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 …
Category Archive: Technology
Apr 25 2012
Underwood Keyboard
Apr 10 2012
Patient Zero Rocks!
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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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