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The Simpsons Visit the Apple Store
Remember back when The Simpsons would put the burn on modern culture… and on a regular basis? Well, when Springfield gets its own Apple store, the “burn” burns so brightly I may never look at my iPhone the same way again. So funny… so sad… so true!
Posted inMovies & TV
Streaming Content from Netflix Finally Comes to Macs.
I’m going to admit right off the bat that (A) I don’t use Netflix, and (B) the only thing I know about computers is that I’m pretty sure my laptop is a magical typewriter from the future that somehow lets me watch episodes of Terminator whenever I don’t feel like working. (Thanks, magical future typewriter!) […]
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Google Helps Prevent Drunks From Sending Out Emails
Google just announced they’re launching a new feature that will “help users prevent themselves from sending inappropriate emails when drunk.” It’s called Mail Goggles, and it works by forcing the user to answer a series of math problems before an email will be sent. Thus, you will be saved much embarrassment if you’re too hammered […]
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The Dandy Warhols Need You to Make Them a New Website. Will Pay You Garbage.
The greatest Portland band ever, The Dandy Warhols, are in need of a new web designer (or to them, an ALL CAPS “SUPER NERD”) to make them a fancy new website and they’ve taken to Craigslist: The Dandy Warhols are in desperate need of a SUPER NERD to help us make our web presence work […]
Posted inEthics
Something Scarier than Sarah Palin and the Coming Depression Combined
As Franklin D. Roosevelt sagely said, “We have nothing to fear, except fear itself! And of course… creepy robot girls from Japan.” HOW RIGHT HE WAS! Check out this Japanese little girl robot, and remember what she looks like — because she’ll be visiting your room tonight. With a knife. Absolutely no thanks to Gizmodo.
Posted inPolitics
Barack Obama is Your New iPhone App
Via Ben Smith, this new feature “organizes and prioritizes your contacts by key battleground states, making it easy to reach out and make an impact quickly.” Which reminds me of this, also via Mr. Smith: Barack Obama is Google, John McCain is AT&T. Via Slog.
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Video Tour of the New Google Phone
Much hoo-ha was made earlier this week about the new T-Mobile G1 Phone, Google’s “android-powered” cell phone. Now there’s video that shows us what the thing is like in action, courtesy of the Wall Street Journal. Yup, similar to the iPhone… but is it too similar? And more importantly, would you buy one? Your opinions […]
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Kiss Your Ass Hello
As a public service, I remind you that tomorrow, September 10, 2008, a bunch of nerds in Switzerland will fire up the Large Hadron Collider, attempting to recreate the origins of the universe by accelerating protons to 99.999999 per cent of the speed of light and then smashing them together. The chances that their attempt […]
Posted inMovies & TV
Fellow Humans, We Are Now Obsolete. All Hail Our Kind and Just Robot Overlords!
GYAAHAHAAH. WHAT THE FUCK?! Watch this. Fucking crazy, right? Emily–the woman in the above animation–was produced using a new modeling technology that enables the most minute details of a facial expression to be captured and recreated. She is considered to be one of the first animations to have overleapt a long-standing barrier known as [the] […]
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I Am Not Fit to Answer Your Drunken Text Messages
As of late, it seems like everyone I know is in love with Cha Cha, the magical text-and-answer site previously referred to on this blog as the “greatest invention of the texting age.” Send any inquiry to 242-242 and you will get a reply within minutes from a (human, not computer) texting specialist. It’s great […]
Posted inMisc.
Blog Off!
Call me a geek, but I’m really very excited about this: August 18-22, the Portland Water Bureau and the Oregon Trail Chapter of the American Red Cross are having a BLOG OFF to see which is the best! See, the Water Blog gets all kinds of attention for being an innovative way to communicate with […]