Archive for August, 2008
Saturday, August 23rd, 2008
As you may have discovered at 3AM when the Obama camp hurriedly sent a text message announcement to sleeping supporters, Obama has selected his running mate: Joe Biden. From MSNBC:
Barack Obama named Delaware Sen. Joe Biden as his vice presidential running mate early Saturday, balancing his ticket with a seasoned ...
Posted in Politics |
Friday, August 22nd, 2008
From Kotaku:
Microsoft is teaming up with Rock the Vote to allow gamers to register to vote on Xbox Live. The Pwn the Vote initiative (OK, i just made that up, they're calling it Rock the Vote still) will allow Xbox Live members of all races, creeds and payment tiers to ...
Posted in Games, Politics |
Thursday, August 21st, 2008
How, you ask? With better marketing.
Their new attempt to bring users back into the fold is reportedly fueled by $300 million. Sounds serious. $10 million of that is going to Seinfeld. That’s not a bad fee for selling out after featuring Macs so long as his computer of choice ...
Posted in Business, Software |
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
I can't tell you how many times I've seen a woman walking down the street, through the grocery store, or out of a Forever 21 and wondered, "is she pregnant or just fat?"
"Fat or Pregnant?" leverages the iPhone's built-in camera to discretely snap a photo of your subject, then analyzes ...
Posted in Fake App Store |
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Atlantis was never going to be as good as SG-1, but it was a good show. And you know what SCI FI does to good shows.
The show will go on, though, with a 2-hour movie that will air on SCI FI in 2009, and be released on DVD by MGM. The film will ...
Posted in Sci-Fi, Television |
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Cracked has a set of 15 images that look fake, yet aren't. Number seven looks like my dog on steroids.
(Via Fark)
Posted in Photography, Web |
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
In a blog post, MobileChat developer Saverio "we are not evil" Modelli officially welcomed ApolloIM founder Alex Schaefer to twenty08.
Alex will be working exclusively on the MobileChat iPhone client and will be working to improve stability as well as the overall user experience. We’ve discussed some great plans for UI improvements and we’re very ...
Posted in Software, Web, XMPP |
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
I bet nobody saw this coming.
Posted in Business, News |
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
Some of these are hilarious.
Posted in Design |
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
Dizzying photo of the nearly-completed Burj Dubai tower, followed by a collection of more shots of ridiculously large buildings in Dubai.
Posted in Photography |
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
PVP's Scott Kurtz, with an uncharacteristically thoughtful and eloquent post about his inability to catch typos:
I don’t understand what zen activity I need to do to clear my head so it can focus on the simple task of finding all the your/you’res in a sentence and checking them against grammar. Why ...
Posted in Web |
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
Barbeque sounded pretty good. I live in an apartment, so charcoal is out. And I have this fear of propane. On a logical level, I understand that it's perfectly safe and people use it all the time. But in my head, the moment I touch flame to gas, a bolt ...
Posted in Games, Toys |
Monday, August 18th, 2008
If you wonder why Better Elevation doesn't allow comments, this story from The New York Times more or less explains it.
Posted in Social, Web |
Monday, August 18th, 2008
Another iPhone OS update. From AppleInsider:
In traditional Apple form, no specific issues are identified in the current release notes, which only indicate "bug fixes" for the mobile operating system.
Details would be nice. Here's hoping it clears up the 3G call-dropping issues.
Posted in Apple |
Friday, August 15th, 2008
TechCrunch reports on the Bigfoot press conference:
There were, of course, skeptics: “Why didn’t they [sic] hunters contact the authorities?”, “Why didn’t you give us more evidence today?”, “How did you manage to find a creature that has eluded modern technology and civilization for centuries?” they asked.
It wasn’t until I heard Biscardi’s ...
Posted in Photography, Video, Web |