keith

Coming in January… http://blog.netvibes.com/?2007/12/18/149-netvibes-ginger-let-s-have-a-closer-look Some cool new features, like premium widgets, a web radio player, 2GB of free storage space for every registered user, an activities timeline, shared documents and history, etc. I’ve been using NetVibes for I don’t know … Continue reading →

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The Mighty Boosh – Old Gregg

Posted on December 17, 2007 by keith

Chris and Rebecca Allen, Dominick Accattato, and myself were introduced to the Mighty Boosh on the flight back from London after Flash on the Beach. A truly brilliant UK comedy. Now, all you can hear in the office is, “I’m … Continue reading →

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QuickLook Plugins List

Posted on December 9, 2007 by keith

Just got a trackback on my recent post about QuickLook which led to this site: http://www.quicklookplugins.com/ which is a directory of QuickLook plugins. I already have the FLV, ZIP, Folder view, and XML ones. None of the others listed there … Continue reading →

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New Blog Theme for BIT-101

Posted on December 8, 2007 by keith

While I liked the old theme pretty well, it was time for a change. But, to be honest, the biggest motivation for changing it was discovering that I was using a hacked theme that was inserting tons of links to … Continue reading →

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Conversation With Bill Gates Part VI (Finale)

Posted on December 8, 2007 by keith

The final two questions came from Jonathan Snook and Molly Holzschlag. Molly asked some stuff about IE8. I believe she is currently consulting with Microsoft and seems to have a lot more in-depth knowledge of teams and processes there, so … Continue reading →

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Conversation With Bill Gates Part V

Posted on December 7, 2007 by keith

Next up were two names familiar to those of you in the Flash community, Jesse Warden and Erik Natzke. Erik asked about physical computing and more about “the cloud”. Some neat tech stuff in that answer. Jesse’s question was about … Continue reading →

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