Monkinetic Weblog

Dustin asked for my lifestream code (a mangled version of Jeremy's), so I sent it to him and now you can find him around the web.

With Microsoft's release of the Zune, the Mac internet is going nuts explaining why the Zune is a broken, inferior product to Apple's iPod. And at first glance I have to agree with them. But my cynicism is tingling, and I don't think that Microsoft intended the Zune to start out as a viable iPod competitor. Instead, the Zune is part of a strategic triumvirate intended to make the iPod irrelevant on Windows. This strategy is composed of Windows, the XBox, the Zune, and, playing the part of the One Ring: XBox Live Marketplace.

My work on documenting kuler's REST API is coming along nicely. Here are the methods I've written up so far:

As described in my last post, I've been working on documenting the kuler REST API. Last night I whipped up an RSS feed for any user's themes. You'll have to visit the page and login to get the link, but after that the feed will work even without logging in.

Geekery ahead.

Adelina and I went to see Happy Feet last weekend... the movie was really good (if a bit preachy towards the end), but I wish that Adelina had been able to see the real penguins in March of the Penguins first. Luckily, it came on TV this weekend and we were able to TiVo it, so she got to see it while the other was still fresh in her mind. We all enjoyed the movie, though we decided that emperor penguins, while being cute and fuzzy as chicks and fun and funny as adults, lead a life that we're glad we don't.

Massive, giant, enormous, huge, terrifying, flesh-eating centipede.

In response to Ethan:

A while back, I registered deliciouslymeta.com and setup a simple Wordpress linklog. I posted to it for a while, but it fell out of use.

Chuckle. Merlin Mann on today's MacBreak Weekly:

Chatting with Dad about buying a new Macbook pro...

1. World Leader Pretend
2. Finest Worksong (Mutual Drum Horn Mix)
3. Country Feedback (6 minute Green tour version - from L.A. I think)
4. Turn You Inside-Out
5. Begin The Begin

1. Document (3) - Finest Worksong, It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine), The One I Love
2. Green (3) - World Leader Pretend, Orange Crush, Turn You Inside-Out
3. Out Of Time (2) - Belong, Country Feedback
4. Automatic For The People (1) - Man On The Moon
5. Eponymous (1) - Finest Worksong (Mutual Drum-Horn Mix)

It seems to me that Cory Doctorow is working a little too hard to make Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, his work of science fiction set in a world where the artists and geeks of Disney World have taken over operation of the park in a sort of anarchistic revolution - come true. At least, for some virtual version of "true", as realized in the huge virtual world of Second Life. From Rough Type:

Scott Adams just got over the flu: