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Lightning Strike Photograph

August 9, 2009 By 11 Comments

I caught a photo of some lighting from my back porch just before a storm last week. It was actually a little harder than I thought it was going to be, and I’m going to have to really practice a bit more in the future.

This strike was photographed using a Canon 5D Mark II with a 70-200mm f/2.8 IS lens. ISO was set at 100 and the exposure was 5 seconds.

Lightning Strike Picture

Lightning Strike Picture

Click through on that image for a larger view, or if you would like access to the full size version, I posted it over on Flickr.

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A Bikini That Dissolves in Water – There is a God!

August 7, 2009 By 12 Comments

Dissolving Bikini ModelYou say you’ve got a smokin’ hot girlfriend who is also a bit of an exhibitionist? Well, have we got the perfect birthday gift for her! One that will leave her in her birthday suit!

From SpikeTV (more here):

A German company has invented a marvelous new bikini that disappears once a girl puts it on and takes a swim.

The sexy swimsuit disappears by dissolving in water, leaving a woman completely nude and embarrassed. The sexy black swimsuit looks like a real bikini, feels like a real bikini and fits like a real bikini. The only difference is it’s made from a material that completely melts away after a few seconds in water.

Named the “Get Naked Bikini,” the item is being marketed as the ultimate form of revenge for recently-dumped dudes. The bikini has upset women’s rights groups, with one campaigner, Rosmarie Zapfl, saying, “It is an absolute insult to women that this has been invented.”
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Twitter Has Been Down for 2.5 Hours, Will We Survive?

August 6, 2009 By 7 Comments

Twitter-Over-CapacitySo, for those of you who don’t know it, the world’s most popular micro-blogging platform, Twitter has been completely down for over two and a half hours so far today due to a Denial of Service attack.

Now, Twitter goes down pretty regularly. It’s difficult to scale up this rapidly for any business. But this is the first time that I can remember it being down for so long in a single block, especially in a critical part of the day. And it’s not just that they are serving up their standard “over capacity” message. The entire Web site has vanished!

I think the interesting thing about this is that it should emphasize how vulnerable we all are to relying on a single communication network with our contacts. It demonstrates why having multiple social systems is a good thing. If Twitter is down, one should be able to hop on FaceBook and stay in touch.

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The Amazing Hypnotic Powers of Kenny Craig, My Hero

August 6, 2009 By 4 Comments

Kenny Craig HypnotistIf I could have only one wish, it would be that I would be able to hypnotize people just like Kenny Craig here.

Apparently this is from a sketch comedy show called Little Britain. I notice that Kenny here happens to be one of the stars of a new Comedy Central show called Krod Mandoon.

Anyway, you are getting very, very sleepy. Look into my eyes, my eyes… not around my eyes…. Now, watch this video.
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The Woopra 1.3 FINAL Release Test Team!!!

August 5, 2009 By 19 Comments

WoopraOk. This might not be all that super secret, but I guarantee its going to pass a lot of people by this evening…

OH! Before I get started here, I hope that everyone is following Elie Khoury on Twitter and go and show him the LOVE! For God’s sake, he and Jad Younan (who we can’t get to use Twitter or anything else) have been working for like 48 hours straight to make this a reality for the rest of us!

Now, I’m happy to announce that the long awaited Woopra desktop client version 1.3 is complete, and about to be pushed out to all Woopra users. But before that happens, we need you to go over the final build one… last… time.

So, we’re going to use my little blog here as our super secret gathering ground for the Woopra Special Forces Testing Team tonight!

Please grab one or more of the appropriate links below and start testing everything out. Leave comments below for anything you find that appears to be broken or otherwise non-functional. If you come up with a feature request we’ll take note of it, but that will have to wait till a later version. We just want to make sure that 1.3 isn’t breaking anything.
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Spewer, the Game! Trust Me, You’re Gonna Love it!

August 4, 2009 By 15 Comments

Spewer the GameWell, it’s been a while since I’ve posted a game, but this one was too good not to share!

Alright, alright… I know the description sounds terrible. But just look at that cute little blobby looking fellow! How could you not want to play this game? Tell you what, instead of thinking that you are playing with vomit, how about just thinking about it like it was jell-o?!? You are just kind of sucking the jell-o in and spitting it out. Pay no attention to the fact that you are using your “jello” as a propulsion system at times, or a swimming pool at others!

The Description

You’re born into this world a guinea pig before god. Unsure of his motives you progress through life solving his puzzles searching for meaning in the rudimentary problems of everyday life.

To make sense of life we must evolve past our previous forms, purge from our bodies the rules set in place by our previous selves in order to see the future with new eyes….

In other words Spewer is a game about puking.
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