Archive for the ‘geek skills’ Category

Siri Says: “Email Sent!”

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Hilarious Siri video from some dude on Vimeo. This is what happens when two iPhone 4s’ talk to each other.

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Read more | Comments (0) | Oct 28, 2011

Making a Cardboard Camera

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Dad, this one’s for you. This is what I call an extraordinary level of effort and precision. The thing actually works, but good luck on getting the film. You’d have to process it in a trash barrel or paint bucket. Kiel Johnson’s Cardboard Twin Lens Reflex Camera Time Lapse from Theo Jemison.

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Read more | Comments (0) | Oct 5, 2010

Spam to Gold: Ditch Your Spam for Kids

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Change Spam Mail Into School Lunches Spam mail is good for something! What a shock. Chipotle has a great new benefit to improve school lunches, and it involves spam. Spam to gold! Once Chipotle gets 500,000 spam emails, they’ll donate $50,000 to The Lunch Box, which means lots more healthy food for school kids. Check [...]

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Read more | Comments (0) | Jun 27, 2010

ET, Please Phone Home

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If you’re a habitual This American Life radio listener like I am, you might have heard the story about a guy who has differences with his dad in the program entitled “Go Ask Your Father.” Unlike most father-son conflicts, this one wasn’t about sports, report cards, or borrowing the car to make out with the [...]

Read more | Comments (0) | Nov 11, 2009

The Do Not Call List

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The Do Not Call List Is Broken The Do Not Call List is another new feature on our modern communications landscape, and it’s one I’m not particularly fond of. You see, the Do Not Call List does exactly what you don’t want it to do — it makes your phone number readily available to telemarketers. [...]

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Read more | Comments (2) | May 23, 2009

Serious String

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A necessity in any game writer’s arsenal.

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Read more | Comments (0) | Apr 22, 2009

YouTube Quality: The Hack

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YouTube Quality Puzzle Solved By A Blogger Who’s Not Me YouTube video quality is a mysterious thing, especially since they run their own compression on (most? all?) video that’s been uploaded to the site. Even more mysterious is how to get YouTube videos to default to high quality when you embed them on your own [...]

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Read more | Comments (0) | Apr 4, 2009

A moment of Amy Winehouse levity from Photoshop Disasters

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Photoshop Disasters is often good for a howl. And it fits nicely into my “geek skills” category on this blog. With great power comes great responsibility, yadda yadda yadda. As if Amy Winehouse doesn’t have enough problems… she now has Thing growing out of her left shoulder. (Click to visit Photoshop Disasters. They’ve got some [...]

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Read more | Comments (1) | Aug 28, 2008

Can you geek it old-school?

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Quick note: are you retro? Can you do the old-school geek thing? Check out the Obsolete Skills List and see which ones ring a bell. What can you still do? Optimize modem connections with AT commands? Park a hard disk? (Okay, so it’s not that hard.) How about use a scythe or a sextant?

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Read more | Comments (0) | Mar 24, 2008