Star Wars Steam Punk! Such Win! Amazing art for the steam punk Star Wars fan. So many shades of win. Han Solo Storm Trooper Go here for maur!! http://gabba82.tumblr.com/post/3350977068/star-wars-en-steampunk Wasnt there some Star Wars vehicles as Steam Punk? I may have to look for that.… Read More
Regime change at 140 charaters. Egypt give social media its first geo-political victory. Part II This is Part II of a two part post. Part I is here. (first draft – still needs edit) In late 2010, A man named Mohamed Bouazizi, running a small fruit stand in Tunisia set himself on fire as both a protest and a desperate cry against the brutish and tyrannical regime of Ben Ali… Read More
Googles Edison logo. Pretty cool This is not as cool as the working PacMac logo they did a while back, but still, this is pretty good. I like seeing more and more animations with the Google search logos. 🙂 Logo Below..… Read More
Should I work for free flow chart This is just plain random and fun. So you were asked to work for free eh? Who hasn’t been? Well here is a flow chart to help you think through if you should or not. www.shouldiworkforfree.com/… Read More
Electric Networked Vehicle shown at CES 2011 I am back from the holidays and am catching up on CES 2011 news. A great amount of gadgets where shown but this ‘car’ caught my eye initially. Shown at last year’s World Expo Shanghai, General Motors brought their EN-V (Electric Networked Vehicle) concept to CES this year. Sure the design is odd, but when and… Read More
Power of SocialMedia gets a golden voice homeless guy a job This has been spreading all over the place in just the last 24 hours. In fact, by the time I finish writing this (and you reading it) I will bet he already has a number of gigs and will be doing the morning show circuit. This popped up on YouTube yesterday and took off. Its… Read More
Drunk posting with Alcowebizer. Happy 2011 New Years!! This is fun. Remember that site that will change any webpage to a lolcats page? Well here is one for us bloggers who have to work on NYE. Like me!! Its a pretty clever little project from Alcowebizer. Enjoy!! Here is the first one at level 1.0 Here is another at 1.5 Not Bad. Each… Read More
Review of WebGL Camp #2 2010 Earlier this month was the second WebGL Camp in Silicon Valley. Organized by Henrik Bennetsen (CEO of Katalabs) and Christian Greuel (Manager of SRI Geovisualization Center), the camp is a developer focused event that aims to bring together the people who are writing the WebGL spec with those who build projects on it for some show and tell.… Read More
Augmented Reality is getting hype, but is it real? Forrester thinks.. meh. Most of the points in the Forrester report is for the mostly spot on, and this is coming from someone who created Virtual Reality Apps back in the beginning and knows what overhype looks like. I think a good definition of what Augmented Reality for mobile is; should be considered. Back in mid 2009 I… Read More
Recycle your car and get $1000 for it. Really. Has to be running So the time has finally has come to retire my car from college. I had a 1987 VW Cabrio and loved it. Great for when I was playing gigs and simply driving around in the sun. Although that car was still running ok, it was clear that it was due for something major to fail.… Read More
Visual representation of the bounded problem of tic-tac-toe OR someone w/ too much time on their hands – This appeared in XKCD today and I just had to write a little post on it. My first thought was; this is a nice visual representation of how you can solve a bounded problem. A bounded problem is where all the possible solutions can be discovered as in tic-tac-toe. An UN-bounded problem is where… Read More
The spark for my iPad is gone. Sold it, and dont miss it. I like my iPad, and if i sold it, I would miss it right off, but that’s because I have the really bad habit of taking a look at email, socMed or do a small bit of reading before bed. Else, I think I would be in the same boat as my friend here.. Lets… Read More
Microsoft to spend $1B to pimp Kinect and Mobile 7, so where is my free phone? $1 Billions Dollars!!! Great, so where is my phone? This really surprised me that there is not a whole stream of developer phones out there yet to coincide with the push to get developers to start building for the windows 7 mobile platform. Google put out free phone and people started messing with it right… Read More
Conan O’Brien and Hunter Thombson drinking and shooting guns Really, what more do I have to say here? its a video of Conan O’Brien and Hunter Thombson shooting various guns while drinking. Enjoy the Video. Below… Way below.. Really need to fix this.… Read More
Yahoo so freaked out about a possible AOL takeover, the site goes down Now you KNOW things are rough when even a rumor of a AOL take over so freaks people out that even the servers throw up. The site went down around 2:30 and came back a half hour later. Yahoo says they know what the problem is and addressing it, but would not give any details? … Read More
John Lennon featured on Google Art for his 70th Google has a small video (HTML5) that plays a clip from ‘Imagine” with a nice animated video. … Read More
This is a test post from my iphone; its only a test. Dont bother reading it. Really, it’s just a test. I would just stop reading now. Sry. I’m even typing this on my iPhone so I can test saving a draft and then posting using the wordpress app. And given that I’m using wordpress 3.0, I would not be all that surprised if it does not work. And anyway, why… Read More
The Rise, Fall and Rebirth of Apple … And so begins the War. Scene 6, End part 1 It was only a matter of time before both Apple and Google would find themselves on top and staring at each other. Microsoft was now #2 and Apple was king of the hill, but Google was not far behind. And after Apple kicked Flash out of the studio, Google made a point in their last… Read More
The Rise, Fall and Rebirth of Apple … A Challenger Appears! Scene 5 Apple had worked hard and fought hard to get back to the top. And now they were ON TOP. Bigger then Microsoft, Bigger them Adobe, Bigger then anybody. But the new sound was not Apples alone, and soon Google began to do it for themselves. And do it well. Too well. That’s the problem with… Read More