I recently went to read a local ABC news affiliate’s story about a missing Patriots team member and while reading the story was treated to the appearance of a screaming upper torso overlaid on the text and telling me to visit some nutjob’s car dealership:
A little investigation showed that this particular intrusion was the work [...]
Tags: consumerism · technology
Wired has a great little story about an artist and Rutgers University professor who, after being mistakenly put on the US Federal “no fly” list, now simply documents his every move online for all the world to see.
Tags: government · technology
This site is awesome to watch. It’s a Google maps web mashup (god, I hate that term) that keeps showing single sample photos from batches people post to Flickr, in near real time, along with a pointer on a map to where they are. Fun to watch.
Tags: technology
I’m gearing up to transfer some of my video to hard drives in the hopes of someday having a computerized media center for video akin to what I currently do with audio. Video can take a long time to encode using modern compression formats, so it’s going to be a spare-time thing. In [...]
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S submitted to us a story about a homegrown 3D printer that uses hot air to melt sugar in a manner similar to expensive commercial three-dimensional “printing” devices.
See story here.
Tags: do-it-yourself · technology