Rocket Silence

This is the page I got as a result of typing in my ZIP code to get the weather report yesterday. It measures 1266 pixels wide and 678 pixels tall. That’s a total of 858,348 pixels with which they could have told me the weather. That, was  – I thought, a simple request. And apparently [...]

The City of Santa Barbara wishes you and your family a happy and healthy holiday season, lock up your shit.

This year, kickme444 and an assorted group of Redditors decided to put together one of the largest communal holiday gift exchanges on the internet for the Reddit community. This was no slap-dash operation, it led to the creation of redditgifts.com with over four thousand members participating in the exchange. You can read more about it [...]

Mildly humorous idea I don’t have the initiative to follow through on: Shakespeare’s Othello reimagined as YouTube comments. #
Lala might be acquired by Apple; hopefully they don’t destroy it in the process. It’s a gem in a sea of Web 2.0 mediocrity. #
I’m currently staring at a PowerPoint slide with a wall of text fourteen [...]

When Apple announced the unibody MacBook Pro, I ordered one immediately after to replace my aging MacBook Pro. It was a great machine except for the new screen design that Apple adopted, a LED-backlit LCD seated behind a sheet of thin and highly reflective glass that made outdoor use and work in bright environments nearly [...]

boinged (verb, past-tense): the act of Cory Doctorow copying and pasting four paragraphs of an author’s work, writing a one sentence preface for it, calling it original content and wrapping ads around it on Boing Boing.
Example: Andy Baio was totally just ‘boinged, but it’s totally fine because BB is hip and so-not-corporate.
So – who wants [...]

“Prove that Techcrunch did not pay @biz $10,000 to get on Twitter’s suggested friend list. They sure were not more popular than @leolaporte two weeks ago.” – Robert Scoble
Well, first. When you pull a ridiculous accusation out of your ass, I do believe that the burden of proof is on you. The issue here is [...]

I can’t believe that Congress and the new administration actually passed an extension for the US Digital TV transition deadline, but alas – here we are. But look, I’ve solved the entire problem in two minutes. After the deadline, display this test card on the analog channels for one week. When old people find out [...]

First, please note that the laptop in this (intentionally absurd) ad is a MacBook Pro. Second, one of the characters actuall says “Microsoft, huh? So it’s pretty easy to use?” Really.

But that characterization may be unfair based on just one project. After all, they did release the Zune – a 30GB brown media player which [...]

I won’t begin to claim that Apple reinvented the music industry or make any sweeping claims, but it must be acknowledged the impact that this company has had on the the creation and consumption of music. With iTunes + iPod, Apple introduced a new and simple way for the younger generation to experience their music. [...]

This is officially, my favorite thing ever.
Context: Disillusioned David Archuleta fans as the winner of American Idol 7 was announced in May earlier this year. I think it was the screen-printed Archie-shirt that did him in.
SLYT video is behind the cut…

I’m saddened so few people got my joke earlier on Twitter, so much so that I feel it necessary to explain it because it involves two excellent dramas that everyone needs to have watched in their lifetime.
First, Matt Santos was a character on the West Wing played by Jimmy Smits. Santos was a Democratic senator [...]