I started using Sidenote almost a week ago and it’s already become an integral part of my OS X life. I use it to store absolutely all of my working notes from job hunting to ideas for blog articles. Anytime I want to use it I just press _Cmd-^-[_ (my choice) and it slides out, I make my notes, and with the same key stroke it dissapears, automatically saving what I wrote. Global warming isn’t happening quite fast enough for sun-seeking Americans who have been moving to sunny Southern California and Florida at such rates that the property prices haven’t had time to catch up. “Business Week”:http://businessweek.com recently put out a special report about the 274 most appreciative zip codes in America. Quite why they’re appreciative is unclear, and there’s certainly no real understanding as to why they chose 274, but in an equally random number choice, here are the top 11 and here is a “link to the report.”:http://www.businessweek.com/investing/special_reports/20070302luxuryreal.htm Nintendo of Canada is hosting a “unique sweepstakes”:http://theartofwii.nintendo.com/ in which contestants can win one of six beautifully crafted, artistically brilliant, hand-painted Wiis. These systems are gorgeous. “Overclocked Remix”:http://www.ocremix.org, a site specializing in arrangements and remixes of video game music, absolutely blew away the rest of this years’ “April Fools’ Day joke field”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_1,_2007. Every year April Fools’ Day delivers wacky internet hijinx, and it seems like each year sites try to outdo themselves and each other. Some of my favorites from today thus far include “Facebook’s”:http://www.facebook.com LivePoke system (which I absolutely wish were real) and “Google’s free in-home, toilet-based broadband”:http://www.google.com/tisp/. More awesomeness to be updated throughout the day! “Nicholas Kristof”:http://topics.nytimes.com/top/opinion/editorialsandoped/oped/columnists/nicholasdkristof/index.html, the talented New York Times opinion writer, continues to impress me with his ingenuity, resourcefulness, and compassion. Last week he wrote about “a new way to help combat third world poverty”:http://www.kiva.org/content/about/images/YouTooCanBeaBankertothePoor_NewYorkTimes.pdf: online lending to recipients in third world nations looking to start or grow their businesses. Time Out magazine started in 1968 as a simple fold out poster for all the entertainment listings in London. Now they publish three weekly periodicals (London, Chicago, and New York) dozens of city guides, and an annual compendium of every single film review ever written by Time Out reviewers. That’s over 17,000 films reviewed. Starting this year, that entire database of film reviews is available online for free at “timeout.com/film.”:http://www.timeout.com/film/ Reviews from Time Out tend to be witty, shrewd and very sarcastic. In a word, British. Did you know that the common dust mite was about the same size as a human ovum? Nikon’s beautifully simple, yet very informative “Universcale site”:http://www.nikon.co.jp/main/eng/feelnikon/discovery/universcale/index_f.htm explores size and scale in a fun new way. By placing commonly understood, but not necessarily related things together and showing their relative size this site succeeds in entering that very rare category of things that change the way we look at the world. Shown here is a screen shot of the site showing (from left to right) a paramecium, an amoeba, a human ovum, a common dust mite, a raindrop, a sesame seed, a snow flake and a cat flea. Rarely will you see the adult entertainment industry and religious groups in “relative agreement”:http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/03/26/tech-porn.html, but strong lobbying by both camps influenced “today’s decision”:http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/internet/03/30/domain.xxx.ap/index.html?eref=rss_tech by Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers to reject creating .xxx domains for online pornography sites. The adult entertainment industry feared that having .xxx domains would make it easier for governments censor and control content, while religious groups believed that creating such domains would greatly increase the amount of graphic sexual content on the internet. Internet politics too makes strange bedfellows. “CNN reports today”:http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/03/30/amazon.internet.ap/index.html that Brazil is looking to use a satellite to project an internet signal to over 150 communities deep in the Amazon, many of which are accessible only by boat. Brazil intends to crack down on illegal logging in the Amazon by creating the opportunity for communities to report such activities via the internet. What a progressive way to address an environmental hazard that results in the “destruction of hundreds of square miles of rainforest”:http://rainforests.mongabay.com/amazon/amazon_destruction.html each year.
