gdp's Comments

Downtempo's Fantastic Blog : Andrews & Dunham: Damn Fine Marketing

Tue, 9 Feb 2010 17:14:12 +0000

wow. that's quite an icon.

Downtempo's Fantastic Blog : Andrews & Dunham: Damn Fine Marketing

Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:35:49 +0000

andy, another great example of "selling with design" is william poundstone's detailed breakdown of the menu at balthazar: http://nymag.com/restaurants/features/62498/

Downtempo's Fantastic Blog : Photos from the Hacker Breakfast

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:24:18 +0000

This can of SPAM bacon is to powerful to be consumed by mere mortals. I keep trying to mix it in to some meal, but every time I tighten my grip, it slips through my fingers!

Downtempo's Fantastic Blog : Google Reader, Now with Less Crufty Articles I Don’t Want To Read

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:01:14 +0000

Vern, I have two different browsing behaviors. One, at work, I read mostly blog and news posts on technology and the economy. At home, I'm more browsing for entertainment (e.g. http://icanhascheezburger.com/). Speaking for myself, if Google can make me more productive at my work, then they can have all of my work browsing history they want. They already accumulate an absurd wealth of information on me through my search history, and my visitations to AdSense and DoubleClick websites. The browsing I do "off the clock" I'm a little more private about. In this case, I'd rather use one of Firefox's extensions to block Google and Yahoo tracking cookies. I haven't yet deployed a two pronged approach like this, but I'm considering it. It would require some discipline in order to always make sure to keep the right browser open. [yes, I'm aware of "private browsing" modes for FF, Chrome, and IE, but they don't precisely accomplish what I'm looking for here.]

Downtempo's Fantastic Blog : Google Chrome Frame, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Internet Explorer

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:50:18 +0000

Chris, I see Microsoft's response. What do you think? There are millions of corporate IT users that are trapped using IE6, which has 170 known vulnerabilities. Do you think Google Chrome Frame makes them more or less secure? http://secunia.com/advisories/product/11/

Downtempo's Fantastic Blog : Subtitles, the iTunes Store, and Swedish vampires

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:49:47 +0000

Andy, Have you seen OpenSubtitles.org? It's an open source subtitling website that hosts srt files for more than 50,000 movies! Fred Wilson recently wrote a blog post about using opensubtitles with boxee.

Downtempo's Fantastic Blog : Why is the Advanced Search Link So Small?

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:56:04 +0000

http://tinyurl.com/l22gs6

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