Recently This American Life replaced an episode from the archives where John Hodgman (flickr Photo from kodamakitty) did a segment asking “What superpower would you choose?” (available here via Amazon affiliate link). The rules are simple, you have the choice between invisibility or flight. He uses the question to great success as an icebreaker, and talks about the process that...

For non-fanboys, Doctor Who is the story of a man who travels in a ship that is a police box (a blue phonebooth) on the outside but is larger on the inside. He travels through both space and time, leaving the writers all of the universe and history to draw stories from. Better yet, he has the ability to physically regenerate from fatal injury, giving the writers the ultimate flexibility of...

I was messing around last night trying to see what a Kindle graphic novel might look like: This really didn’t work, I had the PDF from a DVD that Marvel used to sell, but the two page spread is too much for the small screen to take. It will be interesting to see how long it takes to get a bigger, color screen, but I do worry about what it means for guys like this. Popularity: 1%...

I hate to say it but it’s nice to have a normal weekend and the holidays over – much more relaxing. Some random weekend stuff: Ron tipped me off to this Audio Repair Tool. It lets you visualize the sound and cut out the chunks you don’t want. It also repairs clipping (that sound you get when someone talks way too lound right into the mic and it starts to...