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Blog Posts.

  • Sponsors of Tomorrow – “Intel Stars”

    This video is no longer available on YouTube, but you can try a Google search for it.

    YouTube – An “Intel Star” TV ad — Sponsors of Tomorrow.

    Nice work, Intel. Love the ad. 🙂

  • This blog is under the protection of Chuck Norris.

    A POSH bakery in Split, Croatia, has been broken into almost every week.

    But not since the shop owners posted a life-sized photo of the toughest man in Hollywood Chuck Norris in the window.

    The sign says: “This shop is under the protection of Chuck Norris.”

    via Chuck Norris saves a bakery | The Courier-Mail.

  • Coilgun, the DIY edition

    DIY Coilgun

    The bad boy pictured above was put together by a Mr. Daniel Eindhoven for €100 (that’s about $133). A semiautomatic single stage gun that boasts a 14 shot capacity, the weapon’s capable of firing a 42 gram projectile at speeds up to 110km/h, with a charge time of 8 seconds when plugged into mains power (or if you’re on the go, the internal batteries will light up in about 90 seconds).

    via DIY coilgun gives clever hobbyists the risk of permanent injury.

  • Incredible Steve Jobs Portrait in Apple Typefaces

    Steve Jobs Typefaces

    At first, Dylan’s portrait looks like a pointillist painting. But on closer inspection, you see that Jobs is rendered in the words of “the crazy ones” TV ad, using a variety of Apple-related fonts — Motter Tektura, Apple Garamond, Myriad, Univers, Gill Sans, and Volkswagen AG Rounded, to be exact.

    via Incredible Steve Jobs Portrait in Apple Typefaces | Cult of Mac.

  • What is Aardvark? [NOW WITH INVITES]

    Aardvark is a social search service that connects users live with friends or friends-of-friends who are able to answer their questions. Users submit questions via email or instant messenger and Aardvark identifies and facilitates a live chat or email conversation with one or more topic experts in the asker’s extended social network. Users can also review question and answer history and other settings on the Aardvark website.

    via Aardvark (search engine) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

    Furthermore,

    When a user joins Aardvark, Aardvark is added to the user’s IM buddylist. Users submit questions by email or IM. Aardvark guides the user through the question process by providing messages that confirm receipt of the question and explain any actions required by the user. IM users are also able to use a variety of “IM commands”–one word messages that can be used to fine-tune the question parameters, invite new users, or get help.

    Aardvark currently supports Google Talk, Windows Live Messenger, and AOL Instant Messenger.

    If you need an invite link, feel free to use mine, available here.

    Some people have responded to Aardvark by saying that it’s example questions can be answered using Google – and for the most part, I agree – increasingly, I find that people who use Aardvark are just damned lazy.

    For example, I got this from some guy in Sweden:

    How do I printscreen when using Parallels Desktop on a Mac?

    Not having used Parallels before, I decided to Google it – I eventually stumbled across a couple of forum threads that suggested using XP’s built-in on-screen-keyboard with it’s printscn key worked a treat. It took me what, 30 seconds to look on Google? For crying out loud.

    Another one I got was:

    Anyone know any good Linux data recover software?

    At the time Lifehacker hadn’t released their article detailing free data recovery tools, so Google proved fruitless. Of course, I wasn’t searching for “linux data recovery”, so I have to brush up on my Google-fu.

    Last one I thought was pretty stupid:

    How can i nstall the newest version of ICQ on my Windows 2000?

    I mean, COME. ON. HAVE YOU HEARD OF GOOGLE?!

    No, Aardvark is best used for those personal questions. “What’s the best way to ask out a girl?”, “Where’s the best place for a good meal on a saturday night in Hobart?”, “How do I tell my girlfriend of 15 years that I’m gay?” Okay, I’m kidding on the last one. But really – those personal recommendations that you can’t get though Google work a treat on these so-called “social networks”.

    To each his own, I guess.

    Anyways, if you need an invite link, hit up mine: available here.

  • The Hit List: Basics and Beyond

    This seems as good a time as any to mention a large easter egg in the app. ‘Tis the season, as well. Create a task with the word “Mario” in it, complete it, and archive it. Do the same with “Star wars”. Now you’ll see why those are the only two tasks allowed to stay in the archive of my Inbox, for those times I need a motivator and don’t have any chocolate around. Speaking of which, excuse me for a second…

    via The Hit List: Basics and Beyond | International Mac Podcast.

    A dammed excellent article on why you should be using The Hit List as part of your Getting Things Done methodology (or, more accurately, a tutorial on how to use The Hit List to it’s full extent).

    The day of my GTD approach is nigh – just gotta wait for The Hit List on iPhone, and I’ll be all set.

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