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Video Fridays: When Is Machine Music Real?

So yesterday I got an email from my girlfriend, Tricia, who was so amazed by this video of this music making machine that appeared to make some really complicated music via shooting balls at the various rhythm instruments. The writer of the original message ends the message with, “Of the all the balls you will …

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Video Tuesday: Honda Coops Our Ferris-Bueller Nostalgia

Clever Honda commercial set to be released for the SuperBowl… all good memories eventually make awesome commercials… ack. Uploaded by Honda on Jan 26, 2012 To celebrate the launch of the all-new 2012 CR-V, Honda brought Ferris Bueller’s Day Off back in a big game commercial. We cast Matthew Broderick as himself, skipping out on …

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Video Fridays: Remembering 2011, Part II

As I recently posted on twitter, I wasn’t entirely successful posting a photo a day on flickr (mostly because I take way too many photos that need some level of editing and insist on posting them in chronological order, etc., etc., etc.). But thanks to an iPhone app called Everyday I’ve been capturing an image …

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Adios 2011 [videos]

So 2011 comes to an end… and with it all of the “best of” podcasts and “top 10 of 2011″ videos (the online world’s version of “reruns” during the Christmas break). The following two videos by Google and Jib-Jab express the meaningful and silliness that was 2011. Enjoy (and the third video which is my …

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Know Your Tech History – Steve Jobs Biography

  Been working my way through the Steve Jobs biography the past week and I’ve been a bit surprised at what some have found to be “new” revelations from the book. Chief TWiT, Leo Laporte, was surprised at how much crying seems to have taken place around and including Steve Jobs. And while crying hasn’t …