Visualizing the Mariana Trench [To Scale]
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010This visualization at i-am-bored.com puts the Mariana Trench into (some) perspective:
Archive for February, 2010
This visualization at i-am-bored.com puts the Mariana Trench into (some) perspective:
$1,000 edition of ‘On the Road’?
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010In my youth I idolized Jack Kerouac. Ran across this upcoming edition of his "On the Road" on Amazon. It lists for $1,000. I'm sure it is extremely limited with many great unreleased photos but still. I'm almost curious to learn more. I won't ignore more details about it if ...
860-589-0220
Monday, February 22nd, 2010I missed a call from 860-589-0220. Fourteen minutes later, I called it back only to get this recording: According to http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-860-589-0220 it seems many different people have many different experiences calling to, and receiving calls from 860-589-0220.
What Dipps™ spewed on Twitter this past week — 2010-02-22
Monday, February 22nd, 2010Found out Key West, FL is slap central. Don't ask. # @jwmb6c Nicely, nicely. Waiting around for any video that will surely be making the rounds soon. in reply to jwmb6c # Let us all honor the greatest Prez of them all, Rutherford Birchard Hayes and respect his robust beard on ...
Distilling ‘Ten rules for writing fiction’ into one or two words
Sunday, February 21st, 2010I'll now slaughter the multi-authored Guardian.co.uk article "Ten rules for writing fiction" by cutting several of the "rules" down to one or two words which may make more sense after reading the article. Many of the rules could apply to other forms of writing, and possibly, some to life. Write Write Write Avoid prologues Excise skippableness Read ...
4 8 15 16 23 42: Numbers ‘Gossip’ [Lost]
Sunday, February 21st, 2010The Re-up of Wired magazine came yesterday. And with it the revelation of NumberGossip.com offering: "Enter a number and I'll tell you everything you wanted to know about it but were afraid to ask." What better sort of litmus/acid test than to let the site gorge on THE numbers -- 4 ...
Digital artifact from ‘The Eclipse’ trailer
Saturday, February 20th, 2010Captured while viewing "The Eclipse" trailer at 720p. Extra creepy.
What Dipps™ spewed on Twitter this week — 2010-02-15
Monday, February 15th, 2010http://twitpic.com/1267y9 - Hot damn! Schnucks' "Deli" sells potato pancakes for $0.99 each # if the SOCIAL BARRIER [2 foreclosure] crumbles, there's no telling what it could do 2 an already weakened financial sector http://tr.im/NtK2 # Time for Web giants to snatch up great services like @tweepi @twiangulate et al & build them ...
Is this Google’s long awaited Google Drive?
Sunday, February 14th, 2010[caption id="attachment_909" align="aligncenter" width="469" caption="Google file storage"][/caption] These screenshots popped up today, looking something like the much discussed, much anticipated "Google Drive". In mid January, Google announced plans to start rolling out cloud storage. Seems you get a free gigabyte of file storage -- for any type of file and may ...
Get Google Fiber
Friday, February 12th, 2010I just nominated Columbia, Missouri, for Google's fiber optic trial. Anyone with home internet access can ask Google to set it up where you live too. Google's hope is to "make Internet access better and faster for everyone." Here's a few points I made for Columbia, MO: Why should Google build a ...