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Archive - April, 2007

Driving Speeds

Saturday, April 28th, 2007

There are speed limits in all areas of the U.S. Why? To ensure safety. The motive is definitely good, but how do we know the numbers add up and are actually optimal? The majority of people go above the speed limit, whether it is by 2 miles or 20. Do traffic engineers take into considerations [...]

Easy as Apple iPie?

Thursday, April 26th, 2007

What is up with so many iProducts by non-Apple companies? I understand that it’s an easy way to target their niche, but can’t they be more original?
i iMagine iT iS an iNgeniously iNteresting iDea to iMplement iNames.
Steve Jobs might have borrowed the idea from Richard Brautigan, who used it in one of my [...]

Repetition of the Media

Thursday, April 26th, 2007

I don’t watch the news on television very often, nor do I take much interest in tabloids or pop culture gossip. I do like to be informed on important or interesting things, but not at the expense of being bombarded by “buzz” stories without value (Mr. So-and-So is in jail for whatever; Ms. Who-Cares is [...]

Self-Awareness Experiment

Sunday, April 22nd, 2007

What would life be like if you constantly were confronted by your immediate self? A better memory, maybe. By providing instant feedback, I think we’d be self-aware of everything. The repetition would at least for a time make us think more about what we are doing. If you were always reflected back to your consciousness, [...]

Entry into Virtuality

Saturday, April 21st, 2007

Instead of working on a lengthy paper for college that is due in a few days, I have a slew of disorganized thoughts running around my treadmill of a mind. I am a slow writer, but I think this will be pretty easy. I’ve tried to stay away from writing solely personal entries here, but [...]

Blogging Less Says More

Monday, April 16th, 2007

I notice that traffic-hungry bloggers and web-savvy advertisers tend to follow SEO marketing schemes of creating filler content and fluffing up word count. They claim that it will keep visitors satisfied and search engines will flock to their precious keywords which will increase click-through rates. The latter may be true, but the former is problematic. [...]

Listen to 2.5+ Million Tracks (Students Only)

Saturday, April 14th, 2007

If you go to college or have an email address with “.edu” at the end, you can listen to a lifetime’s worth of new popular bands or old songwriters (most of the good stuff you find in music stores)- if you’re willing to download another media player and settle for non-ipod compatible protected WMA files [...]

11 Best Places to Search Free Music

Thursday, April 12th, 2007

I wrote earlier about the death of Singingfish media search, an amazing resource of online music. Since then I’ve been seeking alternatives to singingfish.com and I’ve got 11 solutions that will help you find that free mp3 that got lost in the interweb. Starting in order from average to best (1 is average, 11 is [...]

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