Archives
January 2012
- 21: Ice Cube on the architecture of Charles and Ray Eames
- 18: On SOPA/PIPA
- 12: Using GIS to solve common problems in local government, city planning
- 12: Trailer for Wes Anderson’s new movie, Moonrise Kingdom
- 08: Privacy rights complicated by employee-owned devices?
- 08: Why Best Buy is going out of business … gradually
October 2011
September 2011
- 25: Flight training journal for September 25
- 05: Video: The grace and splendor of the Lockheed U-2
- 05: Details of Amazon’s Kindle Tablet
August 2011
- 30: Woman scammed by wooden iPad salesmen
- 29: Call Tim, to see how his day is going
- 15: Celebrating 102
July 2011
June 2011
- 11: Flight Training Journal for June 11: Landings
- 09: Photo: Space Shuttle Endeavour and Space Station together for last time
- 05: Flight Training Journal for June 4
May 2011
- 28: Virginia
- 22: Flight Training Journal for May 22
- 15: Flight Training Journal for May 15
- 13: Apple offering free repairs for iPod touches, iPhones, and Macs damaged in the Japan quake and tsunamia
- 11: Google I/O Extended
March 2011
- 27: Tim O’Reilly on digital rights management and e-books
- 26: Angry Birds: The Movie [Trailer]
- 18: The Guardian: 10 years of the iPod
- 12: Our SXSW 2011 Presentation on Visualizing Government Data is now online [Updated]
- 06: My SXSW 2011 Panel: Visualizing Government Data for Public Trust
- 03: Check out my interview with Doc Searls
February 2011
- 28: Hangover 2 trailer
- 26: 2011 MacBook Pro upgrade
- 23: 2011 MacBook Pro details leaked?
- 08: Ferris Bueller’s Wrigley Field scene explored
- 07: Flipboard’s Mike McCue on how chasing Web traffic is hurting journalism
- 06: Boot Camp partitioning errors: Quick fix
- 01: Yeah. So about those 2011 MacBook Pros.
January 2011
- 31: Why Dropbox is better than everything else
- 27: Timbuk2
- 17: How to publish your eBook on Amazon
- 17: What will be the last Steve Jobs inspired Apple product?
- 08: Creepy Jesus bust in Austin antiques store
December 2010
- 30: Lend Kindle books to friends and family
- 22: Four predictions for 2011
- 02: What Wikileaks really tells us about government and policy
November 2010
- 22: Apple releases iOS 4.2
- 16: Enough with The Beatles – today’s real news is on the iPhone
- 10: OSX 10.6.5 and the Dell Mini 10v Hackintosh
- 04: Magazine editor plagiarizes blogger, claims Internet is public domain
October 2010
- 28: Qrank set to launch movie and sports channels, currently serving 200K users
- 19: Five-year old boy sells drawings on Etsy to help pay for Leukemia treatment
- 17: Easy HTML coding and blogging with Markdown
- 15: Russia’s failed space program in pictures
- 13: McDonald’s Happy Meal won’t decompose even after six months
- 13: Eric Stoltz as Marty McFly
- 12: Posterous gets a full feature iPhone app
- 06: Facebook now lets you download all your stuff, adds groups
September 2010
- 29: The value of plain language in government communications
- 29: Apple TV shipping
- 22: Wells Fargo extends the olive branch, tweaks Twitter feed
- 21: Texas Gulf fishermen recover from oil spill, misperception
- 20: Wells Fargo uses its Twitter to tell customers they’re not on Twitter
- 16: Why I won’t be ruling out analogue books anytime soon
- 14: Twitter launches new services
- 11: A quick look at the Goodwill Computer Museum
August 2010
- 25: The Girl With The Old School Geek Toys
- 24: AMC’s ‘The Walking Dead’ gets a trailer
- 24: My latest Fiscal Notes article
- 22: Support government transparency: Vote for my SXSW panel
- 04: U.S. overturns California’s same-sex marriage ban
- 01: Consider the Snapper
July 2010
- 24: Congratulations, Hawk
- 21: The iPhone 4 has killed the competition.
