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.
Category Archives: geek skills
Spam to Gold: Ditch Your Spam for Kids
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 […]
ET, Please Phone Home
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 […]
The Do Not Call List
Serious String
YouTube Quality: The Hack
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 […]
A moment of Amy Winehouse levity from Photoshop Disasters
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 […]