Archive for July, 2009
Monday, July 13th, 2009
Kickstarter is a fairly new way to fund various ideas and undertakings. People who wish to fund a project -- say a musician, a filmmaker, an artist, etc. -- sign up on Kickstarter and anyone who wishes to pledge toward it can do so and may receive "rewards" (such as ...
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Friday, July 10th, 2009
This is the Soul Power trailer. The film documents the 1974 concert in Zaire surrounding the Ali vs. Forman match and includes complete performances from B.B. King, Bill Withers, Miriam Makeba, and James Brown. (via Flavorwire's Daily Dose)
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Thursday, July 9th, 2009
So Google finally decides to do something with their blogging service Blogger and I first learn of it by logging into Blogger itself and not the tech media. I'm surprised. Looks like it may change for the worse. A screen shot and some commentary after the jump:
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Thursday, July 9th, 2009
Click to view and/or download: nighttrain
Warning: Apologies if these auto-play; that option didn't want to turn off.
This is a poor example of what video looks like from the iPhone 3GS. It is shot at night where the camera usually does not do well; could possible have the wrong dimensions; ...
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Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
Notice any difference between the two images above? That's right. Google Apps, at long last, is out of beta. This includes Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Talk.
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Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
I recently gave tweet to an ongoing documentary called Give a Damn? about "an idealist activist who convinces his friend who doesn't give a damn about the poor to go to Africa and try and live on $1 a day".
So short of donating or buying merch, the only way I ...
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Monday, July 6th, 2009
David Lynch makes a good point here, but I still can't help wanting to stream movies from Netflix on the iPhone. And Hulu? Where you at?
While I'm at it, why won't Apple, at the very least, allow apps to run in the background when the phone is plugged in and ...
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Monday, July 6th, 2009
I recently stumbled upon a somewhat novel Guerrilla marketing effort for a audio novella prequel that involves a broadsword giveaway stamped with a unique and exclusive flash fiction story that will be signed in blood by the author.
The sword is the object/subject of J.C. Hutchens's free prequel novella podcast Personal ...
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