- 10: Fan being run into by Ichiro Suzuki
- 06: Don’t forget…
- 03: In which i buy an iPad
June 2010
- 30: iPhone 4′s FaceTime commercial shows you exactly how not to hold your new iPhone
- 29: How Apple employees are instructed to handle iPhone 4 reception complaints
- 24: A review of the iPhone 4, as written from an iPhone 4 at 35,000 feet
- 23: Unboxing the iPhone 4
- 21: Oil in the Gulf, two months later: The Big Picture
- 21: New York Times profiles Foxconn factory worker
- 20: Ecto blogging software for Mac OSX
- 08: The rookie card that all dreams were made of
- 05: Iowa Cubs vs Round Rock Express, June 1, photo gallery
- 03: BP’s worst-case scenario: Oil at Christmas
- 03: Creators of Farmville, Mafia Wars acquire Austin gaming company
May 2010
- 22: Stuff I’m reading, listening to and writing
- 17: ACL 2010 lineup: Did USA Today just announce the headliners?
- 16: Why Facebook will buy Foursquare
- 13: This is what deregulation looks like
- 12: Steam for Mac
- 09: Obsessive
- 02: A quick look at the state of geolocation services
April 2010
- 24: Huge nerd hacks iPhone to run Android OS [video]
- 19: It’s time for a geosocial community, and what I’m doing about it
- 06: A few thoughts on the iPad
March 2010
- 28: Austin tacos? There’s an app for that
- 28: Four-part French documentary on the history of techno
- 22: A quick review of the Wordpress for iPhone app
- 21: Beerland doesn’t care about your crappy hipster blog and would like for you to leave
- 16: Turn your social media strategy into your customer service strategy
- 16: Video of the 1980s breakdancing madness that stole the 2010 Rackspace SXSW party
- 14: Lauren and Mark Cuban at SXSW Interactive
- 14: Leo Laporte crowdsurfs during live broadcast at SXSW Digg party [video]
- 14: Leo Laporte interviews Kevin Rose’s parents at the Big Digg Shindigg @ SXSW
- 13: Wordpress hosting BBQ at SXSW tomorrow
- 13: Attendee bags at SXSW [unbelievable]
- 13: Dr. Neuroscience: Listen to Your Brain video #sxsw
- 12: SXSW day 2 with Mark Cuban
- 12: SXSW day 2
- 11: SXSW Interactive is about to kick off
- 03: Inside Ryne Sandberg’s home: Video tour
February 2010
- 27: iPhone repair at the Apple Store in Austin
- 16: Lets meet up at SXSW 2010
- 14: On Giuliano Bugialli’s The Fine Art of Italian Cooking, a photo essay
- 11: Facebook now feels like the work of clumsy engineers
- 07: My pick for best Italian food in Austin
- 06: Can a case be made for chief social media officers?
- 06: What if Wes Anderson directed Spider-Man? [video]
- 03: CDC’s Twitter guidelines document is nine pages of viral goodness
- 02: Playing with Wordpess for iPhone
January 2010
December 2009
- 13: Sunday shopping and successful corn popping
- 07: ‘MacHeads’ is an accidental study in creating passionate users
- 06: Colorado Mountaineering 2009
October 2009
February 2007
January 2007
September 2006
August 2006
- 05: Travis Pastrana 1st Double Backflip in Competition XGAMES
- 03: Geraldo Rivera opens Al Capone’s vault
- 03: Dumbest thief ever
- 02: Real life Grand Theft Auto
July 2006
- 30: Hawk vs. Rattlesnake
- 23: Mr. T. vs. Best Buy
- 23: Linux shows up in the Mac ads
- 21: Cricket suffering from parasitic worm commits ‘suicide’
- 21: I’ve relocated …
- 20: Does YouTube own your content?
