In the next little bit of time I’m going to be messing with the site CSS. So - deal with it? I’m leaning towards fewer images, more text, better color use, etc. (Translation: I’m going to rip off Signal Vs. Noise.) Superman’s going back to Earth-2. There’s really no reason for you to care about […]
Category Archives: technology
Dear BRiCK,
December 22, 2005 – 8:40 pm
I love you, I love you, I love you. Forever. And your comely helper, Windows Safe Mode, isn’t bad either.
With Adoration,
Geoffrey
Fiesta!
December 12, 2005 – 11:35 am
Bitches, whoever you are, stop trying to hack my new Gmail account! LIKE YOU COULD SUCCEED IF YOU TRIED. Fucking mentalists.
Coke is launching Coke Blak in France next month. It’s half Coke, half coffee. Pepsi tried that in 1994 with Pepsi Kona - I lived in the test market and it grew on me. Louis […]
Stuff that’s rocking my world right this second
November 17, 2005 – 10:27 am
Google Analytics. So much power for free.
Last night’s Lost. Here’s a perfect example of something that’s simultaniously popular and the best in its field.
Grant Morrison’s All-Star Superman. I’m 26 and have been through three million Superman re-imaginings in my lifetime, so I approached this one like it was a sick monkey. Suspicions blown away! […]
Advertising
November 12, 2005 – 10:46 am
So I’m testing a move from Google Ads to Yahoo. I put ads on the articles I write and on a month-to-month basis it actually keeps me in video games - not bad for doing something I’d do anyway. YPN (formerly Overture) seems to be gaining in popularity versus Google in its beta test, and […]
Wow is that picture big
October 25, 2005 – 11:41 am
I just had a brief but fruitful (well, for me) email exchange with Aubrey de Grey, the longevity researcher. I may later write a long piece about his field; check out his main page. He came to biology from a computer science background, interestingly.
Google Base. If this is what everyone thinks it is, and it […]
5g iPod review
October 18, 2005 – 8:40 pm
The nerd tilt continues. You’re not going to like it. Also, I need two new friends with weblogs. Preferably cute girls.
Could the Segway have a chance at maturity?
September 22, 2005 – 9:47 pm
We were all disappointed when Dean Kamen, after a goddamned YEAR of hype, dropped the Segway Personal Transporter and not the Kamen Personal Replicator. And the first time I was driving and saw one of these things on the streets, my reaction was pure rage followed by a strong urge to jerk the wheel to […]
I BUILT A COMPUTER
September 17, 2005 – 6:29 pm
That’s right! From components! With my own two hands and a static bracelet! I had problems, too. I put the secondary IDE controller in backwards. I forgot to plug in my rear port USB inputs into the motherboard. But I troubleshot them down! Booyakasha! I’ll go into further detail of the success end of things […]
iPod nano review
September 11, 2005 – 4:10 pm
My mom is always complaining, rightfully, that she gets technology hand-me-downs, and it’s true - she rocks an ancient white iBook and a Palm V, which are beautiful designs, but old. So I prevailed on my dad to get her the latest, newest hottest thing as an anniversary present. (Last month, in an effort to […]
Google Earth storytelling and spies
September 10, 2005 – 9:46 pm
Lately when people come over to my house I’ve been showing them Google Earth, and it always turns into this amazing this-is-where-I’ve-lived-and-how-I-felt experience. I wish the resolution were better - what’s the rate at which satellite photos are FOIAed? or is >1m imagery classified forever?
Galatea and Repliee
September 2, 2005 – 11:47 am
Two new links in the sidebar - to David Byrne and Insert Credit, the Pitchfork of video game sites. Their thematic joint - android girls. On August 17 (you gotta scroll down - no permalinks) David posted about Hiroshi Ishiguro’s android woman and compared them to Pygmalion and Galatea. I want to address Ovid’s […]