Monthly Archives: June 2009

All Things Considered

| Published: June 30, 2009
NPR’s All Things Considered is one of the few great news/current events radio shows out there. That’s why it’s so galling that they don’t have an official podcast. You can only download snippets from their website, which is generous of them, but getting these onto my iPod was such a colossal pain in the dick [...]
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Glastonbury

| Published: June 29, 2009
The Big Picture posted its roundup of Glastonbury picture, and they’re stunning, as usual. One thing struck me looking at this picture though – when did Glastonbury move to Never Never Land?
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Unleash the Beast

| Published: June 29, 2009
Hilarious article on energy drinks from Gourmet.com: Measuring up the prose of energy drinks against daily life will lead to all sorts of absurdities: “Julia, can I get you a coffee?” “No, I have a ton of editing to do, I need the venom of a Death Adder which has the power to strike back.” [...]
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Reality Overlay

| Published: June 27, 2009
Now that high end “Smart Phones” are being released with all sorts of built-in doo-dads, like a camera, GPS unit and compass, it means that phones know exactly where they are and what you’re pointing them at. Which leads to some interesting applications: It works as follows: Starting up the Layar application automatically activates the [...]
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Wait, Scratch That, Reverse it

| Published: June 26, 2009
Notice anything different? My blog was drowning under almost five years of cruft and unfocused babbling, so I’ve decided to do an old etch-a-sketch revamp. Shake it up, start again. This time, less bullshit, I promise. I want to use this blog for writing. Not as a link-dump, or a Youtube proxy (although I’m sure [...]
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