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“Will it Blend?”
Another quick goodie – If you haven’t seen BlendTec Blender’s “Will it Blend?” videos, they’re pretty entertaining. Probably one of the better viral marketing campaigns out there – creative, interesting, not too pretentious, a bit campy… I’m sure they’d be a smashing success if it weren’t for the punchline: The darn things cost $400-$825!
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Meez Avatars
Here’s a mildly interesting little tool. Meez.com lets you (pretty easily) create a cartoon avatar and embed that most anywhere you’d like. For example, this little guy on the right here is my spiritual online self – Receding hairline, Charlie Brown t-shirt, old-school jeans, and flaming converse hi-tops (and, yes, I actually own a pair…
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MoinMoin Wiki Syntax Highlighting for VI (VIM)
Regular readers of this blog can probably just stop right here. I’m using this entry as a way to get my new MoinMoin wiki syntax highlighting tool into google. What follows is only relevent the cross section of people that use both Trac and VI. For those of you who do use trac, you’re probably…
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NPR Station Mashup
Chris and I are doing road trips to the Bay Area or Nevada every month or two right now. And somehow the timing of these always has us driving on weekends, around the time my favorite radio show, Car Talk, is on. This would would work out great except for one thing: we invariably spend…
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The Tools of Generations
I just received my Mom’s annual Christmas letter in the mail today. This has been a tradition with her for, wow, I’m not sure how long – at least the last 20-25 years, and perhaps longer. As I was reading it, catching up on the familiar and unfamiliar news in her life, I was struck…