Movable Types Goes Open Source With MT 4
On Tuesday, Six Apart vice president Anil Dash announced a new release of their flagship blogging platform, Movable Type 4. MT 4 will be available…
Absolut Vodka Co-Opts Pillow Fight In New Commercial
Absolut Vodka has co-opted the various global pillow fight events in their new ad “Absolut Protest”, produced in New York by TBWA \ Chiat \…
Mr. Lee CatCam, Photography From a Cat’s Point of View
J.Perthold recently conducted an interesting experiment. He created a protective enclosure for a small SD digital camera, setup a microcontroller to take photos at pre-defined…
Photos of Chicken John’s Lost Vegas
I shot a few photos last Saturday at Chicken John’s Lost Vegas, which took place at Ace Auto in San Francisco. Here’s the full gallery…
RoboGames 2007, A Massive 3 Day Robot Competition
RoboGames, the world’s largest open robot competition, is back with three full days of robot action taking place June 15-17 in the Festival Pavilion at…
Hooman Interviews Scott Beale of Laughing Squid
Last Wednesday I went to the GoFish offices and met with Hooman (full name Hooman Khalili), who convinced me to do an interview with him…
Steampunk Tree House: Roots To Roof Fundraiser
Sean Orlando and his crew are working on an amazing project for Burning Man 2007, a 30’ tall Steampunk Tree House. To help fund this…
Burning Man Pre-Compression Flambe Lounge
Burning Man 2007 begins in 88 days and to help kick things off Burning Man is hosting a Pre-Compression Flambé Lounge featuring a massive line-up…
DirkFest: A Celebration of the Life of Dirk Dirksen
DirkFest, a two day celebration of the life of the legendary San Francisco punk rock promoter Dirk Dirksen, who passed away last November, takes place…
June Dorkbot-SF: Steampunk
The June dorkbot-sf takes place this Wednesday, June 6th at 21 Grand in Oakland and features Kimric Smythe discussing “The Modern Steam Engine”, Liam McNamara…