December 2007

Coyle & Sharpe – the original San Francisco Pranksters

December 28, 2007

San Francisco has a long tradition of pranksters. Back in the early Sixties, two guys in suits working for the local KGO station interviewed people on tape for their radio show. The archives are available on CD and they also have been releasing selected episodes via podcast. The pieces capture a time when America was [...]

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Inspiration

December 28, 2007

We don’t need more heat. We need more light. – from Barack Obama’s closing remarks before the Iowa caucus.

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Dedicated to all the Vacation Travellers

December 27, 2007

Cool montage of planes taking off from unknown airport. Found on ffffound!

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next.yahoo.net

December 22, 2007

There’s some cool blogging going on over at next.yahoo.net, a relaunched corporate blog that highlights the hacker culture at Yahoo. Sure, they just posted a short video of sound bites spliced together from interviews (Ricky Montalvo is a master) I did at a recent all-night hackathon. But there’s also other great posts including Havi’s summary [...]

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Flickr Stats Under Construction Animation

December 13, 2007

Flickr released it’s stats feature for Pro members today and while your stats are being crunched, they show the classic “under construction” animated .gifs. What people may not know is that there are three versions that you get in somewhat random order. Which one do you like better? Not quite right – there’s more where [...]

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A picture is worth a thousand words – Yahoo! Shortcuts for WordPress

December 13, 2007

When I write a blog post I make heavy use of the tabs in my browser so that I can switch back and forth between the blog compose screen and other screens where I do my research. I usually have my trusty image editor running as well so I can crop an edit any images [...]

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End of an Era

December 10, 2007

Back in February Western Union announced that it would no longer be sending telegrams ending a 150 year tradition of the hushed interruption by the butler of urgent news from lands far, far away. Thus it is only fitting that today we hear that the New York Times has shut down its fabled Recording Room [...]

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Lowest Common Denominator President

December 9, 2007

Our country is sharply divided over a war that is being waged in a distant land. My views on this war are clear: it is happening, it is happening in Iraq, and it will continue to happen until it stops. Some people believe we should withdraw all the troops now. Some people believe we should [...]

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Failed Robot Humor

December 8, 2007

My name is RT-8500 and I will be here all millennium. Not that you will live that long. Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. I am just kidding—although the facts I state are empirically true. – from A Robot Performs Standup Comedy to a Lackluster Response

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Warner Brothers gives us a peek at upcoming Speed Racer movie

December 6, 2007

Larry and Andy Wachowski made their name with The Matrix trilogy of movies. In their first release since that series of movies, Speed Racer (due out in May 2008) is an on screen adoption of the popular Japanese cartoon from the Sixties. Today Warner Brothers released a few stills from the movie and it’s looking [...]

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