I’ve been reading a bit about the Dark Web lately. Particularly in a great (and long) book called Future Crimes. The Dark Web is a large section of the web that can only be accessed by the TOR browser which anonymizes all your internet activity. While it’s initial purpose was to help people protect their information online, it’s…
Comedy Hack Day, produced by Cultivated Wit is an event that pairs coders with comics in a 24-ish hour marathon of building something interesting and funny for the web. I haven’t done any hard core coding since programming and Apple IIc in middle school. And I could program that crap out of that little green screen…
On the last episode of Being Blackbeard, Tony and I were talking about a scene in the 2nd episode of Crossbones where the two pirates were discussing this new navigation device that everyone is trying to get their hands on. The one pirate said something to the effect of “I thought it was well known…
I usually spend a couple minutes each day cruising around the net to stay up on the zeitgeist. Sometimes I find something really intriguing, creative, or useful. More often I find things that are the equivalent of a song you hate and can’t get out of your head. The thing is, headline writing has become…
I have to admit, I’m feeling a little disenchanted with the human race today. Some days the pettiness and stupidity get to you. To let’s go with that vibe and laugh at the stupid people, shall we? Here’s 5 things that will dissuade you from thinking humans are the highest form of life. 1….
As Comic-Con prepares to fire off a nerdgasm of epic proportions this week, I’ll be enjoying it from afar because I’ve got shows to do this weekend. Before the internet, you had to geek out on your own. And if you found a few friends that were into Star Wars or Dungeons and Dragons or…
If you haven’t seen it yet, the Standup Shots page on Reddit is an amusing way to blow time when you should be doing something else. I like it because it’s a neutral playground for jokes. If the joke is good, it rises to the top. Of course, it’s best suited to a particular kind…
I probably won’t get a lot of agreement on this one. But, do you remember when we used to make fun of people who wouldn’t read a book because there wasn’t enough pictures in it? Seems everything needs to be presented as an infographic these days. I know it’s tapping into peoples’ different learning styles…
If you’ve never used it, Fiverr.com is a strange little marketplace for small jobs. Sometimes they’re super useful, like this guy who will build you a mobile website. Others less so, like this guy who will dance in a hot dog costume to whatever song you’d like. A lot of it is promotional ideas that…
With today’s much-hyped IPO of Facebook, U2’s Bono stands to make a couple billion dollars through his investment company Elevation. That will be more money than he’s made with U2 in the last 30 years and, depending on his personal cut, could make him the world’s richest musician. Paul McCartney has had that distinction until…
Ok, Yahoo posted this thing the other about jobs that pay over a hundred grand and don’t require a degree. Such as… Nuclear Power Reactor Operator… Oh man. The Simpson’s should have a much larger house then, shouldn’t they? A hundred grand would go a long way in Springfield. Or buy a lot of doughnuts. …
Each year Google posts their zeitgeist lists. All the biggest stuff that people were searching for all year. Apparently in 2010 most people were concerned with wasting their time to a soundtrack of marginal music. 1. Chatroulette (seen at left) – Proving once again that if your business model focuses on perverts and teenage girls,…
Last night I was thinking about the cyclical nature of of the internet. I was also watching the Flintstones. Both signs that I could have a drug problem. Except that I’ve never done drugs. It’s just me. Anyway, I was thinking about how particular sites, apps, or memes come into popularity and then fade out…
