Cool effect pulled off by using strobe lights with the right timing so as to make invididual water droplets appear as if they are levitating up or down. This was done by Al Seckel, who has said there are even more impressive and “paradoxical” effects this display could pull off, such as creating words or...
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In April of 2007, John Maeda wrote a haiku entitled “think-make-think” and posted it to his blog, that started to go a bit viral and became pretty relevant in various ways. Anyway, you can get some great prints of it from 20×200, by Clifton Burt, but the amount available is very low and selling amazingly fast (by...
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Okay, this is flat-out and downright frightening. I’m a cat guy (just like these guys), sure I like dogs, but cats just have that certain “what the hell do I care what you think?” attitude that just fills me with a deep and overflowing sense of pride. However, after watching this video, especially with the cat...
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If you’ve never heard of Trigger Happy TV, then you are missing out. If only I could find Region 1 DVDs (don’t waste any time on the US version Comedy Central tried out), or if I get off a corporate network long enough to fire up xTorrent. Also, screw you, iTunes, and your lack of any shows from Channel 4. Anyway,...
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The Crystal Method has a free remix of Now is the Time, all Obama-fied, as a free download: Now is the Time (Vote ’08 Remix). Not exactly their best work, honestly, but some choice soundbites are worked into the theme and breaks of the song pretty well. Check it out at The Crystal Method’s official...
read moreThanks to the amazingly well put together wptouch WordPress plugin over at bravenewcode.com, the site is now pretty slick on an iPhone or iPod Touch. If you’re looking to get your own bloggy quickly running on an iPhone and find yourself pulling too many hours at the office in order to do it yourself, then I would highly...
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Little did I know that when I went to SXSW ’08 that I would see Judge Dredd not arresting, trying, convicting, and executing doers of wrong in a post-apocalyptic future and zooming around on some badly manufactured flying motorcycle contraption thingy, but instead being a good citizen and helping somebody cross the street in...
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For years now the kilts have been making their presence known at eTech. From the utilikilt to the plain old regular kilt. So far we have managed to avoid any accidental lifting of the kilts, though there was a danger-close incident a few years back on a windy balcony during the morning break. If you thought the hideous beast from...
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Josh Rhoades is a technology manager (the awesome kind) of Web Development, Software Engineering, and Flash Architecture teams, based in Los Angeles, California. He has lead multi-million dollar projects for Fortune 500 and Fortune 100 companies, worked on theme park attractions like Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters and Toy Story Midway Mania!, snuck across borders, led multiple developments and launches of Disney.com, fought the law, looked into an abyss, kissed an eel, and rescued at least one damsel in distress. Read about what happened the next day »
