DeskLickr, Flickr Images for Mac Desktop Wallpaper
DeskLickr is a great new Mac app that pulls photos from Flickr (yours or other people’s) setting them as your desktop image (wallpaper) which you…
‘Time for Timer’ and ‘Hanker for a Hunka Cheese’
Time for Timer was a series of animated public service announcements produced by ABC which aired on Saturday mornings in the 1970s. They featured Timer,…
AT&T and Apple Being Not So Green
Justine Ezarik received her first iPhone bill from AT&T. It was 300 pages and delivered in a box. Justine suggests switching to e-billing. Speaking of…
Monster by Mail and The Coloring Book of Death
Cleveland artist Len Peralta and his wife Nora are expecting a baby in the fall, so in order to raise money for their medical expenses,…
EFF Bloggers’ Rights T-Shirt by Hugh D’Andrade
Our good friend Hugh D’Andrade, the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s in-house designer and the artist who created our wonderful Paradise Lost poster, has designed a really…
Craig Newmark on Charlie Rose
Last month my old friend Craig Newmark, the “Craig” behind craigslist, was a guest on the Charlie Rose show. Craig was also featured in Charlie’s…
This Just In, Abe Vigoda Is Still Alive
photo by Ulvis Alberts via IMDB While we were at Gnomedex last weekend, Laughing Squid support ninja Jason Laskodi accidentally discovered the Twitter profile for…
Cat Themed Twitter Error Messages Have Returned
Twitter’s original update & error messages were LOLcats. Then as the LOLcat meme exploded, Twitter switched to a bird illustration, sometimes shown upside down. Now…
Pigs On Parade, Celebrating 100 Years of Pike Place Market
While in Seattle for Gnomedex I came across Pigs On Parade, a series of 100 pig sculptures, each made by a different artist and sponsored…
VMware Fusion, Unparalleled Windows Virtualization
I just installed VMware Fusion 1.0, a new desktop virtualization program that allows you to seamlessly run multiple operation systems on your Intel-based Mac. I…