Archive: Technology category
Television didn't used to bother me, but over the past few weeks it's become a set of long, chipped fingernails scraping across a chalkboard for me. There's something about it -- the mindlessness of most of it, perhaps? -- that grates on my nerves. It's becoming almost physical; ...
When I find interesting stuff online, I used to blog about it. That doesn't happen anymore -- instead I twitter it and post it to Facebook and Google Reader, and occasionally Delicious as well if it's something I want to find again later.
This is a ...
I've never actually seen Minority Report, but the user interface in the movie is legend. And legend is swiftly becoming reality:
Pretty dang amazing, and this is just the beginning. It's even ...
I got my iPhone today. It's not perfect, but it blows my old phone out of the water. I am a happy camper. :) More later once I spend more time with it, but of the apps I've tried out so far, I rather like Twitterrific, BoxOffice, ...
I recently found a cool YouTube video from creativebits on real-time gradient-domain painting. It's the next generation of the clone tool -- and wow is it sweet. If you use Photoshop at all, check it out.
There's also a really cool holographic display featured by Wired that'll ...
Are we developing ADD as a society? I came across two interesting articles on similar themes, one from the Baltimore Sun titled Plugged in, zoned out, and the other from the Atlantic Monthly titled Is Google Making Us Stupid?. From the first:
When River Hill High School ...
I stopped by my parents' home for an hour tonight and played the piano, and while I was playing through some of the David Lanz music I grew up with, I realized that my fingers still remembered a ton of the music -- and some of these were pieces I ...
Tomorrow at 10 a.m. San Francisco time is the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, and boy am I excited. There's been a slew of rumors floating around as to what Steve Jobs is going to announce -- the iPhone's going to get official Apple sanction on third-party applications, which ...
My ten-year-old cousin told me tonight that my hair looked like a toupée. Maybe it's time to get a haircut. :) Then again, when your hair is on the retreat, climbing up the hill, you want to take advantage of its length while you still can. I ...
From Times and Seasons, Orbital Sacrament quotes Don Lind about his sacrament service in outer space. And NorthTemple links to a similar situation -- How does an Islamic astronaut face Mecca in orbit? -- and mentions that "it’s interesting how the experience of religion changes as ...
