Archive for the 'Cool Ideas' Category

Form in Google Docs

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

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Leadership Lessons from Dancing Guy

Monday, February 15th, 2010

Here is a pretty cool post about Derek Siver’s recent TED Conference talk. Leadership Lessons from Dancing Guy | Derek Sivers.

Nearest Book

Saturday, November 15th, 2008

As seen on I’m not here… Grab the nearest book. Open it to page 56. Find the fifth sentence. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions. Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST. Here is mine from Paper Towns by [...]

One Wheel Cycle

Monday, August 25th, 2008

I was fascinated by those one-wheeled cycles that were ridden in the Olympics closing ceremony. There is not a lot of information to be found about them right now but I did manage to find this: “One Wheel Bodybuilding Entertainment Bicycle”

Fixing Christmas Lights Problems

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

We don’t go crazy hanging Christmas lights but we do put up a few around the eve of the garage. I bought a Lightkeeper Pro last year and it has been a “light” saver. It makes finding burned out bulbs a much easier task.

New Scarf

Monday, November 26th, 2007

image2007_11_24_211614, originally uploaded by just…eD. Last year, Jared came home from school saying that he wanted to learn to knit. Mary and I have done a lot of crafting but neither of us have ever knitted. I bought some needles and a knitting how-to book. I was able to create some stitches and Jared could [...]

Snap Preview Anywhere

Friday, February 9th, 2007

You might have noticed (or not) that when you hover over a link on my blog, you get a little pop-up that shows you a preview of the link’s destination. It is a JavaScript library from Snap: Snap Preview Anywhere. Some of the links will result in the pop-up telling you the link has been [...]

Photo projects

Wednesday, January 18th, 2006

I was browsing the articles on digg and I was lead to this site: Noah K. Everyday. This guy has taken a photo of himself every day since January, 2000. If that wasn’t amazing and strange enough, Noah’s site lead me to this site: The Adaption to my Generation. A lot of the links are [...]

The Future of Television?

Friday, December 30th, 2005

Tivo is experimenting with downloadable content over the Internet. If you have a Series 2 box and you have it connected to your home network, you can subscribe to a video web log called Rocketboom. Twenty four hours after subscribing, new episodes of Rocketboom will appear in your “now playing” list. Pretty cool. BTW, if [...]

Some geek’s christmas light display

Monday, November 21st, 2005

This is a pretty cool Christmas light display. The neighbors have my sympathy. House Lights via RocketBoom.