Foodler, Love it!

Recently, trying to figure out where to get takeout from and in my quest to find a menu for some local restaurant – why is that the only thing the web is lacking? – I ran into Foodler. Later that evening, I ordered.

Log in, pick your location, find food, click… click… place order and about 30 minutes later it’s there. Brilliant and so much less shady than other, similar sites I’ve seen.

I has a Dopplr

I’ve been looking for some time for a good site to graphically represent my increasingly large carbon footprint, a side-effect of the ever-increasing business travel that is part of my job. I’ve opened an account at Dopplr, and added a public profile page, one of the cooler widgets is the Raumzeitgeist.

Radiohead coverd by discarded computing equip

A cover of Radiohead’s Big Ideas using discarded electronics and computer peripherals. Pretty amazing.

Yes you can…

… has deep friend cheezburger. Check out Insane Sandwiches on BuzzFeed. Awesome.

Want!

This is so cool, and only $30… awesome. Palmsize R/C Helicopter

I’m sad I’m a pumpkin

I’m sad I’m a pumpkin

Originally uploaded by Xuli

I had to do it, after years of printing and not using the stencils I finally got a pumpkin and did it. It’s surprising how hard it is to cut curves without some sort of kit.

Convergence, popularization

In his recent post on Mobile Visions, Cisco’s Mobility blog, Matt Glenn states:

“…you know that something is going to become pervasive when your dry cleaner asks about it.”

It reminds me of a near identical though that I had when, at the checkout counter one day, I overheard the 40-ish women working at the store comparing what they’d recently pilfered on Napster (1.0). That was 2001, now it’s 2007 and it’s RFID that has captivated the masses.

Payback

Parents wake their kids up creatively after finding out they stayed up late to watch Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Priceless.

Dry-loop me

Just in time for Hallowe’en, Eat Our Brains has a piece on getting “phoneless” or naked DSL entitled Cutting the Cord. I’m sort of surprised to hear that this was so difficult, since, when I called Verizon, all set to have to eat the cost of a phone line in order to avoid evil cable, they offered it to me, without me even asking.

Oh my God. I agree with the posts’ author, I Am Moving To Japan.  I especially like the “guuuuahhhh” sound the second guy makes as he participates in the game gets hit in the nuts (one in the same, really.)