Literal Barrage

Category: Technology

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    LAUGHTER = VERY YES

    I laugh, because the alternative is to cry: If only ’tweren’t so true. Via Laughing Squid, who you probably ought to be subscribing to anyways.

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    WipEout R/C Edition? Yes Please!

    Yowsa. Arduino + a heaping amount of German ingenuity For. The. Win.

  • More Google Wave Invites

    I’ve run through the winners from the last round of Wave invites and was pleased to note that I received a slew of new ones in my Inbox this morning. I’ve sent out the invites for folks who were left over from that round, so we can consider that particular contest closed. (The answer was…

  • Google Wave Invites

    I just recently wrangled my way onto Google Wave and, well, there’s not a whole lot of folks to talk with as of yet, since invites are so scarce. However, I’ve a total of four Wave invites sitting in my Inbox, waiting for disbursal. So, the first four people that either follow me on Twitter…

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    Sunday Schnitzels Cripples

    Regular readers will no doubt recall my previous encounters with Google Voice’s automated message taking. It seems as though my experience is not unique, as the New York Times Personal Tech section’s columnist published his Voice number and asked readers to give the message transcription feature a run for its money. The results, well, are…

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    Web Site Story: Way, WAY Too Much Work

    Hooray for free time! Huzzah for other people using it to create amusing parodies of old musicals!

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    Fun With Animation

    Ever wanted to watch the exposure cycle of a modern DSLR camera in super slow motion? Well now you can. Granted, it’s no pre-Assyrian jumping goat bowl1, but it’s cool nonetheless. 1“Pre-Assyrian Jumping Goat Bowl” would make an excellent name for a band.

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    Internet Future-/Navel-Gazing

    A quick thought (and corresponding question) occurred to me: Bill Clinton was the first President to face opponents on the Internet, George W. Bush the first to face organized opposition, and Barack Obama the first to capably utilize that opposition to get elected. What “first” will the next President likely face?

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    From The Dep’t Of Unintentional Hilarity, Google Voice Edition

    I’ve been a Grand Central member since they were doing private betas and never had a whole lot of use for the service, but since Google activated Google Voice, I’ve been giving the whole shebang a thorough going-over. The feature set is definitely reduced from the GC days, but one nifty addition is voicemail transcription.…

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    Tweet Fulfillment

    There are days that I’m amazed by the Internet, and then there are days that it lives downup to my expectations. Take, for instance, a recent Tweet of mine in which I pondered I was quickly answered by Stephane, who pointed out the wonderfully-implemented and -documented iPod Shuffle RAID0 array. A few days thereafter, Slashdot…