Archive for the ‘The Interweb’ Category

Secret Service and the Shoes

Monday, December 15th, 2008

[singlepic=516,250,600,,right] Just read a post on 23/6 that brought up some good points about the Secret Service and the Iraqi shoe throwing incident: Questions That I Have for the Secret Service - Jon Friedman Shouldn't you have jumped in front of that shoe? Shouldn't you have jumped in front of that second shoe? more...

Let the Embedding Begin…

Friday, August 15th, 2008

Whoo hoo... two days ago we launched Annotations in the embedded player. Here's YouTube's blog post, Video Annotations Now Display On Embeds and some samples:

5 Seconds with Stan Smith

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

It's an old episode but this is still one of my favorite lines from American Dad:

Ad Targeting

Sunday, August 10th, 2008

While watching an episode of SciAm's Frontiers on Hulu I nearly choked on my dinner laughing. During a segment of the show about the famine of the Fremont Native Americans in Utah during the 1300s an ad overlay for Hungry Man suddenly came up and declared: "Hungry Man: It's good to ...

Deus Ex Machina, The Motorcycle

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

[singlepic=240,580,900] This has been mentioned in a number of blogs so I'll keep it short... Jake Loniak a student at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena designed an electric, vertically parking "motorcycle". It looks amazing and completely insane all at the same time.  :) [gallery=15] Other Blog Posts: Deus Ex Machina - The Wearable ...

Weekend Blog Quotes

Sunday, June 15th, 2008

[singlepic=228,225,500,,right] Ran across a couple good quotes while going threw my RSS reader today that I found interesting. One is from a friend and another from a guy whom I often don't agree with but find his points interesting nonetheless: "Language. It's seems that 'take initiative' is an oxymoron. Right from the linguistic ...

Nirvana Annotated Video

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

[singlepic=227,200,500,,right] This took creativity... this guy annotated a video on how to play Nirvana's "Come as you are". Besides tips, he included sheet music! Nirvana Guitar How-To

Air Force Campaign

Monday, June 9th, 2008

[singlepic=226,300,500,,right] Air | Space | Cyberspace To see and hear advertisements for military services that includes Space and Cyberspace as sub-branches of the service is completely surreal. It feels like a mock sci-fi ad out of some cheesy TV show, but that's exactly what the US Air Force is doing with their latest ad campaign. Over the ...

1908 Beer Ad

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

[singlepic=118,200,500,,right] It's amazing to see what advertisers use to say to get people to buy their products. This Schlitz beer ad from 22 April 1908 is hilarious to read: The Doctor says "drink beer" to the weak and the convalescent. To those who need strength—need a food and a tonic. If it ...

Earthquake in Akron, NY

Sunday, March 9th, 2008

Apparently there was a 2.7 earthquake in my hometown yesterday morning within an epicenter about 3 miles from my parent's farm (USGS). And my family was concerned about earthquakes here in California. :)