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Tech support from the 1930s: How to use a phone

2008 Apr 30, 12:03"But once upon a time telephones were fiendishly complicated devices that required instructional videos like these!"PermalinkCommentshistory video education phone

TwittEarth :: Live Twitts all over the world

2008 Apr 30, 10:51TwittEarth displays where twitters are coming from on a globe. Neat looking.PermalinkCommentstwitter 3d mashup world visualization via:kris.kowal

DNA/How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet

2008 Apr 30, 10:48"anything that gets invented after you're thirty is against the natural order of things and the beginning of the end of civilisation as we know it until it's been around for about ten years when it gradually turns out to be alright really."PermalinkCommentsvia:ethan_t_hein history internet douglas-adams article essay

Slate V: archive player

2008 Apr 30, 10:35A humorous video on the topic of Internet video.PermalinkCommentsvia:ericlaw humor video internet progress-bar

twistori

2008 Apr 29, 7:56"this is the first step in an ongoing social experiment, based on twitter. inspired by wefeelfine and drawing data from summize, hand-crafted by amy hoy and thomas fuchs."PermalinkCommentsvia:ethan_t_hein api twitter social art visualization

Mazda Forums - Mazda 3 audio inputs

2008 Apr 29, 5:16Some folks thoughts on how to add an aux. input to the Mazda3 audio system. Unfortunately its not a standard feature and requires some doing.PermalinkCommentscar reference forum mazda3 mazda audio aux

List Of The Day: Banned Ikea Commercials Of The Day

2008 Apr 29, 4:34Humorous Ikea commercials not seen in the US. I like the lamp one.PermalinkCommentsikea commercial tv blog humor video

PicLens | Immersive Views Across the Web

2008 Apr 29, 10:59A browser plugin that does an 'immersive 3d photo gallery' thing. Its neat looking but otherwise not sure how useful it is. However, they also provide an easy to use .js file that lets you easily do a lite javascript version of their gallery (no 3d but nPermalinkCommentsfree gallery photo tool browser plugin web piclens 3d

Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Here Comes Everybody

2008 Apr 28, 12:55Clay Shirky talks about the surplus of thought that TV occupies.PermalinkCommentsarticle clay-shirky culture internet tv technology collaboration community history

xkcd - "Zealous Autoconfig"

2008 Apr 28, 11:53Wifi autoconfig that goes beyond expectations.PermalinkCommentshumor comic network wifi xkcd wireless

Visiting College Friends and Vice Versa

2008 Apr 27, 4:51

Jesse, Nicole and Pat in his carLast weekend after Saul and Ciera's wedding, I drove up to Pat, Grib, and Jesse's house to which I hadn't previously been. I got in late and they'd just finished a UFC party. The next day Grib had to travel for work but the rest of us met Scott and Nicole, Jesse's girlfriend at a place for breakfast. After that we went back to their place for some Rock Band which I hadn't played previously and Pat took the opportunity to show off his real life musical skills on the banjo.

Pat plays the banjoThis weekend, Jesse and Nicole are up visiting Seattle. On Friday, Sarah and I met up with them at the BluWater Bistro in Seattle which sits right on Lake Union. The view was nice although difficult to see from our table and overall I like the sister restaurant in Kirkland better. They were both short visits but it was fun to see people again.

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Saul and Ciera's Wedding

2008 Apr 26, 11:45

Saul IncredulousLast weekend while Sarah was up in Canada for a spa weekend with her sister and her sister's other bridesmaids, I went to Saul and Ciera's wedding in Three Rivers, California near Sequoia National Park. I flew into Fresno picked up a rental car and my GPS device navigated me to a restaurant with the wedding location no where in sight. "No problem," I thought, "I'll just call someone with an Internet connection and..." I had no cell reception. What did people do before GPS, Internet, and cell phones?

Saul and Ciera's Wedding CakeA waitress in the restaurant pointed me down the road a bit to the wedding location which was outside overlooking a river. Their wedding cake was made up like a mountain with two backpacks at the top and rope hanging down. Ciera's father married them and the ceremony was lovely. The music after included Code Monkey to which all the nerds were forced to get up and awkwardly dance.

Vlad plays with KatieBesides getting to see Ciera and Saul who I hadn't seen in quite a while, I got to see Daniil and Val, Vlad, and Nathaniel. Since last I saw Daniil and Val they had a child, Katie who is very cute and in whom I can see a lot of family resemblance. The always hilarious Vlad, Daniil's brother, was there as well with his wife who I got to meet. Nathaniel, my manager from Vizolutions was there and I don't know if I've seen him since I moved to Washington. It was fun to see him and meet his girlfriend who was kind enough to donate her extra male to male mini-phono cord so I could listen to my Zune in the rental car stereo on the drive back.

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Pat plays the banjo

2008 Apr 25, 8:26

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Pat plays the banjo

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Jesse, Scott, and Pat

2008 Apr 25, 8:26

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Jesse, Scott, and Pat

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Jesse's secret garden

2008 Apr 25, 8:25

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Jesse's secret garden

Jesse maintains a garden in his backyard.

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Cactus Hand

2008 Apr 25, 8:24

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Cactus Hand

A part of the cactus in Jesse, Pat and Grib's backyard.

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Jesse, Nicole and Pat in his car

2008 Apr 25, 8:24

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Jesse, Nicole and Pat in his car

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Picasa Web Albums - Rahul - Saul_Ciera_We...

2008 Apr 24, 6:45More Saul and Ciera wedding photos. The back of my head shows up in one of them.PermalinkCommentssaul-jaspan ciera-christopher wedding photo

Graffiti Research Lab - MoLD to SoMA

2008 Apr 24, 12:52Video of GRL's laser based graffiti system at the Museum of Modern Art.PermalinkCommentsart graffiti grl graffiti-research-lab moma cultural-disobediance laser video

LED Throwies

2008 Apr 24, 12:32Throwies = LED + battery + magnet. Throw onto metal surface. Looks like fun.PermalinkCommentsart graffiti electronics geek howto streetart diy throwies cultural-disobediance
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