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Garfield the cat doesn’t actually speak, so what would Garfield the comic look like if he just wasn’t there? Apparently it would look like Jon is a mental patient.

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A very cool new scooter design from the MIT Media Lab Smart Cities Group.

by Zach 5 months ago | Link »

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The ROFLCon preliminary guest list is up. They’re trying to get every famous internet meme or celebrity to go to Harvard in April for a conference. Must attend!

by Zach 5 months ago | Link »

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In case you actually decided to try Dwarf Fortress: The best how-to guide ever on how to play.

by Brian 6 months ago | Link »

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You know what, forget all the excitement over multi-touch computing I wrote about yesterday. Thanks to the ever-wonderful Metafilter, I rediscovered Photosynth which is about 10,000x cooler than Surfaces.
To be fair, I think Photosynth would be swanky as hell on Surfaces, but that’s just another argument for Photosynth in my book. Here’s Photosynth’s architect […]

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Time Tuesday Jul 25 2006 10:32pm

Permalink for '' Random Crap On My Screen

Author by Brian Tags under , , Comments with 2 comments

Yep. Sitting and waiting for our production server to greedily suck down a bunch of secret-tech XML at 3Mb/s. So there’s nothing to do but wait. And of course that means sharing with you the random assortment of tabs I have open. Because that’s what alwaysBETA is about - random, sometimes interesting, sometimes technical, […]

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Time Tuesday May 2 2006 12:19pm

Permalink for '' Hal Bergman’s Photoblog

Author by Zach Tags under , , Comments with 0 comments

A good friend of mine from high school, Hal Bergman just updated his personal site and photoblog. Hal takes, hands down, some of the most beautiful pictures I’ve ever seen. He updates fairly regularly, and his site redesign is pretty swanky. You can see a few examples of his photos below.

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Time Tuesday Mar 28 2006 4:01pm

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Author by Brian Tags under , Comments with 3 comments

If you can recall back to when I talked about the Solvay Conference and all it’s “badass glory”, it shouldn’t surprise you that some have called it the most famous photograph in physics, or even science. To be honest, there’s just something magical about getting a group of profoundly influential people into one place […]

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Time Thursday Mar 9 2006 11:07am

Permalink for '' Totally Awesome Flickr Pools

Author by Sean Tags under , Comments with 3 comments

So, one great way to waste time is to browse around through various Flickr groups and their photo pools. For those who don’t know, Flickr is a massive photo-sharing site, and people can form groups around interests or types of photography. There are loads and loads of gorgeous photos on Flickr, but finding that […]

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