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Eric Rice

Eric Rice has written 706 posts for infocalypse

For those curious about GTA IV, watch this

This is where we’ve all been for the past week:

When not talking about Twitter, what do you do in life?

“When you aren’t blogging and talking about social media and software, what do you actually DO in life? Tell me something echo-free.”

Pink Skull: “U.g.uo.aaaahhhhh”

The first full-length album from this Philadelphia electro-psych outfit, Zeppelin 3 is an update on the four-on-the-floor sound with quirky tech house, varietal acid, melding dance-floor readiness with krautrock psychedelia.

1991 Cyberpunk documentary

Found a 64 minute documentary on Cyberpunk, complete with interviews with William Gibson, Timothy Leary, Jaron Lanier and more.

iTunes Store+ Wii Fit + Nike+

Even though I’m in the middle of a personal exodus from this particular virtual world, I found MacNN’s headline, Will Apple open a store in Second Life?, a bit misleading. Sure the article discusses Second Life, however, its main focus is on a patent filed by Apple Computer that resembles a virtual world with avatars […]

UPDATED: That annoying FriendFeed ‘feature’ people like

Update at the end of post. The feature I’m griping about here IS there, but heh, poorly implemented. Sorry guys, it’s an iPhone world we live in. Be like Apple. I’m not going to delete this post. Skip to the end.

Some software can be palatable with simple toggles: on/off. That’s my solution for the […]

My overly irritating $80 Wordpress theme adventure

I found a seemingly great theme for this site (for 80 bucks, mind you), installed it, and it felt like I was dealing with a freebie. Things broke everywhere, I had to manually muck with code, and of course, other support? Forums. It’s all my problem, now.
If anyone has experience with Revolution Pro Media, […]

Where are all the concept trucks?

Spend any amount of time searching for ‘concept cars’ on the internet, and you’ll find more than enough amazing (and equally ridiculous) designs for the automotive industry. Here’s an example from Google of concept car images.
With trucks, however, I seem a huge lack of great concept art or ideas that do not involve a) whatever […]

How to handily tell tech bloggers to STFU

Every so often a post comes around that lays the hammer down, but sadly, it won’t really get the time of day because of the so-called A-List and leadership in Silicon Valley. Techmemes and Techcrunches and Valleywags and Scobles mean exactly jack. shit.
You probably don’t know who Karoli is. She prolly isn’t live on Qik.com […]

How can I stop being called a ‘blogger’?

Some might say that the term ‘blogger’ has passed its time of usefulness–now perhaps being used as an insult born out of condescension for those that write online, no matter what the topic may be.