The iPhone is one of the best thought-out devices ever made, but that doesn’t stop if from having a shortcoming here and there.

One of it’s more obvious flaws is that the metal around the headphone jack is so damn slim that you can’t fit most 3rd party headphones. Sure, the iPhone headphones have a mic built in, but they’re really not that ( Read more... )

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We’re currently taking a summer hiatus from our podcast, The Alternative Music Show, but we’re still evaluating new music. Crazy Fraizer’s song “Crazy (City Lights)” has been stuck in my head, and seemed to fit really well with these pictures in iPhoto, so I set about making a little music video.

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There’s a new term being tossed around twittersphere like crazy this weekend: “bacn”. Originally written about by Andy Quayle, the term got a lot of buzz at Podcamp Pittsburgh, and for good reason. Sure, we don’t really need another buzzword, but bacn describes a problem we all have, and defining that problem will help bring about solutions.

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How walkable is your place (or that dream house you’ve been thinking of)?

When Sara and I look at getting a place, not needing a car for every little errand will be high on my list of wants.
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I’ve been working hard on some new stuff for Clipmarks and admittedly haven’t been paying as much attention as I’d like to the quiet traction that Clip-to-blog is gaining in the New Media space.

Clip-to-blog lets you clip the best parts of a web page and easily post them to your blog, and I’ve always hoped that my new media friends would see it ( Read more... )

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After reading way too much about the price and supply of oil, I’ve kept a watchful eye on the price of crude. It peaked around $78 a barrel last year, and after sliding down to the mid sixties, it looks like it is poised to set a new record, standing at $77 today.

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Back in college I worked in the theatre’s sceneshop, there were inevitably downtimes between projects, so bunch of us would have this exact contest. You’d be surprised how far you can extend one of those metal tape measurers before they bend!
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skip to :49 seconds. just do it.
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