Category: Uncategorized
-
Pandora – your intelligent Internet radio station
If you are able to “afford the bandwidth” (nee your network admin hasn’t locked out streaming audio), check out Pandora. I just found out about it today through a colleague. If you are trying to get kids to expand their musical horizons, this could be a very useful site to help with that.
-
Gaming to push a standard on ubergadgets?
Well, it seems that gaming, what used to and still does to a certain extent drive standards and hardware innovation on the PC platform, is now starting to be a force to standardize the ubergadet. TR reports that gaming on the phone now is much like the early years of consoles, with many different platforms…
-
Out out damn spot
I’ve decided that rather than trying to do a half marathon this year for myself, I’ll walk 60km for Cancer research. I think the two match up pretty good and if you want to donate click here , if you want to join my team (Out out damn spot) click here . I’m trying to…
-
Pic of the week – Rose on black
Rose on black Originally uploaded by idarknight. One of the things that people like about prime lenses is that they are fast and sharp, and with 1.X apertures, they have an amazingly small depth of field, especially close up. So I was playing with my 60mm 2.8 Macro and realized that for a side on…
-
Storytelling ads
Over here in Science, people don’t get the digital storytelling idea as quickly when I talk about it at times, so I use the analogy of an ad. Something that with stills or video conveys a message in about 2-3 minutes. Ideally it would be some manner of personal or reflective message, but at the…