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We all have our obsessions. Wine. TV. Guinness on draught. The Internet. Photography. Traveling. Religion. Books. Anything composed or performed by Jack White. LOST. Art. Wall calendars. Star Wars. The warm underbelly of our cats. It…
Dean J. Robinson, the developer behind what is easily the best iPhone web application for Twitter, recently gave us a glimpse of what we should expect from the next version of Hahlo….
[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] I remember one of my favorite activities while in the fourth grade was playing Oregon Trail – on a Macintosh – whenever possible. It forced you to make choices,…
I've seen these types of videos tons of times – but since owning a Jeep it really brings home the level of patience and skill that these drivers exhibit by pushing the…
Date taken: February 7, 2004 Rockaway, New Jersey Five years ago today: Eliza and I went to New Jersey to see Peter Z. (our nephew) and Melanie (my sister-in-law) at the Rockaway…
Date taken: February 4, 2004 Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania Five years ago today: I used to teach a short-lived class in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania at a small computer store. The class typically consisted of basic…
[viddler id-bc1c1d46 h-346 w-540] I had the privilege of cooking the dish for episode 7 of Eat Weird. I chose to make mussels over linguini, a very simple meal that anyone could…
Before a dinner with some family at my mother-in-law's this weekend I had the chance to walk around her backyard, which just happens to be a very large field with two streams…
For this episode of No Reservations I thought I'd jot down some notes while I watched the episode. So here they are, in order as they happened while I watched the show,…
Date taken: February 3, 2004 Carbondale, Pennsylvania. Five years ago today: This photo was taken just outside our home in Carbondale, Pennsylvania. We then lived in a house on Wyoming Avenue that…
PITTSBURGH, PA – November 2007 World Champions once again. The above is a reprise of a photo I took in November 2007 while at the worst Monday Night Football game ever -…
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS Though I can count, on one hand, the number of times I've been to Chicago – I know that I don't particularly care for the city. It may have to…
Last night, somewhere between the hours of 2:00am and 4:00am (yes, I was awake, lying in bed, watching TV) I watched an incredibly good documentary on PBS called THE ATOM SMASHERS which…
Although someone had suggested the best video settings for uploading a screencast to Viddler we have managed to put together a document explaining how to encode the best quality video for Viddler….
My drive home from Viddler HQ in Bethlehem, PA takes me over the northeastern-most tip of the Pocono Mountains – an area called Pocono Summit. During my drive home last Thursday I…
I'm not that much of an artist. But, I don't believe I need to be in order to enjoy drawing, painting, or crafting. Sure, I'd love to be naturally talented and be…
I'm not sure how I managed to forget Fresh Air, my favorite audio podcast over the last few years, in my Best of 2008 list – but I'm mentioning it now -…
Roger Ebert is hitting a stride on his blog. He began blogging not too long ago. Well, in the world of blogging it wasn't that long ago. It isn't like he hasn't…
THE AZORES Being on an island is somewhat of a unique experience. Most of the places I've traveled have all had a cultural impact that slowly spiraled out from its epicenter. On…
How in the world haven't I been subscribed to XKCD? Thanks to SuggestRSS (more on this service soon) now I am. The above is one of my favorite recent comics. The subtle…
The design community over at Threadless has been on a tear lately. Threadless has always been a great resource for well-designed tshirts that, and this is the important part to me, not…
Blog posts seem to just scroll by like a never ending treadmill of information. It is one of the reasons that I show related posts on the page and in the RSS…
WASHINGTON, DC. Stereotypes are made to be broken. That is the saying, isn't it? Maybe it isn't, but it should be. I try to live my life in a way that ignores…
DeWitt Clinton, heckuva name, recently sampled some Twitter data to determine the number of active users on Twitter. The sampling is rather exhaustive (at least for this guy with ADD ((I don't…
Searching for the perfect card can be an arduous task. Just walking into a Hallmark, or venturing into the card-section of any store, seems daunting. There are so many cards! You stand…
[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] I have no idea what the criterion for such a contestis but the results are absolutely stunning. The winner, Cheng Slu Wai from Hong Kong (pictured above), is without…
[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] This comes courtesy of Jason Kottke, so if you subscribe to his site – you've already seen this. For those of you that haven't- meet Willard Wigan, an artist…
It has been years since I've read The Lord of the Rings trilogy and so I've decided, even though I think I'm a little crazy, to re-read the series. I've just finished…
Venice, Italy. Considered one of the most beautiful cities in the world it is also one of the more geographically unique. Made up of over 100 islands at the northern tip of…
Speaking of changes to iWork '09, Sebastiaan de With pours over a large number of changes, updates, and other little tidbits of the new iWork and iLife '09 application suites. Some of the…