Connected has been shown at several film festivals including the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. The documentary has the simple perspective of the filmmaker but is broad enough to see the whole connected world. IMDB provides the following simple summary: "A filmmaker looks at her own family history and investigates the interconnections between the major issues of the 21st … [Read more...]
Archives for October 2011
Sesame Street’s YouTube Account Hacked, Explicit Videos Uploaded, Now Disabled
Sesame Street is the latest to join the crowd of having their social network presence hacked. Unfortunately for the normally kid-friendly programming, whoever hacked their YouTube channel was malicious at heart and uploaded a few adult videos. The Sesame Street YouTube channel had 148,046 subscribers and over 454 million views. … [Read more...]
Zombies Show Up On Retail Websites Just In Time For Halloween
Westlake Ace Hardware The Westlake Ace Hardware site for Lenexa, Kansas has provided a zombie-themed website for both humans and zombies. Humans in the post-zombie world are concerned about carpet stain removal, rewiring electricity, window and screen repair, patching walls, removing smells, and regrowing plants. Zombies can head to this hardware store to keep their bodies in … [Read more...]
Android Fans – Do you want Ice Cream Sandwich?
Google announces the rescheduled unveil of Android's Ice Cream Sandwich for next week. You can watch it live at YouTube.com/Android, 10/19/11, 10AM, Hong Kong Time. That puts it at 9PM Central Time on the 18th. … [Read more...]
Toolz.me – A Neat Way To Share and Find Those Essential Little Web Services
Toolz.me is a simple web service designed to allow you to keep track and share all those little web service tools that you use. You sign up with your Twitter account and choose a profile URL to get started and that's it. You can share your profile URL with anybody so they can see your list of links and find the latest things you're playing with. Once you have your profile … [Read more...]