I just installed Safari 4 and the first thing it did was to show me my top sites – the 12 sites that I go to most frequently. My initial reaction was “Weird!” and then “I need to get out more often!”
Here is a fuzzy pic of what I saw:
Download is available at http://www.apple.com/safari/
I’m trying out Zemanta using the Firefox plugin and just seeing how it works.
Image via CrunchBaseSan Francisco is known for it’s fog, not it’s sunshine, but that’s mostly in the summer months, mid June to the end of August. Right now in January it should be raining, but we have gotten precious little rain this January. As evidence I present you with my solar panel production, which shows a remarkably sunny month:
As you can see, many sunny days, but we need the rain.
Economist magazine has a great article on for-profit activism and mentions both 1BOG.org and Virgance.
1BOG helped me get a solar panel system last year and I’m am still delighted with how well the whole process went. Thank you again 1BOG and congrats to you and Virgance!
Jeremiah Owyang switched out a high wattage halogen lamp with an LED version that is only 3W. The LED bulb is expensive, but it will save much more over its life.
Just another example of how to use less energy withiout sacrificing quality of life.
I’m always interested one term can mean different things – polysemy – and now we have the Model 271 in the news. The Model 271 is the type of shoe that was thrown at our President as a sign of disrespect of him and of our country.
Interestingly, the Model 271 is also:
How many Model 271’s do you know of?
I was asked recently how to backup purchased iTunes music, and after trying the normal backup function, I discovered what everyone already knows – that iTunes wants backup everything, including movies and TV shows. While I appreciate that Apple wants to backup all purchases (see bottom of How to backup up your purchases for a complete list), I just wanted to backup music.
With a hint from Macrumors, I found a way to do it. First create a smart playlist as follows:
Select this playlist, then press the Burn Disc button at the bottom right. Burn it as a data disc so that it saves all of the track data as well.
Jeroen used Shapeways.com to print a three dimensional model of a train station. He has photos and a description of the pieces he received and how he is putting it together.
I am totally jazzed by the possibilities of creating 3D models and having them printed like this.
Jeffrey Leonard writes about The Plug In Revolution in the Washington Monthly. He says:
Electrification as a rallying cry for American energy policy isn’t perfect, but in my view it’s the best and perhaps only way to get us to a clean and secure energy future.
I think he makes an elegant case for moving away from oil and toward electricity.
Common Ground Magazine talks about One Block Off The Grid (1BOG) in their latest “On Our Radar” column.