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Entries from March 2008

Another Impressive Aviary Tool

March 31st, 2008 · No Comments

Every time the New York based company Aviary releases another new web tool to their already impressive line I’m even more impressed. Unfortunately all of their applications are currently in private beta so I haven’t been able to play with them directly but the video demos are impressive (I’ve already requested access 3 times [...]

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Tags: Software · Tech Blogroll · Tools

Building Stonehenge By Hand, With Gravity And Sticks

March 31st, 2008 · No Comments

Wally Wallington of Flint, Michigan is proving that it is possible to move 1,600 pound stones using only conventional methods as he attempts to build Stonehenge all by himself without any machinery.

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Tags: Architecture · Art · Entertainment

Lifelike Computer Generated Woman

March 30th, 2008 · No Comments

I stumbled across a post on BoingBoing.net today which pointed to a page containing a lifelike rendering of a women who follows your cursor around the screen. According to Cory Doctorow who posted this it was designed by a Brazilian design firm. The technology appears to be Flash based, though it could just [...]

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Tags: Art · Bizarre · Entertainment · Miscellaneous

Wikipedia Hits 10 Million Articles

March 29th, 2008 · No Comments

It’s been posted almost everywhere but since I use Wikipedia at least once a day I figured it was worth posting it here too! There are now 10,000,000 articles. I find it astounding that there are over 250 languages that articles can appear in, you want to talk about internationalization.
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Tags: OpenSource

Design Coding Advice

March 29th, 2008 · No Comments

The Poetic Prophet (AKA The SEO Rapper) is back with another marketing rap. This time he describes how web standards and proper design can affect the ranking and conversion of pages on your site.

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Tags: Entertainment · Miscellaneous

Bloggin With Zemanta Enabled

March 27th, 2008 · 2 Comments

I was reading TechCrunch this morning as I do every morning and noticed a post about a new Firefox add-on called “Zemanta“. It turns out that this is actually a useful add-on, in fact so useful that I’ve decided to write a short blurb about it, partly because it’s interesting and partly because I [...]

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Tags: OpenSource

Great Moments in Linux History

March 25th, 2008 · No Comments

A pretty cool video about some Linux history. Well done!

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Tags: Entertainment · Miscellaneous · OpenSource · Tech Blogroll

A Qik Tour Of Digg Office By Kevin Rose

March 25th, 2008 · No Comments

Kevin Rose well known Digg founder gives a tour of the office using his Nokia N95.

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Tags: Entertainment · Miscellaneous

Farewell, My Subaru

March 24th, 2008 · No Comments

Doug Fine environmental journalist and NPR contributor is taking it to the extreme and he’s going green as he shows in this video.

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Tags: Miscellaneous

Newscast from a robot-dominated future

March 21st, 2008 · No Comments

From the The Onion here’s a funny video about what a newscast might be like with a robot administration.

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Tags: Entertainment · Humorous