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 to [...]
Entries from March 2008
Another Impressive Aviary Tool
March 31st, 2008 · No Comments
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. Sphere: Related Content
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 as easily [...]
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. The 10 millionth article was [...]
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. Sphere: Related Content
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 wanted [...]
Tags: OpenSource
Great Moments in Linux History
March 25th, 2008 · No Comments
A pretty cool video about some Linux history. Well done! Sphere: Related Content
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. Sphere: Related Content
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. Sphere: Related Content
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. Sphere: Related Content
Tags: Entertainment · Humorous