Category Archives: Technology

Coachella.com Movin’ & Shakin’ on Alexa

From February 4, 2007.

Gilbert Arenas Would Want His Blog To Have An RSS Feed

As others have said — Gilbert Arenas’s blog is awesome. Might be one of the best celebrity blogs out there today.
All I ask — NBA.com folks, is it possible to get the RSS feed working?
Pretty please?
UPDATE: Someone at NBA.com was good enough to not only drop by and respond to this post — but [...]

Fun with Daylife/Treehugger Widgets

From Treehugger’s grndx, powered by the newly-launched Daylife.

I. Am. Iron Man.

Iron Man
70%

Spider-Man
70%

Green Lantern
65%

Hulk
65%

Catwoman
55%

The Flash
55%

Robin
50%

Supergirl
45%

Wonder Woman
40%

Superman
40%

Batman
25%

Click here to take the “Which Superhero am I?” quiz…

The Future, Circa 1993

Courtesy of AT&T (the old, pre-SBC one) by way of Andrew Sullivan and Boing Boing.
Smooth vocal talents complements of Magnum P.I.

Fun With Widgets

I know of five platforms for Desktop widgets — can any of the Techcrunch junkies out there tell me if I’ve missed any?:

Yahoo! Widgets (formerly Konfabulator)
Google Desktop Gadgets
Windows Live Gadgets (formerly Microsoft Gadgets)
SpringWidgets (from Fox Interactive)
Mac OSX Dashboard Widgets

Mini’s Multi-site Banner ADventure

I really liked this Mini campaign — I don’t know who did it, but it’s a cool high-concept job. I think I first saw it on bannerblog, but I’m not totally sure. Would have to ask Rory, who I’m pretty sure is the one who sent it to me.
Hopefully I’ve captured the essence [...]

Does anybody have a Wordpress site hosted by Dreamhost…

…that doesn’t totally suck nuts?
I’m finding that any Dreamhost-hosted Wordpress site that I have loads VEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRY slow. Is there anyone who’s had a different experience, or am I just an idiot who needs to (a) stop bitching, (b) realize that yes, Dreamhost sucks, and (c) shell out whatever extra bucks to move to a [...]

Area Man Tries Out Onion Code Snippets

When This Meth Thing Blows Over, You’ll Come Crawling Back
Why so down in the dumps, vato? Man, you don’t look so good. What happened, artillery-shell blow half your face off? What’s that? You’re…

.onion_embed{ background:rgb(256,256,256)!important;border:4px solid rgb(65,160,65);border-width:4px 0 1px 0;margin:10px 30px!important;padding:5px;overflow:hidden!important;zoom:1;}.onion_embed img{ border:0!important;}.onion_embed a{display:inline;}.onion_embed a.img{ float:left!important;margin:0 5px 0 0!important;width:66px;display:block;overflow:hidden!important;}.onion_embed a.img img{border:1px solid #222!important;width:64px;padding:0!important;;}.onion_embed h2{ line-height:2px;clear:none;margin:0!important;padding:0!important;}.onion_embed h3{ [...]

Diet Coke and Mentos and Ka-ching

Read today on PaidContent that the guys who did the Diet Coke & Mentos video have made $15,000 thru Revver, the YouTubesque site they posted it on (who pays 50% of ad revenues to the uploader/content owner).