Browser Cartoon

http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/browser-wars

Tech gone too far?

http://thedailywh.at/post/1535064059/life-altering-tombstone-of-the-day-the-e-tomb-is

I'm not this bad.... YET

Homemade computer has 70TB of storage cooled by 40 fans

http://dvice.com/archives/2010/10/homemade-comput.php - READ MORE

Drop the Disks

http://www.unplggd.com/unplggd/news/going-from-installation-discs-to-thumb-drives-130362

4 Media's in 1

CD


Record


USB - mp3 file


Itunes Download Code

http://www.geeky-gadgets.com/o-music-release-concept-by-david-riesenberg-11-10-2010/

Digital Paper Clip

http://www.unplggd.com/unplggd/usb-deviceaccessory/the-digital-paper-clip-usb-drive-127851

Then and Now

http://www.swaglikeme.com/blog/2010/9/27/the-first-imac-vs-iphone-4.html

The Wilderness Downtown

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/03/the-wilderness-downt.html

Just Try It!

Blog2Print

http://www.geeksugar.com/Blogger-Gifts-10774232

Hybrid CD and Vinyl

Jeff Mills latest release, The Occurrence, is pressed on a hybrid CD. One side is just a normal CD, the other is a 5″ vinyl pressing which you can play on a turntable.
http://www.todayandtomorrow.net/2010/06/10/a-vinyl-and-cd-release-on-one-disc/

High Tech Alcohol

http://www.bornrich.org/entry/unleash-your-inner-poet-with-medea-vodka-programmable-bottles/

Desk Hack

http://thedailywh.at/post/466334713/life-hack-of-the-day-quick-dirty-cable

Foxtrot iPad

March 21, 2010

Scanner Memoir

http://www.swaglikeme.com/blog/2010/3/12/memoirs-of-a-scanner.html

National Geographic Harddrive

Hard Drive Packs In Every National Geographic Issue Ever
By Charlie Sorrel, Wired.com
December 30, 2009

"As a youngster, I was once given a one-year subscription to the National Geographic. Like most people, I looked at the (wonderful) pictures and promised myself I would read the articles later. A promise which was, of course, never kept (although I did often sneak a peek at the pictures of the women of tribes which have less strict rules on clothing than us).

The trouble with the Nat Geo was that, to me at least, it seemed like a chapter of an encyclopedia, not a magazine. Now you can actually use it that way, with a new hard-drive which puts every copy, ever, in one easy-to-search place. For $200, the National Geographic will sell you a 160GB hard drive, 60GB of which consists of scans of the entire back catalog, including the ads (sometimes the best part of looking back in time).

The browsing interface looks pretty, well, pretty, and owes a lot to OS X’s cover flow. You can search text, articles and photos, and of course just lose hours browsing 120 yeas of the iconic mag. The biggest surprise to us is that the entire library takes up just 60GB, just 500MB per year. The collection has been available on DVD for some time now, but that is obviously a disk-swapping, battery-draining pain compared to a nice compact USB HD. Better, you can have it personalized, with the name of your chosen giftee printed onto the case of the drive itself.

The Complete National Geographic on 160-GB Hard Drive [National Geographic]"

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/12/hard-drive-packs-in-every-national-geographic-issue-ever/

Study finds Americans consume 34GB of data a day

"How Much Information?" is the question researchers at the University of California, San Diego have been asking themselves in a series of studies of the same name. They've found that in 2008, American consumers used a so-massive-it-sounds-made-up 3.6 zettabytes of data, making for an average of 34 gigabytes per consumer.

If that sounds ridiculously high, it helps to understand how the study defines data. In short: everything. Absolutely all the data you consume — from video games, TV shows and even the printed word — is broken down into bites bytes.

