Along the same lines as Kutiman, the in Bb project is an amazing new venture in music. This time, however, it’s more of a roll-your-own type of deal. You are the creator of your own song which, unfortuantely or not, no one else will hear (most likely). You can get to the project at their [...]
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Michael James Moran Woodworked Furniture
Simple, brilliant website. While there are nice touches everywhere, I love the “FACT”s best. Michael James Moran Woodworked Furniture.
Thru You
I’ve already posted one video by Kutiman, please enjoy the rest of the series. They just get better and better. THRU YOU | Kutiman mixes YouTube.
Dispaches from Moscow
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency is just about the funniest high-brow humor that I have ever run across. I have already posted their insightful analysis of US Airways Flight 1549 (the flight that landed on the Hudson river without pontoon attachments). By “insightful analysis” I of course mean a hilarious lampooning of conspiracy theories that might arise regarding [...]
Kutiman
If I get some time, I’d love to write a true essay on why this video by Kutiman represents the current culture in so many different ways, but for now here’s the music video that got me hooked. Honestly, you really don’t even need to watch it, just listen to the he song created without [...]
Secret Founder’s Room
Panic is a Mac development company that produces some great work. If you’ve been designing with a Mac (or without a Mac, maybe) for any length of time you know of them. This is their Founder’s Room. When I tell my wife that I want my next house to have a secret passageway to a [...]
Online Owner’s Manuals
Great googly moogly, I get so fed up trying to find owner’s manuals when I really need them. I mean, honestly, if I kept the owner’s manual for every gadget I buy, I’d probably have to, like, file them away. It probably wouldn’t take too much space, thinking about it. Just a small filing cabnet [...]
Buy Forever Stamps Soon
Stamp prices are expected to rise again on May 11. It’s been hard to keep up with the litany of stamp price increases lately, which is why the post office offers the Forever Stamps that will always cover the postage for first class letters. Forever Stamps cost the same as first class stamps online at $8.40 [...]
Kindle 2
Amazon has announced the successor to their eBook industry-starting Kindle, the aptly named Kindle 2. As far as crafting an update to a wildly popular product goes, Amazon has done very well here. They have kept the obvious successful features (wireless book downloads, slim form factor, decent screen), and added just a few new features [...]
Google Earth
Google Earth version 5.0 was released today for across all end-user operating systems. What is most striking to me is the fact that in just a few short years, this app has gone from being the most remarkable program running on my machine to an interesting note in the history of maps applications. Today I [...]
Google Error Surprisingly Wise
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” [...]
The New-New Xbox Experience
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 [...]
Red Light Cameras
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 [...]
GarageBand for Beginners
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 add a [...]