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I can’t remember the last time I was this impressed with a piece of technology. This idea fits the way my brain works very well.
(Via Gawker)

The 3D desktop prototype for Windows, called BumpTop, does some must-see-to-believe wrangling of digital documents as if they were physical pieces of paper. Reminds me of the touchscreen prototype I saw at ETech in March. Words don’t do this justice; just hit that play button. — Gina Trapani

BumpTop [BumpTop Prototype via Google Blogoscoped]

Haha.

Racap Via ESPN

CHICAGO (AP) — Missouri native Joe Crede had a busy day reading text messages from friends and family back home. They were joking with him, telling him who they’d be rooting for: “Go Cardinals!”

Crede’s response came once the game started.

He homered twice and was the catalyst for an 11-run, 12-hit third inning Tuesday night to lead the Chicago White Sox to their biggest offensive output in 10 years and a 20-6 win over St. Louis.

“It was something I don’t think I’ve ever been a part of,” Crede said after getting four of the White Sox’s 24 hits. “Everybody was able to have quality at-bats and it showed. … Once a few guys start getting hits here and there, everybody followed suit.”

Crede started the third with a double and he and A.J. Pierzynski homered in the big outburst, an inning that featured seven straight hits off Mark Mulder.

“When you throw that bull I was throwing up there, it’s not going to get it done,” Mulder said. “Just a whole bunch of pitches over the middle of the plate. They were swinging at all of them and hitting all of them.”

It shouldn’t be long until a pretty good stream of pictures comes in. I am getting a cheap card reader at OD to get the pictures on to my hard drive. It has been a long time since I have thrown some up.

Isn’t that a shame?

Congrats to the US Soccer team on the great game the other day. The only thing the world can come together on these days is the opinion of how bad the ref was during the course of the game. Even with that our team stayed in contention to move on and outplayed one of the world’s best being a player down most the game.

There have been really good reports of the US following in Germany. This guy seemed to enjoy himself…

Next up is a game against Ghana Thursday morning.

Happy Father’s day to my papa and all the papas out there.

I know a lot of people who are racking their brains on gifts or asking people about gifts “that guys like” and some who are going out of their way to spend a lot of time with their dad.

They are going so far out of their way because they don’t know what their own dad likes or don’t spend time with him.

That isn’t the case with me. Me and my old man have a consistently good relationship. It is a great thing. We always do stuff together and he has been there for me and supported me with everything I have ever wanted. Even when some turns in my life looked a little risky and nuts. I really am one of the lucky ones.

I don’t need to get some crazy gift from Sharper Image to show I care for him.

He knows it.

I subscribe to a photography newsletter that is dropped to my inbox two times a week. It is called Photojojo described on the “about” page below.

we scour the internets, rip pages out of magazines, ransack our friends’ closets, and go through dumpsters to find the very best Photo tips, DIY projects, and Gear.

They have great tutorials, ideas, and projects all having to do with taking, processing, and displaying pictures.

After talking it over with Megan I decided I am going to embark on one of the projects described this week.

Just follow these simple steps!

1. Select a neighborhood. (The more unfamiliar the better!)
2. Find a photo partner to accompany you on your mission.
3. Bring: camera, lenses, notebook, pen, paper, masking tape, a seasonally appropriate form of barter (candy canes, candy hearts, candy corn, etc.)
4. Run to nearest drug store and buy brightly colored poster board. We chose yellow, but grab whatever is in stock. It’s usually about $1 per sheet. Buy 2, one to make a sign and one as a back drop. Or, get creative, and set up multiple back drops.
5. Setup on a busy block or corner and act like a car salesman would. Chat with all who pass by–the young, the old, the serious, the jovial. (Tips: Just strike up a conversation! Where are they from? Where are they going? How do they feel? Where did they get that hat? Do they like candy canes?)
6. Ask each subject to stand in front of the posterboard at a pose of their choice. Meanwhile, take down their name and email address as well as any idiosyncratic facts.
7. Shoot until you run out of candy or the sun goes down.

A full description can be seen here.

I have been spending a lot of time listening to an online radio station at IndieNow.com.

What more can you say? They just play really good music that is a bit obscure and high quality. It is great to put on while I am doing things around the house.

Ok, small children and people easily offended click somewhere else on the page…this is kinda bad.

I look at a few different places that nab weird and random bits of news from all over the place. I couldn’t help but laugh when I ran across this.

(Via Fleshbot)

The details are a little sketchy (especially since the relevant thread on the message boards at GFY.com was removed), but apparently there’s been some sort of conflict going on involving superstar web models Melissa Midwest and Brooke Skye and the allegedly overzealous dildo use by the former on the latter during a recent video shoot, which resulted in several webmasters pulling Melissa’s banners off their sites and lots of bruised … er, feelings all around.