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Archives for Technology
Snow Leopard Tips & Tricks from Around the Interwebs
Here are some useful links for those who are either thinking of upgrading or have already upgraded:
Macworld has a useful video about some of the new refinements A new website devoted to Snow Leopard Tips Macbreak Video’s demonstration of the new Services functionality Mac Life lists some of the new features, including the fact that iChat uses less [...]
RSS Dependency
Wherein I discuss my addiction to RSS feeds and what I plan to do about said addiction.
My Birthday Is Soon (hint, hint)
How cool is this:
Sparkle labs – DIY Electronics kit (video) from make magazine on Vimeo.
I definitely feel like I could stand to learn some basics about electronics considering I spend most of my life surrounded by the stuff! Plus it would be a great way to stretch my brain and help me think in new [...]
The Future, Gay Penguins, and Other Tidbits
When we have a watch that can do video calling, eyeware that can display interactive menus based on eye movement, and signals from outer space, you know that the future is upon us.Meanwhile, gay penguins raise a family, women are just as good at math as men, men are selfish pigs, and if you think [...]
Tweenbots and Turning Away
Some thoughts about Tweenbots and how helping cardboard robots relates to helping people.
Great Links of Fire!
Auguste points out why those of the reactionary, conservative, and wingnut variety are so terrified of offering a fair and even playing field to the American people.If you could play Scrabble on your iPhone with friends using Facebook, would you? Or are we reaching a point of digital saturation in our lives?Way to go Vermont. [...]
Wordpress 1.2 for the iPhone is Available
With support for page creation and editing, comment moderation, and, most useful in my opinion, landscape typing, this version is a whole lot more powerful and usable for blogging while on the road (or when you are in bed already and don’t want to get up to post an entry). While certainly not the fastest [...]
Shiny Shiny Links
Really cool photos from an abandoned hospital. Each image is rich with unknown and lost stories. (Via Boing Boing)Desert Breath is a gorgeous art project created in the Sahara. IO9 covers it here and the artist website is here. BoingBoing once again has a link to amazing cool awesomeness, this time a promo video for [...]
Wither Twitter: An Essay on the Crude Beginnings of a Post-Money Economy
An essay examining Twitter in light of Cory Doctorow’s concept of Whuffie and Charles Stross’s ideas of a post-money society in Accelerando using Amanda Palmer as a prime example of someone creating an reputation based economy for themselves.
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