Onfolio
Onfolio looks like it could be useful. If it supported Firefox I’d have a more informed opinion. Still, I’ll be installing it at work. I’ve been looking for things to help streamline all the web-based research I do.

Ok, maybe not that much, but still, I’d like it if my cellular provider (Verizon) would, for a low low price (say another $3-5/month), give us a VoIP adapter for our home phone and allow us to receive calls with CallerID to our cell numbers through it with no per-minute charges. Verizon’s coverage in our neighborhood is weak, and any time I use my mobile in my house, i regret it. At the same time, I feel silly spending for two cell phones, a land line with no features and DSL. It would be nice to cut one of them out, save a little money, and gain some convenience.

Even cooler would to skip the VoIP adapter and use a mobile with VoIP and very power-efficient WiFi that would choose the cheapest best signal.

Everyday Matters. “Do not fear mistakes. there are none.” Miles Davis said that.

Everyday Matters is a series of occasional essays on creative things, journal making, drawing,etc. intended to challenge, inspire and perplex. Please feel free to comment and straighten my ass out.

I like the look and feel of this blog. (via BoingBoing)

Many-to-Many: Moblogging from the front and the new Reformation

Jaques Barzun, author of the marvelous history of modernity From Dawn to Decadence (1500 – present), makes the point that the Catholic Church as a pan-European political force was done in by the Protestant Reformation, itself fueled by the printing press. Once the Church lost the ability to control the direct perception of scripture, thanks to the printing of (relatively) cheap bibles in languages other than Latin, their loss of political hegemony followed.

This is what we are seeing now relative to the military�s control of information. A year or so ago, someone in the DoD told me that the thing that would most affect the prosecution of the war in Iraq would be images of DAB�s � Dead American Bodies. The unplanned spread of photos of coffins, and now of torture victims, means that control of this part of the war is outside the military�s hands.

I’ve been babbling about this same basic parallel for the past 3-4 years, though my focus has been on the absurd extension of copyright as compared to the Catholic church’s control of scripture.

Its good to see a related meme gaining some hold.

Boing Boing: Online t-shirt store: “we were gagged by Google”

From: Google:The following…items that must be removed from your site in order to continue advertising with Google AdWords:

Recall Bush – White T-shirt (with radio control on head)
Dumb and Dumber White T-shirt – Bush and Blair: The Movie
You’re Fired – George W. Bush White T-shirt
Dump Cheney White T-shirt – “Halliburton” tattooed across head
Miserable Failure T-shirt – George W. Bush
Kerry sucks (too) – T-shirt”

If this is true, then I’ve pretty much had it with Google. I have my doubts thought. Google backlash is growing in the run-up to their IPO, and stoking it would be a good way to get some free publicity.