Ian's (almost) daily recap of what spikes my interest

Here is the new boat! I am soo excited!

posted by Ian  # 11:46 AM 1 Comments

Please note that Tielman is at the back of this conga line, that crazy fool! Ahhh the internet is a great place.

-Ian

posted by Ian  # 11:15 AM 0 Comments

Since I have jury duty, today will be a light day of posting. In the meantime I invite you to see what Tielman, Chris and I were up to this weekend.

Good times. Good times.....

posted by Ian  # 7:39 AM 1 Comments

This is what I've been listening to recently. Check out
www.bluemerle.com -- I particularly like "burning in the sun"

-Ian

posted by Ian  # 9:47 AM 0 Comments

OK, kids. I promised you this would come. Here's approx 7 minutes of
pure bliss. My voice. For your listening pleasure. Please don't be
too hard on me. I promise I'll work on an actual agenda next time so
that it's not just me rambling.

Download the podcast here:
http://www.ianmalin.com/Podcast-1-IanMalin051305.mp3

Ian

posted by Ian  # 6:55 PM 0 Comments

This video comes to us courtesy of Tara. This is really, really funny:
http://www.ianmalin.com/basketball.mpg


Ian

posted by Ian  # 6:55 PM 0 Comments

For those of you too lazy to run out and purchase graph paper (my medium
of choice), this link http://www.incompetech.com/beta/plainGraphPaper/
lets you print your own using all the free office resources you have at
your disposal!

Hooray!

-Ian

posted by Ian  # 5:23 PM 0 Comments

For anybody who is interested, here's the write-up from the Sony product
release at BED last night. This is in response to this previous post.

The product is in fact a new laptop (Windows based of course) where Sony
partnered up with Cingular to offer EDGE, where available, Wifi and
Bluetooth, integrated into the lappy. Cingular helped write the
software that allows the user to toggle using the F1 key between the 3.
This feature worked remarkably well, even after I shut the machine down
to find out where the SIM card goes. There is a little spring loaded
slot which is revealed after removing the battery. After reboot it
quickly found cingular's network and logged on.

The device is small with a 10.6 inch screen with XBRITE and optional
dual layer DVD+-RW drive which was a nice touch. It weighs 3.04 pounds
and is an inch thick, so the portability feature is nice. The keyboard
is tiny. I had a hard time adjusting from the keyboard on my x40 which
already feel slightly cramped.

They had all the attendees distributed at various beds (the place
requires lying on mattresses rather than sitting at tables) where we
each received one of these laptops to test. Then we played a silly game
where we instant messaged (using windows messenger) with characters on
various projectors and had to guess from what location they were
chatting with us from. The winner, sadly not my bed, won a sony
ericsson[ ]. The idea was to show that the people were chatting with
us from remote locations. My guy claimed to be on the jersey shore
though I'm sure he was in his office since they openly admitted the
footage they were using in the projectors had been previously recorded.

The machine is nice, purely by virtue of its size. I certainly enjoyed
the size though I wouldn't purchase it because of the integrated GSM
feature. Some guy from Cingular did a song and dance about the special
promotion they're having that gives new purchasers a free 30 days if you
sign up for a 1 year contract. The price plans are as follows:$49.99
for 50MB of data and $79.95 for unlimited. That adds up to $959.40 a
year in service charges which isn't bad if the firm is picking up the
tab but pretty pricey when returning to reality. It basically amounts
to half the cost of the laptop which, as I understand from one of their
reps scurrying around the floor, costs $2,040 for the CDRW version and
$2,[ ]. When is Cingular going to come up with plans that make
sense? That is a story for another post on a different site.

One of the other things I did while there and I forgot to clear my
history before leaving, was run a speed test using DSL reports. I
emailed the page to myself if you'd like to see it but the speed I got,
in the middle of north Chelsea, was 82kbps down and 42 up, neatly
sandwiched between "ugh" and "bearable".

Sadly I was unable to take any decent pictures using my camera, though
you can see the machine at sonystyle starting tomorrow I believe,
available for online purchase for a month before being released to
retailers. I believe the available colors are indigo, silver and red,
though I might be mistaken.

posted by Ian  # 11:09 AM 0 Comments

So the rumors are true, integrated EDGE from cingular (only) and Wifi and bluetooth in a 10inch x brite display up to 9 hours battery life in a 1 inch thickness package weighing in at 3 pounds. Online purchase only at sonystyle for a month. I'll play with it in a moment and fill you in.

