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Lightning strikes three of the tallest buildings in Chicago at the same time! from Craig Shimala on Vimeo. For the third time in the last 6 days, another line of nasty storms rolled through Chicago on Wednesday evening. I love coming home and being able to watch and capture nature’s beauty from my balcony. In [...]

Written by Peter Serafinowicz, posted at gizmodo.com Like a billion other people, I download things illegally. I’m also an actor, writer and director whose income depends on revenue from DVDs, movies and books. This leads to many conflicts in my head, in my heart, and in bars. From an industry standpoint, physical media has a [...]

BitTorrent is controversial. Some love it, some hate it, some go to great lengths to try and stop. Regardless of how you feel about it, there is no question that BitTorrent/P2P filesharing is not going anywhere anytime soon. I often get asked “What is BitTorrent?” and I found this FAQ that does a great job [...]

I have been hearing about ChatRoulette all week and decided to check it out. If you haven’t heard about this site it is a random chat generator that connects you to a random stranger via webcam. You click NEXT to stop chatting and move on to the next one, and keep bouncing to new chat [...]

According to this article, Bono and U2 have partnered with RIM, the makers of Blackberry, ditching their former BFFs at Apple. Bono says, “Research In Motion [RIM] is going to give us what Apple wouldn’t — access to their labs and their people so we can do something really spectacular.” This comes along with the [...]

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FastCompany.com posted this article today and I’ll explain why I think it’s bullsh*t afterwards: Why You’ll Buy-Not Download-U2′s “No Line On The Horizon” BY Kit Eaton, Mon Mar 2, 2009 at 3:36 PM Plenty of people have already written eulogies for the compact disc now that iTunes is the number one U.S. music retailer, and [...]

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Emoji, Japanese for “picture” + “letter,” is a set of picture characters used in Japan much in the same way as emoticons here in the US. The Emoji pictographs, however, offer a wider variety of images than emoticons which are typically limited to just expressing an emotion or facial expression such as winking. Emoji pictographs [...]

I have made a series of 8 free iPhone wallpapers based on my Samnation.com images. Download by copying, save as or drag and drop each file to a folder that is set to sync with your iPhone photo collection. Then browse each one, select one and tap your iPhone screen to get the “set as [...]

I’m writing an essay on the death of physical media, and I came across this article on 6 dead technologies. Let’s take a look. Phone books. Who uses phone books any more? The over 70 crowd? Wasteful. MP3 Players. Your phone is going to do it all, at least until the robot takeover. DVDs. More [...]

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I came across a very helpful site that has a list of Free Wi-Fi spots in the U.S.. The site is at WifiFreeSpot.com and since I live in Chicago, here are all the listed Free Wi-Fi spots around town:   Related posts: No related posts.