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Author: Stephen Pickering

  • Resize GIF Animations for Your Site

    That Columbia writing School ad to the right there was too wide to fit in my sidebar. I Googled how to resize it. Thought it would be an easy no brainer. Well, actually I tried it first with Picnik, a service I love and highly recommend, but with the GIF animation after I resized it,…

  • 1938media: My Mother, My Wife, Kirstie Alley, And Jenny Craig

    By Loren Feldman and 1938media. This guy Loren Feldman is funny as shit. I love this bit. Love his Mom’s NYC Jewish accent. Can’t get enough of it. Why does this remind me of Larry David? Is it a Jewish thing? The Canadians with their Humor, The British, and the Jews. Definitely top 3, maybe…

  • Web 2.0, 3.0, or “Cubed”?

    Web 2.0 was just a name given because it was like starting over after the dot com bust. I think FriendFeed is unquestionably the most killer app on the internet right now, next to Google search. Facebook is great also in the same sense that Amazon is, in that their core business models are old,…

  • A New Poem: The Cross

    The river flows uphill. It isn’t magic. Magic is when it flows downhill. The arrow of time is pierced by eternity The man hanging is the soul awakened. The milk girl is dancing The “Cotten-Eyed Joe” on the gym floor of the mind underneath which the oceans of the Cosmos Splash applause and awake our…

  • Brand New Josh Rouse Song Never Heard Before “Cotton-Eye Joe”

    Twitter’s newest ad platform: Here’s a brand new Josh Rouse song, coming on his new album (don’t know the title) called “Cotton-Eye Joe” [wpaudio url=”http://www.stephenpickering.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Cotten-Eyed-Joe-2.mp3″ text=”Josh Rouse – Cotton-Eye Joe” dl=”0″] Link to Download: Right Click and select ‘Save As’ UPDATE: 6-23-09 This MP3 is fine quality now. All I had to do is open…

  • Want to Travel Through Space and Time? Don’t Collapse Your Wave Function!

    Technology is like stealing fire from the Gods, that’s one interpretation of the fire theft metaphor you see in mythology, most notably the Prometheus story, but it never satisfies because it is piecemeal, and the second we observe it, it freezes, its wave function collapses. So the more we get, the more we want, and…