From the monthly archives:

May 2008

Lee LeFever, the founder of CommonCraft.com, created a straightforward overview of how social media can help businesses. For those of you who need to get up to speed social media, here’s your chance.

Of course social media gets more complex, but this a good starting point for newbies.
It would be great if Lee could put together [...]

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“The emersive ugliness of the everyday environments of America is entropy made visible.” So begins James Howard Kunstler’s 2004 presentation at TED. Entropy made visible. Yesterday morning I drove past the construction site of an older section of my township and I witnessed entropy visible. What has been for thousands of years a quiet patch [...]

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Going to Mars with NIN

by Phil Baumann on May 28, 2008

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As we all know, this past Sunday May 25 the Phoenix Mission to Mars landed successfully. I was a little man in 1969 when Neil Armstrong stepped onto the surface of the moon, a time when the images that came back were grainy black and white pictures piped through wavy television screens. My toddler is [...]

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The Biggest Drawing in the World?

by Phil Baumann on May 25, 2008

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August Zacchrison claims to have drawn the biggest drawing in the world using GPS and DHL. He sent a briefcase containing a GPS device through DHL on a path that traced his self-portrait accross the globe. I suppose we still need more confirmation that he did this, but it sounds very conceivable.

I wish the video [...]

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Touching the Surface

by Phil Baumann on May 25, 2008

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A parody on Microsoft Surface from SarcasticGamer:

Sarcasm aside, there’s something ground-breaking about the tech beneath the surface. Scobleizer has some very cool video of what’s going on right now and what we can expect to come in the near future. Andy Wilson is a genius who will make your life better. Just look and see.
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