Keywords

The personal blog of P. Kerim Friedman.

Coral It!

I’ve created a handy bookmarklet you can use to instantly get the Coral version of a link. This should allow even the smallest of web content publishers to post large movies, graphics, etc. and not worry about their webserver going down due to excessive traffic. Drag this link to your bookmark bar and, the next [...]

Indiscriminate Arrests

That’s the number of people they are saying were arrested in New York during the Republican convention. A judge ordered that 500 of them be released immediately: A judge ordered the immediate release of nearly 500 protesters Thursday – just hours before President Bush’s speech at the Republican National Convention – and then fined the [...]

Words v. Facts

For four years George W. Bush has used the power of words to overcome insurmountable facts. A hilarious, must-see video clip from the Daily Show, claiming to be George W. Bush’s reelection spot. (There is also this version of the clip, but it breaks up at the end on my computer.) (via BoingBoing and Elementropy) [...]

Scale

Two excellent graphics I’ve recently come across which link size to frequency of word use (click on images for the original pages). The first is from the innovative online photo service Flickr, which allows users to associate “tags” or keywords with each image (or even with parts of an image). They have links to public [...]