Archive for the 'breakdown' Category

Best New Music and YME
Tuesday, February 14th, 2006

Jeremy writes that the Yahoo! Music Blog is [his] new favorite Yahoo blog. So I checked it out and I agree — the Yahoo Music Blog is a good read. I was particularly impressed by Ian’s post announcing the new Yahoo! Music Engine. YME is an application that lets you manage your [...]

Search Censorship Viewer
Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

My friend Chris wrote a beautifully simple application that displays the google.com searches (and image searches) side-by-side with the google.cn searches.

Visit the Censorship Viewer homepage, or go directly to the examples of “tiananmen” and “Falun Gong”.

Chris — you should add Yahoo and MSN to the mix as well.

MP3Tunes Music Locker
Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

I learned about MP3Tunes.com via a Boing Boing post earlier today. MP3Tunes is a new service from Michael Robertson, the Web 1.0 entrepreneur who brought us mp3.com and Linspire. MP3Tunes’ idea is simple — for $40/yr they will provide enough hosted storage for all of your music. You can synchronize your collection [...]

Thanks for noticing, Apple. Now please stop, it’s creepy.
Thursday, November 17th, 2005

I dropped by the Apple Store in Palo Alto yesterday to pick up a new iPod as a present for M__. She recently gave me a Nano for my birthday and I liked it so much I had to reciprocate. The Nano is an impressively small device and the tiny color screen is [...]

California Special Election Polling Problems?
Tuesday, November 8th, 2005

Did anyone else in California have a problem voting today? My neighborhood precinct polling location, the library on Page St., had no record of my name. Which is odd, considering I’ve registered twice in the district — once when I moved here a year and a half ago, and again when I moved [...]