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We Omars, we’re loners, wanderers. Tropically depressed in a High-pressure world. I’ll be back soon enough…promise.

On most mornings a stack of amNY – one of two competitive free dailies – sits outside the entrance to my local subway stop. A few times a week I’ll grab one off the cheap wire rack for my ride to the office; yesterday’s edition came annotated…

It’s common commuter habit to pull an untouched, unsoiled, newspaper from the interior of a newspaper stack, typically leaving a chafed & crusty copy for a gust of wind or a late-riser. This annotated edition, left on top, was passed up by a number of unimpressed commuters before I got my chance at it. continue reading »

And I’m back; blog vacation is over. Lots to catch up on. Let’s start with…

It’s been a few weeks since Usain Bolt’s celebratory 9.69 second jog, the Olympics are well and done, but I still find myself fascinated by the he’s-either-on-steroids-or-everything-we-thought-we-knew-about-sprinting-is-wrong 100m world record. I catch myself watching the final once or twice a day (I have the video on my phone); it probably won’t cease to amaze me until he finds a tenth of a second in his busy schedule to surpass it.

I, like the large majority of Americans, did not get to watch Bolt’s run live that Saturday morning as exclusive television rights kept major competitions off the air until NBC’s nightly primetime broadcast. That’s not to say I waited until 9pm; I waited about 15 minutes. continue reading »

Pete Conrad runs in Skylab [video]

This image of a so-called “Wii Spray” device, thesis project of a one Martin Lihs, has been making appearances on design and tech blogs lately. Discussion of the prototype has so far focused on heightened realism the controller would bring to a street-art videogame. Personally, I’m partial to the rainbow cable – but that might just be me. Aesthetics of cordage aside, what I find most intriguing about the device isn’t it’s application as a gaming interface but the potential to repurpose it as a recording device. TiVo for graffiti, as it were. So lets put our Johnny Chung Lee hats on for a moment and think this through… continue reading »