Make My Logo Bigger Cream

Posted September 5, 2010 | by strangeduck | in Fun | one response excerpt thumb

Phooey on us designers. We always make the logo too small and leave too much white space on the page. Now with “Make My Logo Bigger Cream” you can fix up your professional designs and the way you like them.

How Does the Internet See You?

Posted August 24, 2009 | by irene | in Fun | 7 responses excerpt thumb

Persona  by Aaron Zinman is a cool little Flash application/art piece (he calls it an installation, but I can’t use that word without scowling.) Just type in a name, and the engine will scour the Internet looking for it, then display it with any description that it found for… Read the rest

Do Not Call Cell List

Posted November 27, 2008 | by irene | in Fun | 23 responses excerpt thumb

The do not call cell list is a way to stop telemarketers from calling your cell phone, or any other phone lines you have.

[ UPDATE (Jan 2009) The Do not call list can actually make it worse! Read CBC article here  http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/01/23/donotcall.html ]

You can reduce your… Read the rest

An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube

Posted August 26, 2008 | by irene | in Fun | 8 responses excerpt thumb

An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube by Mike Wesch was presented at the Library of Congress, June 23rd 2008.

Instead of a powerpoint presentation, the professor made a 40 minute video with the help of his students talking about the cultural phenomenon of Youtube.

His point – “when media… Read the rest

Shpigler the Shark Tells You How to Raise Money From VCs

Posted July 7, 2008 | by irene | in Fun | 3 responses excerpt thumb

How to Raise Money From VCs

I love Shpigler the Shark. Here Shpigler gives his tips on how to get VCs to invest in your business. It’s all a game, you see, and what you have to do is get them to believe you are the hottest thing. Kind… Read the rest

A Video Could Improve Your Web Site…and Life

Posted March 14, 2008 | by irene | in Fun | one response excerpt thumb

Video! It’s all the rage. Video on the web is king. The future of TV is on the web. Using video to drive business yields the highest ROIs.

Yes, the media is all abuzz about the video on the web. And leading the revolution – are Fred and… Read the rest

Here Comes Another Stock Market Bubble Video

Posted January 8, 2008 | by irene | in Fun | 6 responses excerpt thumb

Todays lesson explains the tech market for newbies.

From Wikipedia – A stock market bubble is a type of economic bubble taking place in stock markets when price of stocks rise and become overvalued by any measure of stock valuation.

Behavioral finance theory attribute stock market bubbles to… Read the rest

I Want An iPhone

Posted July 7, 2007 | by irene | in Fun | 4 responses excerpt thumb

[tags] funny video, iPhone, David Pogue [/tags]

Seadragon and Photosynth Prototype presented at TED

Posted June 7, 2007 | by irene | in Fun | one response excerpt thumb

This video shows Blaise Aguera y Arcas, an architect at Microsoft Live Labs, demonstrating some amazing software that can manipulate images into the most wondrous things.

Seadragon let’s you interact with enormous amounts of megabytes, some in the 300 megapixel range. Watch him zoom in and out of a… Read the rest

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