I was reading the latest issue of Wired the other day in the gym, and flipped to an article about tilt-shift photography. Tilt-shift photography is a technique of taking a picture so that it looks as if the shot is of a scale model. This used to be done with expensive camera equipment, but recently people have developed Photoshop tutorials that achieve the same effect. I decided to give this a...
Metro Times – Check DC Station Times via TXT Message
I first wrote about this here and here. But now, it’s done.Metro Times – Get DC Metro Train Times on Any Cell Phone – FREE Fellow residents of the DC area! No more rushing to the nearest metro station, only to find the next train is 15 minutes away! Now, all you have to do is send a plain vanilla text message with the name of the station you are heading to, and receive the times...
New Personal Goal
I only show up on page 3 when you do a Google search for Zvi. Be on page 1 (possibly in top 5) by the end of the year.
Hrmm…. how does SEO work again? 🙂
One Step Close to Holograms
I act like a giddy third-grader whenever I see something that people deem “futuristic” and “impossible”. When I saw this video, my jaw dropped. Unfortunately, they start out the video by showing you how it works, rather than showing the dazzling results first.
[via Engadget]
Why am I drinking TAB?
Why, of all the energy drinks (aside from the usual green tea that I drink), did I pick up TAB? Why am I downing them? Who knows..
The Only Flowchart I’ll Follow
Laughed my ass off for a good 10 minutes.
Schoolyard Geek Bully
I wish I still had my lego sets.
AC-130H ‘Spooky’
The awesome gunship from Transformers… it’s real.
Come Again?
Orthodox Jew to lead NY Arabic school | Jerusalem Post
On Facebook and Friendship
There’s a hole-in-the-wall vegan restaurant near where I went to college in Maryland. I went there a few times with friends and family. It was a decent place to eat, however one particular trait of the owner drove me absolutely insane. He always addressed me as “friend” time and time again. I passed this off as him being a hippie clinging to past ideals, but was hard resisting...