From Ars Technica:

The report involved collecting a large number of estimates of various forms of media consumption: hours spent gaming, number of newspapers sold, etc. These were combined with estimates of the amount of information content of each of these, such as the number of words in a typical newspaper, and (when necessary), converting that into bytes. As such, there are undoubtedly significant error bars on most of these estimates, although they're not provided with the numbers in the report. Still, some of the differences are pronounced enough that it's fair to say that even large errors wouldn't change many of the overall conclusions.

The study found that we spend 12 hours of each day immersed in media, with television and radio (the latter probably only mentioned as it's a "traditional form of media") accounting for half of that time, followed by video games and computer use at a quarter, and printed media coming in at 0.6 hours. There's a lot of overlap, too, meaning that some of us consume more than one kind of media at once.

I guess that makes sense, considering I'm writing this blog, scanning my reader with 40+ sites open, listening to the latest Giant Bomb podcast and queuing an episode of Castle up on Hulu for when I take a break for dinner in a few.

Via Ars Technica

Creative McDonalds ad

http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/creative-ad-mcdonalds-has-free

Comic Strip Crazyness

Eek! Sept. 25, 2009


B.C. Sept 14, 2009


B.C. Sept. 21, 2009


Non Sequitur Sept 24, 2009


The Argyle Sweater Sept. 27, 2009


Zits, Sept. 11, 2009


Zits, Sept. 13, 2009


Brainwaves, Sept. 15, 2009


The Flying McCoys, Sept. 22, 2009

Attachments

http://thedw.us/post/170001374/bizarro

This Day in 1868, Technology Changed.

June 23, 1868: Tap, Tap, Tap, Tap, Tap … Ding!

By Tony Long, June 23, 2009, Wired.com

1868: U.S. Patent No. 79,265 is issued for a type-writing machine. Surely, we have now reached the pinnacle of human communication.

Christopher Latham Sholes’ machine was not the first typewriter. It wasn’t even the first typewriter to receive a patent. But it was the first typewriter to have actual practical value for the individual, so it became the first machine to be mass-produced.

With the help of two partners, Sholes, a printer-publisher from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, perfected his typewriter in 1867. After receiving his patent, Sholes licensed it to Remington & Sons, the famous gunmaker. The first commercial typewriter, the Remington Model 1, hit the shelves in 1873.

The idea was based on the principle of Gutenberg’s movable-type printing press, arguably the most important invention in the history of mass communications. As with the printing press, ink was applied to paper using pressure. While the typewriter couldn’t make multiple copies of an entire page, it simplified — and democratized — the typesetting process for a single copy with a system of reusable keys that inked the paper by striking a ribbon.

Within a couple of decades of the first Remington typewriter, big-press operations would begin using a modified, more sophisticated keyboard system, known as Linotype, for their typesetting needs. That little tweak helped make the mass production of newspapers possible.

The notion of devising a machine for the individual writer had been around long before Sholes arrived on the scene. The first typewriter patent known to have been issued went to an Englishman, Henry Mill, in 1714. His typewriter, if that’s what it was, apparently didn’t resemble the modern machine at all. Alas, no example of Mill’s machine exists, and the blueprints — if there were any — have been lost, too.

An American, William Burt, patented a “typographer machine” in 1829, but it was cumbersome to use and ultimately didn’t go anywhere, either. Sholes’ patent was the decisive one.

You’ll find the fingerprints of Thomas Edison, whose name seems to appear on practically everything invented during the latter part of the 19th century, on the typewriter, too. Edison is credited with building the first electric typewriter, in 1872. The idea was not popular. In fact, electric typewriters didn’t come into widespread use until the 1950s.

Christopher Sholes‘ other great contribution to mass communications? He developed the QWERTY keyboard in the 1870s to minimize the rapidly moving typebars getting tangled with one another. That need is long gone, but it’s likely the same keyboard arrangement on which you are, even now, preparing to type your snarky comment on this blog.

Source: Ideafinder.com
Image: Inventor Christopher Sholes sits at an early typewriter. Show this to your office ergonomics expert.
Credit: Bettmann/Corbis
http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2009/06/dayintech_0623/