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[INFOGRAPHIC] Do you know what your kids are doing online? You should.
We need to remember that there is a reason that sites like Facebook and Twitter have an age limit they TRY to enforce. These are tools that are meant to be used my adults that have some very adult content.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve thought about canceling my Facebook account after I had something pop up on my feed from a “hacked” account that was graphic or inappropriate in some way. If I don’t want to be exposed to that stuff, why would I want my kids seeing it?
You’re Complaining Because Your Having Trouble Keeping Secrets From Your Spouse?
Yahoo Finance posted an article from The New York Times about the Kindle Fire and the overwhelming number of complaints people who buy it have. So much so that many of them are actually returning the device.
You can read the article here, but the most interesting thing about this article to me is one of the complaints Amazon has been getting is,
“There is no privacy on the device; a spouse or child who picks it up will instantly know everything you have been doing”
I kind of understand the child thing, sort of… but if you’re complaining about a product because you’re unable to hide things from your spouse, you have some bigger problems to deal with.
Seriously though, maybe I’m just naive, but I can’t think of anything that I need to hide from my wife, let alone anything that would cause me to return a product because of that.
What about you, is there anything that you think is ok to keep from your spouse?
Art, Fashion, & The Creepiest Mannequins EVER
I took my wife to see The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk at the Dallas Museum of Art for her birthday this week. She is a huge fan of fashion and the exhibit was very good. She LOVED it.
One of my favorite part about going to exhibits like this is the actual installation of the art, how the museum, or designer chooses to showcase the different pieces. I actually might be more interested in that than anything else.
In that regard this exhibit was INCREDIBLE. They went to great lengths to make every exhibit room unique and incredibly creative… me being a bit tech obsessed I appreciated one aspect of this installation about all else and that is the “animated faces” of some of the mannequins. There was about 3o of the 100+ pieces that each had it’s own projector that projected a “wrapped” face on the head. At different times the faces would have their eyes open or closed, looking around, talking to each other, and at one point singing together.
It was creative and extremely creepy at the same time.
There are a few pictures above that I found around the web (you weren’t allowed to take pictures yourself), but the pictures really don’t do the effect justice. You just have to see it.
There’s a few more “behind the scenes” posts about the exhibit and installation at the DMA’s behind the scenes blog, “Dallas Museum of Art: Uncrated” you can check out, it’s pretty interesting stuff.
This kid is in 6th grade and he’s developed multiple apps for the iPhone/iPad and here he’s giving a Ted Talk. When I was in 6th grade, I think the greatest accomplishment I had achieved was figuring out how to combine both of my favorite G.I. Joe action figures into one Uber Joe. This kid is going to change the world. He will either be the next Bill Gates or Steve Jobs and create technology that will change the way we live, or he will be the greatest Super Villain the World has ever known Either way, we need to keep an eye on him.
November 16, 2011 in
Technology, Video with
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If you haven’t seen this before (I think I actually posted it a while ago) you need to watch the two videos below.
The first video is the 1 minute HBO opening from the 80’s, one of the most cutting edge tags of its time. The second video is the making of that tag. (about 10 minutes long.)
I can’t believe the amount of work that went into making that “simple” opener! Think about how long it took them to make this 1 minute opener when now they can shoot feature films digitally in 9 or 10 months and have it in the theaters and pressed and ready for the DVD release at the same time!
Another reason why I am so in love with technology. (Maybe too in love with technology, has anyone seen my Ipad? I REALLY need it!)
February 12, 2010 in
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Suggested Reading
These books radically changed my life and my perspectives on various subjects, either due to the material in them or what I was going through at the time. Read the full list here.
