There was a time somewhere around freshman and sophomore year of college that Power Hours became very popular among my friends. For those who are not familiar with the concept of a Power Hour, it’s when you get a bunch of friends, a few shotglasses, and a lot of beer, and everyone takes one shot [...]
My friend, Zak sent me this video yesterday while I was going about 80mph on the beltway (YouTube and driving isn’t illegal yet, right?) and I had to share it with everyone. Apparently there’s a cool trend of “building projection” going on over in Europe where companies bring regular buildings to life with high powered [...]
Reader and teacher, Stephanie, suggested this website that has various math and geometry equations on it to waste time. In her email, she admits that it’s a bit nerdish and I have to agree with her. Truth be told, when I visited the website the java-based math games that it tried to load just showed [...]
FourSquare — This social networking app allows people to “check in” to places that they’ve visited in their local city. “Checking in” allows users to tell their friends which establishments they’ve been visiting (whether it’s a local bar, coffee shop, pizza parlor, movie theater, etc…) and earn badges for visiting different places around town. In addition, if you become the person in your town to “check in” the most at certain establishments, you become the Mayor of that business. Now, this all may sound kind of gimmicky until you check out the list of benefits that Mayors can receive at certain businesses. For example, at Bad Decisions in Baltimore you can receive a free flaming shot for every 10th visit. Likewise, the Mayor of Ledo Pizza in Baltimore gets a free fountain soda with any purchase every time they come in and the Mayor of TeaVolve gets one free entree.
Many people have been looking to get on the Home Theater PC bandwagon, installing a small computer in their living room and using it to watch tv, movies, and play music. While HTPC’s have been around for quite some time, the software used to make them user friendly has been few and far between. XBMC [...]
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