Archives for: "August 2005"

Honda's Rube Goldberg ad

New Honda ad - This Advertisement for the new Honda Accord was shot in real time with no CGI involved in the sequence. It required 606 takes and cost $6 million to shoot and took 3 months to complete. Wow. Very impressive ad. (via Digg.com) more »

DTV

Matt sent me a link to this: DTV: Internet TV, so I downloaded it and gave it a try. I think it's really promising. We've known for a while that BitTorrent and RSS can make a good way to distribute large files, but this open-source project has… more »

Confirmed: Walken2008.com is a hoax

Update: Snopes.com: Walken2008.com more »

Hot hybrid

There's a new hybrid car that goes zero to sixty in around four seconds and can get 50 mpg. And it looks totally sweet and awesome. The most amazing thing about the Hybrid Attack, however, is that it was designed and built by a small group of high… more »

gVisit

This is fun. Gvisit.com has a free service where you put a snippet of code in your web page and every hit to your site is logged on their server and plotted on a map. Before you get all Privacy Advocate on them, know that they're using information… more »

67 Thousand

I'm cleaning up a computer for someone and this is what Adaware found. The most critical objects I had ever seen it find was around 800. Sixty-seven thousand, seven-hundred and four! Granted, most of thost are registry values that probably came from… more »

Walken '08?

Walken 2008 - Official Website Is this for real? more »

YouTube

www.youtube.com/videos/personman YouTube.com is to video as flickr.com is to photo. I signed up for a free account and uploaded a couple of home movies of Emma. So far I really like it. The videos were available online just minutes after I uploaded… more »

plugins.b2evolution.net

Now that it's been announced at b2evolution.net, I'll mention it here, too: The Brendoman.com webspace is now hosting plugins.b2evolution.net. The developers wanted to start some new subsites and have them maintained by community members. I… more »

Stephen Baxter

I'm thinking of reading a book by sci-fi author Stephen Baxter. Can anyone recommend a good book to start with? He has done several series, but I have no idea which would be good introduction. more »

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