July 2008
22 posts
Goodbye Tumblr - New Linkblog Location
Message from Jason:
I don’t know how long Tumblr’s been truncating imported feeds, but I don’t appreciate it. When I share an item, I want the entire item availible in my linkblog’s feed or on my linkblog’s web page. So I’m not going to be using Tumblr any more.
You can continue to see all my shared items at my new (or “old” if you’ve been...
Are Mercury's Days as a Planet Numbered? [Mad... →
Ever since the International Astronomical Union demoted Pluto to a dwarf planet (does it even deserve a capital “P”???) in 2006, astronomers around the world have been at odds to describe…
Improv Everywhere: mass twins on subway →
The wonderful Improv Everywhere’s latest prank involved a bunch of identical twins riding the same subway in New York City. Human Mirror (Laughing Squid), Human Mirror project page
Cabel Sasser's fireworks packaging explosion!... →
Cabel Sasser’s gallery of fireworks packaging is not to be missed, especially if you love viewing our society through the eyes of a Photoshop-equipped Chinese factory designer. Yay!…
Cabel Sasser's fireworks packaging explosion!... →
Cabel Sasser’s gallery of fireworks packaging is not to be missed, especially if you love viewing our society through the eyes of a Photoshop-equipped Chinese factory designer. Yay!…
Cedar Rapids library won't reopen for at least a... →
PVP - 4 July 2008 →
Shepard Fairey's Orwell covers -- books now on... →
Back in April, I told you about the new Shepard Fairey cover designs for Penguin’s reissue of Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm. They’ve just gone on sale! Link to Nineteen…
Phone booth with faux saloon doors →
I really like this fun street art spotted by Torontoist. Phone booth with saloon doors (via Wooster Collective)
Shepard Fairey's Orwell covers -- books now on... →
Back in April, I told you about the new Shepard Fairey cover designs for Penguin’s reissue of Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm. They’ve just gone on sale! Link to Nineteen…
Wall-E is a copyright criminal →
Jesse Willis went to see the new Disney/Pixar movie Wall-E and discovered that the lovable little robot is actually a dire criminal — because he undertakes a variety of copying activities (bypassing…
Cowboy Cookies Recipe →
Echos of a Dream shares a recipe for Cowboy Cookies — a mixture of oats, coconut and chocolate chips. A batch can make about 36 cookies.
[Read this article] [Comment on this…
Memeo makes it easy to send photos to grandma →
Filed under: Internet, Photo, Productivity, Social Software
Memeo’s new Share application is designed to make the process of sending high-resolution photos a little easier,…
Noise of the white variety, right on the webernets →
Filed under: Productivity, Web services, web 2.0
Have you ever been working somewhere and needed to focus on what you were doing, writing, saying, but there was too much ambient…
Windows SteadyState Creates a Wreck-Proof Space... →
Windows XP/Vista only: SteadyState, a free Windows utility offered by Microsoft, is a handy tool to have if you’ve got kids, friends, or just a program or two that could possibly wreak havoc…
Mozilla Firefox breaks non-existent world record -... →
Filed under: Internet, Mozilla, Browsers
Remember, that whole Firefox download day thing that we got so amped up about? Us too. Remember when their servers screwed the pooch…
Wall-E is a copyright criminal →
Jesse Willis went to see the new Disney/Pixar movie Wall-E and discovered that the lovable little robot is actually a dire criminal — because he undertakes a variety of copying activities (bypassing…
Phone booth with faux saloon doors →
I really like this fun street art spotted by Torontoist. Phone booth with saloon doors (via Wooster Collective)
Make your own Mario masterpiece with Mario Paint... →
Filed under: Fun, Utilities, Windows, Macintosh
Mario Paint Composer lets you do what you know you’ve wanted to do all of your life…compose music in the key of Super Mario….
Before Abrams, The End Of The Star Trek Experience... →
Shared by Jason
This is very sad. I had hoped to go here someday.
If you’re the kind of romantic who’s always dreamt of taking your loved one through a Klingon Encounter or 4-D Borg…
Keeping perspective: phone charger vampire power... →
David MacKay of the University of Cambridge has published a giant report comparing energy use in various scenarios, adding a exhalation-inducing bit of perspective on our daily, personal power use.
Adobe makes Flash searchable, Flash designers... →
Filed under: Developer, Adobe, Google, Yahoo!, Search
Adobe’s Flash technology has long been the bane of efforts to create a Web site or application that can be indexed by…
Cheer Color Guard's Newer Scoop Wastes More... →
Adapting to the threat of informed consumers, the insidious Grocery Shrink Ray has mutated to enlarge select items. The Grocery Shrink Ray is seen here needlessly inflating the size of the scoop…
Just Say 'Yes' To Telemarketers [Pranks] →
Want to drive a telemarketer crazy and amuse yourself at the same time? Here’s an example of how to do it.
