Its Halloween! Yes. I <3 Halloween. Of course, I waited until the last week to figure out my costume. But, many intertronic hours later I found my niche. I am a nerd and so I want to dress up like one. Revenge of the nerds style…remember these guys? Louis Skolnick, Gilbert, Booger, & Poindexter, Harold, [...]
Did you realize that? I didn’t… I decided to do some research on this topic after being inspired from a few interesting comments. I was watching a video from Google Talks, their author series. This one was by Cory Doctorow and the comments were that (1) we are living in the Information Age (2) and [...]
My old favorite drink: cranberry and vodka My new favorite drinks: * Tom Collins * Whiskey Sour * White and/or Black Russian * Mai Tai Don’t know if I like these or not, but all I ever oder is a cranberry vodka. What a dork I am. I need to expand my drinking horizons. Besides [...]
“I’ve long noticed this phenomenon in my own life. I can’t remember a single friend’s email address. Hell, sometimes I have to search my inbox to remember an associate’s last name. Friends of mine space out on lunch dates unless Outlook pings them. And when it comes to cultural trivia — celebrity names, song lyrics [...]
It’s kind of sad story, really. Here is this web phenomenon that has seemingly arisen out of nowhere. People are clicking to it by happenstance. Once they get there, they are often confused about what they are seeing. This confusion has led to a strong need to discredit, boycott, and even actively disrupt the world’s [...]
How do you use youtube? Do you occasionally visit it for a funny video a friend told you about, do you watch from other sites, or maybe get them sent to you. I know of many people, myself included, now use it for music and music videos. Finally, maybe you don’t use it at all… [...]
I remember the day when my college stopped passing out a syllabus. Being the standard college slacker, I walked into my new class tired and hungover. I plopped myself down and waited for the standard new class introduction. I was hoping to snooze some, but I was out of luck. Class policies had changed and [...]
MIT is an amazing place to be. Check out this new research center. The MIT Center for Collective Intelligence starts off with the following research question: How can people and computers be connected so that—collectively—they act more intelligently than any individuals, groups, or computers have ever done before?
It is my ultimate goal to have podcasting take over the world. “Gee, Brain, what do you want to do tonight?” – Pinky “Same thing we do everyday, Pinky. Try to take over the world”. – Brain Until that happens, or to further my goal, here are some great podcasts to listen to: 1. This [...]
They are cool looking, I want one in my apartment. You know. And, considering that they are pretty much nostalgia at this point in time, I wanna throw that out there now, before they start taking them down. When they do I will be waiting with a truck and a smile. It is strange, but [...]