Category: Computers & Internet

  • Wear Your Signal Strength on Your Shirt

    I love the guys at ThinkGeek just a leeetle more than is probably seemly. But it’s because they have grabbed the Geek Mindset with both hands and stuffed it into their mouths like so much Beefaroni, making chorfing sounds all the while. Their latest offering is the Wi-Fi T-shirt. The animated decal on the front…

  • One Gigabyte

    On the left, 1 GB of storage in 1987. On the right, that little teeny thing in the person’s hand? That’s 1 GB today. Huh. (via Twenty Sided)

  • Guide to Bypassing Internet Censorship

    The Citizen Lab has a new anti-censorware guide, “Everyone’s Guide to By-Passing Internet Censorship for Citizens Worldwide.” It’s in PDF format, and has material for both anti-censorware activists and users. If you’re interested in Internet Censorship–and you should be–you might want to take a look. Link (via BoingBoing)

  • Celebrate One Web Day

    Today is One Web Day, which is meant “to encourage people to think of themselves as responsible for the internet, and to take good and visible actions on Sept. 22 that (1) celebrate the positive impact of the internet on the world and (2) shed light on the problems of access and information flow.” So…

  • Smile

    On September 19, 1982, at 11:44 a.m., the first emoticon was posted to the Internet. The :) is 25 years old today. Link

  • Well, Is He?

    News of the Weird reported this bit about an article in the Wall Street Journal (08/10/07): Ric Hoogestraat is married to Sue and works at a call center in the Phoenix area but spends 30-plus hours a week inside the online Second Life video game, pretending that he is the digitally drawn Dutch Hoorenbeek, a…

  • Galaxiki – Editable Online Galaxy

    Galaxiki is a collaborative fictional online galaxy. Essentially, it’s a wiki for creating fantasy planets, nebulae, solar systems, and what-have-you, all in a shared galaxy. Neat! Link (via BoingBoing)

  • Real/Virtual Interaction

    Here’s an interesting (albeit ill-thought-out) use for cell phones. Designer Marc Ecko’s company has put up a series of LCD billboards that allow you to “write” on them with any Bluetooth-enabled cell phone. Select the paint color and nozzle size, then point and shoot. It’s a cool idea, and an interesting glimpse of the way…

  • The Wave of the Future

    The succinctly-named Piss-Screen is a pressure-sensitive inlay for urinals which allows you (and by “you” they mean “men”) to play a game with your pee. It seems to actually be an unusually elaborate “don’t drink and drive” advertisement, since the screens are installed in Frankfurt bars, you crash if your reaction time is too slow,…

  • Too Bad They’re Mildly Evil

    The Google guys definitely have a sense of humor. Check out these Google Easter Eggs: 11 Google Search Results Pages You’ve Never Seen Before