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This is pretty damn funny. On a serious note that clip is from the movie Downfall which we actually just rented and I highly recommend it. We got interested in Hitler again from our recent German trip so watching the movie helped to put some things in perspective about this madman.
 

A friend told me about this at lunch the other day and I thought this was pretty darn cool. Microsoft is putting out a touch-sensitive table that will soon be available in restaurants, hotels, and retail shops. The “table” is really a surface computer that is highly interactive- just think of the movie Minority Report. [...]

See link for a short article about how the Safari (Apple) browser support different ways of encoding images that will allow for deeper and richer colors. Not to fear my fellow Firefox users, because those better colors will be coming soon when Mozilla releases v3 of Firefox which is expected later this summer.
Considering we just [...]

Just found out about this last week and unfortunately things have been to crazy to really play around on it much, but nonetheless I was thrilled to discover Nintendo8.com. The site hosts all the classic 8-bit games my generation grew up playing and the best part is it’s free and no downloads are required as [...]

Street View allows you to view street level photographs in select cities. It’s pretty fun to play around with, although I wonder how long this lasts until people start to really bring up privacy concerns.
Of course people are already having fun with it and voting on the best images captured.

We returned yesterday afternoon from our first Europe adventure and it absolutely was a trip of a lifetime! I’ll be posting more and of course links to pics later, for now I’ve got to focus on catching up on work. For the first time since I started at this company 7+ years ago I took [...]