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Cool picture of an almost full moon and the Empire State Building

joeNYC — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:17:04 +0000

Here are 2 pics that I took from 28th street and 7th avenue last night.

The New York Times does not get it!!!

joeNYC — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:36:48 +0000

Or at least the company that does there advertising is stuck in 2002. While riding home on the subway last night I took an in depth look at the subway car full of New York Times ads. They were promoting there “Digital Subscriber” model, where as a non-subscriber you only get access to 20 articles a month and as a subscriber you get to see all the articles.

Lets face it, if you are reading 20 New York times articles a month you would be bored to tears. The quality of the writing might be high, but I find much more compelling articles on cNet, Lifehacker, and ARS Techinca.

The point that I am trying to make is that somehow the New York Times is stuck in the old way of thinking, and that just does not cut it in the real world these days.

Check out these examples from the ad on the subway:

Are they trying to represent an interactive timeline on with a line, maybe they should have thought that one through, I think they are just making fun…

What the heck is a popcast? I hope that is a typo (sorry about the blurry picture)

I do not know why they insist on using http://www, it is not necessary, unless you are still using lynks or netscape.

Some cool old phones at the GDGT event

joeNYC — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 19:47:51 +0000

I was at the GDGT event at the Altman building yesterday, and one of the vendors had brought a bunch of vintage mobile phones.
Check them out:

Most commonly used Iphone passcode lock codes

joeNYC — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 22:18:30 +0000

I am just posting some information that was already spelled out in Daniel Amitay’s bloghere.

I want to reiterate that just having a passcode lock your phone regardless if its an iphone or an android, is not enough if you use the following passcodes:
1234
0000
2580
1111
5555
5683
0853
2222
1212
1998

These are known as the most common lock codes and they will most certainly be the first codes someone will try to use if your phone ends up in the wrong hands. The reason why 10 is an important number is that some phone can be set to erase the personal data after 10 unsuccessful attempts.

Check out this graph:

passcode graph

Tie the knots, untie the knots…

joeNYC — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 14:56:05 +0000

On a walk through the almost freshly completed Washington Square park I passed the end of a performance piece by artist Ujin Lee.

I found it interesting how she used audience participation as a part of the performance. As good at paraphrasing as I am you can read about what performance/piece was about here.

Here is a small photo of what was displayed during the performance.

Problems with quality control….

joeNYC — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 17:16:36 +0000

I love drinking cola from the bottle, even the little ones….
When I bought a six-pack of the little guys a few weeks ago, and when I went to stock the fridge I noticed a discrepancy in how much soda was actually in the bottle, and they were not the same…

Multi-level pictures into NYC underground

joeNYC — Fri, 27 May 2011 19:56:18 +0000

I was walking by the underground construction on Houston and Lafayette, near the entrance to the subway. I was able to snap some pictures down to the subway platform. Here they are….

iPhone caches all location data!!!

joeNYC — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 20:28:40 +0000

I just downloaded the iPhone tracker app (for OSX) from here.

Its really amazing what can be gleaned from this kind of data….
Here is what mine looks like:

I wonder what that kind of data from millions of people is worth?

JCL:

For all you bacon lovers…Candied Bacon Shake

joeNYC — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 05:36:26 +0000

There is a slider place called Mark on St. Marks, between 2nd and 3rd ave.

This is what I saw on the wall…

A crazy car traffic jam on McDougal street.

joeNYC — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 03:36:17 +0000

I was walking back to the office down Mcdougal street between bleecker and 3rd.

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The must have been filming for some movie that was set in the 1950′s cause everywhere there was old classic cars…

Let it be known that I still hate when you can’t walk down the street when they are filming some stupid movie..