Category: Linklog

Goggles, the google map flight simulator. A little bit of fun, you can fly around a few cities in a little plane… And you wannabe terr’rrists can crash it too.

Travis Pastrana nails a killer double backflip on a dirtbike in the X-Games. Yep, two backflips on a moto-x bike, insane… How about some slo-mo replay?

Have Samuel L. Jackson call up your friends and threaten them to go see Snakes On A Plane. Ingenious marketing…

Introducing Liftlift, a videoblog run by a secret cabal of Atlanta bloggers. Apparently something special will be occuring on Friday, stay tuned to find out what… [via]

How 25 years of MTV have changed the world (for better and worse). MTV famously claimed its first casualty with its premiere video, aired August 1, 1981. But since video killed the radio star, what has the network accomplished?

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Teaser Trailer. First Transformers, now TMNT, it’s like my childhood is coming back… Where’s Thundercats? That would be the final part of the trifecta…

Google’s unknown artist. Dennis Hwang may be the most famous unknown artist in the world – his work doesn’t hang in galleries or museums, but it’s been viewed hundreds of millions of times. The 28-year-old webmaster designs the whimsical logos that decorate Google.com’s otherwise Spartan Web site on special occasions.

Adobe releases a beta of Project Lightroom. Project Lightroom is Adobe’s effort to engage the professional photography community in a new way, “giving you the opportunity to kick the tires and shape the feature set of a new tool being created just for you.” Looks much like Apple’s Aperture to me…

What would it sound like if Darth Vader had a mental breakdown? Or, imagine Darth Vader’s lines being replaced by random James Earl Jones line’s from other movies. Hilarity ensues… [via]

Danica Patrick making a move to NASCAR? First Juan Pablo Montoya announces he’s leaving Formula 1 for NASCAR next year, now possibly Danica too… Who next? Since when was NASCAR so fashionable?

This is how I’ll remember Zinedine Zidane’s career. The sublime volley from the 2002 Champions League final in Glasgow. You can’t teach that kind of skill…

Why blog post frequency does not matter anymore. My main “excuse” is time, or lack of it… In between work and sleep, I only get a few hours a day to spent with my family.

Amanda Congdon officially leaves Rocketboom. Booooo, that’s one less podcast subscription to worry about now.

Drop Kick. A surprisingly addictive football game that’s hard as hell, it’s like the Frank Lampard World Cup simulator. Here’s a larger version.

Spider-Man 3 Teaser Trailer. A year off, but yes! YES! HELLS YES! OH HELL TO THE YES!!!!