- 19: Jimmy Page: Age 14
- 19: Fish with ‘human-like’ teeth caught in Texas
- 18: OpenOffice steps up rhetoric in Microsoft’s backyard
- 18: Burger King circa 1982
- 18: 1017
- 18: Comcast Censors ABC’s Nightline
- 18: Chad Vader – Darth’s younger brother as a day shift manager
- 18: World’s largest nuclear explosion: Tsar 50 megaton bomb
- 17: Nintendo Cereal Commercial
- 17: Heat Vision and Jack pilot
- 17: Video of Bush’s expletive
- 17: Army tankers react to suspected looters
- 17: The Shining: alternate trailer
- 17: A Linux timeline
- 14: Radio controlled attack helicopter armed with automatic air gun
- 14: Creepy vintage barbecue commercial
- 14: Pee-Wee Herman’s PSA on crack cocaine
- 14: Office Space Super Friends
- 13: Pantyhose as a fashion accessory
- 13: Behind the scenes at Family Guy
- 13: Frank Zappa on CNN’s Crossfire
- 12: Animation unleashed
- 12: Vintage Miller Beer commercial
- 12: Cool marketing campaign
- 11: Classic Atari 2600 and McDonald’s commercial
- 11: The effects of beer
- 11: The lost Mac vs. PC ads
- 10: College Baseball Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony 2006 (video)
- 09: One year of podcasting
- 09: Worst new blooper ever
- 09: Back to the Future: The Enchantment Under the Sea Dance Revisited
- 07: Chimp plays Pac-Man
- 07: Cat climbs into glass bottle
- 06: Beretta Xtrema2 shotgun demonstration
- 06: BigDog Military Robot Transport
- 06: Google Video Categories you didn’t know about
- 06: Microsoft to let you download your iTunes library for free
- 05: Amazing Iraq sandstorm
- 04: 35 face shots in 32 seconds
- 03: Lucas in Love
- 02: Japanese ’24′ parody
- 02: Comcast box starts fire in home
- 02: Grape stomping reporter suffers tragic accident
- 02: Orson Welles drunk commercial outtakes
June 2006
- 30: Pac-Man 3D
- 30: 1.75M student loan borrowers have personal data compromised
- 30: Amusement park themed after Dahl’s ‘Chocolate Factory’ set to open
- 30: ESPN anchor heckled at NBA draft
- 30: David Lee Roth goes bluegrass
- 30: Stephen Colbert on Guantanamo Bay
- 29: First Atari 2600 commercial
- 29: Vintage video shows ‘the difference between the sexes’
- 28: Stevie Wonder on Sesame Street
- 28: Amazing 12-year old drummer
- 28: Nirvana Live and Unplugged in New York
- 27: Eighty skydivers take formations
- 27: Onboard camera captures bird striking, downing an F-16
- 27: Scientology show down caught on video
- 27: How to avoid being arrested (video)
- 26: A note on comments
- 26: Comcast tech fired for sleeping on the job
- 25: MAC OSX booting on a Dell Latitude d600
- 25: 7 steps to deleting a shortcut in Windows Vista
- 24: WWII color guncam footage
- 24: Starlings nearly take down a tree (video)
- 24: FIrst ever iPod commercial
- 22: Why do you do what you do?
- 22: Ohio student tried to warn officials of network vulnerability four years before incident
- 22: The story of homeless bloggers
- 22: Comcast horror stories
- 21: Comcast Tech caught sleeping on the job
- 20: Netflix set to offer movie downloads
- 20: Empire Strikes Back re-enacted with action figures
- 19: Nintendo’s new commercial
- 18: Craigslist Lubbock launches
- 17: How to win the war against telemarketers, junk mail
- 15: 1979 Star Wars Drunk Driving PSA
- 14: Today’s links
- 13: Google launches Picasa Web Albums – Flickr Killer?
- 13: Wrigley bullpen gets WiFi
- 13: Jack Thompson launches new attack on video games
- 13: Weird Al makes more money from CDs than he does iTunes
- 13: Shhhh! Google is listening to you
- 12: Today’s links
- 12: Where does your senator stand on Net Neutrality?
- 11: On the set of Spider Man 3
- 11: Gnarls Barkley performs in Star Wars costumes
- 10: Net Neutrality: Who voted for what?
- 07: How to get Windows Vista Beta
- 06: Blog lands dueling professors in court
- 06: From animation student to Simpsons director
- 06: Angelina Jolie becomes a Web squatter
- 04: Mandela explains the meaning of Ubuntu
- 02: Format your drive using Notepad
- 02: Footage of Pirate Bay Bust
- 02: Dell Partners with Skype
- 02: iPod integrated into Major League Baseball workouts
- 01: Natalie Portman Star Wars skit acted out by The Sims
May 2006
- 31: Recover your bandwidth from Windows XP
- 30: I want a free software program that will …
- 29: Google skips Memorial Day Art
- 29: Pumpcast: fake newscast on gas pumps freaks out bystanders
- 26: Can your flat panel do this?
- 26: Google and Dell team up to provide software on new PCs
- 24: Super Mario Brothers on Ice Video
- 22: Steve Ballmer Windows 1.0 commercial
- 21: Lego iPod Dock
- 12: Report: Rove indictment imminent
- 11: Mass Effect: Best Game Footage Ever?
- 10: Is file sharing really America’s problem?
