Archive for June, 2008
Monday, June 30th, 2008
I recently returned from Wizard World in Chicago. If I had to offer a watered down description of Wizard World to the uninformed, which I will now do and most likely fail horribly at, I would say it's a "comic book" related event. There are isle after isle of people, ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
The Sound of Young America, a show that bills itself as "A Public Radio Show About Things That Are Awesome," has an interview with Benjamin Nugent author of American Nerd: The Story of My People.
I just listened to the interview (streamable below). The book covers Nerds from many angles including ...
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
Interior of The Washington Court Hotel in D.C.
Snowmass Village, CO
Check out EveryScape.com if you haven't already. It's kind of like Google street view -- serving up seemless panoramas of select slices of the world -- only with EveryScape, you can also go inside (certain) buildings and look around. There's a ...
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
I recently switched IM software from Trillian to Pidgin because of a strange issue. Trillian is a great product but for some reason, if you didn't happen to be on my AIM buddy list and tried to IM me, all I got was a beep, but no message. After I ...
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
This error is courtesy of the Mozilla Firefox automatic update feature. I believe it was encountered during last Tuesday's world record attempt of most downloads ever in a 24 hour period. Firefox 3 was downloaded over 8 million times in a day. Guinness is currently reviewing the attempt. And yes, ...
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Wowio.com offers up free Ebooks in the PDF form. I heard about this site from the I Read Comics podcast. And rightly so because Wowio serves a good number of comics and graphic novels from scores of publishers. The absence of DC and Marvel proves not much of a surprise. ...
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
Here is a completely random error I received one day while probably running Songbird?
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
Pictured above: a horrid screengrab from the gadgets section of Alltop.com on April 4, 2008.
Alltop.com aggregates all the top sites on the web. Its main page lists 10 main categories:
Work
Living
Culture
Interests
Geekery
People
Good
News
Geos
Sports
Choose a subcatagory, let's say gadgets (like the screenshot) under Geekery, and Alltop spits out headlines from related sites and blogs ...
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
Kind of old, but still cool. From the Wikipedia description:
Created by Jason Hise with Maya and Macromedia Fireworks. A 3D projection of an 8-cell performing a simple rotation about a plane which bisects the figure from front-left to back-right and top to bottom.
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
Yes. I have an iPhone. People give me shit because of it sometimes. Who cares. I love it. But there are a few downloads and features I better have available to me when the apps store launches in (hopefully) July.
Ability to download files. Pie ...
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