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Ignite Ann Arbor 3
In: Good Stuff
8 Mar 2010The major themes were food, new technology, old school technology, passions and… My Little Pony.
“How are you putting food on the table? Our ancestors killed mastodons and all they had were rocks and sticks.” -Jim Gilligan, How to Kill a Mastodon
“No wonder free-range mastodon is so expensive.” -Ryan Burns
Goal is for 10% of our food [...]
Bike-Share World Map
In: Good Stuff| Transportation
18 Feb 2010Here’s a great mashup of data put together by MetroBike and the Bike-Sharing blog overlaid in Google Maps. It shows the locations of bike sharing programs across the globe: Check it out.
LEGO Escher
In: Good Stuff
14 Feb 2010Andrew Lipsen has made several of MC Escher’s lithographs into Lego constructions. Relativity and Ascending & Descending are my favorites. Lipsen’s process for creating the optical illusions is interesting and well documented on his site (which, btw, did you know about PartsRef? The definitive Lego catalog and dictionary). See Pilsen’s other Escher creations, Belvedere and [...]
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Paper iPhone Dock
In: Good Stuff
8 Feb 2010Print & Fold iPhone/iTouch dock.
via cubeelog
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Crayola’s Law
In: Geek Finds| Good Stuff
19 Jan 2010This is quickly making it’s way around the series of tubes known as The Internet and I didn’t want to miss the bandwagon.
To create the chart, Velo gently scraped Wikipedia’s list of Crayola colors, corrected a few hues, and added the standard 16-count School Crayon box available in 1935.
Except for the dayglow-ski-jacket-inspired burst of neon [...]
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First Glimpse at Google Chrome OS
In: Geek Finds| Good Stuff| News
19 Nov 2009Not to be confused with Google’s Chrome web browser, or its mobile phone platform, Chrome OS is Google’s web centric operating system for laptops and desktops. Lifehacker has a great preview worth checking.
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ZingIT @ Ignite A2
In: Good Stuff
16 Nov 2009Had you gone, you could’ve learned how to impress your friends with sick rope twirling tricks.
So don’t miss Ignite A2 #3 in March!
Free Wifi at Airports for the Holidays courtesy of Google
In: Good Stuff| News
16 Nov 2009Google is sponsoring free wifi at 47 airports across the US now until Jan 15th. Accompanying it is a photo contest as well as matching donations up to $250,000 from Google to participating non-profits.
Unfortunately, DTW is not one of the participating airports. See details and participants.
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Microsoft Providing Good Anti Virus/Spyware for free?
In: Good Stuff
11 Nov 2009Microsoft is providing a free download of its Security Essentials suite for workstations running Windows XP and above. We’ve seen some piddly tools from MS before, such as their Malicious Software Removal Tool but this seems to be the real deal.
via Lifehacker
The release of Microsoft Security Essentials has [...]
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- John Reed: A cauliflower crust!?!? Do tell, do tell!! Sounds yummy! [...]
- Billie: Ignite is an event featuring 5-minute presentations by regular people about things they are passiona [...]
- nicole Robichaud: what is ignite a2 [...]
- Billie: Oh geeeeeez Juleen! [...]
- juleen: This is a lot more fun-loving than the body parts bakery in Thailand. Creepy, yet amazing. Warning: [...]