The Archives: Technology

Note: This isn't quite functional yet, but I'm working on it... :) -bmc 4.5.08

 

My ten-year-old cousin told me tonight that my hair looked like a toupée. Maybe it’s time to get a haircut. :) Then again, when your hair is on …

 

From Times and Seasons, Orbital Sacrament quotes Don Lind about his sacrament service in outer space. And NorthTemple links to a similar situation — How does

 

Whoa, Facebook’s had chat since April 6 and I somehow didn’t find out until tonight? :) Actually, I don’t think they rolled it out to me until sometime …

 

I’m on Skype now, as “benjamin.crowder”. I tried it a couple years ago but didn’t know a single person using it (I admittedly didn’t look very hard :)), …

 

There’s a new camcorder on the block. As written about in David Pogue’s New York Times review (thanks to 37signals for the link), enter the Flip:

The …

 

I’m in love.

No, not a girl. It’s Beanstalk: hosted Subversion. This is so cool.

For the non-geeky among you, Subversion is one of the more popular version control …

 

Last month Apple announced the MacBook Air, a sleek, thin beauty of a laptop. Here’s what David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Ruby on Rails, posted about his

 

From the LDS Newsroom via NorthTemple: A flash mob of teenagers wore Sunday dress to school on Monday in honor of President Hinckley.

Preparing for school on Monday morning …

 

Wow. This is awesome. Like, mind-bogglingly cool. It’s Johnny Lee’s hack for the Wii that uses the remote’s infrared camera to do head tracking (thanks to …

 

From the More Good Foundation blog, the Church now has a YouTube channel for the newsroom. There are currently seven videos available, all of Elder Ballard talking …

 

Do cell phones and iPods and Facebook virtualize our lives, stripping away the face-to-face contact we need and replacing it with prosthetic relationships?

That’s the vibe I’ve been getting lately from …

 

I ordinarily rather dislike Microsoft, so I hate to plug this, but it’s cool enough that my anti-MS sentiments are peacefully sucking their thumbs and clinging to their blankies as …