- 10: iTunes has Red Hot Chili Peppers fans red hot angry
- 08: Blogging Ruidoso
- 03: Apple threatens legal action against Web site that links to user manual
- 02: iPods help trapped miners pass the time
- 01: Cash’s final song set for July 4 release
April 2006
- 30: Daou on Colbert
- 26: McDonald’s offers DVD’s to go
- 26: Mac OSX on Acer Aspire?
- 24: Super Mario Kill Bill
- 23: 902
- 23: University of Texas network hacked
- 21: Best Rube Goldberg machine yet
- 19: Dragon’s Lair: 1982 classic game from beginning to end
- 18: Old school Sesame Street
- 18: NOLA mayoral candidate caught Photoshopping herself…in NOLA
- 12: Google Calendar launches
- 12: Best jobs in America
- 07: 894
- 05: Why is Bose so popular?:
- 03: 892
- 03: Forty minutes of aviation oddities, accidents
- 02: Google Earth April Fools
- 02: Ultimate Back to the Future toy
March 2006
- 31: Today I met Cesar Chavez’s brother
- 30: At least 30 more ISPs subpoened by DOJ – this time not just Google
- 30: Fix the Word copy-and-paste format annoyance
- 29: 885
- 28: CGI Optimus Prime
- 27: Disney takes on Venereal Disease Education
- 22: Lego Thriller
- 21: Star Wars lost clip?
- 21: MS delays Vista
- 20: Don’t copy that floppy!
- 19: Amazing CGI
- 18: What kids do with MySpace
- 17: Ethernet Cable soldiers
- 17: Helicopter attempts to fly between two trees
- 17: NES Light Gun – Alarm clock
- 16: Superman is Methodist
- 15: Spring cleaning for your PC
- 15: Why AOL is still a miserable experience
- 14: First full length feature movie now available at iTunes
- 14: I’m featured on Geek News Central
- 14: ‘Happy face’ photographed on Mars
- 13: Google to sell ebooks?
- 13: How to maximize your cable/DSL performance using Windows XP
- 12: Did you know … ?
- 10: How to import archived Outlook email into Gmail
- 09: March Jams
- 09: I got Dugg
- 09: Die Hard Cubs fan slides face-first in Wrigley Field latrine
- 08: How to use Outlook to backup your Gmail account
- 08: Team unveils Krispy Kreme Cheeseburger
- 08: Top 5 uses for an iPod at work
- 08: Reminder for Gmail users …
- 06: Does this video show the new video iPod?
- 06: Thanks for the memories
- 06: More Cowbell: Google Talk Easter Egg
- 05: The bittorrent song
- 04: Is Telecom the new Big Oil?
- 03: What is Blu-Ray?
- 03: More vintage video game commercials
- 02: 848
- 02: Vintage Video: Duck and cover in a nuclear blast
- 02: ‘Word Processing Error’ leads to $7 billion taxpayer expense, oil industry profit
- 02: Thinksecret: video iPod debut near
- 02: CNET: TiVo to tighten grip on children’s viewing
- 01: Comcast To Show Some Movies Same Day As Theaters
- 01: 842
- 01: 841
- 01: 840
February 2006
- 28: 839
- 28: 838
- 28: 837
- 28: 836
- 28: 835
- 27: A note on Buck O’Neil
- 27: Big Problem with Google Pages?
- 26: Chaucer hath a blog
- 25: SXSW sells out of wristbands
- 24: More Video iPod Photos Leaked?
- 24: Apple schedules media event for Feb. 28
- 23: Video iPod: another leaked photo
- 23: As time passes…a photo essay that shows how we age
- 23: Google quietly unveils online Web site creator
- 22: Digg flaw discovered
- 22: O’Reilly calls for U.S. to "get out of Iraq"
- 22: What does a Chinese Keyboard look like?
- 21: Computer History Museum photos
- 21: Is this the new video iPod?
- 21: Benefit for homeless canceled…due to weather
- 21: "Lawer" threatens Boing-Boing
- 20: Best Buy gripes
- 20: Zelda marks 20th anniversary
- 19: February Jams
- 18: 815
- 18: Video of Skype payphone
- 16: 813
- 16: 812
- 16: 811
- 16: 810
- 16: Rube Goldberg machine created in Half Life 2
- 16: 808
- 16: 807
- 15: 806
- 13: Blizzard 2006 photos
- 13: Will Harry Caray rise again for the 2006 season?
