Apparently ShipGooder.com was mentioned in an ABC News spot. It’s a site that lets you enter a starting and ending zip code for a package, along with its weight. And then you get rates from many shipping services so you can compare them. That’s all well and good, but gooder?? Really? Has correct grammar gone out the window? I’m sorry, but that is just wrong.
ShipGooder.com if you must, but I still don’t like the name.
Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net
Something I always wondered about.
Tags: Comic, explosm, fruit roll-up, Humor
There is all this talk about the Internet overtaking other technologies and reducing the need for a personal computer. I don’t believe it. But again, what do I know? Ten years ago people were full of new ideas but the public wasn’t ready for them. Now we have less kids going to college for computers and all of them are joined at the hip to their texting/twittering/facebooking cellphone/iphone/pda. Which in and of itself is entirely odd. You would think that the people who use technology the most would see its importance and be interested in creating the next generation. But they aren’t. We have created a generation of self-absorbed consumers who have little interest in creating anything other than an entirely useless Youtube video.
Tags: Computers, consumerism, technology, Thoughts
You gotta love facebook. Saw Scott mention Joss Whedon’s new venture. It’s Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog. Dr. Horrible is Neil Patrick Harris, Captain Hammer is Nathan Fillion, and Penny is Felicia Day (check out her own web series The Guild).
So much web-series-goodness.
It’s easy to forget that the Internet only really began to rise 14 years ago with the introduction of Netscape Navigator. I was too young to appreciate it at the time, or to even really know about it, but if you think about it some of the biggest technologies we take for granted now were only created in the last 10 to 20 years. It makes me wonder about what is next and what challenges lie ahead. If the creation of Netscape gave birth to the Internet, it is now a child going to Kindergarten. What happens when the Internet enters High School? And then college? What will the Internet look like as an adult? Will it be well-adjusted or not? Will we look on our parenting with a proud feeling and fond memories, or will we be ashamed of ourselves?
I can only describe it as chills. That is what I get when I watch the videos on Gotham Cable News and visit the websites that are part of the viral campaign for The Dark Knight, the sequel to Batman Begins coming to theaters on July 18. It’s just amazing the lengths they have gone to in order to immerse us in Gotham City, and how great it will all connect us to the new movie. Actors making videos in character, photos displayed of the city, and even commercials on television taking place in Gotham City (I just saw a commercial for Dominos where a woman delivers a pizza to the Joker’s hideout, Rent A Clown building, and says to tell the Joker he owes her a new car after hers was attacked during delivery). I’m loving it. And I can’t wait. Batman Begins was amazing.
Tags: batman, movies, the dark knight
Today I passed a bunch of people with signs reading things like “Honk if you support our troops.” I was caught off guard and not used to honking when people show me a sign, but I definitely support the troops. I’ve been thinking about it ever since and wishing I honked. Consider this my apology to all those troops out there who I wish the best and I hope they come home soon.
Go check out America Supports You.
I just realized that in the “Get Info” option for a song in iTunes you can go to the “Options” tab and adjust the volume of a song. I’m not sure how long this has been here, but after buying The Pussycat Dolls - When I Grow Up
Tags: Amazon MP3, Deals, Music
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