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Why Wikipedia is better than any encyclopedia ever written

No other encyclopedia would ever include a reference from “Gestalt” to “The possibility of the Transformers’ team to combine into a bigger robot.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestalt

Tab Mix Plus — most useful firefox extension (hands down)

There are a lot of pretty useful Firefox extensions, but none equal that of Tab Mix Plus. It is less “how much it does” (although it does a ton) and more that it provides four critical features that vastly improve my browser experience. Multiple Rows of Tabs I hate scrolling tabs. Who wants to scroll [...]

Grey’s Law

Graham pointed me at Grey’s Law which is another form of Hanlon’s Razor. First you take Hanlon’s Razor: “Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.” Then you modify it to take the form of Clark’s third law: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Which results in Grey’s Law: [...]

Couple of iPhone tips (Google products, Flickr)

Here are a couple of iPhone links I have been using. Part of the problem with iPhone Safari is it looks like a normal browser to our servers, so we don’t automatically switch to the mobile version. This works fine in some interfaces, but in gmail, calendar, and reader, you want the mobile versions. Gmail: [...]

The florist and the iPhone

Since before we were married, my wife has always been very tolerant of my obsession with technology. She has never complained about the six computers that litter the study, or the endless gadgets that flow through this house. But while she has tolerated gadgets (and my endless blabbering about them), she has never had even [...]

The Twitter saga continues…

I’ve gone from calling Twitter dumb, to eating Twitter crow and admitting a minor Twitter addiction. As if to add an explanation point to that progression, I ended up talking to Sam Diaz from the Washington Post on the same topic last week. (See Life, In Little Chirps: Introducing Twitter, a Web Experiment In the [...]

Cat pictures, leetspeak, cheezburgers, and other fun

You might have noticed pictures like the one above or the one on Twitter’s error page. This meme, a derivative of leetspeak, is a fascinating example of how the Internet is accelerating the evolution of language and communication. (They are also really funny.) Take an example like “laugh out loud.” The evolution looks something like: [...]

Dedication to an idea

I was impressed by this video on so many levels. But above all, I’m most impressed by the dedication it takes to take a photo a day for six years. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6B26asyGKDo

How do Wikis work?

Lee LeFever put together a great four minute overview on how Wikis work.

You had me at snarky

OK, so I’m about to eat some Twitter crow. You may recall I called Twitter super dumb in an earlier post [1]. It turns out “thinking Twitter is super dumb” is more of a phase in a long process of eventually becoming addicted to Twitter. It goes something like this: Twitter, what is that? Another [...]