Memos from November 2008

Where Did That Alberta, Canada Meteor Go?

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Here’s a video from a 5–0’s dash that record­ed a “trac­tor truck” size mete­or:

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Bri­an Williams: “The search is on in Cana­da for the impact site?”

What the?!?! They bet­ter find that thing. That thing was huge—that’s what she said! For some­thing that bright and in plain sight of the cop patrolling, they should know at least where to start. Dang… that’s scary if they don’t find it. You think it’s a coin­ci­dence with all these Armaged­don-like movies com­ing out?

Update
The video from Hulu is no longer avail­able. I have updat­ed the post with the one from Youtube.

Black Friday Deals on Wear

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Here’s a hand­ful of casual/street wear/urban cul­ture attire ven­dors hav­ing Black Fri­day deals. Most of them are based in Cal­i­for­nia. But some have their sale event extend­ing online as well.

Con­tin­ue read­ing →

Resize to a Specific Element’s Dimensions

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Here’s a snip­pet to resize a back­ground image to the dimen­sions of an ele­ment. In this case, #bkgIm­age.

var resizeBkg = function() { 
    var h = self.innerHeight || document.documentElement.clientHeight || document.body.clientHeight; 
    var w = self.innerWidth || document.documentElement.clientWidth || document.body.clientWidth; 
    var e = document.getElementById('bkgImage'); 
    if (w > h) { 
        e.width = w; 
        e.height = w; 
    } else { 
        e.height = h; 
        e.width = h; 
    } 
}

A Longer Walk on Google Maps

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It was cool to find out that Apple released an update to iPhone 2.2 today. After going through the process, I could­n’t wait to try out the new features—specially the ones involv­ing Google Maps. They were: Street View, and pub­lic tran­sit & walk­ing direc­tions.

Things were fine when all of a sud­den… a “things that make you go, hmmm” moment. Check out the walk­ing direc­tion that I was giv­en 2‑blocks away from the Trans­bay Ter­mi­nal.

Right?! I know. This deserves to be in Seth & Amy’s Real­ly!?! skit dur­ing SNL’s Week­end Update.

SNL: Justin Timberlake for Beyonce’s Single Ladies Music Video

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Oh man… this had me going—freaking hilar­i­ous. I think Justin Tim­ber­lake was going to host this upcom­ing Sat­ur­day or some­thing but can’t any­more due to the Hol­i­days. So he popped in and did Week­end Update and a skit with Bey­once. Just in case you missed it this past Sat­ur­day’s SNL, here it is1.

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Note: Bey­on­ce’s Sin­gle Ladies is the lat­est sin­gle from her new album, “I am… Sasha Fierce”. You can now grab it either on iTunes or Amazon.com.

  1. Please do let me know if this one is not avail­able. NBC does not have it yet in Hulu, and the ones in Youtube are being tar­get­ed for removal. [↩]