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Friday, May 16th, 2008
And Georgia Tech guys complain?
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The ISEF08 winners have been announced, and the recipients of the grand prize scholarships are these fine young ladies (left to right, below): Natalie Omattage of Cleveland, MS; Yi-Han Su of Taipei, Taiwan (I’m politically […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Culture, Geekery, Local News, Mobile, Photo, Sci-Tech by shelbinator
Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Cute girl, but what the HECK is she saying?
So um, someday your laptop computer won’t roast the tops of your thighs, and it has something to do with nano light waveguide things. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go light my master’s degree on fire and hide under my desk while I try to process all that I heard in […]
No Comments » - Posted in Geekery, Local News, Mobile, Sci-Tech, YouTube and such by shelbinator
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Weird science! Brains rain on Atlanta
The Intel International Science and Engineering Fair is underway in our fair city of Atlanta. Today and tomorrow the kids are being judged — judged I tell you! Scrutinized, interrogated, and judged, and lucky for them (and not for us), this part of the fair is not open to the public. So […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Cool things, Geekery, Local News, Sci-Tech, Video by shelbinator
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
Invisible Shield: protect your gadget by not using it
A couple weeks ago I saw @waynesutton tweet about ordering an Invisible Shield™ cover for his new N95. That reminded me that I had seen the rather impressive video demonstrating this polymer film’s toughness on YouTube. Developed originally to protect the leading edge of military helicopter blades, they say, the stuff has ridiculous […]
12 Comments » - Posted in Geekery, Rant, Sci-Tech by shelbinator
Sunday, May 4th, 2008
External microphone for N95: the final word (we hope)
This is just one of those things I need to put out there for the Google-bots to find and index for posterity. Despite there being one YouTube video out there that comes really close to getting this right, and despite the immense collection of geekery within the N95 user base, there still arises the […]
16 Comments » - Posted in Cool things, Geekery, Media, Mobile, Netroots, Video by shelbinator
Friday, May 2nd, 2008
She’s such a gas bag
It’s been one of those weeks around here, have you noticed? Grading final projects and owing a report to NASA totally killed my plan to bore you all with several look-what-my-phone-can-do tech posts this week, so maybe that’s a good thing.
And more frustrating is that I didn’t get to weigh in on just […]
No Comments » - Posted in Politics, Rant, Sci-Tech by shelbinator
Monday, April 28th, 2008
Critical Mass on Choose or Lose
Since everyone’s whining about gas prices on the MSM, I figured showing fit and attractive young cyclists out enjoying the fresh air would be a better way to report on the “crisis” than just a bunch of predictable stock footage at the gas station. You want biofuels? We gotcher biofuels: PBR in a […]
3 Comments » - Posted in Get physical, Local News, Media, Politics, Video, YouTube and such by shelbinator
Thursday, April 24th, 2008
I’m making a movie. In my PANTS.
At this point I think it’s safe to say, if not for the N95 I’d have no reason to live.
Now Nokia’s giving us geeks another thing to distract us from our day jobs, and Spike Lee is part of the problem. Partnering with Jumpcut — the online audio-visual mashup tool that Mitt Romney used […]
No Comments » - Posted in Culture, Geekery, Media by shelbinator
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
All aboard the CJ train
Last week, two new players announced their intention to enter the mainstream-ized political citizen journalism arena a la Choose or Lose. First up, Rock the Vote:
Rock the Vote in partnership with WireTap magazine is searching for aspiring or established reporters for Rock the Trail. Sponsored by AT&T, Rock the Trail will capture today’s politics […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Media, Netroots, Politics by shelbinator
Monday, April 21st, 2008
MTV delegate caucus package
I went for short and sweet this week. After a while, one delegate candidate speech starts to look like any other, and like I observed this weekend, the speeches were relatively unremarkable in their uniform goodness.
Plus, I forgot my damn guest releases, and didn’t want to go chasing down any interviewees after the fact. […]
