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On the phone

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008 | 3 Comments »

I admit it, I was one of those people who made sarcastic comments when the first camera phones came out several years ago. At the time, it felt like an arranged marriage between two uncomplementary technologies. Many “Nuts and Gum, Together at Last” jokes were made.

At any rate, I was wrong. I use my phone to take pictures all the time. What I love about camera phone pictures is that they’re the exact opposite of digital camera photos in so many ways: where the latter are planned, high-quality, and of events deemed memorable, the camera phone captures only the spontaneous stuff I come across every day.

coffi yes ready today
coffi yes ready today (My office)

Digger Phelps Ct.
Digger Phelps Ct. (Beacon, NY)

Parsley Plus
Parsley Plus: Cleans with the Power of Parsley (Met Foods, Vanderbilt Ave.)

A little bundle of wtf

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008 | 10 Comments »

Either Amazon knows something we don’t, or our parents have unorthodox ways of applying pressure.

Screenshot from amazon baby registry email

Or it could be a database error. But what are the odds of that?

Facebook Users Rally to Save Scrabulous

Thursday, January 17th, 2008 | 2 Comments »

No!

Many Facebook users are devastated by the news that their favorite application, Scrabulous, is in danger of being taken down. Toymakers Hasbro and Mattel are telling Facebook to lose the game, claiming the online game infringes their copyright on the classic board game. The word-nerd add-on, created by brothers Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla, two software developers based in Calcutta, is one of Facebook’s 10 most popular applications, attracting 594,924 players daily.

Facebook Users Rally to Save Scrabulous
Related: Scrabble vs. Scrabulous on MetaFilter

as we may blog explores new media, old bars

Friday, November 9th, 2007 | 5 Comments »

I was messing around with embeddable Google Maps for a legitimate, work-related purpose this morning. The result of this exploration was, well, not so work-related. Here are four of my favorite bars within a few blocks of the office.

Yes it’s 11 am and yes it’s been a long week.


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Missed connection

Wednesday, May 16th, 2007 | 2 Comments »

I finally worked up the nerve to post a missed connection on Craigslist.