Three guys have apparently created their own Rockband with their modified iphones. Rockband is one thing, grown people playing video game controllers that look like musical instruments that actually sound like pieces of plastic banging together, but to play rockband on modified iphones is probably the geekiest thing i’ve heard of in a long time.
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March 11, 2008
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March 11, 2008
First Felony conviction for Spamming
Jeremy Jaynes was convicted of illegal spamming and is the nation’s first conviction according to wired.com. He is sentenced to nine years in prison, which seems like an awful lot for illegal spamming. I’m not really sure what makes illegal spamming illegal, but i think it has something to do with how he sent the [...]
March 11, 2008
Anonymous Post responsible for suicides?
An article from mashable.com, revealed that a Kentucky congressman is trying to require that all post on the Internet be identified and that anonymous posts would become illegal. This seems like a good idea to hold everyone accountable for what they say, but really its a poor attempt to correct a problem that [...]
March 11, 2008
Rewire Your Life Day?
An article from chronicle.com discusses one Michigan State professor’s effort to not use technology for one day. She does end up using her telephone because she was at work for the day, and to not use a telephone at work is probably impossible.
I think Rewire Your Life Day is a genius idea, and it [...]
March 11, 2008
Porject Canoe & More Commercials
Aren’t there enough commercials out there already? Are Americans turning into walking zombie-consumers? Yes and yes. This article about the new Project Canoe, which the major cable companies are beginning to develop, really reminded me how important commercials are to America’s economy and that millions, or probably billions, of dollars are put into advertisements [...]
February 28, 2008
Live web search v. traditional searches
With traditional searches we found that the sites provided offered more factual information on what/ who Marketing Strategies and David Beckham are, where as the live web searches provided examples of the subject. For example google offered more biographical information on Beckham and his career/life, but the live web searches (youtube and Bloglines) provided either [...]
February 28, 2008
Learning Curve and those that reject it
Listening to the speakers this past Tuesday talk about the steep exponential curve in reference to the advancement of technology and to then hear them ask how many people don’t take part in technology has sparked an idea in my head. I have several friends that have really rejected new technology beyond a basic [...]
February 20, 2008
Music For Sale!
Wired. com reported that the largest collection of music is up for sale on eBay. This collection has millions of songs with all genres of American music represented. It also have all sorts of formats including hundreds of thousands of CDs. What is really interesting is that this collection is for sale on eBay because [...]
January 24, 2008
Birth of the Cool
Unfortunately this article is not about Miles Davis and his landmark Cool Jazz album, but it is about a computer that is very important to recent history. The article comes from Wired News and it explains the importance of the Macintosh 128K computer. It also discusses the struggle for power within the mac corporation. Basically [...]
January 24, 2008
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