Archive for June, 2009

Myrtle’s Melon

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

A truly inspiring act of quality Journalism committed here:

3GS photo and mobile WordPress app test

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

The purpose of this post was to test both the 3GS camera and the mobile WordPress iPhone app.  Natuarally the WP app failed when I set the status to "published" but did OK when set to "drafts", the second time. So instead of typing out this whole post again on my ...

Civilization by Marco Brambilla

Friday, June 19th, 2009

This video, if you can even call it that, is jaw dropping. Maybe it should be called work from a Motionographer or something.   It's by Marco Brambilla, I believe, and at Motionographer.com there's a lager version with more apparent detail and a write up.

Make the best mortgage calculator, win $10,000

Monday, June 15th, 2009

Attention programmers: the folks at Mortgage Loan Place.com are running a contest to see who can build the most "super sexy" mortgage calculator.   By "super sexy" they mean they want the best mortgage calculator ever designed in terms of functionality, design and ease of use.  Ten grand to the winner.  ...

Meet Wordnik, your new meta lexicon

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

Wordnik -- a suped-up and glorified word mecca-nexus -- has a goal: . . . to show you as much information as possible, just as fast as we can find it, for every word in English, and to give you a place where you can make your own opinions about words ...

WWDC 2009 Live Coverage

Sunday, June 7th, 2009

iPhone rumor roundup and the likeliness of each rumor I'll be following -- from my computer -- the Apple keynote address from the Worldwide Developer's Conference, Monday, June 8, at noon CDT where a new iPhone is expected to be announced. Here are a few sources covering the event live and a direct ...

(New) Twitter Technical Fail Page?

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

After accidentally attempting to login to Twitter with an erroneous space after my username, I was taken to twitter.com/sessions where the above image appeared. I've never before witness this clouds/attentive robot/bird/pac-man split, double fused bomb/ -- image.  It reads: Something is technically wrong. Thanks for noticing -- we're going to fix it ...

Meet Jess, the first interview of ‘Interview Project’ at DavidLynch.com

Monday, June 1st, 2009

The first interview is available in the originally titled "Interview Project" hosted at DavidLynch.com. Directed by Austin Lynch and Jason S. the project spans 20,000 American miles over 70 days to interview 121 people.  A new interview is promised every 3 days. The subject of the first interview, now showing at http://interviewproject.davidlynch.com, ...