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February 03 2010

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00:01

Star Wars sneakers by Adidas

Boing Boing

Shared by Josh Bancroft
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Adidas released a line of Star Wars trainers. Some of them are inspired by various characters or spaceships, like a Stormtrooper, Tie Fighter, or X-Wing pilot (above). One style has several iconic scenes emblazoned right on the shoes. Each pair comes in a blister pack, inspired I guess by the old action figures. I can't decide if I...

February 02 2010

jabancroftlinkblog
20:07

Full-Color Iron Man MacBook Decal Kills Bad Guys with Branding [Iron Man]

Gizmodo

Shared by Josh Bancroft
I'd totally rock this decal. :-)

We've seen a black-and-white Iron Man MacBook decal before, but this full-color one is much more striking. Although you've gotta be OK with equating Apple's logo with the powers of a superhero. Fanboys. [Etsy via Geeky Gadgets]



February 01 2010

jabancroftlinkblog
23:55

Lego iPad

MAKE Magazine

Shared by Josh Bancroft
Nice. :-)

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As soon as the iPad was announced, Lego fans wondered what it would look like in brick form. Check out the homage by Joe Meno, editor of AFOL bible BrickJournal.

Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in LEGO | Digg this!

January 28 2010

jabancroftlinkblog
19:14

The Internet Is Made Of Cats

jabancroft's YouTube Activity

I favorited a YouTube video: The Internet Is Made Of Cats. This is FACT and also science. We have written this educational song on the subject. It is wonderful and will also make you clever.More at http://rathergood.commp3 here:http://rathergood.com/music/the_internet_is_made_of_cats.mp3This video features Maruhttp://www.youtube.com/user/mugumoguKittens Inspired By...

January 27 2010

jabancroftlinkblog
15:31

Why so long?

Fraser Speirs

Shared by Josh Bancroft
Fraser's right - the personal computing world is going to change this year.

18 months ago, in Demographics is Destiny, I wrote:

If you haven't got it already, it's time to move your head to this place: iPhone OS is Apple's mainstream platform for 2012 and beyond.

On the day that Apple is expected to turn the world upside down, again, it's time to admit I was wrong.

I ...

jabancroftlinkblog
15:30

Derek Powazek: What I Hope Apple Unleashes Tomorrow

Marco.org

Shared by Josh Bancroft
Instapaper is the app I most look forward to using on the new tablet. It's going to be perfect. :-)
Derek Powazek: What I Hope Apple Unleashes Tomorrow:

(via John Gruber)

This sounds right. And this is why I’m so nervous and excited for the announcement: depending on the features of this product, it’s either going to completely exterminate Instapaper or be the perfect d...

January 18 2010

jabancroftlinkblog
19:45

Show @foursquare Check-ins in iCal

foursquare

Shared by Josh Bancroft
Also works great in Google Calendar.

overkill:

  1. Login to your foursquare from your web browser
  2. Go to foursquare feeds
  3. Copy the link (URL) for the the ICS feed
  4. Open iCal’s menu -> Calendar -> Subscribe…
  5. Paste the ICS URL you copied from foursquare feeds
  6. Click Subscribe in iCal
  7. Adjust the Auto-refresh value to your liking then click OK

jabancroftlinkblog
05:54

Cracking ice-sheets sound like Star Wars blasters

Boing Boing

This remarkable recording of ice-sheets cracking on a frozen lake sounds just like a Star Wars blaster fight. Andreas Bick, a Berlin sound designer/composer, made the recording and explains, on his Silent Listening blog: "In my experience, thin ice is especially interesting for acoustic phenomena; it is more elastic and sounds are propagated better across the surface. Snowfall, on the other...

January 14 2010

jabancroftlinkblog
22:40

Fifty Dangerous Things (You Should Let Your Children Do)

Boing Boing

Shared by Josh Bancroft
I want to do these with my kids!
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Make contributor Gever Tulley and Julie Spiegler published a fun kids' acitvity book called Fifty Dangerous Things (You Should Let Your Children Do). Above, one of the activities: supergluing your fingers together.

Other activities in the book: Look at the sun, Walk home from school, Kiss hello like the French, Play in a hailstorm...

