Archive for January, 2006

Tapeman says “Eat Me!!!”

Monday, January 30th, 2006

Got bored yesterday watching a rerun of Desperate Housewives and decided to take my own advice and make my own clothes. Here’s a shirt I’m buying (and building) at Spreadshirt, because I’d actually want to wear it.
And hey, if I can wear it, maybe you want to wear it too. So here you go (click [...]

Colibri – Quicksilver for Windows

Thursday, January 26th, 2006

If you’re lucky enough to be on a Mac, then you’ve probably had the pleasure of using Quicksilver, an application launcher, document searcher, and general computing-life enhancer.
Well, I just found Colibri, an application for Windows that does many of the same things. It makes launching an application as easy as typing the first few letters [...]

Kobe videos

Tuesday, January 24th, 2006

It’s been a while since my last basketball post, but the unlikely event of one man scoring 81 points in 42 minutes deserves some ink, even from me.

Here’s video of all 81 of Kobe’s points, condensed down to three minutes. Honestly, I’m shocked at how quiet the crowd sounds, although it’s possible most of the [...]

How Google Got Me Lost

Thursday, January 19th, 2006

A lesson in trusting computers: don’t trust them. As I learned the hard way yesterday, if you’re not willing to do a small amount of human thinking, you’re at the mercy of a machine, and the machine is not always as smart as you think.
Case in point: I had a meeting with my sister last [...]

Raising Cain

Friday, January 13th, 2006

America’s boys are in trouble. They are the most violent in the industrialized world.
Surprised? I didn’t think so. It shouldn’t come as a shock to anyone that American boys are in crisis. For years now we’ve seen the statistic; lower grades, lower graduation rates, higher crime rates – than girls.
So when I caught this [...]