As hard as it is to trump the US Air Guitar Championships, our VP Sales, Steve King, has done it in style! A huge congratulations to Steve and Ashley on their new baby boy!
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Straight from the CSpan bus (yep, this is parked right outside the Convention Center doors)… An important Wiffiti update that resonates on about 85% of the T-shirts here in some sort of pun-tastic variation:

Just a quick update: The Netroots Nation Wiffiti is live on their site, so feel free to pop over and toss in your two cents.  Make sure you have Flash 9, or you’ll see a whole lotta nothin.

I’m headed out early tomorrow morning to join in the on-site festivities in TX, and I’ll be wildly twittering while I’m there.  Catch you on the flip side with pics!

If you’re reading this blog, I’m going to go ahead and assume that you have some sort of close, personal relationship with the intertubes (or perhaps I’m just projecting).

While I typically use the term “The Web Outside” to refer to web-based apps in the out-of-home space, today I’ll extend that definition to include web-referential apps in the body art space.

A few of my faves:

The Classic Binary ‘too,

The Goog-Worshipping ‘too (that one has the red outline as proof that it’s real… well, unless that guy has some outstanding skin condition),

The Firefox is Foxy Too ‘too (It’s clearly perfect when coupled with denim shorts… although I’m thinking that one may be a press-on),

and my very favorite…

The Power ‘too

pics below the fold…
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When CoolHunting calls something “awe-inspiring,” it’s gotta be pretty nasty; Earthdesk does not disappoint. Check this out– you can add a dynamic snapshot of the Earth, constantly updating, right on your desktop (mac or PC- compatible). It’s completely customizable, so you can focus in on a specific city, on the sun or the moon, or switch around your viewpoint daily. You can see live-updating weather patterns, city lights, and track phases of day around the world. There’s a licensing fee of $23.95 for a single user ($39.95 for 5 licensees), but that price seems fairly reasonable given its current buzzfactor. I’d love to see a free trial option to get a better feel for it before committing… I have a suspicion it’s even cooler than it looks (which, incidentally, is similar to the suspicion most people have about me).

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When championing “the web outside,” we cite the need for people to get away from their desks and PCs and experience the web in a larger social context.

Well, there’s no better spokesperson for this argument than David Gunnells, IT guy at the University of Alabama and, more importantly, the winner of Wired’s Saddest Cubicle Contest. Gunnells’ dark, cramped, windowless cube abuts a parking garage, and unwillingly hosts the smells of the office microwave and bathroom. Wired reports: “Gunnells recalls a day when one co-worker reheated catfish in the microwave, while another used the bathroom and covered the smell with a stinky air freshener.”

Dave, dude, you could definitely use some Web Outside therapy.

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Wish I could take credit, but I can’t. Lovely work done by Student Hacks (Thanks, Audrey!)

[tags]The Web Outside, Student Hacks, Halloween, Firefox, pumpkin carving, geek halloween[/tags]