Shahryar Rizvi

Category: Tech

  • Favorites of YTMND

    Today marks 4 years of ytmnd’s revamp. to celebrate, here is a list of my favorite ytmnd pages. http://whatishl.ytmnd.com/ http://hadcore.ytmnd.com/ http://whatismystapler.ytmnd.com/ http://whatishalfliferock.ytmnd.com/ http://picard.ytmnd.com/ http://rocksaddam.ytmnd.com/ http://tubesdance.ytmnd.com/ http://metalgearoliver.ytmnd.com/ http://animated.ytmnd.com/

  • io9 interview with Ken Macleod

    http://static.bloggingheads.tv/maulik/offsite/offsite_flvplayer.swf This is an interesting discussion, also given that I just finished reading the Cassini Divison from Macleod. It was a good, if a little short, novel on how fleshy humans cope after the technological singularity. A flashback character in Ken MacLeod’s 1998 novel The Cassini Division dismissively refers to the singularity as “the Rapture […]

  • E3 2010 — Microsoft Press Conference impressions

    Microsoft begins E3 with its Press Conference, detailing upcoming games and consumer appliances. Lets take a look at the more interesting points in their presentation. Call of Duty: Black Ops Yawn. The series up to this point seems to deliver the same thing in a different setting. “Call” me when they make a Call of Duty […]

  • E3 2010 coverage on this blog

    E3 will be in the coming week. I will be browsing the main gaming sites and covering previews like I have in years past. Unlike years past, I will be conducting multiple posts on each keynote and games I believe are important. Expect a post each on Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Civilization 5 if […]

  • HTC Eris review

    I recently bought the HTC DROID Eris, an fairly old Android OS phone. I am currently shuffling through available software and organizing my dashboard. here are some interesting applications I found so far. WordPress: I can update Mindqila from my phone. Though it will be difficult without a keyboard, so it won't happen often. Music […]

  • Geocities-ize your site

    Here is Mindqila if it were made in 1998. The only thing that’s missing is Static-X and The Matrix. I had a geocities site once. I made it to impress a girl.

  • links for 2010-04-08

    Balance Your Media Diet (tags: culture internet media social)

  • The Sony Reader Pocket

    I recently bought an e-reader, the Sony prs-300, from suggestion of Charles Stross. This is the first time I have had a portable reader since a handed-down Palm PDA in freshman year. Since receiving a generous monthly stipend in graduate school, I have been buying paper books like crazy. Just as quickly as I started […]

  • My Internship with Dallas Observer

    I started my internship with Dallas Observer last week. I had to delay due to the Dubai trip. I’m settled in now.  I will write for the Dallas Observer music blog DC9 At Night. My first story is up today — Over The Weekend: Fair to Midland’s Wreck Benefit at Curtain Club I’ll link to […]

  • The iPad, a.k.a. the iPod Touch Rex

    All the blogs and my classmates are gushing over the iPad,  Apple’s tablet device announced today. It seems at first glance as an enlarged iPod Touch. I’m not likely going to purchase it as I am not the target audience. I have an antipathy for Apple’s battery-dependent devices since the batteries cannot be removed or exchanged without breaking open the device. The iMacs, […]