Shahryar Rizvi

Category: Tech

  • Independence Day 2011

    On the lead up to this year’s Independence Day, I traveled to New England with the family. Traveling across Virginia, Maryland, New York and Pennsylvania offered interesting insights on how this part of the U.S. expresses its history. For example, a few houses and churches along our trip flew England’s St. George flag along with […]

  • I caught the Twitter bug.

    Yesterday, I opened a Twitter account after years of thinking it unnecessary at best, detrimental to my writing at worst. I expect this new format may keep me writing in a compressed, laconic style that my colleagues and teachers expect of me. It's a shame too, because my current assignments involve a long form narrative style and […]

  • MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow explains a nuclear meltdown

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32545640 Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy I always like news media that can educate as well as inform. MSNBC's Rachel Maddow explains the technical details of the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant with nerd like enthusiasm. Moreover, she does it without the pretentious, nostalgic authority symbolism of Glenn Beck's chalkboard. I […]

  • The Problem With… Britney Spears’ “Hold It Against Me” – Dallas Music – DC9 At Night

    The Problem With… Britney Spears' "Hold It Against Me" – Dallas Music – DC9 At Night. I've been fascinated with the Cajun accent for a long time. It's odd that I never noticed it in Britney Spears until now. Britney is a really fascinating subject for nerds. In 2007, She pandered towards nerds with an […]

  • Reasons to be Cheerful – Charlie’s Diary

    Reasons to be Cheerful – Charlie's Diary. Author Charles Stross puts the decade into perspective I'm sorry to note that most of the good stuff didn't happen to those of us in the developed world — but the human world is indisputably in better shape overall in 2010 than it was in 2000. And what […]

  • “Exploit now, pay later”: music labels finally pay artists

    “Exploit now, pay later”: music labels finally pay artists.

  • RUSE Getting Kinect Support

    The Kinect represents a commercial breakthrough in user interface technology. It even goes a step ahead of the famous Minority Report gesture interface, which, for its glamor, still requires gloves to use. Commanding armies and manipulating maps with hand gestures was one of my expectations and wishes for gaming UI. It's good to see the […]

  • 9 Major Stories Everyone Got Wrong This Year | Cracked.com

    9 Major Stories Everyone Got Wrong This Year | Cracked.com.

  • TRON: Legacy Review

    I saw TRON: Legacy Friday night. I saw it in 3D. I may try and see it again in IMAX. As a sci-fi nerd, I was attracted to the neon-and-vector visual design. The effects coupled with the design delivered astonishing scenes. I also enjoyed Daft Punk's soundtrack, a mix of orchestral and electronic genres — […]

  • Creating a Font – Marain Script

    YouTube – Creating a Font – Marain Script. This video details the production of a novel, fictional script and typography based on Iain M. Banks' Culture Series, a science-fiction novel series that follows different settings in the context of the Culture civilization, a techno-anarchic polity where godlike-machines provide for humanoid and robotic drone constituents. This […]