- 13: Nintendo Entertainment System Commercials
- 12: 802
- 11: Brokeback Top Gun
- 11: 800
- 11: Japanese showcase true 3D display technology
- 10: 798
- 07: 797
- 06: 796
- 03: ‘Idol contestant (gently) fires back
- 01: 794
- 01: 793
January 2006
- 31: 792
- 30: 791
- 29: 790
- 27: The complete n00b’s guide to free and reliable Windows software
- 24: Wireless TiVo
- 23: "Lazy Monday"
- 22: January Jams
- 22: How to stop ZoneAlarm from Spying on you
- 21: 784
- 19: Yes, there is room for an iPod in church…
- 19: 782
- 18: Seth Green reads Star Jones’ new book….
- 16: Yahoo News puts Bush with cadavers
- 16: Gmail now available to all users
- 15: The original Tetris commercial
- 15: Microsoft App crashes on Billboard Advertisement
- 14: Macworld 1997 Video
- 14: Best Buy laptop running OSX?
- 12: Did Apple ripoff a band’s video to sell MacBooks?
- 10: Ironic: the day Apple goes to Intel, it’s stock closes at 80.86 a share
- 10: 772
- 10: Macworld Roundup…
- 09: Macworld 2006 updates
- 09: 769
- 08: 768
- 08: 767
- 06: 766
- 05: 765
- 03: Phoenix, Witherspoon deliver in ‘Line
- 02: 763
- 02: Clerks 2 update
- 02: 43 Folders …
December 2005
- 13: Pong meets contemporary art
- 09: Google loves Spam (primavera)
- 09: 758
- 07: CBS to offer March Madness online for free
November 2005
- 29: Wil Wheaton plug
- 28: Reflections of a carpetbagger on a trip
- 07: Evolution in the bible, says Vatican
- 07: Engadget checks out wooden PCs
October 2005
- 31: Will Wal-Mart sell $398 notebooks, desktops?
- 28: Apple Computer, 1985
- 27: ‘I use my iPod to store medical images’
- 26: Firefox 1.5 delayed
- 21: Nano scratches leave Apple fending off class-action suit
- 21: Apple signs podcasting deal with Stanford U.
- 20: Happy 100M, Mozilla
- 19: Things you should know about Video iPod
- 12: Apple unveils video iPod
- 11: The Tiger Strikes Again
- 04: New iPods Next Week?
- 03: Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2005
- 03: Harvey Danger offers fans plesant surprise
- 02: Nano Scratches – Bad Apple.
September 2005
August 2005
July 2005
June 2005
May 2005
- 31: 715
- 30: 714
- 29: 713
- 28: 712
- 28: 711
- 26: Let’s Bring Wireless to Downtown Lubbock
- 26: 709
- 19: 708
- 19: 707
- 15: 706
- 10: Are Podcasters Selling Out?
- 10: 704
- 09: 703
- 08: 702
- 08: 701
- 06: 700
- 05: 699
April 2005
- 29: Tiger Notes
- 28: 697
- 25: A Note on Podcasts
- 24: Online Music Suppliers Have Room to Grow
- 19: Tiger Set to Pounce
- 18: Now Online via Skype
- 12: McMurtry to Close Shop
- 07: An MP3 Rant
- 06: Neugebauer Scores Null on Children’s Issues
- 02: 689
- 02: 688
- 02: 687
- 02: Pope John Paul II: 1920-2005
- 02: 685
- 02: 684
- 02: 683
- 02: 682
- 02: 681
- 02: 680
- 02: 679
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- 02: 675
- 02: 674
- 01: Gmail Gets Boost in Storage
- 01: Bush’s Rhetoric Fails Litmus Test
March 2005
- 30: Political Identity Online
- 30: NY Post: Let Schiavo Die in Peace
- 29: P2P Battle Heats Up
- 29: Perry, Hutchinson Spar Early
- 29: Knight(s) to Leave Texas Tech?
- 25: Bring it On
- 24: 665
- 22: Bonds Submits
- 15: Saira Shah to Speak at Texas Tech
- 15: 662
- 10: Apple to Boost Stock Ram?
- 07: Apple’s Influence on Free Speech
February 2005
- 25: How Much Should an iPod Shuffle Cost?
- 22: iPod Shuffle Drives Memory Demand
- 22: Lubbock Pushing to Improve Image, Little Else
- 21: Review: iPod Shuffle
- 16: Free Speech at Texas Tech?
- 15: Podcast News
- 13: Mac and Me
- 07: 652
- 05: Cox Officials Outline Cause of Loud Commercials Amid Complaints
- 01: Cox Comm Responds to Allegations of Volume Hyping
- 01: Cox Viewers Get an Earful
January 2005