Category Archive: Technology

May 07 2012

Random Fun Stuff

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What if all the Avengers characters posed like female superheroes? Seen on Twitter. Awesome USB drive Thanks for the tip, Paul! Pro-Vaccination Billboard Photographed by moi on southbound 94 in Wisconsin This billboard on southbound 94 in Wisconsin made me happy. There are so many church signs and pro-life billboards along this route that I could …

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Apr 25 2012

Underwood Keyboard

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USB Typewriter, anyone? And all for the low, low price of $800! Srsly. That’s an $800 keyboard. $800. Good gravy, that’s more than the iPad I’d plug it into! But it’s still pretty. Seen on @treelobsters twitter feed.

Apr 10 2012

Patient Zero Rocks!

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Yesterday JT posted about an Android app called Patient Zero. As a fan of both virology and social media, I immediately downloaded it and started playing. It’s a very passive “game”. Once you sign up, you just sit back and wait to infect or be infected. You can increase your infecting ability by traveling. Or …

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Apr 04 2012

Ringing Tattoos

Seen in the Star Tribune by Kristin Tillotson: Sometimes, you feel a little tingle of anticipation when your cellphone rings. What if it happened every time? Nokia has taken out a U.S. patent on technology used to create special tattoos that can pick up phone signals and send a “perceivable impulse” to your skin via …

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Jan 19 2012

How successful were the SOPA and PIPA Blackouts?

Welcome back to the internet, everyone! Did you miss it? I missed it, but there were a couple of amusing highlights: 1) @herpderpedia – User @qrush made this Twitter account, which acted as a repository for all of the tweets from people freaking out about Wikipedia going dark. The F*bomb was dropped quite a bit, …

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Jan 17 2012

SOPA and PIPA Blackouts

Yeah, so…I guess there’s no Wikipedia tomorrow. Image Source I started hearing about the SOPA/PIPA Blackouts today on Twitter. I am an internet junkie – I love blogs and social media. I love instant access to news, maps, updates from friends and family. I am a content-generator and sharer – I blog at two websites …

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Sep 20 2011

foursquaring for Vaccines

I use foursquare, which is part online game, part social media, part easy advertising for businesses. When I visit a place and “check in” I tell the world or just my circle of foursquare friends that I’m there, or that I’ve been there. foursquare seems to be great for local businesses – they can offer …

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May 21 2011

$600 Cat Toy

My friend has a really expensive toy for her cat, Luna.

Feb 19 2011

Omigod, I CAN haz camera!

Warning: there are more exclamation points in this post than any one post should be allowed. Also, there is some squeeeeeing. I’m not the sort to whine about a situation and then ignore an opportunity when it becomes available. I’ve been wanting a camera. A DSLR camera. And a zoom lens. For about a year …

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Feb 03 2011

Love: A Sad Science Story

A nice woman named Amy was giving away postcards.  You receive the postcard, take a picture with it and then send the picture back to her. It sounded like kind of a fun pen-pal deal-eo and I decided to do it. Here’s the postcard she sent me: So I took a picture. Or six. And may …

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