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20:52
jabancroftlinkblog
20:34

The Perplexus - Awesome Brain Toy

jabancroft's YouTube Activity

I uploaded a YouTube video: Posted via email by way of Josh Bancroft's Posterous

January 13 2010

jabancroftlinkblog
19:37

Perplexus

Cool Tools

Shared by Josh Bancroft
I got one of these for Christmas, and love it. Make Magazine recently wrote about its creator.

This is a cool 3-dimensional maze that is easy to get started and hard to finish. You need to steer a small metal ball along an ingenious obstacle course by rotating the clear plastic globe. There are 100 stations along the way, including some difficult...

January 12 2010

jabancroftlinkblog
00:15

Death Metal Rooster

jabancroft's YouTube Activity

I favorited a YouTube video: Death Metal Rooster, need I say more? The music is an original composition for this video by Ewan Parry (a.k.a liquidcow) of the band Talanas: myspace.com/talanas

January 11 2010

jabancroftlinkblog
18:57

Realistic Lego models

MAKE Magazine

Shared by Josh Bancroft
WANT.

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Check out Polish Lego fan Maciej Drwiega's 1:13 truck models -- the blue and black truck is a Kenworth K100 Aerodyne, the red one is a Kenworth W900 LongNose, and the truck with the crane is a Jelcz 315. Drwiega puts so much care into researching and crafting his models that they can be confused for the real deal at thumbnail size. [via the Brothers Brick]

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January 08 2010

jabancroftlinkblog
18:58

Wanted: Your Weather Reports, Geotagged and Tweeted

ReadWriteWeb

Shared by Josh Bancroft
I helped start #pdxtst. Been saying someone should do this with it for a long time. Watching with interest.

twitternws.pngIf your natural reflex when the weather gets rough is to tweet about it, that reflex can now help the National Weather Service do its job better thanks to a new Twitter storm reporting program.

The NWS has always solicited severe weather reports from the public. ...

January 06 2010

jabancroftlinkblog
00:25

Parrot's AR.Drone helicopter brings military-style amusement to the iPhone

Engadget

Shared by Josh Bancroft
Sure, the iPhone does a commendable job with heavy-duty 3D acceleration for intense virtual reality gaming, but funk that noise -- these guys want to bring you the real thing. Parrot -- better known for its Bluetooth accessories -- has introduced the AR.Drone, a WiFi-enabled remote control helicopter that takes its commands from the iPhone or iPod touch of your c...

January 05 2010

jabancroftlinkblog
23:08

Cinch

Daring Fireball

Shared by Josh Bancroft
See also: "Tile Windows Vertically", available since Windows 3.1. ;-)

$7 window management utility from Irradiated Software. Drag any standard window to the left or right edge of a screen to resize it to fill that half of the screen, or drag to the top of the screen to zoom it full-screen. A clever, simple Mac take on Windows 7’s “window snap” feature. See also:

December 30 2009

jabancroftlinkblog
21:52

Bruce Schneier on Aviation Security

Daring Fireball

Shared by Josh Bancroft
Amen.

Bruce Schneier:

Despite fearful rhetoric to the contrary, terrorism is not a transcendent threat. A terrorist attack cannot possibly destroy a country’s way of life; it’s only our reaction to that attack that can do that kind of damage. The more we undermine our own laws, the more we convert our buildings into fortresses, the more we reduce the freedoms...

December 29 2009

jabancroftlinkblog
05:45

Kim Peek, inspiration for Rain Man, RIP

Boing Boing

Shared by Josh Bancroft
Sad. I met Kim in Jr High, got to visit with him for an afternoon. An amazing person.
Kim Peek, the savant who inspired the film Rain Man, died from a heat attack on December 19. He was 58. From the New York Times (image from Wikmedia Commons):
 Wikipedia Commons 3 34 Peek1“He was the Mount Everest of memory,” Dr. Darold A. Treffert, an expert on savants who knew Mr. Peek for 20 years, said in an i...

December 28 2009

jabancroftlinkblog
23:23

President Obama, It's Time To Fire the TSA

Boing Boing

Shared by Josh Bancroft
Amen.
Our former colleague Joel Johnson, over at Gizmodo: President Obama, It's Time To Fire the TSA. Joel, I sing this kumbaya right along with you.

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