While reading Want to commit Facebook suicide? No, really, there’s an app for that! I came across a link to 100 years old essay Desintroductions by Ambrose Bierce which is truly brilliant.
Short citation:
Mr WHITE: Mr Black, knowing the low esteem in which you hold each other, I have the honor to disintroduce you from Mr […]
GeoURL is a service that maintains list of web sites and their geographical coordinations. It is possible to search a site and get it’s location as well as search a location and get all nearby sites. However the results are not shown on map. There have been attempts to map results (see comments under […]
I wanted to do this myself, but first I searched, if somebody wasn’t faster. And there I found it. Complete kmz file for all Czech golf courses with some basic info like address, email and www of each course. It includes a bit of advertising for the map creators but I think this is much […]
Update: This has been implemented at identitu.de. I’m not sure if the implementation details are exactly as described in this post, but they seem so. See (de)railed blog for details.
Facebook does not officially support OpenID. But would the Facebook Platform make it possible for 3rd party developers to implement OpenID App on top of it? […]
Google has done another big thing. They released the Street View feature for their maps. As with every google announcement the blogosphere is exited with a post about it every few minutes. And as with almost every google product people are asking if it compromises our privacy. Maybe, may be not. I don’t have a […]
Yeah, yeah, I have not posted anything for last two months. TWO MONTHS! Yes, I know some of my friends told me this would happen. I just never believed it would come so fast. Looking at the access statistics, there is about 15 visits per day on the blog. What are the people reading? The […]
ClaimID has announced new feature: contacts (see also Fred’s blog post). This makes ClaimID, originally an elegant service for keeping and verifying links about oneself, a social network a bit like LinkedIn, Orkut, Myspace… The big difference is, that to connect with someone, he does not have to be a ClaimID user, he just needs […]
The Bank of All My Friends is one of those funny useless things I can’t resist. This flickr group is about photographing half of someone’s face with half of a face on any bank note. Fortunately, Czech government does not plan to introduce Euro, the headless currency, till 2012 so we still have some time […]
Ben Adida has announced new version of RDFa bookmarklets.
That’s great news. The bookmarklets should work on this site too - I have added some RDFa markup in this blog template: some DC and SIOC around each blog post and my homepage has a little bit of FOAF. I would also like to SIOCify comments in […]
Some time in December I read a lot about middle format cameras. I found out I couldn’t afford a medium format SLR. Than this site selling vintage folding cameras caught my attention. After trying to resist the temptation I gave up and searched for those cameras in local second hand photo shop. I found one […]