Archive for August, 2010
Monday, August 30th, 2010
Photo by Michael Holden
Right now, if you didn't get a ticket and aren't there, the Internet is probably the best way to experience the desert event known as Burning Man. So here's a ripoff expansion/refinement of Laughing Squid's post "How To Experience Burning Man 2010 Remotely"
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Friday, August 27th, 2010
Clean Bottle is your typical reusable water bottle except both ends unscrew so you can clean the nasty out. It's $10.
Unless these guys hold hardcore patents, I suspect all your reusable water bottles will soon be doing this on the other end of their containers. If it hasn't already begun.
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Thursday, August 26th, 2010
I'm a country fella from Missouri and have only been to NYC once. Even so the appearance of The City's underground has changed quite a bunch from the 80s, especially if movies like The Warriors and these pictures from 24Flinching -- "detailing life on and in the New York City subway in ...
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Wednesday, August 25th, 2010
It took the NYC based internet culture program Rocketboom to point out the big-time, non-profit headquartered in my backyard of Columbia, Missouri.
Personal Energy Transportation (or P.E.T.) makes hand-cranked wheelchairs for people have lost the use oftheir legs due to polio, landmine injury, etc.
Even though most of their volunteers here work out of ...
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Monday, August 23rd, 2010
UPDATE: Now shipping!!
The web page for Blue Microphone's plug-in mic for iPhone -- known as Mikey 2 -- still says its release date is 8/20/10, but the buy now text is not clickable.
The opening blurb on Mikey 2's product page:
The all-new Mikey is the perfect tool for mobile recording. Featuring ...
Posted in iPhone, Software | 2 Comments »
Friday, August 20th, 2010
The National Parks Infinite Photo page at NationalGeographic.com says:
Zoom in on a spectacular national park photo to reveal hundreds more photos making up the original. Then zoom again at each level for an endless array of images, each submitted by users to My Shot.
This description actually misrepresents the thing a little ...
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Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010
Picked up my iPhone 4 from the AT&T store in Jefferson City, MO on July 17, 2010. Today is August 3rd. About 30 minutes ago I received this email from AT&T saying my iPhone 4 has now SHIPPED. That's nice.
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