From the monthly archives:

October 2011


Video: Storm Chasers On A Tornadic Storm While Snow Is Still On The Ground!!

by Michael Wade Moss

One of the interesting things that can happen while storm chasing in the early part of the Tornado Season is that the seasons are in fact “In Transition”. In some cases, there are such rapid weather changes happening that some of the transitions don’t get a chance to totally take place.

That was the case here with this Tornadic Supercell Near Eau Claire, WI on April 10, 2011. Storm Chaser Andy Gabrielson and company were chasing this particular storm while there still was snow on the ground. And in some cases almost TWO FEET OF IT! The wild state of the atmosphere being totally out of balance led to a day that saw many large, destructive tornadoes in the state of Wisconsin for so very early in the year (Wisconsin’s peak tornado season isn’t usually until late spring/Early Summer):
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Cali Lewis and I Play “What’s On Your Homepage” with AppJudgement

October 28, 2011
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Cali Lewis and I were in San Francisco this week and we spent some time with Mauricio Balvanera from AppJudgement, and he grilled us on our choices for home page applications on our cell phones. It was fun, and interesting to see how Cali’s iPhone differs from my Samsung Android based phone. Take a look!

Top 52 DIY Halloween Costume Ideas

October 27, 2011
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Not only is Halloween a time to collect on your sweets but it’s also a time to show off your creativity.  I love Halloween and am obsessed with collecting costume inspiration, so I’m here to share my list of top Halloween costumes that I’ve collected over the years while trolling around on the internet.

An Open Letter to Best Buy CTO, Robert Stephens

October 25, 2011
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  Robert, I read an article today that referenced a comment you made at the Android Open conference. From what I am hearing you said something to the effect that you envision a day when the DVD section of Best Buy stores might be replaced with a section dedicated to Arduino development boards and homebrew [...]

Quantum Levitation Using Superconductors. Also Sweet Ass Videos of Things Floating!

October 24, 2011
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The video below is seriously impressive. It shows a cooled superconductor quantum locked in a magnetic field. This allows the superconductor to move across a constant magnetic flux without friction. I am by no means a physicist, so i do not claim to be explaining this accurately, but I’ll do my best to sound like [...]

WolfPAC – A Proposal for a 28th Amendment

October 22, 2011
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Yesterday Cenk Uygur, an attorney and host of the web-based political talk show The Young Turks announced the formation of a group called ‘Wolf-Pac’. In Zuccotti Park during the Occupy Wall Street protests Uygur explained that the organization was forming with the express intent of occupying each U.S. state and pushing for them to call [...]

NEVER Pay to be “On The News”!

October 17, 2011
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Today I got this random call from God-knows-who claiming to be a PR agent looking for “people in my industry”. Here is Google Voice’s translation of the message: Steve. Hello. Just give me this is Riley (815) 633-3375 and I’m calling it’s fox news and ABC News are looking to do an interview and I [...]

Why The Loss of Steve Jobs Matters

October 7, 2011
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I’ve been impressed at how well behaved people have been regarding the death of Steve Jobs. While I knew a great many of us, especially those in the tech industry, would be affected and take the event to heart, I also expected the usual array of trolls to come out and shoot down the importance [...]

Apple’s iPhone 4S Announcement Live Coverage

October 5, 2011
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In case you guys missed it, Cali and I went live yesterday during all of the frenzy while Apple was doing their live announcement of the new iPhone 4S. Here is the stream that we broadcast from that event. Warning: it’s about an hour and a half long. But we had a lot of fun [...]

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