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Cool Gadgets and Tech Innovations That Are Wowing The World

Monday, May 23rd, 2011

It's pretty amazing when you stop to think that just 10 years ago people were carrying around Nokia brick phones and using dial-up Internet. The age of information technology is here and the advancements are coming almost quicker than we can keep up with them. It's strange and exciting all ...

H.P. Lovecraft vs. Oscar Wilde: All in the chin

Monday, October 4th, 2010

A silly observation here but pioneering Fantasy/Horror/Sci-Fi author H. P. Lovecraft and the oft dandy playwright and writer Oscar Wilde could not look more similar. In the face. But really only in regards to their elongated chins and similarities near the jowls. Kind of. Vaguely related articles by Zemanta H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival Portland (laughingsquid.com) How horror writers honor each other (hermenaut.org) H P ...

The Evolution of Privacy on Facebook

Tuesday, May 11th, 2010

Your eyeballs are on a visual representation of various facets of personal Facebook data and who can access it. As you see, Facebook seems less private in general in 2010 compared to 2005. Proper context and explanation at http://mattmckeon.com/facebook-privacy.

Giving away two Google Voice invites

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

Recently found out I can invite three people to Google Voice. If you want an invite, plead your case in the comments below, or hit me up on Twitter -- I'm twitter.com/dipps (@dipps). Fleshbags I know and like IRL will likely take precedence over even smoking hot strangers. ...

How to Report the News

Friday, January 29th, 2010

With a few more dollars and know-how, I'd be cranking out iReports left and right with the formula professed above.

2009 Penny: Ban this scrip?

Friday, January 29th, 2010

Found this scrip in the car.

Numerous Holiday wishes from Nearly a Nerd

Friday, December 11th, 2009

It may still be a little early, but you are worth it: Merry Holidays. Santa related cheer from Santa, NO!

Google Voice, finally

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

It's about damn time I got invited to Google Voice. I'm pretty sure that if you click the above widget, it will ring a phone of your choosing for you to then leave me a voice mail.  (I could set it to ring my mobile, so you could talk to me ...

Snag Films: Free, shareable documentaries

Friday, March 27th, 2009

Continuing from yesterday's post -- using this blog to essentially bookmark stuff to check out later -- I give you Snag Films.  Search or browse over 600 documentary films to stream instantly (for free.)  Then embed some in you blog, like I'm about to do. Two "hero" related docs: Darkon Film description after ...

Free Music Currently Queued up in Cog Audio Player

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

The following FREE musical selections currently reside in my Cog (a open source audio player for Mac OS X) playlist.  (Haven't listened to everything yet but hoping everything is worthwhile.) Ziggy Stardust (Remixed) -- via BoingBoing Most of what I've heard so far is a little too classic techno-y for ...