I don’t know anything at all about programming, but if I did, I’d volunteer some time to pick up the torch.
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Category Archives: Technology
Fake snow
Okay so Bearfire Resort, located near Dallas, TX, is going to have a huge mountain of fake snow. Not manmade snow, but some weirdo plastic polymer franken-snow.
Fake snow. via core77 via geekologie
Names
Guy Kawasaki on picking names for products/companies.
The link to Wordlab’s tools is fun.
I want this
This isn’t the first doggie cam. And there’s a tutorial floating around the internet (a few actually) that show how to make one (though they cost about the same as this). Or you could just buy a spy camera and attach it to your pet’s collar.
It’d be interesting just to see what Monty does all day. If you see a new link to “Monty’s Flickr” in my header links, you know I broke down.
Kottke links
Links from Kottke.org. Some older, some newer, I’ve not been to Kottke in awhile, so just things that caught my interest. I might break some of these out into their own posts, maybe not.
NYU students are materialistic! -NYU students would exchange their vote for an iPod Touch or a free ride to NYU. Half said they’d give up their right to vote FOREVER for $1 million. Disenfranchisement for an amount that wouldn’t even buy a 1 bedroom condo in the city they go to school. Even exchanging their vote, for an iPod?! I love Apple, and my iPod (I don’t have a Touch, but I do own an iPhone). But trade my vote for one?
Ninety percent of the students who said they’d give up their vote for the money also said they consider voting “very important” or “somewhat important”; only 10 percent said it was “not important.” Also, 70.5 percent said they believe that one vote can make a difference – including 70 percent of the students who said they’d give up their vote for free tuition.
Yeah, real important. So important that’d you sell it away…
Musical roads. – The Japanese develop roads that play melodys when being traversed at certain speeds. I’m quite certain I’d find this annoying and speed to avoid it. If they want to discourage speeding, they should make a road that generates an annoying tone at high speeds.
Okay, I had like 6 Kottke links, but as I was writing this post, decided not to put them here. Two is enough.
Repost
I’ve posted about TED Talks before. And I’ll probably post about it again. But entertaining, enlightening, education (oooh like the alliteration do you? Though is it actually alliteration? I’ve read definitions of alliteration that only deal with consonance and not assonance). Usually all at the same time.
Umm, yeah, this is skeevy
Female “android” groped. via Engadget.
This guy made an android. A female android. Recorded a video of him groping it and it taking offense and trying to slap him apparently. All well and good, but you know he has a switch to make the android a lovebot or something disgusting.
About time
Now make Genius Bar reservations up to 2 days in advance – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
Took them long enough. That same day thing was terrible.
might be useful
Maybe nice for washing denims if I didn’t want to buy Dr. Bronners. Could probably customize this to be gentler. Might lose anything that had “bleaching action” to keep the denims dark. Or I could f it all and just buy Woolite.
via Make
work the system
7 Confessions of a Cingular Sales Rep – Consumerist
How to get things at Cingu… I’d imagine the same at other wireless carriers too.