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Introducing geofences on Flickr! « Flickr Blog

More control of your geotagging I like to geotag photos for public viewing. Geotagging is the process of embedding GPS information about the location that the photo was taken into the photo file. Sounds complicated, but most camera phones can do this automatically. Why is this helpful? Well it provides others with meaningful information on the [...]

Kid singing Teenage Dream- fantastic video

A hilarious You Tube video of a kid lip synching to Katy Perry’s Teenage Dream. Purchase this song from

A Tiny Apartment Transforms Into 24 Rooms

Found this really interesting video of a man who creatively maximized the space in his really small Hong Kong apartment. As cool as it is, it does not seem practical for anyone with more than one person in living in the apartment at the same time. Can you imaging trying to make breakfast while someone [...]

Yellow pages

Does anyone still use yellow pages? I feel like doing this every time they drop them off. Last month I threw a stack of yellow pages two feet high into the recycling bin from a closet at the office.

Festo AirPenguin- robotic floating penguins

Found these videos from from a company in Germany called Festo that does pneumatic technology. They have made a few robots that imitate life. Fabulous piece of work, art? It looks like they have helium filled balloons that are then controlled by robotics. Here are two beautiful examples: This is a video of three majestic [...]

Cost of War- a graphic representation

See this link for an interesting graphic on the cost of US wars.

Improving your website traffic

Getting more traffic to your website requires a great deal of patience and planning. With enough planning your site can see better traffic. Google site ranking is probably the most powerful factor in increasing site traffic. A high Google site rank, of course this is much easier said than done. Google ranks sites based on [...]

Mercedes Benz SLS AMG- can it drive upside down?

I happened to stumble upon an ad for the newest monster from the guys at AMG. They have recreated an updated version of the 1950s classic 300SL “Gullwing” Mercedes, a car that I thought would never be redone. Not because it wasn’t cool but because it was so cool that it was impractical. Well for [...]

Current state of military robotics

This lecture was originally presented by PW Singer at a recent TED conference. He presents a fascinating overview on the current state of military robotics. The lecture is informative without taking a stance on whether this is good or bad. He clearly shows that we are in the midst of a fundamental changes in the [...]

RT @macworld: iOS 4 update ava…

RT @macworld: iOS 4 update available for download http://is.gd/cXRXy, hope to install it when I get home on my 3G S