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Skype / Facebook video initial thoughts

See the full gallery on Posterous I’m really excited about the Skype / Facebook video integration.  I have heard rumblings about this from inside of Skype for quite sometime now so it is great to see them finally pushing this out.  (Thanks to Simon for being my model in the test photos)  Try it out […]

Bye bye Smart, Hello Scion!

If you ever wanted a competitor to the Smart Car, the Scion iQ is here to fill the void. This all-electric mini car due to hit the streets in 2012 is not only adorable and eco-friendly, but a friend to short-range drivers as well – a charge gets a driving range of about 50 miles, […]

The Science of Cooking w/ Nathan Myhrvold

The Science of Cooking w/ Nathan Myhrvold

Modernist Cuisine is the most ambitious cookbook(s) on the planet.  Seriously.  It is a six-volume, 2,438-page set that is des­tined to rein­vent cook­ing.  Totally amazing.  I want! http://modernistcuisine.com/ For those of you geeks out there that don’t know who Nathan Myhrovold is: DR. NATHAN MYHRVOLD is chief exec­u­tive offi­cer and a founder of Intellectual Ventures, a firm […]

Tilt Shift photography

One of the features that I love most about my new Canon 60D camera is the built-in tilt shift feature in creative mode.  It is really cool to miniaturize scenes. I need to play around with a bit more because these were my first attempts at figuring out which images process well. Here is an amazing video […]

California Internet tax bill breakdown

In the past few days I have been closely following (and trying to make sense of) this California legislation that was passed by Governor Jerry Brown in regards to Internet sales tax collection for the state.  I have tried to break it down into something understandable here.  Please correct me on points if I am […]

Google + search fail

Um.  So when I search for Google +, I don't get Google + in Google results.  Who named that project anyways?  It is a horrible name.  FAIL.

Guerrilla marketing gone bad. Thanks, reddit.

Thanks to the asshole who happened to stick a reddit bumper sticker on my car door.  Now I get to spend time trying to get this sticky thing off my door.  Who does something so mean?  Seriously wrong.