I first started using RSS aggregators 3 years ago when I noticed a depressing trend of big sites (like Facebook) trying to force you to use the web through their portal. The idea of being able to take any feed I wanted and choose how I wanted to aggregate it was what I really preferred. [...]
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You best Trek Y’rself…
This flash toy is actually pretty cool. It allows you to create a Star Trek character based on a photo of yourself. What’s interesting is the way it animates your face to talk, blink, or look in the direction of your cursor. I suggest you try it out. Too bad it won’t allow users to [...]
I can’t unfollow you.
A few weeks ago I dated someone who just didn’t feel as into “dating” as I did. Instead of just saying “that’s it, we’re through” we decided to try to stay good friends, but I knew I’d need a little time to shift back in to thinking of them only as a friend. Unfortunately our [...]
The 4 hour font battle… let’s kern this mutherfucker down!
Lorem Ipsum, ya’ll. A few minutes ago I tweeted about a 4 hour font battle and recieved some positive response, so I wanted to flesh out the idea here. The crux of the challenge is to push people to create their own custom font in just a few hours using the free font making site [...]
The exception to the rule
Thanks to Jeremy Gillick’s comment on Robots Don’t Know Anything About Twitter, I now know about Ganzbot! Ganzbot is an Arduino based robot that reads your Twitter feed out loud. I love the expressions Ganzbot makes at the end of the video. Want!
