The Runoff Podcast – Episode 1

Welcome to The Runoff Podcast! On our ingagural episode: Meet @austinmiles Meet @chrisrunoff The best white trash story ever! What are we going to call this?    (14064 KB) Listen on posterous Take a listen and tell us what you think! Subscribe via iTunes or the RSS Feed. The Runoff Podcast is licensed under a [...]

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The Neuroscience of Inception – LINK

Thanks to the subdued activity of the frontal lobes and the excited visual cortex, we sit in our plush chairs munching on popcorn and confuse the fake with the real. We don’t question the non-sequiturs or complain about the imperfect special effects or the shallow characters. Instead, we just sit back and watch and lose [...]

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My First Act of Free Will – LINK

There’s a certain frivolousness to all these eloquent arguments over free will. The fact is, we are deeply wired to believe in our freedom. We feel like willful creatures, blessed with elbow room and endowed with the capacity to pick our own breakfast cereal. via wired.com Free will, and whether or not it exists, is one [...]

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Photoshop of Horrors: Wired Readers Show BP How It’s Done – LINK

We asked you last week to help us show BP that when hiring unethical photographers (or photo editors) in the future, they should look for Photoshop proficiency on their resumes. In response, you put the company’s pathetic photo-doctoring of oil-cleanup press photos to shame. Your work was not only more skilled, it was far more [...]

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Federal judge blocks key parts of SB 1070 – LINK

Key parts of Senate Bill 1070 that will not go into effect Thursday: •  The portion of the law that requires an officer make a reasonable attempt to determine the immigration status of a person stopped, detained or arrested if there’s reasonable suspicion they’re in the country illegally. •  The portion that creates a crime [...]

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In Case Of Emergency Fail

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GeekDad Interviews Phineas and Ferb Creators – LINK

As the 104 days of  summer vacation start to dwindle into the hot and lazy dog days, our favorite creative and inventive pair of stepbrothers, Phineas and Ferb, have a couple of summer spectacular events on the way to put a little bounce in your house before the kids head back to school. via wired.com [...]

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Mango Salsa Recipe

I made some mango salsa this afternoon and thought it would be a great thing to share since it’s been a while since I’ve posted anything here. So here goes: Mango Salsa: 1 Ripe Mango 1/2 Med. Red Onion 1/2 Med. Red Bell Pepper 1/8 Cup Cilantro Chop them all up and mix together. Simple [...]

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Skype Finally Breaks Free on the iPhone – LINK

Skype can now receive calls when the app is running invisibly in the background, which was a major omission in previous versions released before Apple added multitasking to its OS. via wired.com Doesn’t really solve the AT&T coverage woes, but it sure does help in the $ department. “I’ll take the 0 minute plan, please.”

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Made a Stop At a Favorite

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