I recently joined a group of online and traditional media for the “Forward With Ford” event at Ford’s Dearborn facility for a multi-day event covering trends and technologies that Ford is addressing. Before attending, I was offered the choice of exploring three of the following sessions; I chose the ones with stars next to them. [...]
Archive | June, 2011
Chevy Camaro Convertible Hot As a Firecracker
This is my last Chevy Camaro review this year I promise. Maybe. Arriving just in time for the official launch of summer was this blazing redhot Victory Red Camaro Convertible. And as luck would have it we are celebrating the second hottest June ever right here in North Central Texas. Wonderful. What that means is [...]
Music Diary Notes: A Baker’s Dozen of Great Jazz Covers of Beatles Songs
No sooner had my Music Diary Retrospective: A Magical Mystery Tour of the Beatles Catalog been posted last year, I got an email from someone saying that they were surprised given my love and heavy coverage of jazz (including the recent Rubber Soulive by Soulive), that I didn’t list any jazz covers of Beatles songs. [...]
Gadget Geeks: New UK Show Will Recommend, Repurpose and Renovate Gadgets
Have you ever wanted to have an expert to build a gadget specifically for you, or if you have a gadget that is almost exactly what you need but it is lacking a certain feature, then you’ll want to pay attention to this: SKY 1 HD, the UK based TV channel has just announced an [...]
You Suspected They Were the Same Movie … Here’s Proof!
Image courtesy BuzzSugar I previously looked at how unsurprisingly music from the same songwriting factories … gasp … sounds alike. But the music industry isn’t the only group pushing out me-too efforts with just enough star power and a low enough budget that even a modest box office take will generate decent profits. Perhaps the [...]
Wakemate May Help You Wake up Feeling More Refreshed
Wakemate looks like an interesting device that promises to help you get a better night’s rest. Wakemate 2, works with software that runs on iOS, Blackberry and Android devices. To use it, you just set the 20 minute window that you want to wake up in and slip the band on. The band will [...]
Gear Games Deal: Fieldrunners HD Arrives on Android Market for $0.99!
Fieldrunners is a great game in the ‘tower defense’ genre. Basically you are set up on a grid and need to defend your base – represented by exits on the field – from attacking forces that enter through specific locations. You use an array of weapons that are each more powerful – and expensive – [...]
Gear Deal: Alienware M17x 17″ “Sandy Bridge” Laptop w/1GB Mobility Radeon HD 5870
Today’s Gear Deal brings us the updated 17″ Alienware M17x R3 Anodized Aluminum Gaming Laptop. This powerful laptop features a Core i7-2630QM processor, a 320GB Hard Drive, 4GB RAM, a 1GB GDDR5 Radeon HD 5870M, a 900p display, a DVDRW and more. It starts at $1799 but our Gear Sponsor has found some huge savings on it. [...]
Review: Monster Turbine Pearl High Performance In-Ear Speakers
Whether watching a movie, playing games or listening to music, many of us spend a lot of time with some sort of headphones in our ears. A while back I believed that the ubiquitous original iPod offerings were good enough. Later, I realized they were awful and bought some in ears buds. At the time, [...]
Music Diary Notes: The Quest for Loudness Continues!
When I was taking some music classes and working in one of the first digital music studios in the early 80′s, I was told that to use heavy compression to make everything seem louder and to ‘pop’ out of the speakers was a ‘rookie mistake’ that negated any dramatic impact that an artist is trying [...]
Random Cool Stuff: Your Saliva Can Reveal Your Age!
We know that our DNA holds the fingerprint to our entire physical makeup, but what about our age and the things that have happened to us through the years? Apparently we can even learn some of THAT through our DNA according to new research! According to a study from UCLA: During normal development, DNA in [...]
Capitalism Versus the Independent Bookstore
(image courtesy a feather adrift) Seattle Mystery Bookshop created quite the tempest in a teapot this past week. They’re a small independent bookstore in, you guessed it, Seattle. Seattle is also the home of Amazon.com, and it’s clear from SMB’s attitude that they are not happy to have Bezos and Company in their backyard. In [...]
PC Game Review: Duke Nukem Forever
I recently did a retrospective review on Duke Nukem 3D, so that experience was fresh in my mind as I loaded up Duke Nukem Forever and played it. One of the reasons I wanted to do that was because it is very easy for faded memories to turn into inaccurate assessments and then into unrealistic [...]
Gear Games Deal: World Of Warcraft ‘Starter Edition’ – Free to Play!
The world of massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPG) changed forever back in 2004 as Blizzard launched World of Warcraft. Almost instantly it became the leader in the genre, blowing away all competition. Even now, seven years later it dominates the MMORPG landscape, though subscriber rates have been flat or slightly shrinking at ~12 million [...]
LG G2X Screen Bleeding Issues Continue; No More Returns Accepted at T-Mobile
(If you aren’t familiar with the ongoing issues Francis has had with his G2X, be sure to see his initial explanation here: Original G2X Screen Bleed Article) Last week I wrote up a quick post about sending in my G2X to T-Mobile due to excessive screen bleeding issues. After receiving a new phone, returning a [...]
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