January, 2011

Uh oh. I’ve got a new show brand to lust after: http://www.eject-shoes.com/

another kind of shoes

Bat Everyone makes Batman comics sometime. And I said not long ago, because of this, “you will never see me do a Batman comic.” But, dear readers, a fact: Batman is fun. Batman is so much fun, and that is why everyone makes comics about him. Case closed, everyone make Batman comics and feel good […]

January 24, 2011

Clear iPhone 4 mod Shared by jftesser ooohhhh…this is maybe better than white…I may also have an ifixit kit Yesterday the general public learned what a pentalobe is. You might be asking yourself why you’d need such a thing, but if you’re like Uwants member mkmarken, then you’d want it to disassemble your iPhone 4 […]

January 22, 2011

Apple And Our Culture Andy Crouch (h/t: Alexis) understands the strange confluence of despair and hope in the naughties: In the 2000s, when much about the wider world was causing Americans intense anxiety, the one thing that got inarguably better, much better, was our personal  technology. In October 2001, with the World Trade Center still […]

January 19, 2011

Sierra Point-and-Click Adventures: From the Web to your iPad [Gaming] With the advent of touchscreen gaming, point-and-click adventures are experiencing something of a rennaissance. Thanks to a cunning soul, now you can play Sierra On-line’s classic line up of point-and-clicks straight from the web on your iPad. Titles like Leisure Suit Larry, Space Quest and […]

January 16, 2011

5th annual thing-a-day It’s that time of the year again! February is Thing-A-Day month: Thing-a-day is a yearly creative sprint where, every year in February, participants commit to creating one new thing a day and post it on a collective blog.Sign-up now to get inspired and fight the mid-winter blues! Registration opens Jan 21st and […]

January 15, 2011

SparkFun Free Day returns Last year, SparkFun held a free day where they gave away $100,000 in merch to anyone who could refresh their browser fast enough. This time they’re upping the ante with $150K in swag: On January 13th, 2011, Boulder-based SparkFun Electronics will give away $150,000 worth of products in the second annual […]

January 13, 2011

Stereotypical People I Find Uncanny “[The Uncanny] is closely related to Julia Kristeva’s concept of abjection where one reacts adversely to that which has been forcefully cast out of the symbolic order. Abjection can be uncanny in that the observer can recognize something within the abject, possibly of what it was before it was ‘cast […]

January 8, 2011

photosynth and picasa

This article made me look through my own gchat logs. My first two conversations were about technical troubleshooting and relationship-related haplessness. I really have not changed at all in the last five years! Even my fake-happy diction is similar to my current style. I’m finding this terribly depressing. But, also, I want to N-gram my […]

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A Decade of Fear Made Pretty by Liz Colville The data-makeover blog Information Is Beautiful strikes again with a colorful chart of ten years of fear-mongering media crazes, many of which just won't go away, even when given ten years to do so. It's not as scary as the witch-bat-ghost triumvirate that caused the bird […]

January 7, 2011

TV Documentary The Joy of Stats: Now Available Online “The world we live in is awash with data, that comes pooring in from everywhere around us. On its own, this data is just noise and confusion. To make sense of data, to find the meaning in it, we need a powerful branch of science: statistics!” […]

January 6, 2011