A year ago today I was stunned by what I heard on my way into work. I remember sitting in my car not wanting to turn the radio off before heading up to my office. I’m making my best effort to avoid turning on the TV today, because for me something just doesn’t feel right about watching it.

On the other hand, land night I heard some of The Sonic Memorial Project on NPR. I found it very powerful to listen to while I was on my way to meet Emily for dinner. Here’s the article on their site about it.

via [JCD]

Yet another reason Radio is cool:

From the Radio Userland license: “The Software is not fault-tolerant and is not designed, manufactured or intended for use or resale as on-line control equipment in hazardous environments requiring fail-safe performance, such as in the operation of nuclear facilities, aircraft navigation or communication systems, air traffic control, direct life support machines, or weapons systems, in which the failure of the Software could lead directly to death, personal injury, or severe physical or environmental damage (“High Risk Activities”). UserLand and its suppliers specifically disclaim any express or implied warranty of fitness for High Risk Activities.” [From the Desktop of Dane Carlson]

Some Apple-related posts from yesterday.

• 0xDECAFBAD talks about going mac and loving it.
• Apple released iCal their calendaring software. Though they haven’t yet released iSync yet.
• Antipixel gives a mini-review of iCal. I have to say I wasn’t sure what to think about iCal at first, but as I’ve used it more and more it has grown on me. I’ve done a couple of small calendars, like one that will tell me when they are doing street cleaning so I can move my car. And one for Changmian’s club night (and maybe Boston club nights) that I published.

The Boston Globe had a great story on WiFi HotSpots in Boston. This still gives me hope that there will be a free hotspot in my area. I think there’s definitely a market for both pay and free service though. If you are someone who is travelling a lot, the pay service would be most useful. Because you could more easily find a hotspot. I’ve found that finding free hotspots is a little bit more difficult because they aren’t as heavily promoted.

One of my favorite hobbys:

Welcome to Adobe GoLive: “80,500 websites didn’t bother to change the default title on the page they made with Adobe’s Go Live software. [From the Desktop of Dane Carlson]

I’m always looking to see what the page titles are for pages. It’s one of the most overlooked things when people are designing their sites. I’ve seen all kinds of really strange titles that let you see what they based their site design on.

Thanks to Zannah, I started thinking about the what to have done with my remains when I die thing again. I was thinking maybe I’ll have myself made into a set of trading cards. And everyone who comes to the funeral gets a pack. And, in the theme of that blank card game I was also thinking maybe I’d make it into a CCG also.

Adam posted about this morning about something that I found a little disturbing

Senator Hillary Clinton was booed when she walked on stage last October at a rock concert in Madison Square Garden to benefit 9/11 victims. It was shown live by VH1 but, when the Viacom-owned cable channel replayed it sound technicians replaced the booing with cheering and applause. And that version is the permanent record VH1 put onto its DVD of the event. [via InstaPundit] [Adam Curry: Adam Curry’s Weblog]

Is it me or does this sound like something out of some science fiction movie. Reality is being changed after it happens, hopefully people will keep documenting what really happened.

Lots of Apple stuff today thanks to Apple Expo – Paris going on. One of the first things is iCal being released. I think this is their move to give users a fairly complete set of basic tools with their Macs. I’ll be playing around with it a bunch to see how well it works. The big downside to this announcement is that iSync wasn’t released yet. Supposedly there will be a beta out by the end of the month. This was quite disappointing. I was really hoping that I could completely switch over to Apple based apps for this, but until I can sync my calendar and address book with my Palm and phone it isn’t as useful as it could be.

On other friends Apple announced that more vendors will be supporting Rendezvous. For instance:

“Apple and Philips share a vision for the future,”� said Gerard Kleisterlee, CEO of Royal Philips Electronics. “We both believe that consumers want devices throughout the home to talk to each other, so that, for example, the music stored in iTunes on your Mac can play through the Philips stereo system in your living room, or the photos stored in iPhoto can be displayed as a stunning slideshow on your Philips Flat TV. Rendezvous helps realize this dream. Philips is particularly pleased that Apple has adopted an open standard and architecture for Rendezvous, and we will support Rendezvous in future Philips products.”

Pretty keen IMHO. There weren’t any big hardware announcements, but I actually wasn’t expecting any.

Forget having sex with buildings. The latest sex craze: sex with traffic cones. What’s next? Vending machines? Via [davezilla.com]