Just watch the video – haha!
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Late night talk show wizard, Conan O’Brien, and his long-time boy-toy, Andy Richter, recently partook in a live-action game of the hit mobile video game, Angry Birds. A Scandinavian-laden pre-amble built up to Conan and Andy firing giant-sized blow up bird balloons an unsuspecting, and poorly built, Ikea furniture that was protecting an array of pig-faced balloons. The official video on the Team Coco website has not worked, but a kind soul uploaded the video to YouTube.
Check it out below!
If you have experience using MS-DOS and early versions of Microsoft Windows then this video is for you! The video shows a user upgrading to every major Windows release, from an initial installation, on a VMware virtual machine, of MS-DOS 5.0 . The major releases used in the video, in order, are Windows 1.0, Windows 2.0, Windows 3.0, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 98 SE, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista and, finally, Windows 7. Check it out below!
Is there anything better than using hindsight to laugh at people talking about something they don’t quite understand? We have all seen clips of people form the 80′s and 90′s discussing computers and the Internet, but the kind folks over at URLESQUE have compiled many of these clips into a great video. Enjoy!
It’s really quite amazing how far the consumer Internet has come since the mid-1990′s. After all, “the Internet is a big city.”
One of my favourite blogs, Hack a Day, recently drew my attention to an awesome video of someone hacking their Teddy Ruxpin doll. The result? A Bluetooth-controlled robot! Check out the video below.
Let’s just file this one under awesome! One of the latest installments to the fabulous “Downfall”/Hitler speech meme involves something near and dear to my heart – ridiculous Internet cost and bandwidth limitations in Canada. As a Rogers customer (wireless, cable, Internet and home phone) I, bizarrely, empathize with Hitler’s hilarious sub-titles.
I am a huge fan of the capabilities of Netflix, but the sub-title author really hits the nail on the head as Canadian bandwidth caps (60GB on a normal plan) make Netflix completely impractical with certain providers. Another issue that is tackled in the video is that major US networks and their online content delivery systems have no problems showing Canadians pre-show advertisements, but we are then greeted with a “Sorry, this content is not available in your country”. Not cool…not cool at all.
I encourage anyone, particularly Canadians, to watch the video embedded below. Kudos to my buddy Andrew for bringing the video to my attention.
This post has little relation to UBB (usage-based billing) as I have been avoiding that topic due to extreme frustration with the telcos and our very own CRTC. In the future I may post a few of my thoughts on the subject, but for now it is best for me to be quiet.
This post is a little off topic, but something I am sure my fellow geeks have encountered. How often have you had to drop off that ever important résumé, rent cheque, or, in my case, landlord work order, only to find that the drop/mail slot seemingly leads to nowhere. Sometimes the document being passed through is not rigid enough to make it through to the opposite brass slot and sometimes the other slot doesn’t even exist. To help illustrate, I have created a simple diagram found below.
The image on the right represents what I have encountered most of the time. We all know that most doors are hollow, which leads to two possibilities if you encounter the first part of the diagram:
1) You jam that sucker through ensuring that it will reach the office on the opposing side. Okay, this makes sense, but you also run the risk of catching some wicked air flow and ending up on the other side of the room under a case of Immodium.
2) You assume that there is a pick-up point at the bottom of the door and that your document will reach that point if you let it fall into the hollow. Here, you run the risk of the hollow actually being a completely inaccessible abyss.
The image on the right (above) shows a bridge. You may still run the risk of ending up in a recycling basket, but the hope would be that the person-on-the-other-side has an appropriately-sized receptacle attached. Honestly, I feel that inserting a document into such a slot is an exercise in futility as, regardless of the precautions administered, some documents just won’t make it.
I would love for others to share their experiences from both sides of the door in the comments below!
Just yesterday, “Art Project, powere by Google” was released to the public. This Google project takes the Google Street View technology and applies it to top museums around the globe – MoMA (New York), National Gallery (UK), and Palace of Versailles (France) just to name a few! The project is still in its infancy, but provides full-walkthroughs of individual galleries and close-ups of some truly amazing artwork. Copyrights are respected by the Google Art Project and, as such, some works are blurred out and sections of galleries inaccessible – hopefully this will change in the near future.
As someone that enjoys checking out famous galleries whenever in a new city, I think this is an amazing technology that makes the best art in the world accessible to anyone with a computer and Internet connection.
Art Project Menu
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While listening to CBC Radio One all afternoon, I was delighted when there was a short conversation about how great ideas spawn whilst cleansing oneself. Until today I thought that I was the only person that routinely solved issues and would come up with (what I think are) great ideas in the shower. Little did I know that this is a common occurrence and can actually be explained scientifically – I won’t get into those details, but it has to do with removing yourself from tunnel-thought.
Anyway, the radio show went on to discuss the issue of getting “shower thoughts” down on paper. Of course, paper and ink generally do not play well with water and soap, but now there is a solution – AquaNotes!!! From the AquaNotes website:
“AquaNotes® is a waterproof notepad that allows you to record your great ideas while you’re in the shower. It’s so durable you can even write underwater. They’re recyclable, environmentally friendly, and the notepad is printed with soy-based ink.”
Until now, I always dreamt of having a fog-less mirror and radio in the shower, but now I have something else to add to my shower office dream - AquaNotes!
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