Archive for November, 2009

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

weighing in again on twitter

After yesterday’s twitter rant, I discovered this. The Wi-Fi Body Scale from Withings. The first bathroom scale with the ability to send your your weight directly to your Web page, iPhone and Twitter account. Further confirming my fears about a future with the twitter generation in charge. Click here to purchase it for about $200. [...]

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Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

i’d rather listen to bird’s tweet

I have a facebook page, I get my RSS on with a few blogs, but I’m not really an active social networker, I have never tweeted, I’m a little bit old school, I leave that for the birds. I don’t believe that Tweeting and following twitters has any substance, it’s hardly revolutionary in my view, [...]

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Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

dance moves of the week

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Monday, November 9th, 2009

reduce, re-use, recycle

I while back I tried to construct a robot out of the pack of Sun-Maid raisins that I eat each day, however only adding one pack a day meant that it never looked like a robot in progress and the cleaners kept throwing it away. Here’s someone else’s more succesful effort at creative recycling, a [...]

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Sunday, November 8th, 2009

sheep news

Sheep are an incredibly boring animal so there’s not a whole lot to say about them, but occasionally they do make the news and with words like ewe, wool, shear and flock cry out for a pun, writers cant help themselves. So whenever I see a story about sheep I always read it just to [...]

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Thursday, November 5th, 2009

you go Virgil

Virgil Coffman decided he wanted a new car. The auto industry really likes people like that now. He went down to his Chevrolet dealer in Decatur, Illinois and picked out a retina burning yellow 2010 Camaro SS. One of the best rides offered from an American automaker (via Australia) in a very long time. It [...]

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Thursday, November 5th, 2009

can the president come out ride bikes?

With all the attention given to the big automobile manufacturers and their quest to come up with alternatives to dinosaur burning transportation, one little company has already come up with an answer for the city commute. Brammo has come up with an electric motorcycle and they went to great lengths to get the government’s, specifically [...]

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Thursday, November 5th, 2009

moving ads

This photography studio is doing some unique work thinking outside the box on the use of digital ad space. mark Share

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Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

when a 550 horsepower Subaru is not enough

Ken Block is one talented and entertaining driver. I have showcased his talents before in a previous post. Well he is at again with a Subaru converted to do some serious snow duty. Many folks would write him off as a fella with too much money and too much time on his hands. Or, it [...]

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Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

holy flipping car

Last week was the US Army NASCAR photo shoot where we photographed the US Army race car and its driver Ryan Newman in studio. He went on to race at Talladega Superspeedway this past weekend. He was involved in a little fender bender, but he is safe and sound. Ryan is currently part of the [...]

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