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  • adam 11:02 on 2011/04/21 Permalink  

    Try Netflix free for a month 

    Disclaimer: We have a Netflix account. As far as I can tell, anyone using this coupon for one month free gets me nothing – no discount, no free month, just another Netflix customer. We LOVE the service so far – we have online streaming to the laptop and the Wii, as well as the DVD’s that arrive about once a week when I remember to send them back. It’s a great service so far, and we’ve definitely gotten our moneys worth – Abby alone has watched about a movie a day so far, saving us untold amounts of money. We like it, and since they’re giving a month away free, I felt like I should share….. (Offer expires 6/15/2011)

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  • adam 09:08 on 2009/04/03 Permalink
    Tags: , , , , thinkgeek   

    ThinkGeek makes a funny – soon to be real? 

    tauntaun-sleepingbag.jpgEvery year for April Fools day, ThinkGeek comes up with some outlandish product “offerings.” This year, it included the sleeping bag seen here: a Tauntaun Sleeping Bag. Among the features….

    • Classic Star Wars sleeping bag simulates the warmth of a Tauntaun carcass
    • Built-in embroidered Tauntaun head pillow
    • Glowing Lightsaber zipper pull
    • Great for playing pretend “Save Luke from the Wampa” games
    • Teach your children about the best Star Wars movie ever
    • Fully Licensed Lucasfilm™ Collectable
    • Fits children (and small adults)

    My favorite part: the pattern on the inside, which looks like Tauntaun entrails (just like in the movie!).
    Anyway, it turns out that enough people tried to buy it and complained when they found out it was just an April Fools joke that ThinkGeek has added this message to the page:

    ATTN Tauntaun Fanatics! Due to an overwhelming tsunami of requests from YOU THE PEOPLE, we have decided to TRY and bring this to life. We have no clue if the suits at Lucasfilms will grant little ThinkGeek a license, nor do we know how much it would ultimately retail for. But if you are interested in ever owning one of these, click the link below and we’ll try!

    The link, if you want to know if they manage to make and start selling them, is this one. Click it! You know you want to! I’ve already signed up and hope that the price is right for me to get one for each of the boys – I know they’ll love them!

     

  • adam 07:54 on 2008/05/08 Permalink
    Tags: , , , privacy, ,   

    "The vanishing personal site"? Maybe, maybe not… 

    Jeffrey Zeldman Presents : The vanishing personal site

    Our personal sites, once our primary points of online presence, are becoming sock drawers for displaced first-person content. We are witnessing the disappearance of the all-in-one, carefully designed personal site containing professional information, links, and brief bursts of frequently updated content to which others respond via comments. Did I say we are witnessing the traditional personal site’s disappearance? That is inaccurate. We are the ones making our own sites disappear.
    Now that’s pretty darn insightful. Zeldman mentions Jody Ferry’s site specifically, and it’s a great example: a home page, and then links that take viewers OFF the site.
    I’ve been posting more photos to Flickr than I have to my family galleries. I spend more time on FaceBook – mindless distraction that it is – than I do posting on my own site. And I just joined Twitter, for reasons that I don’t know that I fully understand. To what end? I’m not sure.
    I see his point – websites used to be all about capturing eyeballs and keeping them on your site. Then people started selling adverts, and it was even more important to keep those visitors coming in and staying in – or leaving through your adverts. Now, with the advent of all these more interesting services, and the ease with which they can be used, more people are just taking advantage of that ease and moving their content elsewhere. Why try to build your own photo gallery – or install someone else’s – when you can just point people to your Flickr collection? Why post regularly when you can Twitter? Well, that’s not quite the same, but it’s similar.
    I myself discovered del.icio.us and have all but stopped using the bookmark feature in my web browserS. Why? Part of it is the ease of having my bookmarks so easily available – especially from the multiple platforms and browsers. It’s also a lot easier to find bookmarks when I need them – I tag everything going into del.icio.us, sometimes over-tagging them, but it’s really easy to find stuff now – rather than spending 20 minutes trying to remember the name of a site, I go to the page for the tag that I believe is the right, and I usually have the link right there.
    What does this all mean? I myself have been farming work out to others – and didn’t think too much about doing it. Due to the nature of the internet, and the way my account is setup, my photos are public, my Twitters are public, and most of my bookmarks are public. Do I care? Well, sometimes I wonder if I’m sharing too much. But at the same time, I haven’t done anything to lock down my family photo gallery – although it would be trivial to do so. I make an effort to keep my bookmarks private when it’s not something I want shared with the public. I can do the same thing with my Flickr photos – and have done so in the past. Twitters, well, I guess that’s more than a bit like this blog – I can, and do, self-censor. If I didn’t, life might be more than a little awkward.
    But where does it all lead?

     

  • adam 09:43 on 2007/10/18 Permalink
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    Another fun ride in… 

    Today’s fun ride into work was brought to you by Chaiyya Chaiyya, a fun little song from the movie Inside Man (Widescreen Edition). It’s Indian or Pakistani or something – not really sure to be honest – but it’s kind of fun and helped kill 6 minutes, 54 seconds of my commute this morning. I particularly like the percussion work, as it’s rather complex at times.
    Oh, and if you just mouse over one of those links, you should get Amazon’s fancy new product preview pop-up. It’s kinda cool. And speaking of Amazon, did you know about Amazon MP3? Among the best reasons to patronize them is that, like the iTunes Music Store, you can buy just one song at a time if you so choose. You can also – get this – copy the song to any device you want. How? No DRM is applied to the songs. Madness!

     

  • adam 08:47 on 2007/08/27 Permalink
    Tags: attack, , , quiz,   

    Zombie attack! 

