First lets establish what a QR code is: You’ve seen them on everything from storefront windows to magazine articles. They are two dimensional bar codes that you can scan with a smart phone to get more information about something. It doesn’t have to be but they are most often simply a website address. So in [...]
Maegan and I saw a flying space ship tonight! The International Space Station (ISS) is wider than the length of a football field. It is the largest artificial satellite currently orbiting the Earth and can easily be seen from Earth with the naked eye. Thanks to a friend’s Facebook post a few days ago, we [...]
Do you have the latest Google Chrome browser installed? If so, set aside ten minutes of your time and visit The Wilderness Downtown using Chrome. It’s pretty impressive what the creators of this website have done with HTML5, but you really have to see it for yourself. Without giving too much away, you start off [...]
As part of yesterday’s reader roulette I stumbled upon this interactive map from Forbes Magazine which shows where Americans moved from and to in 2008. Click on any county in the nation and it will display black lines representing where people are moving from (in to the county) and red lines representing where people are [...]
This epiphanic video was brought to my attention by friend and fellow blogger Chris Rooney. Very eye-opening.
I’m back in New York, Queens to be precise. We flew in to LaGuardia this morning. We had nothing in particular planned for today, but the most exciting moment of our trip so far was when my mom picked us up from the airport. As I was about to put our luggage in the car, [...]
Google’s Street View launched in Charlotte a couple of weeks ago, one of 37 news cities added to Street View all at once. When the Street View feature first launched in select cities last year, every blogger in America was posting about the strangest and most interesting sights that could be found (and I was [...]
This is awesome if you use Adobe PhotoShop! Other than being funny, I’ve been using PhotoShop for over 10 years and I picked up over a dozen useful shortcuts that I didn’t know before. From Deke.com TRANSCRIPT: Time: 00:00.00#1: Wanna copy a layer? I say jump it: Ctrl+J.You a Mac user? Awesome.#2: When I say [...]
I’ve been waiting for Google’s “spy vans” to canvas Charlotte for their map’s Street View feature. Apparently that happened earlier this week. View Larger Map I’m heading out in a few minutes but I’ll post a tour of Charlotte (or at least my Charlotte) when I get a chance.
Happy End of Daylight Saving Day. What a perfect time to share this related bit of trivia that I learned just this week: Did you know that it is possible for it to be the exact same time in a state bordering the Atlantic Ocean and a state bordering the Pacific Ocean? Go ahead and [...]