ed.hunsinger.org » Cool Sites http://ed.hunsinger.org Your life is yours to create. be a dreamer Sun, 04 Jan 2009 00:26:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Hip-Hop Pop-Up http://ed.hunsinger.org/2007-04-11/hip-hop-pop-up/ http://ed.hunsinger.org/2007-04-11/hip-hop-pop-up/#comments Wed, 11 Apr 2007 19:47:50 +0000 divinity http://ed.hunsinger.org/2007-04-11/hip-hop-pop-up/ I’ve had a love/hate relationship with pop culture and advertising for quite some time. While I find quite a bit of it insulting and manipulative, I also find it incredibly intriguing at the same time. Hip-Hop Pop-Up is one of those sites that extracts and exposes the subtle advertising in mainstream hip-hop today. With a culture built around brand names, what’s hot now, and flashy possessions, it’s not too surprising to see how often inadvertant commercials are dropped in the lyrics. However most of us are so used to it that it doesn’t stand out. Hip-Hop Pop-Up will play a mainstream hip-hop song and launch pop-ups for each of the products/brand names that are mentioned in the lyrics. The current song on there is Kanye West’s “All Falls Down” which clocks in with 11 product placements and 10 companies, generating 12 pop-ups. You’ll want to turn off your pop-up blocker to get the full effect. Yes, kind of annoying, but so is the fact that we’re advertised to almost every second of our lives.

via ni9e blog

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via Lifehacker

]]> http://ed.hunsinger.org/2006-10-04/google-gadgets/feed/ 0 Pandora + Last.fm http://ed.hunsinger.org/2006-09-19/pandora-lastfm/ http://ed.hunsinger.org/2006-09-19/pandora-lastfm/#comments Tue, 19 Sep 2006 16:00:05 +0000 divinity http://ed.hunsinger.org/2006-09-19/pandora-lastfm/ I love Pandora, it seems to always know what I want to hear. I also like Last.fm because I’m a bit of a stats junkie and it’s interesting to see what my listening patterns truly are. Now I can combine the two with a great FireFox plugin.

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Zooomr is giving out free Pro accounts to bloggers. Run over there and grab yours. I just uploaded a random picture of a building that I thought was cool in San Francisco.

]]> http://ed.hunsinger.org/2006-07-11/zooomr/feed/ 1 NBC will buy Tribe.net http://ed.hunsinger.org/2006-07-07/nbc-will-buy-tribenet/ http://ed.hunsinger.org/2006-07-07/nbc-will-buy-tribenet/#comments Fri, 07 Jul 2006 19:00:46 +0000 divinity http://ed.hunsinger.org/2006-07-07/nbc-will-buy-tribenet/ TechCrunch » Blog Archive » NBC will buy Tribe.net

I found Tribe again a few months ago and have spent a lot of time on there meeting really interesting people.  Compared to the other social networking sites it seems to have a lot more substance, more real people, less spam, and a lot more interesting dicussion.  Of course the fact that it’s overrun by Burners doesn’t hurt. :)   If you want to add me, here I am.

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NAO Design

]]> http://ed.hunsinger.org/2006-05-17/nao-design/feed/ 0 Dark Miracle http://ed.hunsinger.org/2006-04-06/dark-miracle/ http://ed.hunsinger.org/2006-04-06/dark-miracle/#comments Thu, 06 Apr 2006 20:23:32 +0000 divinity http://ed.hunsinger.org/2006-04-06/dark-miracle/ Dark Miracle

Josh Ellis, a net journalist, wrote a great peace about his visit to the site of the first atomic test, the Los Alamos/Trinity Test Site .  A well written piece about some of the history, and the magnitude of what happened early one morning in 1945.

]]> http://ed.hunsinger.org/2006-04-06/dark-miracle/feed/ 0 Open-Loop.org :: A Chicago Surveillance Camera Mapping Project http://ed.hunsinger.org/2006-03-02/open-looporg-a-chicago-surveillance-camera-mapping-project/ http://ed.hunsinger.org/2006-03-02/open-looporg-a-chicago-surveillance-camera-mapping-project/#comments Thu, 02 Mar 2006 06:40:02 +0000 divinity http://ed.hunsinger.org/2006-03-02/open-looporg-a-chicago-surveillance-camera-mapping-project/ Chicago has a lot of cameras.  So many it’s kind of scary from an anti-1984 point of view.  Luckily someone has taken it on to log the cameras so you can know exactly when you might be on video.  Open-Loop.org

]]> http://ed.hunsinger.org/2006-03-02/open-looporg-a-chicago-surveillance-camera-mapping-project/feed/ 2 Even MC Hammer has a Sidekick 2 http://ed.hunsinger.org/2006-02-28/even-mc-hammer-has-a-blog/ http://ed.hunsinger.org/2006-02-28/even-mc-hammer-has-a-blog/#comments Tue, 28 Feb 2006 18:21:57 +0000 divinity http://ed.hunsinger.org/2006-02-28/even-mc-hammer-has-a-blog/ Looks like everyone is getting into this blog thing. Even MC Hammer has his own blog! He even does some photo moblogging from his sidekick which gets him some coolness points. I wonder if he’s on the celebrity list to get a Sidekick III?

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