All I can think of when using this navigation is WarGames. I wonder who it calls if you hold a phone up to the speaker? (It’s late and I’m too lazy/busy to find out)

Apple sent a “Breach and Termination of License” letter to the author of iCommune, James Speth. iCommune is/was basically another P2P application specifically for sharing iTunes libraries over networks. The stopping of this project is a bummer, although Apple’s lawyers had little choice in covering their legal behinds since the RIAA doesn’t seem to do anything anymore except sue everyone connected to anyone using music in interesting ways. I guess I should have downloaded it yesterday when I first heard about it.

Someday I’m going to figure out how to tunnel my local Rendezvous network over to the office and onto friends’ computers. Basically a Virtual Private Network for Rendezvous stuff. Then if someone builds something which bridges VPNs together iCommune is irrelevant…

Speaking of interesting uses of Music, this Tivo announcement might finally be the thing which gets a Tivo into our house. Currently we have an iPod playing through the TV speakers, a networked MP3 playing Tivo would be much easier.

New York is a hamburger heaven. (NYT) I think I know what I’m having for lunch…

update:

Dear Blue 9 Burger,
The decision to accept so large an order that you are unable to serve any walk-in customers during the lunch rush on the day you’re featured in the New York Times is just plain stupid.

In the meantime, my lunch plans were completely scuttled by a cascade of events set in motion by Blue 9’s inability to serve me. Now I’m hungry and annoyed, Lila is finally napping and our upstairs neighbors seem to be hammering on something over her room.

update 2:

So I didn’t get there for lunch, but I did make it for dinner. And I met the woman who I referred to as ‘stupid’. And I felt like a heel. Because I am. She’s very nice, and they’ve been completely swamped all day. I overheard two employees commenting on how the register totals were more than three times a normal day’s take, and they still had several hours to go before closing.

As for the burgers, they live up the to Times’ review. Well worth a visit.

(I forgot to ask, but I’m fairly sure they only serve beef burgers, no turkey, no veggie. It’s a small menu, to match the west coast burger drive-thrus it’s modeled after.)

Apparently, the wonder-browser, written by an Irish 16 year old for a science fair, is for real.

“hello, my computer was making a strange hissing noise last night and this morning when I turned it on there was a crackling noise and some smoke then nothing, if I bring it in can you fix it?” Eeew.

One day after posting the first beta of Safari, Dave Hyatt, author of Chimera and a member of of Apple’s Safari team posted notes that they’ve already internally fixed 96dpi rendering, CSS1 test suite compliance, low Flash frame rates, and comitted to supporting the DOM 1&2, CSS1&2 standards. This is all very good news though I’m still using the nightly builds of Chimera as my primary browser.

Even though January is only a week old, I keep thinking it should be February. I feel like I’ve already worked at least four weeks so far this year.

Because I’m behind on so many other things, updating the site isn’t the best use of my time. But lately I’ve found myself asking friends if they’ve read this or seen that, usually referring to some interesting article I found online in the moments between work and chasing Lila around. These are some of those:

• 2003 is going to be a lousy year for telephone companies.
• Lobsters outsmarting lobster traps. Lobster video.
• Lots of things I didn’t know about my neighborhood. (other NYC places)
• Cornell University’s Digital Earth interactive map maker.
• This is exactly how I feel about BBEdit
• I’m blocked in China. So’s Ben.
• NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio’s Great Zooms, seamless zoomimg MPEGs from space to the ground. (They recently added huge 1280×720 MPEG-2 files for several zooms)
• Naked Cowboy, Silver Man. Silver Man, Naked Cowboy. (fantastic photo)
• Oolong the pancake rabbit died on January 7th.
• The first escalator in Cambodia (Escalator history PDF)
• Chinese Food and New York Jews