Michael VanPutten

Another ‘winter break re-discovery’ from my archived bookmarks: back in 2003 I came across Nina Paley’s “Sitayana Sings the Blues“. Nina did a wonderful job of animating gorgeous characters from the Indian epic of Ramayana to songs sung by Annette Harshaw. It does not look like Nina ever finished publishing this animated feature (or it […]

Noginsox.com sells a variety of fun bike helmet covers. Their products include bike helmet covers that look like a cute lady bug, t-rex, spike helmet, and frog. Imagine the fun and comments you will enjoy while riding your bicycle around with one of these neat-o covers. I think I would have to choose the frog.

In November of 2003 NewsForge published an article titled “First Internet Digital Film Debuts“. The article explained how Robin Rowe was working with the Library of Congress and the George Eastman House museum to restore early films including the 1903 George Méliès film, Tom Thumb et Dum Dum. The restorations were done using CinePaint (a […]

Bootdisk.com provides access to an archive of old boot disk images. If you are rebuilding an old computer and need a boot disk image for Windows 95, 98 or other operating systems that are no longer supported, then bootdisk.com is the place for you.

I have been spending much of my winter break completing tasks that have been collecting dust on my to-do list. One of these tasks was to merge, validate, and organize my archives of bookmarks.
I came across a fun bookmark from last March to Andy Budd’s blog. Andy posted notes from his SXSWi presentation titled ‘How […]

I decided to join another site. This one is called Twitter.com. Using Twitter you can login to their site, or submit updates via IM about what you are doing at that very second. A time line is generated about what is going on. Should be a fun experiment.
You can grab my Twitter feed here.

Wired recently ran a story titled “Pluggd: A Google for Podcasts“. A new web site named Pluggd will make audio podcasts searchable, enabling the general public to easily locate relevant and interesting podcasts.
From the plugged press release:

Pluggd was founded in February 2006 with the goal of making it easier for people […]

A new Transformers Trailer was released this week. This trailer features the first samples we have seen thus far of the CG robots. There has been concern expressed online that the new movie will not play well because Michael Bay, director of the film, decided not to utilize the established style/characters of the classic 1980(s) […]

Two years ago I began to look into what I could do to improve my productivity. Part of my workflow analysis included management of bookmarks. I needed a way to keep all of my bookmarks synced, categorized, and easily sharable.
To provide some background, I have thousands of bookmarks that I have collected. My bookmarks include […]

Mark over at Weblog Tools Collection wrote a cute little post titled “Things You Should Avoid Blogging About“. In summary,

Don’t write about your pet
Don’t gripe about how busy you are
Don’t whine about comments (specifically lack of)
Don’t lament the future in-laws
Don’t write ‘dear diary, i never dreamed this would happen to me…’

So, in summary, blog authors […]