I just read an article from CNN called Many Americans see little point to Web. Of the approximately one third of Americans who don’t have internet access, “forty-four percent of these households say they are not interested in anything on the Internet.” What?!? I’m not saying that anything I’m doing online is worthy of their time, but I can’t believe that there is nothing online that is worthwhile or interesting to them.
The story does say that... + read on
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Back in mid-January, I wrote an entry here I called The YouTubified Election of 2008. I expected this election to get pretty mean simply because it seems to be the trend in politics. But when you add in the power and the anonymity of the internet into the mix, things can get really dicey.
This morning I heard about a mashup video circulating around the web—one part Apple’s famous 1984 commercial, one part Hillary Clinton’s videos from her... + read on
I get distracted when I’m working sometimes. I doubt I’m the only one who suffers from this though. Nearly every modern computer has multiple windows on the screen begging you to multitask. And then there’s the internet, the ultimate distraction. Maybe I got an email. Bling. There’s an instant message. I wonder if my favorite blog has been updated?
In order to give my brain a fair shake at actually writing coherent English, I’ve been cheating... + read on
My favorite toy as a child, before I got my Texas Instruments TI99-4A, was my Lego collection. I could spend hours playing with Legos. I always seemed to run out of the bricks I needed before I could complete some grand project I envisioned, but I had a blast anyway. I wish I had photos of the stuff I built back then. Sigh.
Legos seem to be an obsession with a lot of geeks on the web. There’s a great site called Brickshelf where people post... + read on
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I saw the movie 300 over the weekend. I hadn’t really planned on seeing it until I read a review of the movie on Ain’t It Cool News by Moriarty that made it impossible NOT to see it. When a movie is said to “give your eyes boners, make your balls scream and make you poop DVD copies of THE TRANSPORTER,” how can you miss it? (Thanks, Fefa for sending the reivew!)
I did like the film for the most part. I didn’t expect great dialog and, as I... + read on
First, my apologies for that corny headline, but it’s for a great book. Last week I finally got around to reading DOM Scripting: Web Design with JavaScript and the Document Object Model by Jeremy Keith. I bought it quite a while ago and left it sit in my book pile. That’s too bad because I could have used the stuff I learned from the book in making SuperGeekery!
What’s DOM Scripting you ask? Well, DOM stands for the Document Object Model, a... + read on
