Relativistic Baseball by XKCD

This is what makes Tuesdays awesome.

What would happen if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90% the speed of light?

For the latest one, go to http://whatif.xkcd.com

Laziness or Busyness

I haven't posted here for almost a year, but I've been pretty involved with a ton of projects at work. I spent quite a bit of time building an HSPA+ Network for my company. We did that in about 5 months, which has to be some kind of record.

Other than that, I've been focused on other things. Hopefully, I'll be back on here a bit more for all 7 of you that read my blog last month.

Cheers.

Snarkety Snark Snark

I loved this: http://chadolson.me/2011/09/mike-elgan-doesnt-know-how-apple-makes-money/

via www.theangrydrunk.com

MYTH: Apple is a marketing company

The best rebuttal I've seen for this myth:

"Apple Is A Marketing Company" at Brian S Hall's blog

Other company's commercials focus on pizazz and marketing. Apple focuses on people using its products. Marketing my ass.

Great Printable Productivity Tools

Productivity Tools by David Seah.

There's so much good stuff here.

Manu Samoa Prayer

‎"Our players who art in Blue, Rugby be thy game.
When full-time come, thy will be done, in 2011 as it was in '91.
Give us each game our daily victory, and forgive us our previous shortcomings...
As we forgive those who coached in '07 (and after '91).
And lead us not to knock-out round failure, but deliver us from World Cup drought.
In the name of Fats, Birtwhistle and the Holy Samoa islands.
AMEN!"

GO BLUE!
(via Mark Esau and family)

Twitter Mobile now available for Bluesky customers in American Samoa

Announcement tweet:

http://twitter.com/#!/twittermobile/status/104598670225309696

This was actually a lot of fun to set up. It was really cool working with the team at Twitter, and actually implementing a service to interface with something as big as Twitter was really gratifying.

The only downside is that I've been killing the battery on my phone with all the texts.

Movist

I have three apps on my Mac for playing movies:
- Quicktime (included in the default install)
- VLC
- Movist

Movist is currently my default video player for everything except wmv files which VLC tends to do better on. But other than that, Movist has quite a few advantages over the other two.

If you have several video files in a folder that are parts of the same clip—such as movie1.avi, movie2.avi, and movie3.avi—Movist will automatically play the next one when the first one finishes. The only caveat is that they have to be named the same with number suffixes.

You can also turn the volume up to 4x the normal maximum. Quicktime is obviously stuck at 1x and VLC only goes up to 2x. This is a boon to laptop users since the smaller speakers aren't very loud to begin with.

It's a solid app and definitely worth a look.

If You Only Read One Article About The Patent System Issues

... it should be this one.

http://thisismynext.com/2011/08/11/broken-patent-system/

Preview Can Now Add Digital Signatures

You can now add a digital signature in Preview using your laptop camera.

View -> Show Annotations Toolbar

via TUAW

http://www.tuaw.com/2011/08/10/mac-101-capture-your-signature-using-os-x-lions-preview-app/