Author: Ian Kennedy
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DEA agent shoots himself in the foot
While giving a demonstration on weapons safety to a group of Florida schoolchildren, a DEA agent shoots himself in the foot with a pistol. The shocked class shouts “Put it down!” when he limps over to continue the demonstration with a semi-automatic rifle. Footnote: the man’s career is ruined as he becomes the nation’s laughing…
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Julia’s Special Day
Today was Julia’s “special day” at her pre-school. I spent the morning with her and met her classmates (there are 15) and put faces to the names she sprinkles in her conversations. There was some singing and we identified the weather for the day. After 11 straight days of rain, Julia optimistically said it…
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Micropayments
I attended the HBSTech event on the Evolution and Future of Micropayments last evening in Mountain View. Presenting were: Preston Roper, VP of Marketing, BitPass James Hall, co-founder of FTVentures, a fund with deep experience in micropayments Peter Ashley, Director of Merchant Services, PayPal KC George, Manager of Product Innovation & Coordination, Visa USA The…
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Create your first head with GenHead
Check out this tutorial on how to create a 3D head from two 2D photos. I never knew playing God was so easy. The company, Genemation, is also working on a new version of their GenCrowd software to generate, “thousands of synthetic copyright free photo-realistic heads by age, gender and ethnicity.” Something to do on…
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We want Spring
With all the rain we’ve been getting, our thoughts really pine for a good Hanami. That’s not me above but it’s exactly how I feel. More on getting prepared for Hanami over at PingMag, a great new site covering the art scene in Tokyo that Mark Dytham mentioned to me when he was recently visiting.
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The King Sleeps
Izumi popped in to check on Tyler before going to bed and saw this. He didn’t have any head gear on when we tucked him in. When we asked him about it the next morning, Tyler said that he put it on after we left him because it was flattened out and he wanted to…
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Using Sprint’s Power Vision Network
A couple of months ago, Sprint graciously given me a Power Vision-enabled phone to use gratis as part of their Ambassador Program. I’ve been generally pleased with the service and showing streaming video on your cell phone makes for a neat demo when the conversation in the room turns to the mobile internet. A few…
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Google Analytics has overlays
I was playing around with Google Analytics today and noticed that they slipped in a new feature which is pretty cool. Each link on your page has an overlay on it which, with a little relative progress bar, shows the frequency of clicks. Nice way to visualize how effective your links are if URLs don’t…
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Homemade Hardware – Laptop
Homemade Hardware – Laptop, originally uploaded by inky. Tyler made a laptop with an innovative fliptop keyboard that reveals a couple of new buttons not normally found on any QWERTY keyboard – one for "Rock Music" and another for "Soft Music." Notice on the screen he has drawn in the all the icons for a…