Monthly Archives: September 2008

Local Fun

By hubs | Published: September 24, 2008
There are a few great things happening in Denver in the next week I thought you all might be interested in. All of them free (or recommended donation). Track Shack Race Denver’s first track specific bike shop, Track Shack, is going to open on the 27th. In order to celebrate their grand opening they’re putting [...]
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Artifacting Tumblr’s Mixtube Mix

By hubs | Published: September 22, 2008
So I haven’t convinced you to visit my Tumbler blog yet? Well I’ve created a mixtube mix (mixtube is like muxtape + youtube – videos) which contains the soundtracks to all the musically related videos I’ve posted to date. Songs range from the surreal – “Big Beefy Balls” by Rachael Ray – to the sublime [...]
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Artifacting Tumblr

By hubs | Published: September 22, 2008
I haven’t been posting over here very much lately, but I’m still Killing It over at the Artifacting Tumblr Blog.
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Live Girl Show

By hubs | Published: September 10, 2008
Before Santa Fe had it’s recent little clean-up near the Hampden exit there was a place called the Adult Palace. The Adult Palace had been around since I was a young child. For as long as I can remember really. It was in a windowless, non-descript, squat, gray building with parking in the rear. On [...]
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The Simplest Weather Forecast On The Web

By hubs | Published: September 10, 2008
Umbrella Today? is the simplest weather forecast on the web.
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What Is Your Hue I.Q.

By hubs | Published: September 9, 2008
This is a good one for you artsy/designer types. This website will test your ability to discern hue in a color spectrum. Simply drag and drop the colors in each row to arrange them by hue order. My score is below.
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The RNC And DNC In One Minute

By hubs | Published: September 9, 2008
It’s pretty amazing how close these one minute video synopsizes of the Democratic National Convention and the Republican National Convention actually mimic the words that are highlighted in the speech visualizations I created. (Videos are below if you’re too lazy to click on the links. Thanks Montastic).
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My Very First Twitter

By hubs | Published: September 6, 2008
I wish my first twitter would have been a little more witty than this. Link to your very first twitter in the comments.
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Acceptance Speech Word Visualizations

By hubs | Published: September 5, 2008
Above are the word clouds for the acceptance speeches from Obama and McCain (on top for you colorblind readers) that I created using Wordle. The larger the word, the more often it was said by each candidate. I think both the words “promise” and “fight” are too large for any candidate this time around. The [...]
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