Monday, August 29
iSpin
had to laugh at an article on macworld.com, "the ultimate resource for Mac professionals and savvy Mac users" (props to snoopy for the link) in which the author implies that the reason for the recent Henrico iBook Stampede was that people were so hot to get their hands on a Macintosh (as opposed to a Windows system). i'm gonna go out on a limb and say that people willing to bash each other with lawn chairs for a $50 computer probably don't give a rip what kind of operating system they can run on it. let's just leave the Mac snobbery to the civilized artisitc types.
Tuesday, August 23
hall of lame
just back from the NASCAR Hall of Fame rally at the Capitol. it was hot and sticky and rather anticlimactic, but i still hope we get it (and according to my source, we have a good shot). a few obersvations from the rally...
hall of lame: richmond times-dispatch for selling their leftover promotional newspaper inserts (unfold it for your very own NASCAR Hall of Fame banner!) at the rally.
hall of shame: the loser race fan who threw his cigarette butt into the gutter while crossing the Capitol grounds.
hall of fame: my buddy Dave, who called the guy out on it and shamed him into picking it up. (priceless quote from the butt-thrower as to why he couldn't put it in the trash can: "i don't want to start a fire" (pronounced like "far").
good luck Richmond! (or 'git er done' or whatever it is race fans say).
Wednesday, August 10
attack of the melon
i like watermelon as much as the next guy, but i've gotta say that this image from style weekly's coverage of the upcoming carytown watermelon festival gave me the creeps. looks like the kid has been attacked by the melon cube, which has tangled itself into his braces, and his father is spearing at it with a fork. surely it's safer to tame the melon with a couple of cups of tequila.Monday, August 8
gyro madness
anybody out there old and geeky enough to remember marble madness? it's an old atari game (they also made an upright arcade version) where you guide a marble through various obstacle courses. sounds dumb, but check out gyroball for a similar vibe. warning: don't even start playing if you're on any kind of deadline - you'll be fished in for the rest of the day.
Friday, August 5
become-ing something cool
a cool new twist on regular ol' online shopping sites: www.become.com. it's still in the beta version (and, according to this, will be for a few more weeks), but definitely worth clicking around. its distinguishing feature is the presence of two buttons by the search field that allow you to choose whether you want to research a product or comparison shop for it. (by contrast, if you go to froogle.com and enter in "diamond earrings", you'll get nothing but offers to purchase earrings. if you go to google.com and enter "diamond earrings", you'll get a hodgepodge of retailers, reviewers, and just general mentions of the term.) become.com feels more like a generalized cnet.com (the digital product search site) - a place where you can make an informed decision based on more than just price alone. and check out the "search suggestions" that populate while you're still typing your term.
Tuesday, August 2
now with chunkier bits!
i promise i'm not high, and i actually do do more around here than dream about jelly beans and ice cream all day.... but i had to post this about an ice cream shop in delaware that's offering a "chunky bacon"-flavored ice cream. others they've created: cucmber + vidalia onion, barbeque, mushroom + pecan. luckily for all of us, the crab meat ice cream wouldn't freeze right and had to be abandoned. blech!