Zipper Headphones
Apr/090
I love this concept. Headphones that zip up, or down, however the wearer likes them. They’d be so much easier to throw into a bag without worrying about them getting tangled.
If only they didn’t look, well, quite the way they do. Maybe black with a little less zipper. Then they’d be sweet. Really, the more I look at them, the more I think I could make my own pair. Future project? Now I need to find my SkullCandy headphones and a zipper.
Really Tiny 8GB Flash Drive
Apr/090
Seriously, its so tiny I’d think I lost it while it was still attached to my USB port, and its 8 gigs! Its amazing how far flash memory has come in terms of miniaturization. Might be handy for those who use flash drives to give Vista more juice while conserving space as well.
Famous Songs as Alert Boxes
Apr/090
Imagine your favorite song as a Windows pop-up alert, or some other sort of context box. Are you imagining it? Good. Now feel like a nerd.
Seriously though, I’ve seen a few of these in the past and thought they were great, but a bunch of them collected together are just freaking awesome. Particularly the one for Subterranean Homesick Blues at the top of the post.
You want to see them. You know you do. If only to find out if someone already did your song.
Its the End of GeoCities, and I Feel Old
Apr/090
In the changing universe of the internet, I am now, beyond a shadow of doubt, old. I am old in the “back in the day” sort of way, and I am nostalgic.
GeoCities is being shut down this year.
I remember when GeoCities was the biggest thing online. A person couldn’t go two clicks in a search engine, or even a Webring (does anyone but me even remember those), before coming across a site hosted by GeoCities. It was practically what the internet was made of, in those halcyon days before web 2.0, broadband access, corporate sites, and everything being all shiny.
Now I just sound pathetic.
I suspect that everyone who remembers the internet in the ’90’s remembers the love-hate relationship we had with GeoCities. The ad banners that weren’t so bad. The ad banners that were at least that bad. The java watermark that looked horrible and made our crash-y Windows ‘9x computers even more crash-y. The advent of pop-up ads. I’m not entirely sure GeoCities was the first site to roll out pop-up ads, but it was sure the first place I ever saw them.
I had a site there. I used them for file-storage when a few megabytes seemed like a lot of space. I hated them violently and saw the sites that made their home there consistently as I surfed the ’90’s web. The internet sure has changed a lot since then, but I was there.
Farewell, GeoCities, I’ll watch you go like I watch the next big thing of the future go, once web 3.0 rolls around (or whatever the next trend happens to be).
And now I’ll stop waxing nostalgic, ya bunch of young whippersnappers.
Amazing Keyboards
Apr/090
My keyboard is boring. I normally wouldn’t say that. In fact, I like all of my keyboards, especially the one on my MacBook. Still, after having seen HongKiat’s list of amazing and unique keyboards. Some are weird and frivolous, some are just too cool, and between all of them I can easily say that my keyboard is completely and utterly boring–and that I want a laser keyboard, and maybe to test-drive a Frogpad.
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