Archive for August, 2008

Bookmarks for August 26th 2008 through August 28th 2008

Sites that I found interesting for August 26th 2008 through August 28th 2008:

Southwest Cuts Capacity, Midwest Trims Seat Width – Southwest will eliminate nearly 200 routes, and Midwest will add seats and reduce seat width.
How the Soviets Drilled the Deepest Hole in the World – Russians drilled for more than 15 years to reach a [...]

Bookmarks for August 20th 2008 through August 26th 2008

Sites that I found interesting for August 20th 2008 through August 26th 2008:

Microsoft Photosynth creates 3D panoramas from 2D photos – Kudos to Microsoft for rolling out a tool that's likely to amuse you for hours on end: It's called Photosynth, and it's free for everyone with a Windows Live or MS Passport account.
American Offers [...]

Learning Photography at Gnomedex 8

The first session at Gnomedex 8 this past weekend was about how to take great photos. The session was lead by Kris Krug. Gnomedex pal and self described non-photographer, Sarah Prevette asked if she could try out her newly learned skills with my camera. She took these pictures of me which are pretty good in [...]

SpaceRip: Mercury Messenger of the Gods

This new Spacerip video was posted over on Hulu:

New detailed views from the Mercury Messenger spacecraft.

Added: August 23, 2008
Duration: 04:40
Rating: 4.6 / 5.0

Bookmarks for August 18th 2008 through August 19th 2008

Sites that I found interesting for August 18th 2008 through August 19th 2008:

My Experience at the Innoventions Dream Home at Disneyland – The Innoventions Dream Home sits inside Disneyland's Tomorrowland and uses Windows Media Center in Windows Vista – along with hardware from HP and others – to combine technology available today with technology we [...]

Bookmarks for August 16th 2008 through August 18th 2008

Sites that I found interesting for August 16th 2008 through August 18th 2008:

Toshiba Debuts ‘Near-HD’ DVD – First DVD player with eXtended Detail Enhancement (XDE) technology as delivering "near-HD" picture quality from standard-definition DVDs. This is Toshiba's new up-scaling technology that is supposed to be a better picture. It's like a DVD player that [...]

Bookmarks for August 14th 2008 through August 15th 2008

Sites that I found interesting for August 14th 2008 through August 15th 2008:

The Oracle of Starbucks – Astrology is lame and Myers-Briggs is for losers. The omniscient Oracle of Starbucks can tell you everything about your personality by what you drink at Starbucks
Twitter kills SMS service in some countries over costs. Will someone kill SMS [...]

Car Tech: 2009 Jaguar XF Premium

This new CNET Networks, Inc. video was posted over on Hulu:

Lots of tech, much of it silly. Can this car reinvent Jag?

Added: August 15, 2008
Air date: August 13, 2008
Duration: 04:32
Rating: 3.2 / 5.0

Bookmarks for August 13th 2008

Sites that I found interesting for August 13th 2008

Bulk fetching images for dvr-ms files –
Marumi LED8 Macro Ring Light – The new LED8 Macro Ring Light from Marumi has been specifically designed for macro photography. It’s ideal for use with compact cameras, with eight LEDs that position in front of the lens using a [...]

Bookmarks for August 11th 2008 through August 13th 2008

Sites that I found interesting for August 11th 2008 through August 13th 2008:

Kingston high capacity 32GB card – Kingston announced it is shipping a 32GB Elite Pro SDHC Flash memory card for use with today's digital video camcorders and other high-resolution imaging devices. The new 32GB card is the largest capacity in Kingston's Elite Pro [...]