Gordonton, NC in 1939, reworked by the Reddit community to show the same picture with the house as it looks on Google Street View today.
Original Photo:
A pattern finally emerges.
Loving Godzilla 17 syllables at a time. Click the pic for the rest of them.
I get a good bit of e-mails from people informing me of new websites, products, videos, etc. and most of the time I either throw them in the link dump or pass, but every once in a while I get one that deserves a full post, and this one definitely fits the bill. These clever bastards over at Anttenna have created a potential game-changer.
Picture, if you will, an iPhone app that blends the listings of Craigslist (simplified into 140 character postings), GPS coordination (so you can see the listing in relation to your location), and a built in chat to negotiate the sale that will save you from the awkward “is this still available” e-mails usually associated with Craigslist postings. From their press release:
In less than sixty seconds, someone can create and publish a listing within Anttenna and push it out to folks looking for stuff in their city, neighborhood, or even on their block. Listings are constrained to 140 characters and are automatically tagged with location data from the user’s handheld.
Using the location-awareness native within their mobile device, potential buyers can search the Anttenna marketplace and find what they’re looking for, where they are. This could be a concert ticket on location at a music festival or a free sofa in need of a home right down the block.
Taking advantage of the Twitter platform, Anttenna enables its user-to-user communication to be instantaneous, efficient, and consistent with the emerging “tweet” communication standard. An in-app chat service uses direct messaging on Twitter, called “Anttweet” or “Anttweeting,” serves as the backbone of Anttenna communications, and seamlessly integrates the Anttenna app into the burgeoning Twitter-enabled ecosystem.
Oh yeah…and it’s FREE. Boom.
(The app is currently running a pilot market in San Diego, but it is available for download everywhere, with a national roll-out soon to come)
Thanks to Hunter, who I’m certain is Zach Galifianakis’s long lost son, for the tip
From the creator:
Straight from Egon’s lab, after months of Beta testing I bring to you the first ever fully fictional Wii-Proton Pack to be used in conjunction with the Nintentdo Wii version of the Ghostbusters Video game. The cyclotron features four blue LEDs allowing you to know which player is selected or active and the Blue Power Cell actually shows you how much power the pack has. The Thrower has been carefully designed in regards to ergonomics and function. The front of the wand has an area in which you can place the Wii-mote and the back handle is where the Nunchuck is placed. Since the Wii-mote has in internal speaker in it’s ABS housing, when playing the game the pack makes all the iconic Ghostbusters SFX. And being that the Wii utilizes wireless technology, the wand is not tethered to the pack via a cord.
I just ectoplasm’d in my pants.
I was playing around today on YouTube Disco, YouTube’s new music discovery effort, and despite the fact that it’s pretty much Pandora on YouTube, they’ve really made good use of the existing infrastructure to make a pretty quality competitor to the music discovery giant. From Techcrunch:
You can enter any music group or artist, and a playlist pops up, along with a thumbnail video and a description of the band. You can find related artists, create a mixtape, and save playlists. As you are listening to music and watching videos, it is easy to add and delete songs.
YouTube is taking advantage of a lot of the officially-sanctioned Vevo music videos in the Music Discovery Project. Playlists are saved to your regular YouTube playlists page, from where you can share them via email.
Not a bad music option if you’re looking for something to get you through the day.
Chat Roulette, if you don’t know, is a video chat randomizer where you get paired up for a video chat with a random stranger. If either one of you doesn’t like what you see, either of you can move on to the next random person, and so on and so forth. Since it’s live and nothing is recorded, it really lets people be themselves with little threat of consequences. It’s filled to the brim with some of the weirdest people on the planet and as a result is one of the more entertaining sites I’ve seen in a while. If you decide to check it out, here’s pretty much what you can expect.
Made over at GraphJam.
This is awkward…
Although I loved hating on Twitter in the past, I love views more…and I think I’ve proven I will whore myself out shamelessly and to no end to acquire more of them (Exhibit A). So, I made a Twitter account for HighDef.
I have no idea what you can expect by following me…but I’ll try to make it worth your while and as entertaining as possible.
