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As you can see, I just upgraded Wordpress and made a new theme. Let me know if anything is broken (I didn’t even test things in Internet Explorer or even Windows). I probably won’t fix it, but let me know anyway.
I was reading this post at the signal vs noise blog, and found it interesting to set expirations for images and content. I’d hate to have pictures of me from high school circulating the web because of a trendy-at-the-time blog, Facebook page or video post.
Google now has Street View for Boston. Here’s our apartment building, pretty cool.
I’m sure you all have been using it for years now, but I have recently (re)discovered Pandora. I still have my last.fm account, but found that the quality isn’t as good (last.fm is from the UK).
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Now just substitute “girlfriend” for “fiancee” and “sleeps with your cousin” with “sleeps with the girl that rented a room at your place.” (okay, so that never fully happened, but if it did and I had an iPhone I would stalk his ass and have the best tool to do so. Plus, I still have a list of other people to stalk and the capabilities are just astounding…)
Oh! And another reason…
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Now I can totally kick my meth habit!
Dell has announced it is selling computers preloaded with Ubuntu Linux! I am delighted another mainstream vendor is dropping the “Microsoft tax” on their hardware.
Visit http://www.dell.com/ubuntu for more!
MTV.com took a great step forward today in internet evolution (like wired.com did 5 years ago), axing the total Flash site for an accessible and creative XHTML one. For the technically challenged, Flash is basically a movie or animation clip. You can upload flash movies on your website (it’s what YouTube uses). It is great for movies. But people went overboard and started to build entire websites from flash movies. Here’s what’s wrong with them:
In short: full-flash sites suck ass.
The new MTV.com features content in text, so it can be searched. The content can also be updated easier, so it should get updated more often. They have this rad abstract art cycled in for the background. It is faster, it has better searching, etc.
But that’s not what all the mewing teenagers (at least the ones posting to their blog) would have you believe. I am trying to figure out if it is just one disgusted poster who can’t watch his Whitesnake videos from work or really a consensus from the crowd. I think it may be the former, as during the previews, they received good feedback.
Related: Dan at Simplebits (a local designer) helped on the site, so I may be a bit biased as his work totally rocks!
Look at all the wonderful domains you can buy at www.asspiss.com! Get started on those sites people! These look like potential internet gold!
Sarah and I have been playing Guitar Hero for the last few months. We even have a wireless guitar so we can go head-to-head. (I’m better). I guess it is out for XBox 360 now, a Gene Simmons was there for a promo.
If you’ve played the game, you know the guitar they give you is kinda crap — but check out the guitar Simmons gives that nerd (about 1/4 the way into the clip)!
an edited to add by sarah: brian is a stinking liar. i consistantly whoop his ass when we play head to head in guitar hero. actually, we haven’t played against each other in a few days cause his “boo hoo! i just lost!” pouting is too much for me to take.
Sony announced it’s newest display products this summer will start using OLED. What exactly is OLED? Well, LED stands for “light emitting device (or diode)”. The O in OLED is “organic” (but in the sense that organic things are made from carbon molecules, not that expensive section at Shaws).
So what this means to you is since OLED doesn’t need a backlight (like the currenly popular standard LED), it can be way skinner than Nicole Richie. Take a look:
Update: Toshiba announced it is planning OLEDs in 2009.
Update: Check out this amazing video of this stuff!
