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30 October 2006

Brain teasers

OMSI is a great place to spend a few hours on a rainy day, which is what the kids and I did this weekend. My Dad was in town, so we knew we’d have to go somewhere and do something. As we headed back downstairs from the Scien…

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posted by Stephen Landau

thinking about… Inspiration

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25 October 2006

Songbird

“Songbird™ is a desktop Web player, a digital jukebox and Web browser mash-up. Like Winamp, it supports extensions and skins feathers. Like Firefox®, it is built from Mozilla®, cross-platform and open source.” Kind…

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posted by Stephen Landau

thinking about… Elsewhere Online

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20 October 2006

NW Barista competition

(photo from CoffeeGeek.com) This weekend features some of the best baristas in the Northwest competing for a spot at the United States Barista Championships. What could be better than combining art and caffeine? Of course I’m…

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posted by Stephen Landau

thinking about… Coffee

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18 October 2006

Free Hugs

Why? Because maybe, just maybe, communication with words just doesn’t mean quite as much as communication with emotion. ps. If you can turn your sound off, I’d recommend it. For me, the music ruins the message.

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posted by Stephen Landau

thinking about… Elsewhere Online

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16 October 2006

Tanner Springs Park

This weekend’s family field trip took us first to REI for some quality outdoor gear, then to Tanner Springs Park on the way home. A bit of information about the park… “A series of community workshops were held b…

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posted by Stephen Landau

thinking about… Experiences

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12 October 2006

Second Life, perfect hair

Iain Tait had this clip from YouTube on his blog that gives an overview about Second Life… (This video was apparently put together by “the first PR agency in Second Life,” which makes sense for them to put out a …

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posted by Stephen Landau

thinking about… Elsewhere Online

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9 October 2006

Columbus Day

Not wanting to get into a big political debate about Columbus “discovering” the New World, this effect on the Native American population, etc., Seth Godin has a nice post about “Lessons Learned About Columbus.…

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posted by Stephen Landau

thinking about… Elsewhere Online

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6 October 2006

The unintended experience

An “unintended experience” is pretty much impossible, as anything you do results in some kind of experience, but that’s what it felt like when the family and I visited the “Dahlia Capital of America,” …

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posted by Stephen Landau

thinking about… Experiences

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Pi music

Math rock? Use this nifty interface to put pi to music. I can’t remember from music theory what kind of scale I used, but its some kind of blues scale. Rocked out to 500 digits of pi… only 9,500 left using this thing. O…

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posted by Stephen Landau

thinking about… Elsewhere Online

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4 October 2006

One apartment and six drummers

I’m sure this will be all over the place by the time I post it, but parts of it made me chuckle out loud. For the next time you have five friends over… (mixing it up from YouTube for a change…)

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posted by Stephen Landau

thinking about… Elsewhere Online

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