Hardcore Geek

We could really use a ladder right about now.

A SHORT LOVE STORY IN STOP MOTION from Carlos Lascano on Vimeo.
When I was in Jr. High and high school, I wanted nothing more than to create special effects for movies, especially stop motion. Beautiful shorts like this make me wish I had followed through. Click “HD” and watch it in full screen. It’s wonderful.

Biden’s bit about Scranton is the funniest thing I ever heard.

Here’s a simple little trick I came across this evening. If you create a link with “http://twitter.com/home?status=@your_twitter_handle” where “your_titter_handle” is just that, it will bring your users to twitter.com and create a reply tweet. Cool.
While you’re here, try it!

I’m ready for tonight’s Vice Presidential debate. Are you?
Update: So close!

TUAW received a significant re-design this week. Check it out, it looks awesome! A very big thank you to everyone at Blogsmith and AOL. We love it!

This financial crisis is real. What did I hear from our leaders when I tuned on the news tonight? Partisan whining and finger pointing.
Enough. When the Titanic is sinking, you don’t stop to yell at the iceberg.
We can worry about the iceberg later. Right now it’s time to get off the damn boat. Stop pouting [...]

I was chatting with a fellow Cape Codder just moments ago. We’ll call this person “Francis.” I’ve known Francis for a while. Years, in fact. Francis is in his mid 30’s like me and works for himself in the service industry. We got on the topic of his website and then blogs. Here’s what Francis [...]

Poolga continues to post very nice wallpaper for the iPhone and iPod touch.

There exists a coven of blogging big-wigs who will tell you how, when and what to write. I’ve succumbed to their badgering thinking, “I should write about subject x, and format my posts like such-and-such. I must keep a huge RSS icon in the upper right hand corner and monitor which days of the week, [...]