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[viddler id-d3ca22c5 h-280 w-420] Random 60: Interesting facts about water Favorite on Viddler. Something a little, different – or maybe random – for today’s Random 60. I saw this interesting facts about water list and I figured I’d share my favorites for no other reason than because I think water is awesome. Are you a […]

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First of all, I’d eat just about anything. Lets get that out there right off the bat. I mean, I helped a friend start a show called Eat Weird. That is how much I adore trying new things. Yes I have been known to eat fish eggs right out of the fish. I don’t do […]

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I’m just going to say that I wish I had a Nintendo DS (or that this game was made available for iPhone). Scribblenauts looks absolutely incredible, here is the trailer: [viddler id-7e381241 h-357 w-420] Draw any noun and it actually appears in the game. Don’t trust the trailer? Both Joystiq and TalkAboutGames have hands-on reviews […]

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For a while now I’ve been enjoying Jorge Garcia’s blog which he calls Dispatches from the Island. You may know Jorge from LOST. He plays Hugo "Hurley" Reyes. Side note: Hurley is by far my most-favorite character on LOST. Charlie Pace was always a close-second and when we lost him in Season 3 I always […]

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This weekend a group of friends and I camped at Keenlake campground in Waymart, Pennsylvania for a night. Fishing, jogging, eating, and fire watching ensued. Here are a few photos from that trip (to view, simply click on the first in the set and click next on the zoomed photo). I wish I had taken […]

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Ever since Google release Chrome, their browser, I’ve been waiting with bated breath for Chrome for Mac. Thanks to my friend Jake Dahn I got a copy of the developer preview. Its really fast. Faster than Safari on the Mac. I’m excited for a more stable and complete beta at which point I plan to […]

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All good stories start at the beginning. This one starts on August 14th 2006 when I publicly stated my goal to run 1 mile before my wedding anniversary that year (which was about two weeks later). In that declaration I said: "Last night Chris and I went for a run, and while he had no […]

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Nicolas riding his big wheel.

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If you’re a skimmer, this is worth reading every word – Lukas Mathis noodles the way several Operating Systems have tackled the task of creating new documents and in doing so comes up with an elegant solution to the problem. I find the irony of the post striking. Lukas’ site is called Ignore The Code […]

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What the Wii brought to gaming can not be denied. Movement, realism, and let’s face it – fun. Project Natal, for the Xbox 360, is going to attempt to do the same thing but with less hardware – meaning; absolutely no controllers. [viddler id-44771808 h-278 w-420] What makes this project even more interesting is that […]

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This is a must-read, via Jason Kottke, on photographer Art Wolfe’s attempt to get the right Night Fisherman photo. As Kottke points out, even more interesting is the fishing technique used by the fisherman.

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This is a must-read, via Jason Kottke, on photographer Art Wolfe’s attempt to get the right Night Fisherman photo. As Kottke points out, even more interesting is the fishing technique used by the fisherman.

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This is a must-read, via Jason Kottke, on photographer Art Wolfe’s attempt to get the right Night Fisherman photo. As Kottke points out, even more interesting is the fishing technique used by the fisherman.

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This is a must-read, via Jason Kottke, on photographer Art Wolfe’s attempt to get the right Night Fisherman photo. As Kottke points out, even more interesting is the fishing technique used by the fisherman.

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This is a must-read, via Jason Kottke, on photographer Art Wolfe’s attempt to get the right Night Fisherman photo. As Kottke points out, even more interesting is the fishing technique used by the fisherman.

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This is a must-read, via Jason Kottke, on photographer Art Wolfe’s attempt to get the right Night Fisherman photo. As Kottke points out, even more interesting is the fishing technique used by the fisherman.

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This is a must-read, via Jason Kottke, on photographer Art Wolfe’s attempt to get the right Night Fisherman photo. As Kottke points out, even more interesting is the fishing technique used by the fisherman.

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I have a few simple wishes for Facebook’s mobile offerings. I access Facebook on-the-go using my iPhone – though I believe that these wishes will help more than just iPhone users. iphone.facebook.com One of the very first web apps for the iPhone and one that Apple has promoted during it’s Keynote addresses – Facebook had […]

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Back in November 2008 Eliza and I decided to make and watch Ratatouille. We’re both big fans of the movie and we thought it neat to actually make some of our own. Eliza, after almost 7 months, has gotten around to posting the photos on her site. The recipe, btw, came from The New Best […]

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[viddler id-de5ad6e5 h-280 w-420] Random 60: Can’t wait. on Viddler. Wait, are you saying that you can not wait? Or, are you saying that you’d rather not wait? See, there’s a difference. But – even though I don’t like the phrase "I can’t wait" I don’t see any alternative that won’t peg you as being […]

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(click to zoom) Taken: May 7, 2009 in Mayfield, Pennsylvania while on a walk with Eliza. Photographing these bees was a neat experience because I would get as far into the tree as I could, and I would hear a constant bzzzz until I found the bee that was closest to me to shoot.

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While walking with Eliza a few weeks ago we saw these two butterflies, which I’ve now found out to be Cabbage White Butterflies thanks to Cody R. Hough on BugGuide, mating. They were putting on quite a display of aerial acrobatics – I wish I had the equipment to take a video of how they […]

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It seems that since the launch of WolframAlpha people are generally testing it rather than using it. Although, I’m willing to bet, there are people out there that are using this amazing service for doing actual research and are finding it altogether indispensable already. Dave Winer tested it on a Friday night. He ran some […]

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I didn’t weigh in last week. On Monday I was sick and the rest of the week sort of just ran away from me. This week I was really excited to weigh in to see how I did over the last few weeks. Today I weighed in at 189 lbs. which is down three pounds […]

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Ben Parr of Mashable.com reports that, according to current trends, IE will be going the way of the Dodo in 2021. Or, at least, it won’t be the leading browser. This, in and of itself is great news – but do we really have to wait that long? Ugh.

