Archive for the 'This ‘n’ That' Category

It’s Memorial Day

Monday, May 28th, 2012

Take a moment.

Four Decades of Mobile Devices

Saturday, May 26th, 2012

Computerworld offers up a gallery. Anyone else remember Microvision?

Watch It Wednesday

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012

Let’s go bowling … with the original Candid Camera.

Watch It Wednesday

Wednesday, May 16th, 2012

American Pop is a generally underrated piece of animation that was ahead of its time when it was released in 1981. It attempts, with more success than you might expect, to cram nearly a century of American music history and context into 96 minutes. Here’s the trailer.

Happy Mother’s Day

Sunday, May 13th, 2012

Here are 11 quotes for the day, courtesy of Psychology Today, including this one from Washington Irving:

“A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine, desert us when troubles thicken around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.”