Image courtesy The Feed So you’re strolling down the sidewalk beachside on Cape Code, or the Jersey Shore, or in Venice, or Santa Cruz, or wherever, and there they are, set up with their easels and charcoal: caricaturists. You know: those folks–often art students at the local college–who do a quick sketch of you and [...]
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Want to Know the Difference Between Two Things? DifferenceBetween.net Can Help
This morning I wanted to make sure that I was straight about what the difference between clams and oysters was, beyond taste; I must have slept through that lesson in Biology. As I often do, I turned to Google and posed my question in the search bar. The first site that popped up answered my question perfectly, and when [...]
AndroidActivist and the Android Community Help Fight Autism by Raising $1700 in a Swag Filled Auction
Image courtesy of LostandTired Last night while viewing to the RadioAndroid.net show I was able to be part of something pretty special. It’s been a while since I was able to listen in on the show but I’m certainly glad this was the one I was able to attend. The show starts at 10pm on [...]
Stupidities of Life Got You Down? Chronicle Them on SoStupid
Why do we drive on parkways and park on driveways? Why do flight attendants tell you to remain seated until the aircraft comes to “a full and complete stop”? Is there such a thing as an incomplete stop? Or perhaps a half-full stop? Why can you be underwhelmed and overwhelmed but not “whelmed”? Why can’t [...]
PDA-247 Becomes Lost In Mobile
It’s a cliché these days, but let’s face facts: Media is evolving at a ridiculous rate. For the longest time, you had stuff written by hand, or chiseled out of some kind of rock, or painted on walls, or something. Slow, hard to transport, not easily copied. Then we got the printing press, and things improved somewhat. [...]
Google’s Brilliant Tribute to Les Paul, Instrumental Inventor
Mitchell Oke left me a message asking if I had seen Google yet this morning. Of course, he left it last night, since he is hours ahead of me in Australia. I took a look, and he is correct … it’s brilliant. From the Google Blog: The electric guitar brings back memories for me of [...]
GD Quickie: Speed Painting Jack Sparrow
We all know Photoshop is a great product. While I may be partial to the open source program called the Gimp, Photoshop is still the king of editing programs. When you really know your stuff, you can do some pretty amazing things with Photoshop. A co-worker and teacher of mine, Gene Strickland, has done something [...]
Philanthroper Offers a New Twist on Giving
There is an old story about an illiterate man who was walking along when he saw a rock with a perfect hole drilled right through it. Amazed, the man stopped and looked a bit closer. Upon examination he realized that every few minutes a drop of water fell from the top of a cliff far [...]
Kickstarter Project Focus- The Vere Sandal Company
I’m really digging this whole Kickstarter concept. If you are not familiar with Kickstarter, it is an online threshold pledge system for funding creative projects. Kickstarter has funded a diverse array of endeavors,ranging from indie film and music to journalism and food-related projects. One of a new set of fundraising platforms dubbed “crowdfunding”, Kickstarter facilitates [...]
Get Added to Orange UK’s Secret Portrait Twitter Gallery
I’ve always loved watching caricature artists quickly plot out their exaggerated perception of their subjects, but this new offering from Orange UK’s The Feed takes the art to a whole new level. They are offering “secret portraits” of twitter users based on a tweeted self-description. I am about to enter mine, and I thought you [...]
Review of Astraware Mahjong for iPad on Clinton Fitch’s New AlliOSNews Site
Mahjong — which like Channukah seems to have almost as many “correct” spellings as there are people trying to spell it — is one of those games that has been around forever, and makes its transition to new computer platforms with rather amazing rapidity. I played Moonlight Mahjong on the iPhone for a long time [...]
ShirtsMyWay – Custom Shirts Designed and Ordered From Home – Review
A few years ago I lost a good bit of weight thanks to the South Beach Diet. From a health perspective it was good. From a wardrobe perspective however… well that was a different story. Suddenly none of my suits fit. It was the same story with my dress shirts, and replacing them was going [...]
I Have A Confession: I’m Addicted to Sporcle
I first heard about Sporcle on the Howard Stern show. Howard was joking that his crew spends most of their time, time when they should all be working, playing on the site. What’s Sporcle? Sporcle is a trivia based web site and not only is it super addicting, it’s super fun. Well of course it [...]
LinkedIn Now Lets You ‘Follow’ Companies
LinkedIn was once described to me as ‘Facebook for professionals’. In keeping with that analogy, it is fitting that LinkedIn has now come out with something that is more or less the same as Facebook’s ‘Fan’ page that many entertainment companies have. It is called ‘LinkedIn Company Following’, and is as simple as searching out [...]
Photos That Might Just Make You Dizzy
The fact that today’s cameras are taking capturing images unlike we’ve ever seen before should come as no surprise to anyone. Technology grows every day and with it the ability to capture images both digitally and on film does as well. What might surprise you though are the photos on Utah3d.net. Utah is a state [...]
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