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The first wikipedia entry I ever created was on for my grandfather. He was a pioneer in broadcasting in Canada and an all around awesome guy. When you create an article on the wikipedia it changes the way you look at the Wikipedia forever. I now have a tiny little piece of ownership in it. I think everyone should have at least one article they look after.

Go check it out

I bought this fun little book when I was in LA. Making stuff like this is super fun. This little book offers some inspiration.

amazon
blog for the book (feed)
complimentary website

It is when it becomes a part of the zeitgeist? Is it when the word is added to a dictionary? Is it when Google stops asking you if you meant something else when you search that word? Is Google the new dictionary?

For example:

June 22 2006:

July 06 2006:

Is Scourist a word now? Me thinks yes!

I love mixtapes. Actually its mp3 mixtapes and zip files that I like. I’ve always wanted to start an underground mixtape site where people can upload their mixtapes as mp3s/zips and share them with friends. It would be totally illegal and totally awesome. Would anyone like to do this? I could make it with drupal and make er invite only…

Here’s a mini roundup of Mp3 Blogs for your downloading pleasure: ….er scratch that

Just go look at this wiki style roundup of mp3 blogs. (Everything has been blogged)…

Two selections:

I still think the best mp3 blog is your Last.fm + mininova + and then a trip to the record store… Kenya Diggit?

If you want my latest mixtape email me and i’ll send you the hurl (handy uniform resource locator)

More info on the progress of the $100 laptop…

An interesting little bit from the article:

TS: According to an article that ran in the Wall Street Journal, OLPC turned down Apple’s offer of free copies of Mac OS X. Care to explain why?

MB: First, we think that it’s important to be able to tinker with the operating system, and OS X is hard to tinker with.

The second reason is that it’s a memory footprint issue, and there’s no way to take down OS X so that it runs at 128MB of memory. Now if it were the old NeXTSTEP, we could do it, so technically it’s doable. If people want to port a version of OS X to run on the laptop — and I think that it will happen if we ship it in large quantities — they are free to do it; the platform is open.

We definitely appreciated it (Apple’s offer) very much; it’s not like we wanted to snub anybody or that we don’t think OS X is a great operating system. It’s just that we made shipping an open-source operating system a fundamental pillar of our strategy.

[VIA seanmcdonald.ca]

from GADLING one of the top travel blogs:

Scourist Rules

"…Jon is the man (well, one of them) behind an amazing, fabulous, wonderful new site called Scourist. What does that mean, exactly? Well, he means that they are “scouring” the earth in search of adventure. But more than that, they are shooting gobs of video, cutting it all into nice bite-sized segments ,and posting the stuff online.

I’ve been sitting here checking these videos out and if I looked in the mirror right now, I’d be looking at a very green face. I am OVERCOME with envy at this moment because of all the things I would like to be doing in this world right now, shooting video in an African game park is definitely near the top of the list. Top of the list would be hanging out, martini in hand in Hef’s jacuzzi, but that’s another kind of dream.

I urge you to go and spend some time on Scourist now.  It is really one of the best travel video sites I’ve seen in a while.

And this time we REALLY mean it.

– ERIK OLSEN, Gadling

THANKS ERIK!!!!

Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Check it out

[VIA: THE RAD BLOG]

If you enjoy The Onion you’ll love their podcast. It’s a daily 1 min radio “news” clip…

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