NASATelevision: A camera mounted on each of space shuttle Endeavour’s solid rocket boosters capture the launch of the orbiter on STS-134 from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on May 16, and documents the SRBs’ separation and subsequent landing in the Atlantic Ocean. Please note: I’ve moved my active blogging over to a new site, called Jason [...]
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David Allen of GTD fame irked by OmniFocus
On Sunday David Allen posted an update on Twitter mentioning that his “favorite GTD app”, eProductivity, had just launched a free version. In case you’re not familiar with it, eProductivity is a Getting Things Done application built around Lotus Notes. For many people Lotus Notes is a thing of the past, something they struggled with [...]
5-Year-Old Girl Makes Video Game
Ryan Chreighton: I really hope you enjoy Sissy’s Magical Ponycorn Adventure. In all of this, our goal as parents is to give our kids the kind of childhood we would KILL to have had. I can’t imagine how different my life would have been if I had made a real working video game with my [...]
Resetting the Furthest Read Location across your Kindle devices
I managed to accidentally set the furthest-read location of one of my Kindle books to half-way through the book when in reality I hadn’t even started reading it. To be honest, I think it happened as a result of a bug in the Kindle for Mac app, but that’s not the point of this post. [...]
What’s your business case for not owning an app phone?
Eddie Smith on how it’s now harder to justify not owning an smartphone than it is to justify owning one: Add to this the value your app phone will bring when Freeing up time on vacations that you’d otherwise spend fumbling with a map, or worse, lost Price comparing products in stores by simply scanning [...]
ACLU: Michigan cops stealing drivers’ phone data | Crave – CNET
Matt Hickey: The Michigan State Police have started using handheld machines called “extraction devices” to download personal information from motorists they pull over, even if they’re not suspected of any crime. How is this even remotely considered legal? Please note: I’ve moved my active blogging over to a new site, called Jason Clarke – Infinite [...]
“Fast Eddie…let’s play some pool.” – Andy Ihnatko’s Celestial Waste of Bandwidth (BETA)
Andy Ihnatko: Because nothing counts if you don’t keep trying. Please note: I’ve moved my active blogging over to a new site, called Jason Clarke – Infinite Bass Line. I will leave this site up indefinitely, but if you’re interested in my latest posts please consider visiting the new site.
Snide Remarks – Leaving in a Huff
Eric D. Snider: Now, that statement might be a little confusing. It might sound like they’re saying that the Huffington Post, which has built its brand by getting people to write for free, would never try to get people to write for free. But that’s not what the statement is saying. All those people who [...]
Foo Fighter’s new Wasting Light album in its entirety, LIVE
It took me a long time to realize how much of a Dave Grohl / Foo Fighters fan I am. The track A Matter of Time from this album is a masterpiece, as are These Days and Walk. This video is of the band playing through the album straight through, all 49 minutes of it, [...]
RIP Download Squad (2005 – 2011)
Brad Linder: While I’m not particularly interested in taking a salaried position at this point in my career, I wish AOL would have hired full time bloggers for Download Squad and many of its other properties years ago. It’s always felt strange to expect bloggers to pour their heart and soul into their work for [...]