The Merchants of Cool- March 23, 2007 PBS Frontline documentary about youth and advertising in the information age.http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8576977034985765950&hl=en Blog house- March 19, 2007 Possibly the dummest name for a music genre ever. I thought Geocities Trance was pretty bad as well.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog_house Collecting double takes- March 17, 2007 I have seen many a person checking out with k-y and thought exactly the same thought.http://xkcd.com/c236.html Miniature synthesizers- March 16, 2007 This is why I love the internet. Well, one of the many reasons.http://www.flickr.com/photos/danmcp/sets/72157594294355299/ Forum readers catch a hit and run on photo- March 13, 2007 One user of a local car forum posted about a recent hit and run while another happened to have just bought a fancy new camera and was on the scene. Amazing.http://forums.beyond.ca/showthread.php?s=&threadid=168264 Khoi Vinh's redesign of Yaaaaaahoooo!- March 12, 2007 It's not as surprising as one might expect; The new Yahoo is surprisingly similar.http://yeeaahh.subtraction.com/ Get the Glass!- March 12, 2007 Very slick flash advergame for the Got Milk campaign. And who said advertising is necessarily bad!http://www.gettheglass.com/ I'm going to the SXSW Interactive for the first time... how can I make the most of it- March 8, 2007 Micah is asking for some help navigating SXSW Interactive. I did my best, but I'm sure others can do better.http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070307234425AAhT8kN 1982 interview with Nolan Bushnell, inventor of Pong, founder of Atari- March 8, 2007 Amazingly candid interview which is so right on for being 25 years old. I never knew what Atari meant! And some great technology quotes, such as my favorite: "video games are the training wheels of computer literacy." Brilliant man.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h93eLDhHqY8 LazerTag commercial- March 7, 2007 More 80's nostalgia, and one of the most epic commercials evar. Is it just me, or was LazerTag just glorified infrared remote controls How we had the wool pulled over our eyes.http://youtube.com/watch?v=iEAYgYrVmDI |