brainwagon

I’m sick of my default theme. I’m starting with something minimal, and then trying to improve it. Consider the look to be somewhat in flux. [tags]Wordpress[/tags] Addendum: I’m using the rather minimal Sandbox theme now. I like it. I’m going to try to tweak it as little as humanly possible.

Okay, my previous post detailed why I think most criticisms of the iPhone are off target. But what features the iPhone does or doesn’t have are for the most part irrelevent. I think that the iPhone is going to change the cell phone business at its most fundamental levels, and here is why. The universe […]

I must admit it: I’m beginning to contemplate purchasing an iPhone. They are just very, very cool. I mean, really cool. I know it won’t make me cool to have one, but it is a very neat gadget. That’s why I find lists like the below so amusing. Buyer’s Guide: Wait! Ten Things You Should […]

Len Peralta has a nifty little website called monsterbymail.com. For a modest fee, he’ll draw you a monster with the name you specify, and he’ll give you a movie file of him drawing it as well. I told him to draw “The Brain Wagon”. Here’s what he came up with: YouTube – The Brain Wagon […]

Too old for Facebook? « Scobleizer I’ve been on Facebook about a month now. I have just about 2,000 friends. I think I’d categorize this statement as either “comical” or “a cry for help”. Are they really friends if you don’t remember their names?

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Every once in a while, I try to make some actual DVDs using software that I have lying around the house (namely, an Ubuntu box). A question occurred to me a couple of days ago: can I store uncompressed PCM video onto a DVD? It turns out the answer is yes, although the methodology using […]

This just made me crack up this morning: YouTube – Dramatic Chipmunk Addendum: It’s a prairie dog, not a chipmunk.

Yesterday and today, the TechShop in Menlo Park held an open house. I had heard of this place before, but it is in Menlo Park, which is a bit more than an hour from me, so I never really seriously considered joining. I must admit, having driven down and visited the place today, I’m definitely […]

Boing Boing: Symphony for old IBM mainframe In 1964, an Icelandic IBM 1401 mainframe engineer figured out how to get the machine to emit beautiful, bassy notes, and composed a symphony for it. Now his son is touring the symphony wiht interpretive dance thrown in. Wikipedia has a nice entry on the IBM 1401, including […]

From Ed Felton’s Freedom to Tinker blog: Let me say right up front that I have not accepted the Jesus Phone as my personal Lord and Savior. The rest of what he has to say about the iPhone and its possible impact on the world of cellular phones is pretty good too.

Phew. I was on Ratatouille for almost two years, and today it’s finally in theaters. I wonder if all you crazy people camped out waiting for your chance to buy an iPhone are going to cut into our weekend box office. 🙂 Click here to find out about all the people camping out for the […]

I hope that the ghost of Chief Justice Earl Warren rises from his grave to haunt the Supreme Court. Prepare to set your clocks back fifty years. Supreme Court: Schools can’t use race to assign students To be fair, I haven’t read the actual decision (PDF link). I’ll try to do so tomorrow and have […]

Holy spy satellites Bat Man! Check out this awesome image of the ISS taken from the Clay Center Observatory in Boston with a 25″ telescope. APOD: 2007 June 28 – A Visit from Atlantis Now, imagine a telescope three times larger, aimed down at the earth from there.

I know I’ve been a bit over the map with my postings lately, but I’ve been catching up on my blogroll, and there are some pretty diverse topics. From Bruce Schneier comes an interesting article pointing at research which shows that the Census department supplied data that enabled the internment of Japanese Americans in WWII, […]