Don’t tase me bro!
Posted 1 year ago
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off Being Played Out Live On Twitter And Foursquare.
My first reaction to this: awesome sauce!
My second reaction: a bit of melancholy.
Simply because times have changed. I guess I’ve gotten old. It happened without my knowing it. But when I imagine Ferris Bueller in our age, with our technological “tools,” it makes me miss the old days; days where you actually had to hang out with people if you wanted to talk with them, days where you didn’t have to check in using a virtual space…
Besides, if Ferris had’ve posted his whereabouts on Foursquare, I’m sure Rooney would have been savvy enough to find it out and track him down. After all, he eats it.
Here’s a link to the Tech Crunch article:
http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/07/ferris-bueller-twitter-foursquare/
Posted 1 year ago
Breakaway: Avoid awkward music slip ups
So you’re sitting in the coffee shop, surfing the web with trained skill, white Apple headphones trailing from the headphone port of your MacBook Pro, rocking the Rocky 4 soundtrack. You’re oblivious to all those around you, as they are to you. You go to take a sip of your Shot in the Dark, and you accidentally pull on the headphone cord.
Out pops the cord from your computer. And “Eye of the Tiger” steals the focus of everyone in the room.
Embarrassing? Maybe. If you’re a normal human being, I guess.
Well, here’s a simple program to avoid that embarrassment: Breakaway.
Breakaway will pause your iTunes music if the headphone jack is removed, whether intentionally or unintentionally. It’s free, and easy to install and configure.
Check it out: http://mutablecode.com/apps/breakaway
And, for nostalgia’s sake, here’s a link to a song from Rocky 4. If I remember correctly (and having seen it dozens of times as a young, impressionable adolescent, I know I do) this is from the scene where Rocky is roaming the streets in his hot sports car, intercut with a moving montage of his enmity and then friendship with Apollo Creed.
Posted 1 year ago
Theaters now paid to play even more trailers
- In the not so near future:
- Phone ringing.
- Joe: Hello?
- Bud: Hey man, you want to go see a movie tonight?
- Joe: Sure man. How bout Clash of the Titans?
- Bud: (in his best Liam Neeson voice): Release the Kraken!!!!! So, what time does the movie start?
- Joe: Um, it says 7:15.
- Bud: No, man, what time does the movie actually start?
- Joe: Huh?
- Bud: Well, first you got about ten trailers. Then the lights dim, and you think it's movie time, right? But then the commercials go. M&M's, red and green for Christmas.
- Joe: Wow.
- Bud: And I haven't even gotten to the dancing condiments.
- Joe: So, what time do you think?
- Bud: 9:30 should give us plenty of time.
- Joe: Whoah.
Posted 1 year ago
MobileMe (and its associated grievances)
MobileMe sounds great at first blush. Complete synchronization of all your contacts, calendar entries, emails, bookmarks, etc…all done automatically, all done behind the scenes.
Then the problems start.
If you have MobileMe, chances are you’ve seen the sync warning a time or two (or twenty).
