Wednesday, September 28, 2005

Love the "This is Alpha Baby!" title bar for

Slawesome!:



Send audio messages through email. Sign up for an account, record a message and then select who you want to send the message to. The recipient will receive an email with a link to your audio message on the Slawesome! server.

You can also send people an RSS feed to your public audio messages. Here is something from my public audio feed Link

(Via del.icio.us/popular.)

Monday, September 26, 2005

Onlife

Onlife is an application that will allow you to visualize and access all the data that you deal with on Safari, Mail, iChat and iTunes. Data can be accessed by Day, Month, or Year and is color coded to correspond with the application used to access that particular set of data. Basically, a good looking way to archive, track and access your activity and data in Safari, Mail, iChat and iTunes.

I do wish that it worked with Adium as well as iChat. I would like to see this application develop further in terms of incorporating other applications besides the currently supported ones, or just being able to track any application one uses on their OS and the tasks within that application.

A screenshot of Onlife:



The color of the dots represents a specific application. The dots themselves represent the data that is a result of activity within each application. The dots are mapped on the axis of the time that the data was accessed at.

Friday, September 23, 2005

Discardia

Everyone should make time for Discardia.

Discardia should not only happen on a montly basis, but it should happen on a DAILY basis. Pick your time, day or how much you want to allocate to Discardia.

Don't let things clutter up. When you get mail you don't need, throw it away immediately. In our house, I call it PILE PATROL. Prevent piles from happening by just getting rid of the thing that you would have put in the pile. If it was a piece of mail that was going on the pile, examine it quickly. If you don't need it, throw it away, otherwise tack it to your bulletin board or file it away. If was a piece of clothing, fold it and put it back where it belongs unless it needs to be washed, in which case toss it into the laundry basket.

Give away clothes you don't wear and throw the ratty ones out. Throwing things away is very liberating. The cleaner and clearer your physical space, the clearer your mind will be. There is a cathartic process in geting rid of things and moving them around. Getting rid of things forces you to deal with a situation up front and reminds you of change. A constant cleansing will remind you to integrate new things into your life.

My family has a mailing list that they named "Ligpit" which is the Tagalog word for "Clean up." Our family's motto is "Always cleaning up the clutter." Neatness and the capacity to throw things away is one of the best methods that has been instilled in me by my family. It has taught me to practice the art of letting go, thereby freeing me from crap holding me down. Cleaning up clutter forces you to focus on what needs to be immediately dealt with. Clutter represents procrastination and denial.

Discardia can also transcend from your physical space into your digital space. Delete data from your hard drive that you don't need. Aim for an empty email inbox. Digital Discardia can also be thought of in terms of Bit Literacy, as defined by Mark Hurst.

Bit Literacy is the skill of filtering data. Limiting your intake of data poises you to have a greater understanding of information by limiting your intake of information. Prioritize the information you need to take in, limit it, and truly focus on the information you are receiving.

So celebrate Discardia everyday. Throw things in your home away and delete data that you don't need.

Thursday, September 15, 2005

Some exhibitions to see from now until mid-October 2005


Miss Van, 7, 12" x 10", Acrylic on Canvas

Miss Van: Don't Be Shy

September 8 thru October 8 2005
JONATHAN LEVINE GALLERY

529 West 20th Street, 9E NY, NY 10011

ph: 212.243.3822

Open Tuesday through Saturday, 11 am to 6 pm

Jean-Pierre Gauthier Rut, 2005, Detail

Jean-Pierre Gauthier: RUT
September 8 thru October 8 2005
JACK SHAINMAN GALLERY

513 West 20TH Street New York, NY 10011

ph: 212.645.831

David Ellis, Bound, 2005, Motion Painting
David Ellis: Orchestrion

September 8 thru October 8 2005
JESSICA MURRAY PROJECTS

150 Eleventh Avenue (between 21st and 22nd Streets)

New York, NY 10011

ph: 212.633.9606

Jim Isermann, Untitled (0205), 2005, vacum-formed

polystyrene, dimensions variable
Jim Isermann

September 2 thru October 15 2005
DEITCH PROJECTS

76 Grand Street and 18 Wooster Street

New York, NY

Open Tuesday through Saturday, 12 pm to 6 pm

Sunday, September 04, 2005


Things you can do to help those affected by Katrina:

1. Donate money to the Red Cross

Donate to the Red Cross



2. Donate your time to entering data about missing and found people on the Katrina PeopleFinder Project.

All you have to do is log in, select unclaimed data from the set of sources specified under "Ready for Claiming" and then enter the data into the New Orleans Network Site. The instructions are clearly stated, and your efforts will help create a centralized database that people can access to search for missing and found people.


Related: 'Non-programmers' can help at the link above, but 'programmer' volunteers are also needed to consolidate structured survivor information: Link to 'Katrina refugee data entry project'.
(Thanks, David DeMaris)"



(Via Boing Boing.)