From the “Mac Downloads page:”:http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/productivity_tools/sidenote.html :
_”[Sidenote] Tries to catch the “Stickies” spirit but in the form of a multi-document drawer that will hide in the corner of your screen (left or right). You can use it to take all your daily notes, include images and easily modify text color and font.
Sidenote will automatically expand so that you will be able to drag into it any picture, text clipping or pdf file from the finder or your favorite application. With notes auto-saving, you’ll never have to save your notes. Sidenote will handle that for you. You can also print notes or export them to rtf.”_
Here’s a screenshot of Sidenote at work.
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Go South Young Man
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The Art of Wii – Creativity Meets Technology
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http://theartofwii.nintendo.com/
Each was crafted by a renowned Canadian artist, and each provides a unique interpretation of Nintendo's vision for the Wii: one features a friendly bunny waving hello to a friend, while another (pictured below) features a slick character exploding out of the Wii canvas in a fury of 1-Ups and treasure chests (brandishing a Wiimote and Nunchuk, no less).
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And The April Fools' Day Winner Is . . .
The site today released a “soundtrack featuring 18 remixes”:http://icecap.ocremix.org/ –mixes of perhaps the single most clichéd song in the vgremix world: Ice Cap Zone from Sonic 3.
http://www.ocremix.org/remix/OCR00691/ of djpretzel's (subtly enough, entitled "Love Hurts") with Ice Cap awkwardly overlaid on it. Another "gem":pixietricks features a ridiculous a capella rendition of the artist singing her name and the song's name repeatedly--to the tune of Ice Cap.
The rest of the humor stems from the hundreds of site members who have "not yet realized this is a joke":http://www.ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=8732, including remixers who have "threatened to quit":http://www.ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=8734&page=4 the site over the poor quality of the collection. Clearly, they did not hear the toilet-flushing (literally) beats in "this song":toilet.
Is it a bad thing that I really like "some of them":beats?
[beats]http://rama.herograw.org/icecap/ReCapitated_03_Icecap_Zone_2007_(Green_Hill_Mix)_(Ice_Cap_Zone_Act_1).mp3
[toilet]http://rama.herograw.org/icecap/ReCapitated_17_The_Music_of_My_Icecap_Zone_(Ice_Cap_Zone_Act_1).mp3
[icecaphurts]http://rama.herograw.org/icecap/ReCapitated_01_Ice_Cap_Hurts_(Ice_Cap_Zone_Act_1).mp3
[pixietricks]http://rama.herograw.org/icecap/ReCapitated_13_Pixietricks_Ice_Capella_(Ice_Cap_Zone_Act_1).mp3
Oh April Fools, You Bring Me Joy
More April Fools’ jokes:
“Gmail’s Google Paper”:http://www.gmail.com
“NASA’s first game of Space Quidditch”:http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070401.html
“woot!’s million dollar bag-o-crap”:http://www.woot.com
“Blizzard’s ‘new’ Warcraft game”:http://www.blizzard.com/whoa/
The “complete list”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_1,_2007 at Wikipedia
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Lend Money Online To Third World Entrepreneurs
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http://www.kiva.org
"Kiva.org":http://www.kiva.org provides pictures and detailed information about the lender and his/her business so that you can ultimately make the decision of who and what you want to support. Truly, this is an amazing and innovative service, and it appears to be actively fostering growth in needy areas.
Time Out Film Guide
Style aside, the online film guide acts much the same as “IMDB”:http://imdb.com/ (allowing cross searching actors, directors, genres) but all with a sleek, professional sheen to it. Also if you like the review, you can buy or rent the DVDs right on the screen.
http://elliott-herder.com/plugins/ you can just go to the search engine selector in the top-right, go to the bottom and select "add Time Out Film." Happy searching.
Nikon's universal measuring stick
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.xxx Domain Names Rejected
More Free Wireless Internet – In the Amazon!
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