gogogadgetearl . unlock your car with a tennis ball
2007.06.26
- i love lifehacker. i can never remember to look at digg, engadget, gizmodo, fark, or any of the other rss subscriptions i have--but lifehacker i can always find not just something interesting, but something actually useful there. they peruse the whole interwebs so i don't have to, and find anything and everything (from budgeting to dieting to tech guru stuff) that makes life a little bit easier in today's modern world. tonight's highlight: unlocking a car door (manual or electronic) with a tennis ball.
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- [ 2007.06.27 | 8:52:04am ]
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some of us aren't cool enough like you, Earl, to use auto updating RSS feeds. Me? I just have a ton of favorites, (at the moment, 6 folders, roughly 65 sites) that I always try to hit up before the end of the week, with the more prominent ones being here, digg, newsbusters.org, engadget, some comic strips, and some car sites cuz what can i say, I love cars.
PS, the tennis ball trick was the first video I ever saw on YouTube, and I have never gotten it to work because my car's locks are a complex series of tubes, no kidding, and the actual locking latch on my car is at the bottom of the door, so simple air pressure alone isn't enough to turn the bolt from over two feet away and I think three different gear directions.- [ 2007.06.27 | 9:40:13am ]
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me? i'm not "nemo7467"!
- [ 2007.06.28 | 7:11:11am ]
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oops...who reads important keywords anymore? These days I can only glance through an article and take completely out of context little sentences to see what celebrity has been (in sex scandal/indicted on DUI charges/caught in paternity testing/been deported?) what presidential candidate said what about whom, how amazingly awesome the iPhone wishes it was...
My apologies Earl THE Earl, and nemo, of the 7467 variety .
Some of us aren't cool enough like you, Nemo, or even Earl, to use auto-updating RSS feeds.- [ 2007.06.28 | 9:49:23am ]
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being a web designer myself, i feel like RSS feeds detract from the actual purpose of my talent (or lack thereof): designing a site to be visually pleasing and practically functional. so, i like to respect other web designers by actually visiting the actual websites instead of just reading the RSS feeds.
way to disrespect, nemo. :-P- [ 2007.06.28 | 12:19:32pm ]
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I disagree. If someone doesn't want to include RSS capabilities within their website, then they shouldn't. If they don't want readers to look via RSS readers/etc, then they shouldn't add the feeds. Personally, I devour way too much information from the web on a daily basis to visit 50+ sites. If and when I see something interesting/new, then I go to the site.
Some sites have set up their readers to not include the full article... for websites that still want the traffic coming to them, then I see this as a perfect legit way to get the traffic. I'm not disgruntled when they do that, so I go to their site.... they give me just enough to wet my appetite. I think of websites as both what Earl said: visually pleasing/pratically functional, but that's the secondary reason of the site. The primary reason is to give out information. How (if) I consume that information is up to me... (granted, this does not apply to every website, but moreso for sites like digg, engadget, all blogs, etc.- [ 2007.06.29 | 11:06:00am ]
on a side note, how can you 'never remember' to check rss feeds? I have a 'live' folder for Firefox with all my rss feeds, as well as my google/ig page has a ton, as well as google reader (which is also on my /ig page)... I pretty much never go to most websites unless I know they have new stuff I want to see.