Fav technology purchases of 2009:
- iPhone 3GS
- Grooveshark VIP account
- Polaroid PoGo (seen above)
iPhone
The camera is by far the most used feature on my phone. I use it so much that it has all but replaced my normal point and shoot digi-camera and my plethora of toy cameras. It even changed the way I share photos. Once a heavy Flickr user, I’ve moved on to Tumblr where I started a second account to post my favorite pix.
Grooveshark VIP account
Outstanding UI, accurate searching, a deep pool of music, and handy features (like playlists, sharing, sorting, etc.) kept me coming back. When I saw the price was $3/month to make the ad go away I was happy to give them my money.
Polaroid PoGo
This is a really recent purchase (like less than a week old), but I’m already sold on this printer. And what’s not to like? It’s portable. It uses no ink. It uses bluetooth (or a USB cable). It spits out (in a similar way to the old Polaroid cameras) small, water and smudge resistant, colorful prints.
Heh! This is pretty cool.
The making of a space photo
Dead Kennedys - Moral Majority - In God We Trust, Inc.
After many years of listening to this band I still have moments where I’m just blown away by them. I had such a moment on the way in to work this morning, and it occurred during this song. Lyrics below. (NSFW)
You call yourself the Moral Majority
We call ourselves the people in the real world
Trying to rub us out, but we’re going to survive
God must be dead if you’re alive
You say, ‘God loves you. Come and buy the Good News’
Then you buy the president and swimming pools
If Jesus don’t save ‘til we’re lining your pockets
God must be dead if you’re alive
Circus-tent con-men and Southern belle bunnies
Milk your emotions then they steal your money
It’s the new dark ages with the fascists toting bibles
Cheap nostalgia for the Salem Witch Trials
Stodgy ayatollahs in their dobble-knit ties
Burn lots of books so they can feed you their lies
Masturbating with a flag and a bible
God must be dead if you’re alive
Blow it out your ass, Jerry Falwell
Blow it out your ass, Jesse Helms
Blow it out your ass, Ronald Reagan
What’s wrong with a mind of my own?
You don’t want abortions, you want battered children
You want to ban the pill as if that solves the problem
Now you wanna force us to pray in school
God must be dead if you’re such a fool
You’re planning for a war with or without Iran
Building a police state with the Ku Klux Klan
Pissed at your neighbor? Don’t bother to nag
Pick up the phone and turn in a fag
Blow it out your ass, Terry Dolan
Blow it out your ass, Phyllis Schlafly
Ram it up your cunt, Anita
Cos God must be dead
If you’re alive
God must be dead
If you’re alive
(via moosegarden)
I know what I’ll be listening to today.Return to Oz: The Munchkins 70 years later
Interesting video. Second from the right has some big ol’ old man ears, too.
Hubble Goes Deep, Finds Farthest Galaxies Yet
Because the researchers do not yet have measurements of the wavelengths that make up the starlight from these galaxies, they do not directly know how far away the galaxies lie. But the starlit bodies’ colors suggest that about 16 reside roughly 12.9 billion light-years from Earth and another five or so sit even further, a record-breaking 13.1 billion light-years away.“We are looking back 13 billion years and seeing galaxies just 600 to 700 million years after the Big Bang, when the Universe was like a 4-year-old,” says Garth Illingworth of the University of California, Santa Cruz, a member of one of the discovery teams.
