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Dipity Lifestream Visualization

April 22, 2008 Cool Links

Just re-discovered Dipity which was a cool tool for creating timelines. They now have jumped onto the lifestreaming bandwagon and provide a way to publish and share a portion of your lifestream in a visual way.

var dipity_options = {
width:”525″,
height:”320″,
zoom:”1mon”,
};

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Warner Brothers gives us a peek at upcoming Speed Racer movie

December 6, 2007 Cool Links

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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Chart your course with runningmap.com

August 12, 2007 Cool Links

Just to see if I could do it, I went way beyond my normal running course and took the long way home. When I got home I used runningmap.com to measure the distance. Very cool tool.

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Found with Davy Rothbart

June 8, 2006 Cool Links

While my normal commute hour is filled with podcasts from the usual tech talk shows and NPR highlights, every now and then I dip into the vast archive of talks over on itconversations.com and pick a few interesting lectures.
Today I found a gem! Davy Rothbart runs Found magazine and speaks at Pop Tech about the [...]

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Surfing One Huge Wave

September 20, 2004 Cool Links

The site that hosts this video tries to pawn this off as a shot of someone surfing Hurricane Ivan but the comments seem to agree that this 70 foot plus monster was off the coast of Hawaii at a place called Jaws and that the guy did make it after all. Still, the video has [...]

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Wonderful Web World

July 24, 2004 Cool Links

As I look for the cross-section of schools and interesting-but-reasonably-priced places to exist (does such a thing exist in the Bay Area?) I found myself wanting for a school district map overlayed on top of a map showing available placed to live. I’ve found pieces of the puzzle:
SF School District Map
greatschools.net
SF Zip Code Map
If only [...]

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ugoff.com

June 24, 2004 Advertising

Boing Boing points to another mini-site put up by the Miami-based ad agency behind Subservient Chicken. These guys are re-writing the rules of Western advertising with their deconstructionalist, tongue-in-cheek dig at stereotypes and creative use of new and old media to position their clients’ products. I’ve been the bemused recipient of some of their other [...]

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Friendster Andy

June 17, 2004 Cool Links

A friend of mine sent me a link to a freaky picture of a sad man’s face photoshopped onto a sad looking dog which gives new meaning to the phrase “puppy dog eyes.” This profile was posted on Friendster so I logged in and clicked on another profile of a guy named “Andy” and was [...]

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Picture Thread

June 17, 2004 Cool Links

I have no idea who this poor fellow is but this hilarous running commentary on one of the subjects in a photo taken at a party is a gem of collective image discourse!
via Joi Ito

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ebay wedding dress

April 28, 2004 Cool Links

Just when I thought I was going to close out my posts for the day, a colleague sent me a link to an eBay auction for his ex-wife’s wedding dress. “One Slightly Used Size 12 Wedding Gown. Only worn twice: Once at the wedding and once for these pictures.” is closing it’s bid in 3 [...]

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