Dance Moves

Rate My Dance Moves. Someone should get Elaine on there doing the "little kicks."

Graham Is The Man

Is it just me or is the way Graham blogs about drag 'n' drop functionality just plain cute? He knows how everything works inside and out and he's the go-to-guy for any obscure Blogger code question yet he is trying very hard to be enthusiastic about the features that bring Blogger to the HTML Illiterati (which is important for the future of Blogger and Blogger users because let's face it, hypertext markup language was not meant for this kind of abuse).
Yes, methinks it is true: Graham is the man.

Twitter Lingo

Besides texting your updates to 40404, you can interact with Twitter entirely through your mobile phone with various commands—interactive fiction style. Good times when you're bored. In the examples below, I've referred to my Twitter username but you would swap that out for whoever.

Texts go to 40404

off turns text notifications off
on turns text notifications on
get biz gets the current status of a friend
get gets all current updates from friends
follow biz sends a friend request
leave biz stop getting mobile updates from a friend
leave all stop getting mobile updates alltogether
followers find out who is following you
nudge biz encourage a friend to update

You can also join Twitter by sending in an update right now. So, if you texted "reading Biz's blog" to 40404 you'd get set up with a Twitter account (but you wouldn't have any friends which is why 'follow biz' is better). You can join online too.

Star-castic Posters

These inspirational Star Trek posters are fun.

NYT on Shawn Green

A Power Hitter. And a Source of Jewish Pride. - New York Times: "“He’s a team player, and he’s on our team, if you know what I’m saying,” Mr. Moskowitz said."

MySpace Not in The WayBack Machine

The Internet Archive does not include myspace at their request. I was gonna root around and see what it looked like in 2003 or 2004 (when it was *tres* xanga-esque).

Bomb in The Hopper?

iPod prompts airport scare in Ottawa - Some dude dropped his iPod in the airplane toilet. That sucks right there. But then everyone freaked and thought there was a futuristic techno-bomb in the hopper.

Turn Any Web Page Into A Mobile Version

If you want to browse a blog or any other site from your Treo or Blackberry or whatever Google will hook you up. Just go here on your phone browser: http://www.google.com/gwt/n and enter a url. The site you want to look at will be mobilized for your viewing pleasure. For example, here is the Biz Stone, Genius mobile version. It appears to be similar to the way Google does Mobile Gmail. Nice.

Our Solar System Has 8 Planets

The BBC reports on the recent decision to demote Pluto. So now we only have 8 planets instead of the proposed 12. Nevertheless, we still have many "worlds" to discover.

Dictionary.com Redesign

Not sure yet how I feel about the redesign of Dictionary.com. Lots of colors and text styling in the definitions which may or may not be helping me out.

Mobile Blogspots

Now that Blogspot blogs are going to be dynamically served up Google should make it so that every blogspot blog automatically has a mobile friendly version at m.whater.blogspot.com. That would be cool.

Acoustic Outkast

Check out this awesome cover of Outkast's "Hey Ya" - it's good stuff. Star it at Odeo cause it's mad good chiefs.

Blogger Product Manager No More

Goldtoe Lemon.Nut: "This release of Blogger will also be the last I work on as I am leaving Google at the end of next week. I'd been planning on leaving for a while but really wanted to see this version in the wild before I went."

Congratulations to Jason Goldman joining us on the outside.

At A Dodgers Game in LA

I went to a Dodgers game last night with Paul, Vinny, and Greg. Paul and Vinny used to be in the SciFi channel's The Invisible Man--loved that show! Paul has more recently been in Entourage which is also a favorite at Genius Labs. Greg hooked it all up even though he's crazy busy. Thanks Greg! Also, I gotta do yoga because Vinny does and he's mad in shape.

DIY XBOX

Macworld: News: Microsoft allows anyone to create XBox games: "A new game development platform from Microsoft allows anyone to create games for its Xbox 360 console, the company said on Monday."

Blogger Now Has Categories, Protected Posting, and More

There's some nifty new features at Blogger today including a tagging system for categorzing your posts called Labels, a protected posting feature that lets you choose who can view your blog, and a really fancy drag-and-drop wysiwyg template editor for changing the look and the colors and making widgets for your sidebar from any feed. Here is a tour of the new features. Also, sign in with your Google account. Try it out at beta.blogger.com.

In honor of the recent Blogger developments I give you the Sprites singing "I Started A Blog Nobody Read." Don't let the song discourage you from starting a blog, rather be inspired that there is a song about starting a blog!

Middle East Animals Need Rescuing

ABC News: Person of the Week: Linda Nealon If you are feeling helpish the folks at BETA who are trying to save the animals of Beirut could use your help.

Sketches

I found a box with some little paintings I did a few years ago. Each one is pretty simple and plain but maybe if I cut them all up and arrange them in a big square that would look good on the dining room wall.

Microsoft Word for Blogging

Blogger: Download Blogger for Word

Under the Covers

I know studios remake old movies but it would be neat if directors and actors covered films like singers cover songs. In other words, maybe next week I go and see John Woo's cover of Die Hard and a few weeks later I could catch Rob Riener's cover of the same film. Totally different takes. That would be fun for me but maybe I'm the only one.

Xanga Video

Xanga just launched a video uploading feature.

Don't Let The Bedbugs Bite!

Bedbug infestations on rise across U.S. - Yahoo! News: "Absent from the U.S. for so long that some thought they were a myth, bedbugs are back. Entomologists and pest control professionals are reporting a dramatic increase in infestations throughout the country, and no one knows exactly why."

Will The Real 4417749 Please Stand Up

A Face Is Exposed for AOL Searcher No. 4417749 - New York Times: "Buried in a list of 20 million Web search queries collected by AOL and recently released on the Internet is user No. 4417749. The number was assigned by the company to protect the searcher’s anonymity, but it was not much of a shield."

Google To MySpace:

"You keep doing what you're doing and we'll give you a billion dollars. Mmmkay?" That sounds like a pretty good deal.

Team Up with Other Bloggers And Sell Ads on Your Mini Network

The FeedBurner Ad Network (aka FAN): "As the leading provider of feed management services, FeedBurner offers an unprecedented caliber of content aggregated from the world’s leading media companies, A-list bloggers and blog networks and individual publishers."

Lisa Lutz is Back and Better Than Ever

Lisa Lutz, author The Spellman Files has her very own fancy web site now that she sold her novel to Simon & Schuster and the film rights to Paramount. She even promises to bring back Ask Lutz, the column of unprofessional advice that used to be hosted right here at Genius Labs (bizstone.com). The Lutz rocks Natick.

My name is RX

Picture Me This

Sony Ericsson - Picture blogging. Check out this flash demo of the swanky new Blogger and Sony Ericsson phone dealy.

Metroid A Cappella

Check out this a cappella version of Metroid.

Small Was the New Big

I wrote an essay for United Business Media in 2002 called Small Is the New Big. It was true then and it may even still be true.

An Important Question

What Kind of Genius Are You?: "After a decade of number crunching, Galenson, at the not-so-tender age of 55, has fashioned something audacious and controversial: a unified field theory of creativity."