stikipad: whoa.

Last weekend, the MSG turned to me and said, “You are the most web-gadgety person I know.” Since he works in software, I consider this an accomplishment. A sick, sad accomplishment, but hey, I’ll take what I can get. I leap on the new website bandwagons as early as possible, not because I’m compulsive or anything … wait, yes, I am. But it’s more my curiosity than my compulsion. I want to try new things. I want to break new things. I want new things to surprise me and make me go “whoa” just like Keanu. Right before I break them. Sometimes people suffer because of my pursuit of the whoa. Because of me, Inkbot failed her saving throw against the online doll maker and spent multiple hours creating her friends in...

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Posted on 6 Jan 2006 | 2 comments

links for 2006-01-06

Incunabula Database — The Bancroft Library The Incunabula Collection of The Bancroft Library comprises more than 430 titles printed before 1501. The word “incunabula” is Latin for “swaddling clothes,” as these books are from the infancy of European printing, typeset and printed by hand from moveab (tags: books printing libraries) Springdoo Springdoo is a free service that lets you talk your emails. Anyone can now easily send talking emails in their own voice, without typing. (tags: email audio) yakalike A Firefox extension that lets you chat with other users visiting the same site. (Signups are currently disabled.) (tags: chat extensions...

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