    42%

    Mingle2 – Free Online Dating

    I think I scored so “poorly” because I decided should Zombies attack, I’d try to save Jen and the kids. Obviously when I say “save,” I’m referring to non-zombie attacked people – if they’re bitten/infected/touched (a new variant of zombie, apparently) then I’m not going to be in denial and hope they can be saved. Zombie lore says that once they’re infected, they’re done for. Sad but true!

     

  • adam 22:05 on 2006/10/08 Permalink
    Tags: , , opportunity, orbiter, rover   

    NASA – Opportunity at Crater's 'Cape Verde' (Annotated) 

    NASA – Opportunity at Crater’s ‘Cape Verde’ (Annotated):
    Some very nice hi-res photos of the view of the rover Opportunity and where it’s been/what it’s been doing.

     

  • adam 12:33 on 2006/10/06 Permalink
    Tags: , , links, technology   

    del.icio.us tags abound… 

    I’m hoping to do something with this in the “I promise, I really do plan to redesign the site at some point” redesign, but in the meantime….


     

  • adam 13:41 on 2006/08/25 Permalink
    Tags: dateline, hollywood, premiere, snakes on a plane   

    Why the internet ROCKS 

    Woody from Dateline Hollywood managed to get into the media lineup for the “Snakes on a Plane” premiere. The results? They boggle the mind:
    All Your Snakes are Belong to Us

     

  • adam 14:32 on 2006/08/01 Permalink
    Tags: bttf, , , , travel   

    What the hecks a jiggawatt? 

    Brickshelf Gallery
    The third rendition of my BTTF Delorean. A newer and more detailed model is now up.
    If you haven’t seen this, check it out – a model of the DeLorean from Back to the Future made out of Lego. It’s quite impressive.

     

  • adam 09:37 on 2006/07/28 Permalink
    Tags: pipettes pull shapes youtube video music uk   

    Pull some shapes 

    YouTube – The Pipettes “Pull Shapes”
    When I first got this link, I figured it would be usual YouTube fare. And it was.
    But the video, which at first seems to just be a movie clip they stuck in for the video, actually seems to be the video for the song – so it’s either from some movie in the 60′s or a well done spoof video. Either way, it’s kind of enjoyable. The song is kinda “pop”-y, and spunky to boot.
    Having just received confirmation that it’s an actual group and this is them having some fun. Nice.

     

    • penny 12:19 on 2006/07/28 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      fun! hope the girls are learning the arm movements to be one step ahead!

  • adam 16:31 on 2006/04/25 Permalink
    Tags: travel united states us usa   

    Where in the states have I been? 

    It has apparently become all the rage to put together a map of where in the US you’ve been – so here’s mine.
    Where I've been in the US
    create your own personalized map of the USA or check out our California travel guide
    According to the site used to create the map, I’ve been to 19 of the 50 states, or 37% of the country. Amazingly, only about two of the states I’ve visited have only been for business only. And then there’s Illinois – I’ve only ever been there to spend time in Chicago’s O’Hare airport. Oh, and then there was also a frantic trip from O’Hare to Midway to make a flight. Of course, now that I think of it, Texas may not count either – but I happen to feel that 5+ hours on the tarmac of Dallas-Fort Worth airport in a plane with a pregnant wife, no air conditioning and nothing to do qualifies for a visit. It’s not like I was in and out – and clearly we weren’t having much fun…

     

  • adam 16:15 on 2006/03/04 Permalink
    Tags: cartoons, flintstones, , gazoo,   

    Do you remember… 

    The Great Gazoo
    Where Are They Now – The Great Gazoo: Where Are They Now?
    The Great Gazoo? You know, the green alien who always managed to get Fred and Barney into trouble? Yeah, I figured you’d forgotten him, just like I did. He’s not the only one listed on this site – there’s also Punky Brewster, Snarf (from “Thundercats!”), Scrappy Doo, The Fonz and many more.

     

  • adam 00:39 on 2005/06/17 Permalink  

    Google to the rescue, once again 

    So, I’m watching an episode of “Space: Above and Beyond” and they keep using an acronym I’m not familiar with: CFB. I’ve heard it before on the show and in one or two other places, but I was never sure what it meant. So I turn to google.
    And I find it in about 5 seconds, and the link – fifth on the list of results here: CFB (defined) is from the show I was watching. How cool is that?

     

  • adam 16:33 on 2005/05/13 Permalink  

    I've been saying this for years! 

    Engadget reports on Nike and Bausch Lomb’s MaxSight performance-enhancing lenses:
    Nike and Bausch & Lomb MaxSight performance-enhancing lensesOk, performance enhancing drugs, bad; but once we start getting into the realm of installable body mods things get a little sticky. We’ve got a feeling the jury’s still out on MaxSight lenses though; codeveloped by Nike (who else?) and Bausch & Lomb and just about ready to market, they’re designed to help players better track the objects and movement, increase contrast, and reduce glare (we’re trying to avoid the obvious 28 Days Later/zombie jokes here). And they’re apparently already making their way into MLB by way of the Orioles’ second baseman Brian Roberts. But you know, it’s all fun and games until somebody’s down in the outfield on all fours screaming, “My contact, my contact!”
    Aside from the sunglass/contact lenses, I think it would be cool to do other things – like some kind of IR sensitive contacts for nightime use – that would be cool, eh?

     

  • adam 07:02 on 2005/03/23 Permalink  

    I'd buy THAT for a dollar! 

    Montage-a-google:
    This is way fun: type in a search term and it will create a montage for you. Fast, clean, fun. My only problem is that you can’t save the resulting montage….

     

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