Blogging from BED, 27th and 10th
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Sent wirelessly via BlackBerry from T-Mobile.

posted by Ian  # 6:32 PM 0 Comments

Check out this video, it's really funny. Thanks to Chris for this
post!

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris
Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 12:53 PM
To: Ian Malin
Subject: funny dancer

Reminds me of when we were in the airforce.

>
> http://media.hugi.is/hahradi/fyndnar/everybodydance-1.wmv

posted by Ian  # 1:03 PM 0 Comments

I mean COME ON?! What are you people smoking out there> Some guy a few
months ago claimed to have video of this yeti like creature up in
Manitoba but was so paranoid about people swiping his rights that he
would let the tape out of his possession. So he would only let people
view the video from this apartment which resulted in lines of people
filing through his living room. This lasted until he was able to
negotiate a deal for the rights of the tape, which apparently he was
able to do. So the long awaited broadcast happened last week and I've
attached snippets from "A current Affair" or whatever that show is that
talks about it and I'm appalled. I'm not sure what's scarier, the
resolution on the camera (how convenient), the network's presentation of
the story, or the chick and the dude towards the end of the clip.
Yikes. Regardless, I still don't think one of these things exist.

http://64.70.39.65:80/bigfoot_2_small.wmv

posted by Ian  # 11:39 PM 0 Comments

So this link shows with great interactivity how certain musicians have
(gasp) resampled songs from already famous (and not so famous) artists.
It's hard to describe. Follow the link and waste 10 minutes or so:

http://jessekriss.com/projects/samplinghistory/

-Ian

posted by Ian  # 11:31 PM 0 Comments

In NYC we're stuck with cheapo puma wristwatches, cheap kate spade handbags and handycam copies of currently running movies.

In JAPAN! on the other hand, pedestrians are greeted with this! IT's SO UNFAIR!

WHY?????????

posted by Ian  # 8:54 AM 0 Comments

Anybody up for a weekend trip to gay Paris? Purchase by May 15 and
we're off to smoking Galloise cigs. Who's in with me!?

http://us.franceguide.com/magazine/article.asp?idc=20628&;

-Ian

posted by Ian  # 10:03 PM 1 Comments

You guys have to check out this racy BMW motorbike commercial.


http://homepage.mac.com/ianmalin/FileSharing5.html

-Ian

posted by Ian  # 6:29 PM 0 Comments

It's going to be a light day on the posting folks. I am home and sick. I'll see what I can do!

Ian
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Sent wirelessly via BlackBerry from T-Mobile.

posted by Ian  # 9:12 AM 1 Comments

PS. I am installing Tiger this very moment and will let you know what I
think...

I'll have you all know that the Yahoo traffic link I wrote about a few
days back has now been built into a dashboard widget for Tiger. I'll
send screenshots around.

-Ian

posted by Ian  # 8:57 PM 0 Comments

Citing concerns about US - Dutch relations.

YOU THINK??!!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050504/od_afp/netherlandsusbush_0505041718
22&printer=1

posted by Ian  # 8:56 PM 0 Comments

Check this link that has more links to tons of live music from over 350
artists. If you always wanted that Public Enemy Show, this is the time
to download it!

http://people.freenet.de/bootlegbrowser/
-Ian

posted by Ian  # 8:54 PM 0 Comments

Yahoo Traffic has a new feature that shows traffic maps for any given
zip code. This feature is really going to come in handy this summer.
You can pull up your maps here:

http://maps.yahoo.com/traffic

Also, since I aggregate using RSS feeds, you can enter the following
link into your RSS reader with this link:

http://maps.yahoo.com/traffic.rss?csz=10013&mag=4&minsev=2

Edit the URL to add your information:
-make sure you change the zip code after csz=
-mag is the level of 'magnification' (3 = 4 miles, 4 = 10 miles, 5 = 40
miles)
-minserv is the minimum severity of the traffic condition (1 = minor, 2
= moderate, 4 = major, 5 = critical.)

I use newsgator.com to manage all my feeds. This one is my newest
addition.

-ian

posted by Ian  # 10:58 AM 0 Comments

Thank you to Stephen for this series of photos of a sandstorm approaching an Iraqi installation. Check them out on my flickr page. Pretty amazing!

-Ian

posted by Ian  # 1:14 AM 0 Comments

Thanks to Toma for providing this terrific link:

http://www.milkandcookies.com/links/13782/

posted by Ian  # 2:18 PM 0 Comments