Shazia Mirza, Irshad Manji, Shabana Rehman, Omar Marzouk…
Given that the shortest distance between two people is a laugh, then it looks as if Manji’s wish for a more questioning, frontier expanding Islam is slowly coming true. We’ll know that the Islamic reformation and renaissance is just around the corner when they open a stand-up club in Gaza…
Add comment September 19th, 2005
Calvin and Hobbes + Fight Club.
Two things that go well together!
Add comment August 28th, 2005
For his noodly appendage touches us all.
It has certainly tocuhed the Kansas School Boards and El Busho, since nothing but divine intervention can explain their actions…
Add comment August 19th, 2005
Bluetooth headphones suitable for use with a phone, plus a Bluetooth dongle for the iPod. Schweet! Gizmo heaven.
1 comment August 14th, 2005
Beate got SingStar for her birthday - very popular it appears to be too.
Just 
listen to her take on George Michael’s Careless Whisper.
My brother’s just dug up a PC open-source version of the same thing: UltraStar - written in Delphi/Kylix, runs on Windows and Linux. Impressive!
2 comments August 2nd, 2005
dontclick.it user interface experiments in click-less interaction. Challenges us to think of new ways of interacting with systems, and shows us how a user-interface without windows might look. In some ways it’s reminicent of the old Windows 1.0 tiled-desktop approach: Contents is always available, but the tiles shrink and grow according to what you focus on.
Add comment July 10th, 2005
Google Maps hides my block beneath a passing cloud. Still - way cool. The draggable map still amazes me.
Add comment June 26th, 2005
This hits a little too close to home. Beate could probably do a good writeup based on my brother.
Just to give you a general idea of what I’m talking about (and the embarrassment I have to deal with when we go out in public) let me describe a few of them. First, I ran across one that read “Steve Jobs is my homeboy.” Then there was the one that said “I am blogging this.” Next was a WWDC 2004 polo and an Apple Developer Connection shirt. And my personal favorite was the one that said “Code Different.” I couldn’t make this up if I tried.
What about the little girls who dream of Prince Charming and end up with Steve Ballmer? What about the girls who never even dreamed they would know who Steve Ballmer is? I think someone needs to offer them a little advice.
Add comment June 26th, 2005
(The simplified pagan chart also has a lot going for it).
Add comment June 25th, 2005
Ten best beams in sci-fi — good fun. But I’ll take the much cooler Babylon 5 ship-sundering beams over the old skool Star Trek’s phasers.
Add comment June 25th, 2005
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