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Apparently something that came out of New York, but seems like it’d be a perfect match in LA.

Movieoke – A form of entertainment in which a person acts out scenes from a movie while a silent version of the movie plays in the background.

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I finally got around to trying out RE_INVIGORATE, a free real-time stats tracker that does some neat views (the time zone display is pretty nice). No slicing and dicing, but good fun. It’s interesting comparing the interface to something like Sawmill (horribly ugly and baroque, but extremly powerful – alas, single-threaded, no real-time support).

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  • the Degree Confluence Project – The goal of the project is to visit each of the latitude and longitude integer degree intersections in the world, and to take pictures at each location. The pictures and stories will then be posted here.
  • xACT – an all-in-one GUI for Shorten, FLAC, and shntool derived from MacFLAC by Scott Brown. Also uses md5sum and sox. (supports APE file decoding)
  • Postfix Enabler for Panther – Postfix Enabler can help Mac OS X users set up a totally functional buzzword-compliant mail server in less than a minute, the Mac Way. It sets up SMTP, POP3 and IMAP services, with or without SSL support. It even sets up SSL test certs so that you can test the SSL connection. Also, it enables SASL Authentication so you can connect to ISPs who require the SMTP connection to be authenticated. Or, the other way around, it allows you to enable SMTP-AUTH on the server, so you can authorise remote users who need to send mail through it.
  • That Was Then, This is Now – comScore Media Metrix celebrates its eighth anniversary with a comparison of top sites in January 1996 and January 2004. Hint: Think consolidation.
  • Eben Moglen’s Harvard Speech – The Transcript – good fun from Eben Moglen’s address and Q & A at Harvard February 23
  • How Microcontrollers Work – good intro explanation
  • RSS Ads – RSSAds provides an economic model that allows content publishers to offer full feeds of their content via RSS.
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Firefox was getting slower and slower when opening new tabs and windows (near the point of being unusable). I realized that the default bookmark location was set to the toolbar (to emulate Safari?), so cleaning that up has now sped things back up. (currently super-speedy again)

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I’ve been enjoying RE_INVIGORATE, it’s been fun. I’m tempted to throw it on the USC homepage just to see. It’d only increase load on the DAS system by about 20% or so? 🙂

In all seriousness, I’ll be following up w/ Omniture’s SiteCatalyst… (although $20K/yr is a large chunk of change. There has to be something better; perhaps running Sawmill for analytics and licensing DAS for realtime feedback might be an option)

Two people I chatted w/ in the shoutbox sidebar:

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Expression Engine came up in passing at a lunch meeting today. There are some really great ideas in there… The data modeling sounds killer (back in 2000 I began working on a KM tool w/ similar capabilities; that was interrupted by development of a vortal). I’m interested in seeing the caching and also a few of the security features. It seems that they’ve taken a lot of good techniques out there and put it all together in a unique way. It may be worth paying $199 just to look at how the internals are assembled.