Category: Miscellaneous

I’m off to Malaysia next month and in preparation I went down to the health unit today and got a total of four shots – two in each arm. I’ve been avoiding my MMR booster shot for a few years now and I skipped out on the mandatory tetanus shot they give you in the 9th grade, but I got caught up on all of them in four foul stabs earlier today. The tetanus side is still throbbing slightly but it wasn’t nearly as painful as I had it built up to be. My biggest fear is that I will be part of the tiny fraction of people that have an adverse reaction to the vaccines. So far so good.

In the year 2014 all media will be automated and personalized. It will be delivered via Google and Amazon… or Googlezon.

Check out this video which runs about 8 minutes, or just read the transcript.

The Globe and Mail has an article about what a hotbed Vancouver is for the Video Game industry. I’m interested in working with a company mentioned in this article, hopefully I’ll be able to secure an internship there this summer.

The Adidas_1, reviewed by cool hunter Josh Rubin, looks amazing. Each shoe contains a small computer chip that calculates the amount of cushion your shoes need for optimum performance.

From Adadas’s (flash overboard) site:

Every Runner is Different: In an ideal world no two pairs of runners shoes would be the same because no two runners are the same. Welcome to that ideal world.

I only hope it doesn’t have air cushion blow-outs like Reebox’s Pumps from the 80’s had.

Using Buzztracker, you can see the geospacial relationship between Google News and the world.

Check out this Google Hacks link I picked up via Slashdot. My favorite new hack is using Google as a proxy server. Personally I don’t need to use one, but if I did, this would be the way to do it.

Did you know you can use Google as a free proxy server? By submitting a specially-crafted, English-to-English translation query, you can capitalize on Google’s translation service to anonymously submit all your Web requests.

So if you’re at a school or workplace and would like to reach content that is otherwise inaccessible, try this hack. It’s not like they’re going to ban the world’s best search engine.

Gran Faro is a blog with 622 links to various music videos. From “A Perfect Circle” to “Yeah, Yeah”.

Update: I have discovered a similar but more updated list.

I came across another short cartoon from Blur Studios. This one, created in 2002, is called Aunt Luisa.

A couple of days ago, somebody mixed Craiglist’s house listings with the elegant interface of Google maps.

Today Engaget shares the secret of hacking Google Maps. I have to say, this is extremely cool. I suppose you could read that as, “this is extremely geeky”, but whatever I think it’s great.