Inspiration Overload

the 850, the first email device. I programed a system where I could fire off an email from that and set my status from anywhere. And it worked! And I was able to also at a regular interval pull my buddy list and get those updates sent to my email address. It was awesome! But the number of people who had those mobile devices was so minimal that the timing was just not right. This was 2001.

By following the Daily News on foursquare, you’ll get a notification on your phone whenever you check in near one of the spots where they’ve left a tip. Clicking the link takes you to the specific portion of the archive that covers the place you’re standing.

As a photographer and a history buff, this set of tips has me very excited. I’d love to see more news organizations around the country branch out from restaurant reviews and post location-specific historical information from their archives.

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What have the Romans ever done for us? Well, it turns out that back somewhere between A.D 201 to 300, a clever Roman, probably named MacGyvericus, invented the multitool. And not just some weird, old-fashioned multitool, either. MacGyvericus’ tool is startlingly similar to the modern Swiss Army Knife, now part of the collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, England.

Woeha!Kicken!

20 jaar geleden begon het avontuur wat Pearl Jam heet. Op Twofeetthick de start van een serie over deze reis!

To quantify our changing reading and writing habits, we plotted the number of published authors per year, since 1400, for books and more recent social media (blogs, Facebook, and Twitter)

After collecting cobwebs in a studio vault for the better part of a decade, an unreleased documentary on the 2003 hacking scene leaked onto the Pirate Bay Thursday.

Evolution of mediums will not stop.  Consider where we were 10, 20, 100, or 500 years ago.  Is anything really static?  The rule we have seen to repeat itself is this:  a society undergoing technical progression dictates the inevitable rise and fall of mediums.  We have not yet seen this proven false.