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Domain Squatting

Elizabeth — Fri, 27 Aug 2021 23:17:20 +0000

You’re trying to get to a popular website run by a large soda company. You type in what you think is the URL on the bottle’s label, but you end up looking at a cat getting a single slice of American cheese thrown on its face, on loop. The sides of the website are […]

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A History of UFO-Spotting

Elizabeth — Wed, 25 Aug 2021 22:13:09 +0000

Eyewitness Accounts and The News – 1940’s on I’ll start when the modern day ‘flying saucer’ story started, although recordings of UFOs go back to BC times. The first UFO to start the ‘flying saucer’ trope in America actually wasn’t a saucer – it was a squad of ships shaped like boomerangs that rotated […]

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Selfie Culture

Elizabeth — Fri, 20 Aug 2021 22:53:10 +0000

Pictures, for the sake of Memories There’s nothing wrong with snapping pics at a concert, on a hike, or at the mall with friends. I firmly believe that there is nothing wrong with that. Pictures store memories. Scrolling back through your phone’s album or flipping through a physical one is meant to be a good […]

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General Remastering

Elizabeth — Mon, 16 Aug 2021 22:40:40 +0000

Remastering just means changing the original quality of the master copy of a piece of media, and you can remaster nearly anything – even if it’s already high-quality. A CD-quality movie can be remastered up into Blu-Ray. Songs from 2007 can be remastered to up the quality in 2020. Vinyls and VHSs can be remastered […]

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Small Sites Vs. A Big Internet

Elizabeth — Wed, 28 Jul 2021 15:29:09 +0000

Art projects Some little art project websites deliberately avoid indexing their page, so it’s well-hidden from traffic. Web development classes, modern art classes, and all sorts of other classes will ask students to make something online. They don’t necessarily want those websites getting shared outside of the class. Keeping a page un-indexed makes it […]

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How do RFID chips work?

Elizabeth — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 18:22:17 +0000

Definitions RFID stands for Radio Frequency Identification, and it’s usually used in the context of a chip! There are active and passive types: an active RFID chip has a tiny battery with it, while a passive one is powered by the energy of the reader’s signals alone. Active chips can be read from much […]

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Different Kinds of Screens

Elizabeth — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 22:00:38 +0000

There are many different screens. From gigantic vacuum-tube TVs to the flattest of the flat home theater displays, TVs come in all shapes and sizes. Here’s a brief history of the popular ones. LCD: Liquid Crystal Display – Big Screen, Little Equipment LCDs, or liquid crystal displays, are what they sound like: liquid crystals are […]

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Podcasts, Podcasts Everywhere

Elizabeth — Fri, 09 Jul 2021 20:44:47 +0000

Tech advancements leading to podcasts being everywhere. What happened? There was a time when podcasts were an obscure form of entertainment. After all, in the early days of the internet, storage space for mobile devices was precious. The Before Times Podcasts used to be pretty rare, back when CDs were the main […]

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Wildly Specific T-Shirts: Why?

Elizabeth — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 22:30:48 +0000

You’ve probably seen some variation of the shirt. You’re wondering how it’s so wildly specific. You click it, and scroll down, and somehow… somehow the company seems to have made shirts specifically for you, the boyfriend of a Registered Nurse who was born in June, who’s a little crazy with a heart of gold. And […]

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Portable Phones: A Brief History and Selection

Elizabeth — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 21:59:34 +0000

The smartphone of today has a lot of ancestors, and some of them were pretty bulky. Translated to Modern Times The first couple of portable phones were… weird. The brick phone: the brick phone’s pretty well-known! It was sometimes used in movies to demonstrate how high tech the star’s organization was. Portable phones were huge […]

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