Archive for September, 2008
Thursday, September 11th, 2008
Seven years later, airport security theater is an inconvenient joke, international relations are disconcertingly poor, the dollar is dropping, we're engaged in an expensive and unjust war, and the site of this tragedy remains an empty and ignored hole in the ground. Worst of all, the man responsible continues to ...
Posted in News, Politics |
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
With scientists preparing to turn on the large hardon hadron collider, what better way to keep track of whether or not the world has ended? Be sure to view the page source for extra credit.
Posted in Web |
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
I have no interest in the product, but Woot's write-up of this HD Mini Stick is priceless.
Posted in Technology, Television, Web |
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
Next week at Refresh Denver, an epic battle between Jay Graves and Ryan Cross. Jay with his Django-fu, Ryan with the power of Rails. Which man will emerge victorious? Join us next Wednesday at Forest Room Five in LoDo to find out.
Posted in Web |
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
If you were hoping for updated notebooks, you're going to be disappointed. If, however, you found the iPod nano to be great, but wished it were longer, very slightly improved, and available in a multitude of colors, boy do I have some good news for you!
The new iPod nano was ...
Posted in Apple |
Monday, September 8th, 2008
Alex has given LoDo Conversations its own site. It runs on WordPress, which will be much better for everyone. And unlike here, comments are enabled. Enjoy!
Posted in Podcasts |
Monday, September 8th, 2008
Harold Ramis, via Sci Fi Wire:
The concept is that the old Ghostbusters would appear in the film in some mentor capacity. Not much else to say at this point. Everyone is confident a decent script can be written, and I guess we'll take it from there.
I would love a third ...
Posted in Movies, Sci-Fi |
Monday, September 8th, 2008
Nintendo gives an emphatic middle finger to hard drives, and claims to be working on something better. This probably either means that they're being pedantic about the definition of a hard drive ("it's all flash memory, so technically...") or they plan to leverage the synergies of the cloud paradigm and ...
Posted in Games |
Friday, September 5th, 2008
LoDo Conversations is a new podcast from Alex King, Corey Gilmore, Joe Hildebrand, and myself. Recorded using a single mic, the levels for the first episode are a little low. We're new to this. Give us time.
In retrospect, I really wish we would have named the show "Surrounded by Bunnies".
Posted in Podcasts |
Friday, September 5th, 2008
iGoApps allows for easier and reportedly better app searching than iTunes.
Posted in Apple, Software |
Thursday, September 4th, 2008
Jon Stewart, turning the mirror on Palin's defenders.
Posted in Politics, Television, Video |
Thursday, September 4th, 2008
Multiverse, the company behind the now-delayed Firefly MMO, have announced that they're also working on a Buffy the Vampire Slayer MMO.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: A massively multiplayer online game based on the critically-acclaimed Joss Whedon television series. Currently under development at Multiverse, "Buffy" exemplifies a new era of game design, ...
Posted in Games, Television |
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
Starting Friday, Microsoft confirms, you can pick up the 60GB version for $299.
Posted in Games |
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
Steve O'Grady takes a look at chrome:
It is rather browsers that depend on choice such as Firefox and Opera that, to me, are most vulnerable to the introduction of Chrome. Firefox is likely to be more resilient, both because many of the casual users that were originally persuaded to switch ...
Posted in Google, Web |
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
Jack Moffitt on XMPP:
It’s not that XMPP is not up to the job; people just keep making the same mistakes while trying to implement it.
Bonus points for Blaine Cook's comment below the article.
Posted in XMPP |