Category Archives: entertaining

Podcasting survey by the University of Memphis

By noble | Published: March 13, 2009
I just completed a podcasting survey that’s being conducted by the University of Memphis. If you’re a podcaster you should take a few minutes to complete it – I’m interested to see the results! https://umdrive.memphis.edu/kmmrkman/www/podcasting.html
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Wine + Social Networking = Corkd

By noble | Published: November 27, 2008
I just ran across a fun website called Corkd. It was linked off of Gary Vaynerchuk’s site, and looks like a great mashup of wine info and social media. Check it out, and if you like it sign up and send me a friend request. I can always use a good recommendation on a [...]
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Imagining Sarah Palin in the Oval Office

By noble | Published: October 19, 2008
The website “PalinAsPresident” has a hilarious point-and-click tour that helps us imagine what Sarah Palin would do in in the Oval Office. Move your mouse around and click on different parts of the picture. My two favorites: the stock ticker on the computer screen behind her, and the dinosaur wandering aroud outside (also note the [...]
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CVS Videocamera Hack Update

By noble | Published: October 4, 2008
Here’s an update to what has proved to be one of the most popular items on the blog: my CVS Camera Hack post. I posted that almost exactly one year ago and I thought I’d do a quick update after actually using the camera in real life for a while. First of all, the landscape of [...]
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New Vegas travel site to check out

By noble | Published: September 27, 2008
A friend from grad school is launching a cool new Vegas travel site. Check it out: http://www.vegaschill.com
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Video of Blendtec keynote at New Media Expo

By noble | Published: August 15, 2008
Here’s a video of the good people from Blendtec (i.e. “Will it Blend”) doing a live demo of their blender at this morning’s New Media Expo keynote UPDATE: the video is now available on Viddler for streaming instead of downloading.
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Racing through LA

By noble | Published: August 8, 2008
Rockstar Games is set to release the next Midnight Club this October. The game is set in Los Angeles and looks like it will be a blast. According to reviews it’s an open map, so players will be able to drive through LA at will, although they have changed some of the geography of the [...]
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New electric supercar

By noble | Published: July 25, 2008
ExtremeTech has a re-posted article about a new electric supercar, the Lightning, which looks to be a direct competitor to the Tesla. Sounds like it will be a lot of fun for those who are well heeled enough to afford $240K for their next car. It’s good for the environment though, and if you’re lucky [...]
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