Congratulations to Heather Armstrong from Dooce for her four Bloggie wins this year, including weblog of the year and lifetime achievement, and to I Can Has Cheezburger? and Jezebel for their two wins each.
You guys deserve it. — Andrew Dobrow
Industrial designer Andrew Haarsager has recreated the 1960’s Moog synthesizer into the Bloog. A device which takes real-time blog posting and scrambles up the sentences and posts to create what is sure to be some interesting and obscure phrases.
What exactly is the point of such a gadget? Other than the enjoyment of creating new meaning of someone else’s words, we fail to find any other reasoning behind the Bloog. Regardless, it would surely provide some fun times and some interesting phrases as long as they remain grammatical. — Andrew Dobrow
Uniquely designed business cards have been sort of a tech blog trend as of the last few weeks. And while we’re not ones to conform, this is one time that we will follow the herd. This business card not only advertises your company, but doubles as a working USB drive.
While it not might be the most practical or financially safe way to go, if you have some extra dough your willing to spend on some advertising, the 1 GB USB business card would be a cool way to go. The downside is that they are about $55 a pop, or in other words, $1000 for a set of 30, or in even more other words, mucho pesos. — Andrew Dobrow
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Gaming blog Destructoid has posted their reactions on their marathon run of Halo 3, and the results are in. This game is the shit. We mean shit in a good way. That’s what it means these days.
The game felt incredibly comfortable and smooth as silk. I admit I was a bit worried with the addition of deployables and other little tweaks, but the game works great. Pretty much everything you expect, you will get in Halo 3.
Check out the video for tent-pitching worthy footage of the Halo 3 beta in action. Best reaction ever? “What the f*ck was that?!”. Oh, that’s just an energy drainer. — Andrew Dobrow
Today on the official Apple news blog, Steve Jobs writes about Apple’s involvement with DRM on songs sold from iTunes. Jobs says that Apple would jump at the chance for DRM-free music, but won’t for one major reason.
Steve Jobs expresses how if Apple were to remove the DRM liscensing, the four major music companies would pull their music from the iTunes market, removing a considerable amount of the iTunes catalog, and most, if not all, of the best sellers. Jobs goes on to say that since Apple does not own any music themselves, they have to follow the guidance of the industry.
Jobs goes pretty in depth about the alternatives of DRM, giving three major alternative choices. Including one to totally abolish DRM. Jobs explains that the reason that the four big companies would even allow DRM-free music to be sold would be because of its inability to get past hackers and actually maintaining any protection.
“Perhaps those unhappy with the current situation should redirect their energies towards persuading the music companies to sell their music DRM-free.”
Which is Steve’s way of saying, “It’s up to you guys, not me.” — Andrew Dobrow
Thoughts on Music [Apple via Between The Lines]
You gotta give teenagers credit where credits due. There is no doubt that creativity seeps through the blood of many teenagers and here’s some proof. This watch piercing was done on an 18-year-old girl! This idea wouldn’t work for the squeamish.
Technically you could say this is a body modification, since it is a piercing, but integrating a gadget such as a watch physically INTO your body is plain weird and disturbing. She’ll probably take the piercing out after she realizes she has no excuse to be late for an appointment ever again.
Here’s a quote from her blog discussing her current piercings:
Current Piercings
16g. nostril
6, 10 & 16ga. lobes
14g. tongueRetired Piercings
14ga. lip ring x2
16ga. nostril
14ga. navel
14ga. eyebrow
14ga. watch
16ga. vertical labret
“Ga” means gauge we suppose. We also tend to think that a piercing of such creative prowess deserves a better name than simply “watch”. — Andrew Dobrow
Wristwatch Piercing [ModBlog, via Bodyhack]