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The Mimic Octopus is flat-out amazing

Posted in: Entertainment, General ♦ Monday, November 1st, 2010, 7:55 pm ♦ No Comments

Having eaten octopus and followed them while snorkeling, I had no idea that such an amazing creature existed.

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Catching a connecting flight… literally

Posted in: Entertainment, WWW ♦ Monday, September 27th, 2010, 8:32 pm ♦ No Comments

This is kinda crazy: "A skydiver has pulled off an astonishing stunt by climbing out of a glider's cockpit, crawling along the wing and then somersaulting underneath and stepping onto the wing of a second glider flying below." [...]

“Rich people and bullshit”

Posted in: Entertainment, General ♦ Friday, September 24th, 2010, 2:49 pm ♦ No Comments

but when Bill Maher put something up on Huffington Post saying "there are only two things that the United States is not running out of: Rich people and bullshit" - I couldn't help myself. You really should gi [...]

Watch this castle transform before your eyes

Posted in: Design, Entertainment, General, WWW ♦ Friday, July 10th, 2009, 12:51 pm ♦ No Comments

Such a simple concept master beautifully, seriously... http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/cliff-kuang/design-innovation/transforming-castles-facade-wobbly-wavy-light-spectacle [...]

WOW

Posted in: Entertainment ♦ Friday, June 26th, 2009, 8:46 am ♦ No Comments

Picture 9Who would have thought that i [...]

The Death Of Mac OS 9

Posted in: Entertainment, General ♦ Friday, April 21st, 2006, 10:31 am ♦ No Comments

I remember this conference most especially for Steve Jobs line to the attending developers:

"It's not dead for them [Mac users], but it is for you."
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This just in…

Posted in: Blogging, Entertainment, General, WWW ♦ Monday, March 20th, 2006, 6:46 pm ♦ No Comments

I still don't get podcasting... even the good ones. I find most radio broadcasters stale and unentertaining, and to think that there are more people (thousands, if not millions) that look to enter the fray just kinda boggles me. Podcasts aren't visual mediums but purely aural ones that depend on n [...]

The Microsoft iPod

Posted in: Design, Entertainment, General, WWW ♦ Monday, February 27th, 2006, 2:55 pm ♦ No Comments

While working on some more serious and less frivolous posts, I came across this post at The Unofficial Apple Weblog - the video is hysterical, but the veracity of the punchline is alarming. Hit play and see for yourself: [...]

Why Blog?

Posted in: Blogging, Entertainment, General ♦ Monday, February 6th, 2006, 6:25 pm ♦ No Comments

Freedom of the press belongs to the man who owns one. - Nora Ephron (in The Huffington Post)
I looked at that and just thought: Wow! Would it be fair to answer the question [...]

Tech support at it’s best?

Posted in: Entertainment, General ♦ Friday, January 20th, 2006, 2:37 pm ♦ 1 Comment

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