Google Street View Blackout
Take a close look at the image above. The blue highlighted streets are the ones covered by Google Street View. "A" marks the approximate location of my house. You'll notice that a whole range of...
View ArticleThe iPhone is Dead, Long Live my iPhone?
Part of me is, like, "Shit I just signed a 2-year contract with AT&T for my new iPhone!" Because as everyone knows, AT&T isn't a real cellular network. Example: every time there's the smallest...
View ArticleTwitter Cheats for Gavin Newsom, Soon to be CA CZAR
Also, Twitter hates Republicans who run for governor in California: San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is on the suggested user list and has 1.2 million followers. His likely opponent for the Democratic...
View ArticleNo Excuses, Kevin Smith
The director of Cop Out made a speech or something at Macworld here in San Francisco. I'm no fashionist, but by what natural law is Smith permitted to appear on stage making Heshy Fried look like...
View ArticleGoogle Teases SF With Promise of Fiber Internet Roll-out
The SF Examiner reports that Google will make its initial presentation to the Committee on Information Technology (COIT) regarding its desire to bring ultra high-speed internet access to the city as...
View ArticleThis Synthetic Bacteria Thing-a-ma-jiggy
This is an interview conducted in my living room in Hayes Valley for a webzine and a podcast I produced back in 2007. (Here are MP3s of the whole interview: Part 1, Part 2) In it, Dr. Alan Goldstein,...
View ArticleDo Androids Dream of Wall Mounted Art?
Having questions about whether becoming "transhuman" will feel great or kind of, like, weird? Whether the promise of living forever and morphing into a god is something new when it's presented by...
View ArticleTime Lapse of Colossus Assembly at Maker Faire Bay Area
Photo by Matt Richardson I'm proud to have been on one of three teams shooting over 100 of the best projects at this year's Maker Faire. The centerpiece was Colossus. This assembly time lapse gives a...
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