Jots

Interesting things I've found while browsing the net.

Thursday, July 18, 2002

Photo Safari
A friend of mine introduced me to this... digital cameras save photos using a pre-defined naming convention, such as a letter followed by a series of numbers. When you upload your photos to the Web, you can change the names of these files, or keep them as the default. If the numbers are not changed, you can go on a photo safari, using Google to search through Web sites of people who share the same digital camera and naming convention. For example, this search of P5040003 brings up a list of photos using that number on Web sites. Let me know if you find any other numbers!

posted on Summer eyes 8:30am Jul 18 2002

Sunday, April 28, 2002

we are going to be deeper in the shit than we realise. bush is going to lead us into war next year and the timing won't be right.here is the proof.

Tuesday, April 02, 2002

Make Google money! Do a search for something on Google, Microsoft, say. Then click one of the sponsored links, in this case, Verisign's, to charge them for using Google's adwords. Do this ten times a day and have fun manipulating the economy of the Internet!

Thursday, January 24, 2002

Wednesday, August 08, 2001

Thursday, August 02, 2001

Don't you think Quentin Tarantino could play Mike Barnicle? Quentin Tarantino in the Mike Barnicle Story, detailing his rise and fall as a Boston Globe columnist, his television gigs, and the thing that hasn't happened yet that will propell him into superstardom/history.
Adding to below... why not draft a movie using a ton of underrated actors: Steve Buscemi, Parker Posey, Rob Schneider, and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Don't know what it would be about, but it would be funny!
Write a movie starring Charles Martin Smith, Wallace Shawn, and Paul Giamatti, as brothers.

Inspired by article in the NY Times about Paul Giamatti.

Friday, July 20, 2001

Thin Is In For Itsy-Bitsy Wires
Scientists coat organic material, some 2000 times smaller than the human hair, with silicon atoms to act as a super-conducting "nanowire," used for electronics. Experiments are being conducted with Black Widow spiderwebs, cutting them down to 5% of their normal size.