I have to admit, my first reaction to most online petitions and campaigns is to be somewhat annoyed by the self-righteous nerds who are pushing them on other people. It just seems so easy to fight for a cause by being loud and obnoxious on the internet without actually doing anything. Add to this the [...]
There appears to be a minor controversy brewing in the podcast world right now, so I thought I would throw in my two cents on the matter and clear up our own current status with regards to it. I first heard about Stitcher Radio sometime last year when Kevin Smith started using it for his [...]
Being a pretty nerdy kid who was into mysteries and detectives, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? was one of the first video games I ever really got into. I remember playing it on an Apple II computer at school before eventually getting my own copy for the Commodore 64 at home. I even [...]
A new internet celebrity is born! A couple of weeks ago photographer Mark Pain snapped this amazing photo of a Tiger Woods golf ball in mid-air right before it smashed the lens of his camera. However, as the photo spread across the web, people suddenly became drawn to something else in the picture: a strange [...]
Don’t panic loyal readers (all five of you), this blog is not under new management. It just has a new name. I decided that since I don’t post a lot of personal stuff anymore, I wanted a domain name that would reflect that change. The seandwyer.net domain still works, but who the heck uses a [...]
If, like me, you listen to a fair amount of different podcasts, you’ll probably agree that the addition of direct wi-fi and over-the-air downloads on the iPod Touch and iPhone is an amazing feature. However, you’ll probably also agree that the current iTunes interface for managing podcasts is severely lacking. To be honest, they don’t [...]
You may have noticed that I did a little bit of tidying up on the site today, and in the sidebar I also added a list of my most recently shared links on bit.ly. Allow me to explain what this is, and why you might want to consider using it. For a long time, I [...]
I’m just here to confirm what most of you have probably already realized: Twitter killed my personal blog. Hey, it was bound to happen eventually… this site was seriously lacking a direction in the first place. I just wanted somewhere to share some quick thoughts and random links, and now Twitter has filled that void, [...]