What's that on your OLPC XO?

We had a second OLPC XO come visit us over the long weekend:



more / bigger photos -- On Flickr

Friendfeed brings it all together...

Friendfeed is a service that brings all of your various webfeeds together in one place. You can have your Twitter, YouTube, Blog feeds, Flickr, and bookmarking sites all feed into one Friendfeed, which really does then present something of an overall picture of your online life.



qv: Phil Yanov's FriendFeed

Uniqlock, a very cool clock

I discovered this way cool Flash clock while exploring Mento:



I am evaluating Mento.

Brangelina, Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged & Twitter?

I Twittered this earlier and it seemed people were both interested and previously unaware of this podcast from On The Media.

Beginning with the rumor of the upcoming Brangelina movie of Atlas Shrugged, Brooke Gladstone explores the effect of Ayn Rand's objectivism in modern society and discusses some of Rand's personal struggles. Rand's failures in personal relationships remind us that the issues she wrote about and the philosophy she developed were the logical outcomes of her own internal conflicts.





qv: On The Media: Object Lesson

Photo: Macaw at Greer Family Fest

I think this is a Blue and Gold Macaw. I saw it perched on a freckled girl's shoulder at the Greer Family Fest. The bird's owner said that she (the bird) was seven years old. I thought it made for a nice shot so I squeezed off a few frames.

More photos of the Macaw and the girl at Flickr.