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Three Things for Today: Oct. 29, 2007

Monday, October 29th, 2007

Smart clothing, bad business, and living life on the cheap:

  1. This new smart suit for rescue workers is designed to help with communications and pass along location and vitals to the command center.s problems during disaster relief.  - Disaster relief, fires, floods, car accidents, and other unfor [via Gizmodo]
  2. Comcast sure seems to be handling every aspect of this whole peer-to-peer blocking issue with a heavy hand.  Case in point, the new edict to employees:  deviating from the PR talking points can cost you your job.
  3. Jack Zavada shares ten tips for living beneath your means to save money.  Since I don’t see myself following many of these tips as gospel, I guess I’m just linking to it for the hell of it.

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Watch That First Step

Monday, October 29th, 2007

I wouldn’t believe it if I didn’t see it myself, but someone has actually found a way to fall up an escalator.

[via Gizmodo]

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Three Things for Today: Oct. 28, 2007

Sunday, October 28th, 2007

We’re dissecting politics, logos, and user interfaces:

  1. This morning on Meet the Press, presidential hopeful Chris Dodd was smacked around by Tim Russert over subjects including using the FISA hold for political gain.  The more i listened to him speak, the more I wanted to curse and wretch.
  2. Brand New has a little dissection of the new Holiday Inn logo.  Sad to see it go, and replaced with something not quite as appealing.
  3. ThinkMac delves into a list of things they’re not quite digging in the updated Leopard UI.  Some of the things I can see, but I’m more happy with the overall changes than they are, I guess.

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Costumes and Commitments

Sunday, October 28th, 2007

Last night I was at good friend Betsy and Matt’s apartment for a Halloween party.  To get to said apartment, I had to walk around the city with an axe last night.  Well, said axe was actually composed of a whiffle ball bat and some finely shaped poster board, but still I’m shocked that I got nary a second glance from anyone I passed.  I mean, an average Paul Bunyan-style lumberjack costume isn’t all that extravagant — you just look like your average run of the mill slacker wearing suspenders.  I would have sworn someone would have did a double take from a distance.

Yes, I guess New Yorkers are just that jaded. ^_^

That was followed by a wedding this afternoon for good friends Ryan and Angie.  This was the formal affair with friends and family, and the first Jewish service I’ve ever had the chance to see first hand.  I’m honored to say I’m the only person that’s actually seen these two kids get married both times (a city hall ceremony some months ago where I was asked to witness was the other time).  Big congrats on their tying of the knot — official like — this afternoon.

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Three Things for Today: Oct. 27, 2007

Saturday, October 27th, 2007

Lots o’ tech and business centric points:

  1. John Nack has word for those upgrading to Leopard on compatibility with Adobe’s products.  The good news is the two I care most about — Photoshop and Illustrator — are in the clear.
  2. Sprint Nextel is being forced to unlock phones for customers by pressure from a class action lawsuit.  Another step at a glacial pace, but maybe someday before I die I’ll be able to buy the phone I want and use the service I want without the two being inexorably linked.
  3. Someone from Comcast was nice enough to have leaked their internal talking points memo for dealing with the BitTorrent debacle.  You know the management must not be too thrilled with that.

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