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] After playing around with Tumblr for months (I’m cdevroe over there), I finally noticed that the little "page curls" that happen on-hover on posts on my Dashboard from those whom I follow are actually the permalinks to those posts. Man do I wish I found that sooner! I can’t tell you how […]

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File this under the "no duh" category – however, Jason Kottke recently linked to an article on the New York Post Web site describing how it’d be cheaper to fly from New York to Seattle, see two games in the best seats, eat at the best restaurants, and stay in some fancy hotels (by a […]

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Turns out Spike Jonze, the guy directing Where The Wild Things Are, has been keeping a bit of a blog about the making of the film.

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Until today I hadn’t heard of District 9, a movie produced by Peter Jackson and directed by first-time director Neill Blomkamp, but now I’m seeing it pop up all over the place. The movie doesn’t see wide-release until August – but I have a feeling we’re going to be hearing a lot more about it […]

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[viddler id-81f46650 h-280 w-420] Random 60: Watch those calories! Favorite on Viddler. Whether you are dieting or not it is always good practice to make sure you watch what you’re taking in. Calories can creep up on you. There are more calories in everyday food than most people would guess. In today’s Random 60 I […]

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John Gruber made an excellent point in his piece called "Twitter clients are a UI design playground". The excellent point I’m talking about is made apparent within the very title of the piece. That Twitter (I’m @cdevroe, btw) is an excellent playground for designing UIs for third party clients. Mike Rundle, whom I had the […]

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He really turns the app on its back and gives it a thorough look. He managed to find a few gems, in the first version of the application, that I never even new were there. Reading his review, albeit late and after an update has already been released for it, has inspired me to dive […]

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Right in front of the TV.

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22 hours of sleep is obviously not enough. 🙂

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This morning I saw Steven Frank’s link to a Dell 22-inch monitor that was selling for, at the time, $140. By the time I clicked on the link it was selling for $159 (still an incredible deal). Not three minutes later the site reads "Please call for latest prices."

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According to Marshall Kirkpatrick of ReadWriteWeb Twitter has "crowned Bit.ly the King of all Short Links" and replaced TinyURL as the default URL shortening service that Twitter uses. (I’m cdevroe, btw) Scaling Bit.ly to keep up with the demands of Twitter, since Twitter is growing at a remarkable rate, is an obvious concern. Will Twitter […]

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This is where we play basketball on Mondays. Much nicer court, IMO, than the other two regular courts that we play at.

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You’ve all been waiting with baited breath, I know – but at long last, here it is – my weigh in for this, our sixth week back on the diet. It has been a great week. I ate very well this week. I don’t remember missing a single meal, I ate enough calories every day, […]

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Although the sketches only tell part of the story I really like to see this sort of process where the artist slowly brings the character to life. Each sketch is a character onto itself but finding Carl through all of these is the challenge/reward. I think my favorite tweak from the first Carl drawn to […]

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First of all, a note to all event holders – please take the care and time to record all of your speakers with slides like this. Web 2 Expo did a fantastic job putting these videos together and the world would be a better place if all of these tech conferences that are sprouting up […]

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Google is constantly updating their products. Most of these updates come via their "Labs" where they test out crazy and sometimes even crazier ideas for possible features and updates to their products. Google Image Search somewhat recently added the ability to search by color. Which I think is fantastic! Here is a search for moth, […]

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Working from Panera Bread today with Chris. I like the reflection of the lamp in my Macbook.

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[viddler id-4349764f h-280 w-420] Random 60: Back up your computer, right now. Favorite on Viddler. Chris recently had a complete hard drive failure. Fortunately for him most of his data, since he is a Web site developer, was "on the Web" somewhere. Everything else he had backed up on an external hard drive. Consider this […]

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If I were to graph my week of activity it’d look something like the silhouette of a camel standing in the sunset. The beginning of the week started out great with a really great basketball session on Monday and Wednesday and we finished off the week strong with some basketball on Sunday evening. In between […]

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Mmm, bacon. Seriously, if you don’t like cast iron – we may not get along. I won’t hate you or anything, I just won’t invite you to parties, want to hang out with you and discuss topics that are important to you, or generally take your opinion on anything seriously.

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I have yet to find the time to make the trek to Philadelphia for Junto, "a club of mutual improvement", but I have been paying attention to the visual works of P’unk Ave – the design studio run by my friend Geoff DiMasi and his excellent team – for the club. Namely, the posters. I’ve […]

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[viddler id-5ef97dad h-280 w-420] Random 60: What can save newspapers? Favorite on Viddler. Can anything save newspapers? Today I’m joined by Rob and Bernie, two of my coworkers, and we all have simple ideas that may help save the newspapers for us. For Rob he thought he needed to see more talk about technology in […]

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And that makes three. My lovely and talented wife Eliza posted her photos (and I forgot to link to them) in early April. She’s got some excellent shots of Scranton and the trains at Steamtown. In case you missed them, here are mine and Sameer Barkawi’s photos from the Scranton Photo Walk.

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Speaking of fruits… In my travels through the wonderful world of Viddler videos I came across this video interview with Adam Leith Gollner, the author of The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce, and Obsession. [viddler id-ce207ceb h-357 w-420] I may just have to become a fruit hunter. Sometimes I find it difficult […]

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Eliza and I are big fans of The Biggest Loser, a reality show about people trying to losing weight, and so when I saw that Jennifer DiDonato (Viddler member whom I interviewed on The Viddler Spotlight many months ago) interviewed the Season Two "at home" winner Pete Thomas I knew I just had to share […]

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