Archive for April, 2008
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Last of the ‘Old Men’
Only a few short hours away from where I live Ollie Johnston, the last of Walt’s ‘Nine Old Men’ , has died at 95 of natural causes. Roy E. Disney said Ollie “brought warmth and wit and sly humor and a wonderful gentleness to every character he animated. He brought those same qualities to his [...]
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Well, after I railed on how I hated the Oregon Trail app on Facebook, I can now relive the glory days, in a uniquely portable fashion.
Ben Heck has created an Apple IIGS laptop. Says Engadget:
“Based off an original IIGS motherboard, the one-of-a-kind laptop features a 15-inch color screen, custom acrylic keyboard, a CompactFlash-based hard drive, and [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Apple, Hardware by Jason T.
Friday, April 11th, 2008
VOW: better than the original?
While this isn’t the original video for this song, it is fairly priceless.
No Comments » - Posted in YouTube vow by Jason D.
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Disney/Pixar release schedule
This is a blatant copy from Variety but I thought with our name coming from a Pixar movie and all I would post the highlights of the Pixar and Disney animation release schedule through the next few years. I’m most looking forward to the long awaited “Rapunzel” as it had beautiful concept art released over a year [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Movies by Jason D.
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Facebook Chat
After months of prodding to try to get my developer friends to work together to create a viable chat application for facebook they have announced that despite the over 500+ chat applications currently available, that they are just going to do it themselves.
That’s right folks, Facebook Chat will be launched this week allowing users to [...]
No Comments » - Posted in User Interface, User generated content by Jason D.
Saturday, April 5th, 2008
Google’s “Street View” Invasion of Privacy
The Smoking Gun has the scoop on a Pittsburgh couple that is suing Google over their “Street View” feature, which allows users to see photos taken at street-level of the address/map they’re looking up.
The couple claims that they live on a private drive, and sought out the property specifically because of the privacy it afforded [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Big Brother, Google by Jason T.
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Where? There.com
Paramount Pictures has released thousands of video clips from their film library for use inside the virtual 3-D online world of there.com. Members of the site will be able to buy clips for about $1 to add to their avatars’ as a way to represent themselves further. The clips are composed of one liners from [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Content, Movies by Jason D.
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Everything 3G in “Months” at AT&T
Engadget lended further cred to the rumors of a 3G iPhone this summer. They’ve got a quote from AT&T Mobility’s CEO Ralph de la Vega stating that all of AT&T’s smartphones will be on 3G within a matter of mere “months”.All meaning the iPhone? On the one hand it would seem unlikely to leave the iPhone [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Apple, iPhone by Jason T.
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
City of Seattle Homepage Hax0red?
Seattle.gov appears today to have been hax0red by some hax0rz. It now appears as Seootle.Gov, all dressed up in Google’s colors and allowing you to Seootle Serach or just click the “I’m Feeling Silly” button.
Quite well done in my opinion. It’s fun to see a government entity showing a little April Fools’ day humor. That [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Internet by Jason T.
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Wired’s Top 10 April Fools’ List
Wired has compiled a list of the Top 10 April Fools’ gags. My favorite:
“A proposed law will ban online sex chat and inebriated Web surfing. “Congress apparently thinks being drunk on a highway is bad no matter what kind of highway it is,” editorializes PC Computing. The bill’s supposed sponsor, Senator Ted Kennedy, is not in on [...]