January 31st, 2009 by Daniel Remember creating mix tapes for your friends, carefully choosing their audio experience? Me neither, but I wish I did. Muxtape endeavors to bring that feeling back for the first time.
They used to be a fast rising star in the internet world until the reality of band labels hit them. It’s an interesting story. Now they seem to be creating [...]
January 31st, 2009 by Daniel If you happened to try a Google search sometime this morning between 6:30 a.m. PST and 7:25 a.m. PST you would have noticed that every result was marked as potential unsafe to your computer. That’s because Google decided that the entire internet is probably malicious.
Google attempted to fix this problem by unchecking the “entire internet” option [...]
January 30th, 2009 by Daniel This is no photochop. What you are looking at is a genuine, Vietnam era camera gun. It gives new meaning to photographers everywhere saying they’re going to go “shoot” their subject! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!1!
But seriously, it’s pretty impressive from a situational engineering standpoint. Gizmodo was able to get a hold of a guy who was a war [...]
January 30th, 2009 by Daniel All owners of the Xbox 360 received an extra Christmas present when they updated their console a month ago. I know I am a big fan of the new look and feel. I just ran across a post by the design firm Gridplane that came up with a competing concept for the New Xbox Experience. Behold what [...]
January 30th, 2009 by Daniel Ars Technica links to an article done by the Rocky Mountain News investigating red light cameras in Denver. While I have much to say about red light cameras specifically, and even more about traffic “laws” in general, the interesting thing to me about this news comes in the last paragraph of the Ars Technica writeup; longer yellow [...]
January 30th, 2009 by Daniel One of the more interesting (to me) additions to the new version of GarageBand included in iLife ‘09 is the Learn to Play feature. So now, not only can you put together loops, synthesized music, and your own instrumentals, you can learn to play any instrument you might want to record. Want to [...]
January 30th, 2009 by Daniel (That’s right, I’m not above alliteration) Those who know me know of my love for the upcoming Palm Pre. It’s a new contender with fresh ideas in the me-too world of touchscreen phones. I love it.
Apple, however, may see things differently. It turns out that Apple has patented a lot of what we think of [...]
January 30th, 2009 by Daniel One of the sites I have in my RSS reader is TheDailyWTF.com. The site is an absolute mine of comedy jewels. It’s like Dilbert sans the bland.1
The most recent article I’ve read is just great. As you read it, picture that the guy works at Microsoft. Lovely.
1. I have a theory that Adams thought [...]
January 29th, 2009 by Daniel The Chuck Norris Facts thing played out a couple years ago, but every once in a while the dead horse still kicks.
January 29th, 2009 by Daniel This is for everyone whose only solution to Rubik’s cube was dismantling the torture device, then reassembling it to look kinda like all the colors match. That’s right Stacy, you can put the hammer down; there is a better way.
Some bright developers have put an app out that will solve any Rubik’s cube in under [...]
January 28th, 2009 by Daniel When the iPhone development kit was announced, developers were rightly upset that only Apple’s native apps could run in the background. The solution offered was a push notification system that would pop up an alert, like when you get a text message, any time the app wants to get the user’s attention. This seems to [...]
January 28th, 2009 by Daniel I am totally obsessed with switching themes in anything I use. Take Mac OS X for instance. Even though there are only two possible themes (Graphite and Blue), I switch between them every few months. I know what they both are like. I’ve used them both for years. However, I can’t stay still for long.
Now [...]
January 28th, 2009 by Daniel I said I’d update when there’s something interesting, and now there’s something interesting. The Consumerist reports on a new study by the University of Rochester shows that:
bisphenol-A (BPA), a potentially toxic chemical found in many plastics, can enter the body via non-food sources and lingers in the body longer than previously thought.
What is BPA? Since I [...]
January 25th, 2009 by Daniel You know what’s the saddest thing? Every once in a while I’ll check GrandLarseny.com to see if there’s anything new. For those who may be a little slow, GrandLarseny.com is the website you are reading now, written solely by me. There is nothing new unless I write it.
You know what, though; that’s just the way I [...]