The secret, apparently, is to make every third or fourth yes mean something…
June 2008
55 posts
$5,000 raised to help replace dead ducks →
“What a sight — Westdale Mall, a ghost-town shell of what it had been in the...”
– New life comes to Westdale Mall | GazetteOnline.com - Cedar Rapids, Iowa City
Wired on Google Android →
Wired has a fantastic write-up of Google Android’s origins, methodology and ultimate plans for world domination. I think the piece reaches its narrative peak by the second t page,…
Toothpaste for Dinner - 26 June 2008 →
Copyright renewal records for US books online →
I found the following information on BoingBoing today: Quote: A Google engineer has tracked down, munged and XMLified the copyright renewal notices for all the books the US…
.XXX back on the drawing board as ICANN plans big... →
Filed under: Internet
A far reaching transformation of domain names could be in store as Internet guardians, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) meets to…
Nokia buys out Symbian, announces platform to go... →
Filed under: OS Updates, Symbian, Open Source, Mobile Minute
Nokia has announced that it is buying out the 52 percent of Symbian that it didn’t already own and opening up the…
Cherry Pal PC has just enough oomph for web... →
The “Cherry Pal” would once have been called a “thin client,” a computer just powerful enough to connect you to a larger mainframe server on which your real computing work would be done….
Twitter down? Twitabit to the rescue! →
Filed under: Web services, Social Software
It’s no secret that Twitter goes down on occasion. But what are you gonna do if you just neeeeed to tweet?
The great minds at betaworks…
Where Didn’t the Flood Hit? →
On Wednesday I took a break from shooting the devastation and headed over to Guthridge Park in Hiawatha to shoot anything but the flood. Preschoolers were coloring with sidewalk chalk and I…
Can Old-School Jewish Humor Survive in the Future?... →
Get Smart is essentially the comedy equivalent of one of William Gibson’s recent novels. It’s present-day science fiction, filled with superspies and high-tech gadgets that just might exist…
Firefox 3 vulnerability, 8 million people... →
Filed under: Internet, Security, Mozilla, Browsers
If you were one of those 8 million people that downloaded Firefox 3 the other day be aware that Tipping Point DVLabs has…
Find Out What Was Cut from The Incredible Hulk... →
Wondering just what you’re missing in the now-mythical 70 minutes of cut footage from The Incredible Hulk? Turns out that you don’t have to wait for the DVD release to find out, just crack…
Totlol Finds Kid Friendly Online Video [Parent... →
While YouTube may be a great place to answer your toddler’s requests to see video of a baby panda, there is also tons of content more risqué than adorable baby animals. Video site Totlol…
Better ice-cream scoop -- Boing Boing Gadgets →
Over on Boing Boing Gadgets, our John writes about Cuisipro’s improved ice-cream scoop:
Simply plunge the scooper into a bucket of ice cream, twist and lift out a perfectly ovular 3.75 ounce…
Ghost Town →
A Gazette staff photographer Cliff Jette mentioned that now that the flood waters have receded what is left looks very lonely and desolate. Here is my tribute and interpretation of Cliff’s…
War & Sweetpeace: Graco Rocking Robot... →
Thanks to CBS News, we all know there’s a reading crisis in America. An NEA survey shows that barely half of adults read a book in 2004. Reading proficiency is dropping dramatically in every age…
Man Loses 86 lbs Eating 1,200-1,400 Calories Per... →
Chris Coleson, a businessman from Richmond, VA told his wife he could lose weight by eating anywhere — even McDonald’s. “I told her I could lose weight eating anywhere,” he said. “I told her I…
CR Flood, Czech Village →
Since they couldn’t continue in the residential area of Czech Village, the team made their way to the business district of the village. The streets were littered with antiques from the antique…
Toothpaste for Dinner - 18 June 2008 →
Comic for 18 Jun 2008 →
Ind.ecisions: Help for life's important questions →
Filed under: Fun, Internet, Web services
Should we eat that last donut? Are our Scott-e-vest cargo pants as stylish as the site says? Should we give our bank account numbers to a…
Firefox 3 Released! [Firefox 3] →
Firefox 3 is here! Set a Guinness World Record for the most downloads in 24 hours and download Firefox today. Then check out Firefox 3’s top 10 features, and more advanced tricks in…
3-in-1 Ostrich Chair makes dead man's reading... →
One of the best things about the Amazon Kindle is that it gives you more positions in which to read a book. When you don’t worry about having to hold a book open you can sit pretty much…
Time Waster: Drink beer and throw axes LOTR style →
Filed under: Fun, Internet, web 2.0
You’ve seen Lord of the Rings. You’ve drank beer. You’ve thrown axes. Ok, so maybe not the last part. Now do all 3 online for points with the …