FOAF browsing site. Check out their links to the FOAF standard.
Web link of note: plink.org- FOAF browser
(At http://beta.plink.org/)
Category: looky
something cool I found on the internets
FOAF: Friend of a Friend
It’s a file standard where you make a public FOAF file (in a XML format) which can then be read and searched, to link you together with all your friends… kind of like Tribes.net, except without a central server.
Here’s a quick post on SixApart’s integration of FOAF.
Web link of note: FOAF: Friend of a Friend
(At http://www.foaf-project.org/)
Clever Catcus
Web link of note: Clever Catcus
(At http://www.clevercactus.com)
Audio Hijack
An application to convert audio from any application into a AIFF file.
Web link of note: Audio Hijack
(At http://www.rogueamoeba.com/audiohijack/)
Paper pinhole camera
It’s a reprint of a feature in a 1979 issue of the Czech magazine
“An ABC of Young Technicians and Natural Scientists”
Web link of note: Paper pinhole camera
(At http://www.pinhole.cz/en/pinholecameras/dirkon_01.html)
Zorb
the giant inflatible ball thing you get into and fall down cliffs with. I didn’t know the name of it, now here it is!
Web link of note: Zorb
(At http://www.zorb.com/)
The Green Fairy and Kenny G
W: It’s good stuff.
W: I have friends who were getting into “Absente” and that’s just wrong
W: I brought up Google and proved how easy it is to get by locating a source and ordering a bottle
W: got to me in 4 days
BRIAN: Absente? nasty alcohol without the wormwood?
BRIAN: What the hell is the point
W: it’s like Kenny G…
W: “jazz” for people who don’t like/are afraid of jazz
BRIAN: on my planet we call those people “losers”
SAM: It’s like O’Douls…
SAM: or maybe worse
SAM: Caffeine-free Diet Mountain Dew.
SAM: It’s about as pointless as a castrated gigolo.
Android World
Nutjob- he’s selling “Valerie” a domestic robot, and trips to Mars.
Some interesting robot links though!Web link of note: Android World
(At http://www.androidworld.com/)
Tofu Records
J-pop store and fansite.
They have a compilation CD called simply “JPop CD!”Web link of note: Tofu Records
(At http://www.tofurecords.com/)
Lords of the Rhymes
A Hobbit cover band?!?
Web link of note: Lords of the Rhymes
(At http://www.lordsoftherhymes.com/)