Sunday, October 2, 2005

Daily Eats NY Daily Eats NY: Financier where only New Yorkers Go. I met Quentin English, of Quentin's Friends fame, at Financier for afternoon tea. It was a delightful afternoon spent talking about blogging, babies, and beautiful things. Financier is a place known by true New Yorkers as that wonderful out of the way place way downtown on a cobble street of Stone Street for a taste of Paris and lovely French pastries. I had the Chocolate Caramel Dome filled with By (Tery Spataro). [Daily Eats - Food Lovers Unite!] 10:21:33 PM

Formation of the Open Content Alliance (OCA) IA, Yahoo, HP, UC, OR launch Open Content Alliance. More freely available content can only be a good thing. From the release: The Internet Archive, Yahoo! Inc., Adobe Systems Inc., the European Archive, HP Labs, the National Archives (UK), O’Reilly Media Inc., Prelinger Archives, the University of California, and the University of Toronto, today announced the formation of the Open Content Alliance (OCA) http://opencontentalliance.org, a global consortium focused on providing open access to content while respecting the rights of copyright holders. The OCA will provide a wide range of material including cultural, historical and technological digitized print and multimedia content from libraries, archives and publishers. Content will be hosted in a single, permanent repository and complete works will be searchable and downloadable for free by anyone. ....Yahoo! will power the search engine on the OCA website and all OCA content will be made available through Yahoo! Search, further bolstering the comprehensiveness of its index. Once content is available through the OCA, any search engine will be able to index it. This takes a significant step in expanding the deep web, the millions of Web sites containing content that search engines typically cannot access, as well as advances the global sharing of knowledge. [John Battelle's Searchblog] 10:14:32 PM

Surfing Culture Spreads in Alaska FROM JACKSON HOLE STAR TRIBUNE: Surfing culture spreads in Alaska By JEANNETTE J. LEE Associated Press Writer YAKUTAT, Alaska (AP) -- The chill of seawater mixed with glacial melt doesn't faze pro surfer Josh Mulcoy as he launches his board off a beach piled high with whole spruce logs and multihued rocks smoothed by the grinding of ice. "Right now it's not that bad," said Mulcoy, of Santa Cruz, Calif. "It probably gets worse in the winter." Mulcoy in 1992 was one of the first people to surf Alaska waves. His appearance on a cover of Surfer Magazine the following year helped establish Yakutat as the state's main surf stop... 7:24:22 PM

Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco Web 2.0 Conference week starts tomorrow. Because Web 2.0 is the meme of the moment, even amongst those who are cynical of the term, next week is shaping up to be a very exciting one. The 2nd annual Web 2.0 Conference is being held in San Francisco from Wednesday to Friday and I've made a special trip over from New Zealand [...] [Web 2.0 Explorer] 5:52:48 PM

Sound of the Day 10-2 #3086: Sound of the Day - October 2 2005. Sound of the Day - October 2 2005 URL - http://soundoftheday.org/ RSS Feed - http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundoftheday Have a sound, suggestion or feedback for Sound of the Day? Drop us a line at soundoftheday(at)gmail.com and let us know! Torque Junkies (Sound of the Day) 2005 Length: 01:10 Podcasts [OpenPodcast.org] 5:21:12 PM

s p a r t h : c o n s t r u c t Illustration. Sparth. Pure ingenious madness. Fab. [The Cartoonist] 9:36:11 AM

(1956) Katherine Dunham - The Singing Gods. "Your in for a real treat with this record. Considered to be one of the Holy Grail's of Exotica music. Recorded in 1956 " Katherine Dunham - The Singing Gods " on Audio-Fidelity Records, is a superb percussion album. This one is very rare so grab it while you can. ...", says Tiki-Tim . Nice one!! By (mrdantefontana). [PCL LinkDump] 8:06:45 AM