A thing that needs to happen, Internet. A Yo Dawg/lmgtfy mashup. You provide it a search string and then it animates googling for lmgtfy. Then it animates clicking the result and landing on lmgtfy.com. Then it turns over the animation to lmgtfy to google the string you provided. All of this being narrated by the…
My new project: create a bunch of odd, free-association Google News Alerts. That way, if one of those things comes to pass, I’ll be the first to know. I thought about this after receiveing an alert for “Council Bluffs levee break” that I had set up when last the Missouri was a couple of dozen…
I’m experiencing alert fatigue. For the last 50 or so minutes, my watch has been buzzing me every 30 seconds to keep me abreast of the Leicester City vs. Tottenham score. Soccer does not move that fast. Please, just tell me when the score changes. Similar issues with hockey and football games. Once Google Now…
The new Growl is here! The new Growl is here! Oh, wait, it’s now a paid application? But it’s open source. So now we’re in dependency hell because there’s no Maven-like dependency management widget in Xcode. Also, knowing full well I’m behind the times, I still prefer SVN to either Git or Mercurial. I understand…
CB to Memphis in less than half a day! …barely…
So I’m reading Reamde because I happened by the CBPL and against all odds they had it on the shelf. The benefits of being one of the few cyberthriller readers in the metro area that didn’t pre-order on Amazon or just torrent the thing I guess. Anyway, there is a part where the main character…
For a limited time you can play Pac-Man instead of searching Google in celebration of the game’s 30th anniversary. check it out.