Amazon’s Full Text Search
by jpreardon on October 26, 2003
Last week, Amazon added the ability to search the full text of books. This seems like a great idea but it is not without its annoyances. One used to be able to type in an author name and retrieve the (…)
Suburban Swarms
by jpreardon on October 25, 2003
Killer bees? No. Apparently there have been several incidents where crowds of teenagers swarm suburban parties in Australia. Using SMS to communicate, the swarms can sometimes consist of over a hundred people. A teenager died as a result of one (…)
Quick Links
by jpreardon on October 25, 2003
Grand Central Terminal is celebrating its 90th birthday X10 pays 4.3 Million in damages for pop-unders X10 files for bankruptcy protection The Economist declares The End of the Oil Age Got an extra 845K? Impress your friends with a personal (…)
Take Back Your Time Day
by jpreardon on October 25, 2003
Unfortunately, I missed National Take Back Your Time Day as I was at work, but I thought this was a good article about it and the burgeoning movement that started it. America is obsessed with productivity and it shows. According (…)
Non IE Browsing
by jpreardon on October 20, 2003
Dan Gillmore blogs about switching his default browser to Mozilla Firebird 0.7, then switching back to Safari. I’ve been using Firebird happily for several months now. I enjoy its speed, tabbed windows and popup blocker, but my favorite feature is (…)
Orwellian Nightclubs in Vancouver
by jpreardon on October 7, 2003
What the hell is going on in Vancouver? The Vancouver Sun reports that 35 bars in the city are going to require patrons to swipe their driver’s license and have their pictures taken before entry. This information will then be (…)
To Ride or Not to Ride
by jpreardon on October 6, 2003
Anyone familiar with a city and its transportation options can tell you when it is faster, easier and cheaper to walk rather than take the subway or bus. But what does one do when they find themselves in unfamiliar surroundings? (…)
Bad Kitty!
by jpreardon on October 5, 2003
A New York City man was keeping a Bengal tiger in his Harlem apartment as a pet. Police were alerted when the man showed up at Harlem Hospital with bite wounds on his arms and legs which he claimed were (…)
Finally, Something Good on Television
by jpreardon on October 4, 2003
TVs for Movie People is an exhibition of student works from the School of Visual Arts. Each display uses televisions in some way to recreate scenes from a movie. Alfred Hitchcock and Steven Spielberg seem to be the most popular (…)
NYC Bike Ridership Up
by jpreardon on October 2, 2003
Newsday reports that 4,100 bikers a day are crossing the East River bridges, up 1,300 per day from last year. Bike ridership is at its highest level since the DOT began tracking bicycle traffic in 1980. The DOT attributes the (…)