January 2009
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Korean Taco Truck What?
I just heard about Kogi BBQ, a LA-based taco truck that serves up late night Korean BBQ fusion to party goers. We’re talking bulgogi and kalbi wrapped inside of a taco! YUM. Because of the mobile aspect of the business, the company tweets its location in order to let fans know where to get midnight grub. As with all great things, I try to figure out how the NGO’s can use this to...
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Machine Rights: What's Left?
I just read Daniel Roth’s article, Torture Me Elmo: Do Humanlike Machines Deserve Human Rights? . The article doesn’t so much defend the rights of machines, as it questions the effects of being a torturer. Roth writes, “The brain is hardwired to assign humanlike qualities to anything that somewhat resembles us… And so, either we get tougher on technology abuse or it undermines...
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There's an I in President
I spent Sunday night connecting resistors to an arduino board at TechShop. I initially had grand visions of remote control cars and a robotic beer catapult. After 6 hours I had 2 blinking LEDs and I’d singed my hair on a soldering iron. My point: You have to start somewhere. This brings me to Barack Obama’s inauguration speech. Having been a speech writer, I know that this address was...
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Obama Inauguration Live Streams →
Om Malik compiled a list of streaming inauguration coverage for tomorrow morning. We’re talking about the first racialized President of the United States people! Your grandchildren are going to ask you where you were on this historic event. If you have to answer Starbucks, at least watch it off your phone.
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The Coolness of Encoding: TAG & QR
I just wrote an article for Mashable about QR Codes and Microsoft just launched TAG this morning- a new type of code. In the same way I like QR codes, I like TAG. But this video tells me someone doesn’t get the point. The coolness doesn’t come from being advertised to, it comes from being able to embed the codes with your own secret messages. It’s like using an invisible...
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Don't Mess with the Oprah
Not since Michael Crook aka Mr. fake DMCA, have we seen the internet rally against a griefer of such epic proportions. But this is new, this is personal, this guy is trying to mess with the Oprah.
Former Fish and Richardson patent attorney Scott Harris invented the 252 patent - a method of providing “excerpts from a digital book for preview prior to purchase, but prevents the reader from...
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What is Villagers With Pitchforks (VWP)?
- A look at how online memes, mobs and morality-based dilemmas affect our daily lives
Why the 3Ms as opposed to say, “bass, bongos and bannock”? Apart from the fact that the latter 3 topics will be addressed in our upcoming Inuit/Graceland-inspired rock opera, we believe that without memes, mobs and morals, our existence on the web would be nothing more than electric...