Nike is planning to unveil transforming Megatron and Optimus Prime shoes. They sound cool, but could be painfully uncomfortable to wear. (via Boing Boing)
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Entries Tagged as 'Asides'
Nike Megatron and Optimus Prime
April 25th, 2007 · Comments Off
Tags: Asides · Toys · Transformers
Now with OpenID
April 23rd, 2007 · Comments Off
(Update: I’ve changed plugins to provide OpenID. See this post.)
Comments can now be signed with OpenID, thanks to this plugin.
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Tags: Asides · OpenID · Wordpress
Wordpress Mobile Edition
April 19th, 2007 · Comments Off
Thanks to a plugin by Alex King, this blog now has a Mobile edition, so it’s readable on a PDA. To get the plugin, check out his plugin page.
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Tags: Asides · Mobile · Wordpress
Turning food wrappers into fuel
April 13th, 2007 · Comments Off
NY Times:
“Dr. [Richard] Gross, a professor of chemistry at Polytechnic University, in Brooklyn, is turning plant oils, of the kind already used to make biodiesel, into “bioplastic.” The plastics can be films or rigid, as are commonly found in food packaging. Then he uses a naturally occurring enzyme to break down the plastic into [...]
Tags: Asides · Science · Environment · Mr. Fusion
I’ve reimplemented asides on this blog.
April 11th, 2007 · Comments Off
I’ve reimplemented asides on this blog, thanks to this tutorial on implementing asides with Cutline. I’ve talked about making asides briefly before.
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A demo playing two Nickelback songs shows them to be nearly the same song
April 11th, 2007 · Comments Off
A demo playing two Nickelback songs shows them to be nearly the same song. Sadly, this can probably be done with way too many popular music acts today. (via Kottke)
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Tags: Asides · Music · "How You Remind Me of Someday" · Nickelback
Creating a Tumblelog
April 2nd, 2007 · Comments Off
Lifehacker has a great guide on Tumblr and Tumblelogs. It’s basically makes blogging even easier with no writing, just collecting what you see from the web. Wonder if I can get some of my friends to do this instead of typing everything into AIM profiles.
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Tags: Asides · Blogging · Tumblelogs · Tumblr
Why bloggers should use Creative Commons licenses
March 30th, 2007 · Comments Off
Why bloggers should use Creative Commons licenses by Paul Jacobson discusses the reasons bloggers need to use Creative Commons.
If your intention, as a blogger, is to have your content and your thoughts distributed as widely as possible, then reserving all your rights to your content is counterproductive. A more effective way of distributing your content [...]
Tags: Asides · Blogging · Creative Commons
How They Do It Better
March 23rd, 2007 · Comments Off
US News “offers 30 lessons [the United States] can learn from other countries.” For example, “American travelers to Europe find themselves particularly charmed by the vitality of the Continent’s plazas and squares. Open areas carved from dense neighborhoods, they are markets by day and restaurants by night.”
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Tags: Asides · General · Countries
Lance Bass of ‘N Sync Reveals He’s Gay
July 26th, 2006 · Comments Off
Lance Bass of ‘N Sync Reveals He’s Gay-Kids used to joke about N’sync being gay. Now they know one of them was.
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Tags: Asides · 'N Sync · Lance Bass

