Archive for the ‘Cool Gadgets’ Category

I saved up my paper route money for one of these bad boys!

What’s even cooler about this Commodore Vic-20 commercial is that it is hosted by William Shatner! What a time capsule!

Jamming at Ben’s
Sitting here thinking about how insanely awesome computers are nowadays from when I first started programming back in 1997.
Right now my computer is doing the following:

Streaming KEXP.ORG College Radio station at 128kbps
Downloading my songwriting blog via FTP.
Reading the morning news in Google Reader.
Downloaded the latest version of Wordpress and am extracting.
Downloaded a Wordpress [...]

Threadless Back-To-School T-Shirt Sale

Threadless is having a Back-To-School T-Shirt Sale.
Here are some of my favs:

Awesome.

Bad Apple.

Cookie loves Milk.

Legos, a Star Wars fetish, and too much time on your hands will truly make you this geeky

USB missile launcher

If I still had a Dilbert/The Office/Office Space – styled day job, this would definitely have the prominent place on my desktop:

USB Missile Launcher
The USB Missile Launcher is the latest desktop weapons platform that elevates your status from mere code-monkey or BOFH Sysadmin to a true Digital Dictator. Laugh maniacally while you zero in on [...]

Cape Coral Yard Sales – Every week in your inbox.

Jim Davis at Raging Smurf in Cape Coral put a cool page together that allows people to add their own garage sales and then it automatically goes to Google Maps and draws a map so people can find your place. Excellent! You can sign up and get an email every Thursday with a complete [...]

Yeah, so this guitar pretty much rocks

It is a Gretsch Tennessee Rose. Yeah. For real.

Chindogu: Word of the Day

According to Wikipedia the definition says …

Tilt Shift Photography … Whoa!

Maybe it is just my fascination with model trains, but I think this type of photography is just TOO COOL.

No, this is not a model. This is the REAL THING … taken with a tilt shift lens.
Flickr has whole galleries of tilt shift photography.
Tilt Shift Photography is pretty cool and desirable. More photographers would probably [...]

Flipping cool new gadgets at ThinkGeek.

I just took a look at the What’s New page on ThinkGeek.com and found some pretty cool items I thought I’d blog about – especially this cool iPod case. Great protection – even when dropping. (Although I wouldn’t recommend dropping your iPod very often.

Ribbed for iPod pleasure.
Check out the iPod FunSkin at ThinkGeek.com
There are a [...]