First off, Squarepusher has taken over the music page of the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/ And now, here are some live puppies: What more could you want?
In the late 1800s, French inventor Léon Bouly made a device called a Cinématographe (Cinematograph) that could both function as a film camera and a video projector. So you could go out and shoot, bring the camera inside, invite the friends over, and project your movie. How cool is that? Modern digital projectors are getting […]
Burning Man was incredible. If you went to a museum, any museum, you wouldn’t see as much art per square foot, it wouldn’t be as interesting or interactive, and it wouldn’t be free like it was here. There’s nothing like wandering the desert at night and stumbling upon a giant 5 story rocket you can […]
I’m going to the desert for a week and wanted a way to recharge my iPhone. I bought a zap rx4-c, which works with most of my other devices, only to learn that it’s not compatible with the iPhone. Zap’s customer service was friendly but they should change their description in two ways: One, you […]
I saw this on Winona st. the other day.
I saw a great slogan on a box of cereal that my roommate bought today: “Eating a breakfast of Kellogg’s Frosted Mini-Wheats cereal is clinically shown to improve kids’ attentiveness by nearly 20%!1“ The best part was the footer on the bottom of the back of the box: “1Based upon independent clinical research, kids who […]
Uh, so I knew that Word would save copies of my open files, and firefox would reopen my session and tabs on a crash, but when did textedit start doing that? I have a bad habit of keeping notes in textedit (stickies started losing data on me) and not saving them. I just had a […]
Oh my god, this guy is hilarious.
I’ve been using this site I found about about, GCM Travel Stats, for predicting and analyzing Chicago traffic a lot lately. It works pretty well unless you get an unprecedented freak traffic spike like I did today: It took me almost two hours to get from Midway to Uptown. I think it was the cubs […]
I started admiring this tree off of I-55 about a year and a half ago on my many trips to and from St. Louis from Chicago. I noticed it for its odd asymmetry and for its placement (all alone in a beautiful field on a farm). It reminded me of that Shawshank Redemption quote– There’s […]