Mind Mash

Question: why are email, facebook, Twitter, chat, RSS, newspapers all separated?

I want to be able to do the same thing for all of them – which was more or less nailed by email a decade ago:

real-time update (push)
mark as read
thread
filter
spam detection
contact management
search

So why not pull all of these into an email client?

I was thinking about this this afternoon, and when I saw a Techcrunch article about Xonbi Facebook integration I had to blog.

I am sad that JG Ballard died today. I have been very influenced by his writing, and particularly loved Vermilion Sands. I was so enchanted by the book that, when I found that it was out of print, I ordered 5 copies from Amazon. 2 years later, the book was in print again and my copies arrived. Every now and again I would give a copy to a friend. Now I am back down to one copy.

Farewell, JG Ballard, you will be missed by many.

I just watched the first half of the last BSG episode, and I was disappointed.

This is a pretty weak episode, oversentimental and lacking drive.

The fact that the writers had to invent a new plot element a couple of episodes ago (The Colony) symptomizes their inability to provide interesting solutions to the many riddles we have seen in our brilliant Battlestar Galactica journey.

And so we find ourselves standing at the gateway to the end of last season with too many puzzles to solve and a number of interesting characters missing.

Interactive LISP art:

Day of the Triffords from Andrew Sorensen on Vimeo.

Thanks, Dave!