Re: [FRIAM] guide to git using spatial analogies

2010-12-17 Thread Owen Densmore
Hey, better yet, its available in Italian! Yeehaa! I need more study material after the last trip. A List Apart has always been not only pertinent , but literate. And now in italian! -- Owen On Dec 16, 2010, at 1:21 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote: > This one looked interesting: > >htt

[FRIAM] Fwd: Yahoo! To Close Delicious

2010-12-17 Thread Owen Densmore
Roger passed on the news that Delicious is being closed by Yahoo. It was of interest to me because I was converting to Delicious, along with generally revamping my digital ecology to better integrate between all the parts: tv, laptop, mac mini home server, phone, ipad, .. and so on. So bookmar

[FRIAM] Fwd: A List Apart: Articles: Smartphone Browser Landscape

2010-12-17 Thread Owen Densmore
>From the site Roger recently referred to (Delicious closed), I found another >interesting article: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/smartphone-browser-landscape/ How in the world can you test on all smart-phone browsers?! But more importantly, it gives an interesting view on smart-phones

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Yahoo! To Close Delicious

2010-12-17 Thread Jochen Fromm
That's sad, del.icio.us is the only useful service from Yahoo which I still use. I have heard Diigo should be good: http://www.diigo.com/ Here are 11 ways to backup your del.icio.us bookmarks http://lists.econsultant.com/top-10-ways-delicious-backup.html -J. - Original Message - From:

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Yahoo! To Close Delicious

2010-12-17 Thread Owen Densmore
Great pointers, thanks! Listen: how about some of us try the new bookmarks-in-the-sky systems and report back on your experiences? Now all this said, I gotta say someone is likely to buy delicious from yahoo. Or somehow it will survive. But none the less, its worth our community being free f

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Yahoo! To Close Delicious

2010-12-17 Thread Owen Densmore
On Dec 17, 2010, at 3:09 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: > ... > Now all this said, I gotta say someone is likely to buy delicious from yahoo. > Or somehow it will survive. But none the less, its worth our community > being free from these sorts of disasters. Looks like delicious is going to live on

[FRIAM] Help with memory

2010-12-17 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Many years ago, perhaps more than 40, I swear I read a series of articles, later published as a book, that laid out the basic principles of entropy, told the history (perhaps mythic) of how GM tore up the trolley lines in LA to get its dirty busses to replace clean trolley cars, argued that we woul

Re: [FRIAM] Help with memory

2010-12-17 Thread Carl Tollander
Google "Roger Rabbit", which sends you to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_American_streetcar_scandal Many links. On 12/17/10 8:03 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote: Many years ago, perhaps more than 40, I swear I read a series of articles, later published as a book, that laid out the basic

Re: [FRIAM] Help with memory

2010-12-17 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Carl and everybody, The Wikipedia entry sure looked like it was going to have the reference, but alas, it did not! You are probably all prepared for one of the well-known terrors of old age, that you forget stuff. But another terror of old age you may not know about - that you remember wi