DentCam

“Live web cam video from the dentist office.” —DentCam (Pearly Whites) Similar:Twitter, Fix Your Cropping AlgorithmWhen given the chance to crop four diffe…CybercultureYou Must Not ‘Do Your Own Research’ When It Comes To ScienceI don’t have scientific expertise. I wor…CultureMy Freshman Comp Student Didn’t Recognize the Term ‘Word Processor’Most of my students use MS-Word, but may…AcademiaEvolution…

Multiple Mistakes Drown Interface

“Can no clock chip designer figure out that no one needs to get up at exactly 6:03? If they just allowed the alarm sequence to go forward in five minute increments, instead of one minute increments, they would improve our lives immeasurably….The complexity of other people’s screens, particularly that of new users, who leave everything…

History of the Internet

Progress: Since its inception almost 30 years ago, the internet has been transformed from a primitive device for sharing thoughts and ideas, into a massive network where people pay to connect and read advertisements they don’t want, while calling each other “asshats”. —History of the Internet (The Lemon) I presume “The Lemon” is a takeoff on…

Blog Eats Blog

“As technological utopians, they believe that everything will be for the best in the best of all possible worlds, if technology is modelled on the American dream and the American way. And as opinion formers, they claim no formal power base, operating instead by linking exhaustively to one another.|Fortunately for them, in the hyperlinked world…

She's Gotta Have It: Cell Phone

“In the study, teens who had no cell phones and whose numbers were not included in someone’s phone book could pretty much write off the possibility of speaking with any of the teens with cell phones, a group Blinkoff refers to as ‘mobiles.’ | While saying he didn’t think the cell-phone-toting teens were intentionally acting…

Life in the Bust Belt

“Despite the crash and the resulting disruption, more marriage licenses were granted in 2001 in San Francisco than any year prior. In Santa Clara County, more babies were born in 2002 than in any year of the boom, and house purchases have bounced back to near-record levels, despite the massive evaporation of wealth. The culture…