Buried Bones (Archive) for May, 2008

Play The Subversive Game: Make Starbucks Say “Large”

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this May 8th, 2008 5:55 pm

I really do not mind Starbucks as an establishment. They are comfy places and serve my favorite drinks, yes at inflated prices, but I succumb. My own, silly pet peeve is that stupid language thing when you order a drink. I want a “big” drink, so I describe it as “large”, and they say, “Venti”.
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Mashed Up Lamb

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this May 7th, 2008 12:45 pm

Hmmmm, this blog post title sounds like either a bad idea for a recipe with a food processor or a headline of a New Zealand rural road accident report.
But noooo, neither, it is this awesome video done by Clint Lalonde where he mashes up Brian Lamb for an intro to a keynote Brian did [...]

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Spectra: Not Your Grandfather’s RSS Reader

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this May 7th, 2008 7:41 am

I just took a quick spin through MSNBC’s Spectra which is sort of like, no not really, like a visual news/feed reader. You pick news “channels” (chosen by MSNBC not you) they are color coded (by MSNBC not you), and the headlines spin by you in a cyclical spiral. I guess it might be hypnotizing. [...]

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TwitterCamp Flies Again.. I Love This Web Thing

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this May 5th, 2008 7:32 am

For the 10 gazillionth time the network (as in the people I am connected to) saves the day again. For some upcoming presentations and conferences, I was hoping to set up TwitterCamp, a desktop app (Mac and PC) that runs in Adobe Air and displays in near real time the incoming tweets for a specific [...]

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Pirate Update

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this May 4th, 2008 2:37 pm

In the “I am not sure why people should care (but there are 80 people on Facebook who say they do) department– the latests news on my fight to escape the clutches of my mobile internet provider’s contract is that Alltel still has me in their brig.
I’d like to say that I have a hunch/wish/belief [...]

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