A pretty funny read on what's going on at Dear Ol' Dartmouth. Post is here.
A pretty funny read on what's going on at Dear Ol' Dartmouth. Post is here.
First, check out the beer belly, which is an ingenious way for fans to get beer into the stadium. It looks like a great way to get a belly full of brew without having to haul in a bunch of cans – also, with the flexy straw there's no need to remove your hands from a few hot dogs and nachosSecond, there's now an entire blog set up to track the World Cup at worldcupblog.org. I know i just added to my Netvibes. I'm looking forward to seeing the US kick some ass on the world stage. Although the blog's latest post has the power rankings which has the US at a lowly 15th. The top 15 are:
Driving sucks. I've been driving back and forth from DC to Frederick alot lately and putting all those miles on Chester (my car) has been taking its toll. That, and i'm feeling a need to be better to our environment. Our poor planet hates us and i want to be one of the good guys. Plus, Chester is sooo pretentious that he doesn't even care.
So, what can be done? Well, take a look at the new CLEVER car. It's a kickass one-seater. Mixing the efficiency and compactness of a motorcycle with the comfort and safety of a car, the CLEVER car can go up to 80 mph is tops on my list of what i want to get to tool around town in.
I was very psyched on the Tango's from Commuter Cars, but they seem to be a little to futuristic in a bad way – in a similar way that everyone wearing silver colored full body suits (onesies) with a purple 'V' on the front is futuristic in a bad way. (Note – the CLEVER car is futuristic cool similar to shooting laser beams out of pencil is cool). An amazing thing about the Tango is that it's an electric car and can go 0-60 in 4 seconds, so it's fast as hell and totally environment-friendly. The Tango (see pics) is closer to reality – you can order it now – and while it would be a fun way to get around town, i like the look of my half-motorcycle/half-car CLEVER.
As someone who works with a diverse staff and likes to keep a tight schedule, i online project management tools. I also love gantt charts. The current product i’ve been using is dot project – but this is a pretty cumbersome app. Seeiing that there are so many people who are taking web 1.0 tools and spicing them up for 2.0, can someone please do this for the Project Management tools?
It makes sense for click-intensive tools like mail, calendar, bug reporting, and maps – see: gmail, new Yahoo Mail, Google Calendar, CalendarHub, 16Bugs, and Google/Yahoo Maps – why can’t someone do this for PM tools?
Anyone know of some good stuff? Talk to me
Today if you look at www.Google.com on IE, you'll see an ad for users to get Firefox. If you look at Google on Firefox, there's nothing. I think this is super ballsy. They are giving the double birds to Microsoft. Why would they do this? It is my belief that this is because Google will release in the next year a browser based PC for consumers to buy at an incredibly low price (say $100).
Google is building a world where all that is needed is the browser. All their services – Video, Search, Mail, IM, etc. – all work only in the browser, there is no concept of an application to them. This is the exact opposite of of what MS does, which is to create almost exclusively applications – Word, Excel, Outlook, etc..
Think about this:
This would change the world. People could get 4 of these for around there house. Anytime you have any question or comment, you boot up a browser. With HD tv sets, you could have a browser available at every TV set. I'm telling you, this would be awesome and it's completely doable and looks to be what's coming. You heard it here first.
So terrible in fact, it's hilarious. The plot is so absurd that it was kinda enjoyable. Let me list some of the things in the actual movie:
Actual Things in The Plot
As a kid, my favorite toy was transformers. I loved them. What a genius idea to instead of making something half robot have man – make it half robot / half car. Awesome. And if you're a bad guy, you half-robot / half plane or gun.
After a good 20 years since the last transformers movie, they're making another one. Although this one isn't a cartoon and it isn't just for kids. With "I'll blow anything up and make everyone look as cool as possible but with the worst dialouge" Michael Bay at director, Steven Spielberg as hands-on creative producer, and some big name stars signing on, this movie has the makings of being fantastic. Just announecd this past week is Shia LaBeof, Michael Clarke Duncan, Jon Voight, Bernie Mac, Tyrese, John Turturro, Megan Fox, Travis Van Winkle (who was on an OC episode this year), and John Robinson (guy from Elephant – the worst movie ever). I don't think any of these guys are playing the actual transformers, but rather the people who interact with them.
I couldn't be more excited for this movie and i wish they'd bring back the toys too. It seems like the kids of today don't have heros and villans as cool as rotots turned cars and with great names like Megatron, Optimus Prime, and Omega Supreme.
Update (4/23): Not 8 hours after i posted this, the site Ain't It Cool News posted an article about a sitdown they did with Michael Bay about the movie. Apparently it'll be the first movie to every show the new F-22 jet that can hover. All in all, it still sounds like it's going to be sweet.
Update (5/9): IGN (here) has more news and some actors have been confirmed , such as Jon Voight, Megan Fox, Bernie Mac, and Josh Duhamel. Filming begins soon to be ready for next summer.
This weekend i saw the very-indie film Lonesome Jim. Afterwards, to bring myself back into the mainstream, i went and saw Basic Instinct 2. The movie is just what you'd expect – totally absurd but with an extremely hot Sharon Stone. Say what you want about BI2 being pretty lame, but as far as hotness goes – it completely delivers.
Some interesting things about this movie:
I stumbled upon a cool web site the other day called Feedwhip. How it works: you enter in the URL of a website and it will email you if anything on that site changes. Super simple. But the usefulness is pretty huge. You can set the level of changes you'd like to be notified about – every change, at least 1 line of text, big changes, etc. This is very useful for a guy such as myself who tracks many, many sites every day to see if the competition is changing or adding features. Some other useful applications for feedwhip:
Can you think of other cool uses?