A beautiful functional watch in HTML5. NO IMAGES This is sweet. We have seen some really nice graphics done in pure CSS. This one I think pushed the HTML/CSS/JS bar just a bit higher. A really nice functional wrist watch with no images! The crazy part is that it works in I.E! Wow. I also tested on iPad and iphone. Works. I did… Read More
Micro Apartments. This is the future, just only for certain places In the near future, VERY near future, space will become such a premium, that it will be considered cost effective to create an apt under 200 sq ft. the size of a one car garage. Who would live in such a place? Actually, I would. And I can think of plenty of others in my… Read More
The First Vets In Tech ViT event July 31 ‘VETS IN TECH’ PROGRAM TO LAUNCH IN SAN FRANCISCO Groundbreaking Initiative is the First to Connect Veterans With Technology Careers Many of you know this is something I support and have been deeply involved with. We have waves of new vets coming back from overseas to a job market that is already pretty tight. However,… Read More
The Peer Reviewed version of the Numbers behind kickstart with info graphic Jeanne Pi sent me this via email just a bit ago. I remember reading her first post thinking the numbers seemed a bit unfounded. I know know this because I wrote a kickstarter scraper and thus see a lot of flow day to day. Well Jeanne hear the same from other people and decided to… Read More
Epic driving on the Streets of San Francisco from DC SHOES: KEN BLOCK’S GYMKHANA FIVE I have been living in the Bay Area since 92 when I left England and the Air Force to study Architecture at UC Berkeley. As such, I know the streets if San Francisco pretty well now. All the years I have driven (and motorcycled) in SF, I have always wished I could punch it a… Read More
5 Years of the iPhone. Reflection of a day 1 user and jailbreaker I was one of the first people to get the first iphone. The funny thing is, I really did not want it. I was attending a conference that got a special deal to buy the first batch of phones. $600. Ug. I was going to sell it after the conference, only to have the price… Read More
Today is back to the future day. And still no skateboard IT’S FUTURE DAY! For those that do not remember, or did not see the movie back to the future, Doc set his DeLorean to a future day. And that is today! What do we do with this news?? No idea. {UPDATE} Just read in Mashable Turns out this is a hoax. The actual date —… Read More
Google learn to watch youtube. See’s a bunch of cats. Ready for Reddit! Google created the largest neural networks for machine learning by connecting 16,000 computer processors. And what did they do with all this power? Watch videos of course. Presented with 10 million digital images found in YouTube videos, what did Google’s brain do? What millions of humans do with YouTube: looked for cats. From the NYT… Read More
When someone makes a video with horrible singing to try and hire an engineer, you know things have gotten tough. What can you say? This guy named Amir posted a request to hire a programmer in [softwaredev-92] for his company fitbuddies. But instead of the normal ask, he created a video and sang to it. Horribly. Now we all know its really hard to find a coder much less a coder willing to work on… Read More
70 tips of real life cheat codes from Reddit This is a cool post I just read on Reddit (OP link). Check out the links, they mostly go back to the original authors. If you like something, go back and give them an upvote. Here is a compilation of the top 80 70 real life cheat codes written by reddit community. The original submission… Read More
Aero dies in Windows 8 and stops trying to copy Apple I have been using Windows 8 for awhile now on my home computer. The first thing I noticed about windows 8 is how fast and clean everything feels. It does not have the lipstick on a pig feel that was Windows Vista. After reading Brooke Crothers post on cnet, it reminded me as to why… Read More
Augmented Reality Sandbox. Create a topo the natural way. The specific use case is limited. You can created an realtime interactive topo by moving sand around within a sandbox. However, if you extend this technology, this is where it gets interesting. Say for example, you place two beams next to each other, then ‘fuse’ those beams in AR. You can now do stress tests… Read More
Here are some pics of my cat. For no good reason I need to upload a pic of my cat for something I’m doing on the migration of Bitmob to GamesBeat. And I thought, what the heck. I’m going to post a few pictures of my derpy ketteh just for fun.… Read More
THIS is how you sell a car on Craigslist I still need to go back and find the original post, but here you go. How much you wanna bet he sold it? 1995 Pontiac Grand AM GT, Yeah Baby! Yeah! ** found it! Here is the original link. http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/cto/2979885438.html *** I credit a tweet from @jmspool for sharing. Cause sharing is caring.… Read More
Petridish. Kickstarter for Science! I have written about kickstarter a few times, even bought my first item, the pebble smartphone watch. Kickstarter has been so successful that its not surprising there will be spin offs. Petridish is one of them; the science kickstarter. If you would have told me someone was working on this and I would have gave… Read More
HP TC1100 in popular culture As a TC1100 fan, I was looking up installing Windows 8 on my machine. Although installing the wifi card is a bit tricky you can still do it. And for fun I checked up on the TC1100 wiki page only to see the reference to popular culture section deleted! WTH? So I grabbed an old… Read More
An ‘ok’ guide to rage faces. Smelling a shark Rage faces have been around a long time starting with 4chan, then reddit, then, copycat outlets like funnystuff. Yesterday Ars Technica put out a post explaining what Rage Face Comics are. Its an good enough post, missing some information and fluffing up other bits, but fair enough, you get the point. However, it got me… Read More
The Best F**king Razor Blade Commercial EVER! And it seems like a good deal Credit Jolie at VentureBeat for this one. Her story on the Dollar Shave Club, mostly focus on the fact these guys raised money in silicon ally for what is a pretty simple not tech idea. And it seems like a good idea too. As someone who does shave… ok, ok, every now and again I… Read More
rage comics, pokemon and meme drinking game boards. With Pics! These have been popping up all over Reddit and other places in the last 2 weeks. Pretty cool really. Odds are there will be plenty more showing up in the coming weeks as people make, oh say, Star Wars drinking games, or LOL cats board games, etc… Most of the images are pretty good quality… Read More
Silicon Vally and San Francisco Housing prices and Rents are up and still climbing. Although many will still argue that we are not in a tech bubble, those numbers are decreasing as more and more evidence point to the opposite. I wrote a post back in July of 2011 saying that I have noticed moment in the housing prices in Palo Alto and Mountain View California. And now I… Read More