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Waiting Rooms and Fisticuffs

admin — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 22:19:20 +0000

You’ve probably heard about these crazy facebook apps: Break Up Notifer and Waiting Room, which in one way or another encourage people to break up so you can make your move. Break-up Notifier was banned, but gained a disturbing number of participants before it happened, and Waiting room probably has a ton too. There’s an [...]

The Wilderness Downtown

admin — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:30:30 +0000

If you have Chrome installed, you NEED to check out this amazing use of HTML 5, Google Maps, and music. Really cool stuff from Arcade Fire, Google, and Chris Milk.

Douglas Adams on Learning to Love the Internet

admin — Fri, 14 May 2010 21:52:26 +0000

“So people complain that there’s a lot of rubbish online, or that it’s dominated by Americans, or that you can’t necessarily trust what you read on the web. Imagine trying to apply any of those criticisms to what you hear on the telephone. Of course you can’t ‘trust’ what people tell you on the web [...]

Hell has like, Frozen Over

admin — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 04:38:03 +0000

A long time friend of mine recently joined a social network and I got an email requesting network inclusion. In the request he said that hell had frozen over. Earlier this week, Facebook announced a new campaign that in effect extends their presence over the entire internet (that’s what that “like” button is on the [...]

Let’s ramble about Time Travel and Photography

admin — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 21:54:35 +0000

There’s a tiny amount of hullabaloo regarding this image below, which was supposedly taken in 1940, in Canada, for the re-opening of a bridge: Note the hipster wearing modern clothes, sun-glasses, and perhaps a small camera. So some people are saying: “look, look, proof of time travel” and other people are saying, “no no, he’s [...]

When YOU Become Slang

admin — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 23:56:57 +0000

Even though I don’t use facebook or twitter, I do keep track of it, as far as Hoodturkey is concerned. Recently I’ve learned that “hoodturkey” is being used as slang (at least among three kids). Which is interesting. People often ask what is up with “hoodturkey” and the simple answer is that, when I started [...]

Haiti, CNN, and the Future of News

admin — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 01:53:22 +0000

CNN unleashed a fully user-panable 360 degree video of a scene in Haiti. Now imagine this in Afghanistan, in NYC on 911, etc… Sorry TV, you’re screwed, this is the future of news.

Transfixed by craigslist

admin — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 22:52:16 +0000

As I was waiting for Cory to call me about our weekly Old Man Breakfast Invitational. I was absentmindedly considering finding a replacement toaster. I had accidentally thrown out my old one a few months ago (I had glued eyes on it- many of my kitchen have eyes, it was a Pee-Wee Herman thing). I [...]

Minor Internet Celebs raising money the Stalked way

admin — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 00:04:00 +0000

A stranger offered Frank James a $200 donation to a charity of her choice in exchange for cooking a vegetarian dinner for the stranger and a guest.pretty great!