Big Mess of Wires

May 29, 2009

I’ll be taking my son to the Maker Faire for the third year in a row this weekend. It’s a great Father & Son festival where you see what happens when you throw together technology, imagination, dedication, and passion into a big pot and mix it up together.
On display will be Steve Chamberlin’s hand-built CPU [...]

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Delivr your links to the mobile web in style

May 4, 2009

A common problem with the mobile web is that pages are not optimized for the mobile browser. Browsers are getting better but sidebar widgets and other social networking cruft often get in the way of viewing sites efficiently on a small screen over a wireless connection.
Enter Delivr.
Combining both a URL shortening service and a service [...]

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Yes, but can your phone do this?

May 1, 2009

Promoting new features of the Nokia E71 with Taiwanese magician Liu Qian performing a little street art. I can’t wait for the SMS-a-pigeon feature when it comes out.

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Barack Obama’s Facebook Page

April 30, 2009

This is really well done. In honor of Barack Obama’s first 100 days in office, Slate has mocked up a parody of his Facebook page.
Remember, What will Facebook look like in 40 years?
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Profile Photo Snark

April 29, 2009

We can be so cruel sometimes but that doesn’t make this any less funny. Reflections of Reflections is a series of critiques of MySpace/Facebook profile pictures. More in this genre in 20 Male Poses of Facebook.
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Best Code Comment Ever

April 28, 2009

Comments left by developers in the dead of the night are inside jokes left for others. Little winks of comic relief left for others that will be parsing through the sub-routines trying to wrangle software to get things working. Usually code comments are short but this one left by a frustrated programmer of a Photoshop [...]

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Stanley Cup’s Colorful History

April 27, 2009

After last night’s loss to Anaheim, the San Jose Sharks are out of the running.  Might as well post some highlights from the checkered past of the world’s most famous trophy.

In 1905, the Ottawa Silver Seven tried to drop-kick it over the Rideau Canal on the Ottawa River. (They failed.)
In 1906, it went missing after [...]

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Mobile Social Networking “up for grabs” in the United States

April 22, 2009

Jason Calcanis has a great post on 10 things the new MySpace CEO should do. All of them are good (buy a search engine, add casual games, virtual currency) but I particularly liked his comment about the wide open space for a successful mobile social network here in the US. Japan is leading the way, [...]

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Traffic Sources and Attention

April 21, 2009

There’s been good debate around how the source of traffic to sites is changing, shifting from the search engines to social sites such as Facebook and Twitter. I confirmed that I too am seeing a greater percentage of traffic come in via links shared on social sites and shared a colleague’s theory about what this [...]

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No Smiling!

April 15, 2009

The Finnish Immigration pages has a series of guidelines for their passport and visa photos. I found this one regarding Expressions amusing.
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