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Impossible objects that will amaze you

For your consideration:

How did they do that? Or, better yet, why did they do that? That is the question that keeps going through your mind when you browse John Rausch’s Puzzle World. The site offers a huge selection of web puzzles as well as many many profiles of impossible objects, real world puzzles, and obscure […]

Awesome Video: 3d engine animation

I happen to be one of those folks who opted to focus my learning and attention more on the finer arts (such as HTML and StarCrraft) and, as such, I’ve always been left to wonder just exactly how all the parts in an engine fit and work together. Now, thanks to the following brilliantly done […]

Geography Game: Place all 50 US States

Stumbled across this game over on reddit and thought it was worth a post. The game has you placing all 50 US states on a map. It tracks the number you placed correctly as well as how far you were off by. Very useful and cool way to learn US Geography in a recognizable way. […]

Photo: Watch your step

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A half hour or so after I got to work this morning a SUV tried to go off-road and down-stairs outside our building. Crazy photo courtesy of a friend/co-worker and the Seatte Times. No word on the cause but police blamed the rain. ‘course traffic in Seattle always has problems when it is raining, or […]

Video: Joe’s Goals friend on JibJab

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John Boyle, friend and co-worker, was a big help early on with Joe’s Goals and helped give me ideas on how to approach media outlets and promote the application. A few weeks ago Train of Thought, John’s sketch comedy group (responsible for PuppetTom, among other things), flew out to JibJab to record a short sketch […]

Weight Tracking and the High Cost of Being Overweight

According to the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control, in 2003-2004, an estimated 66 percent of U.S. adults were overweight or obese, along with 17 percent of children and adolescents. The total annual cost of obesity was an estimated $117 billion in 2000.
J.D. has a great article up at Get Rich Slowly talking about the […]

Wallpapr - a Flickr wallpaper finder

Marco Gomes sent me a quick note to let me know about a cool little Flickr wallpaper finder he built using the Flickr API. What better excuse can you have to post a cool sunset photo? Check it out, especially if you are a big flickr fan. It is a really cool way to find […]

Joe at the Connecticut ColdFusion User Group Oct 10th

Well Joe himself won’t be there, but Ian will be giving a web cast presentation about Joe’s Goals and ColdFusion/Ajax development. You can read the announcement here and find out more details about the user group here. Topics we’re likely to cover are the Yahoo User Interface and general ColdFusion hacking. Hope to see you […]

The Gestation Project: The Interview

A couple of days ago I sat down with my friend Matt Pressnall of EnjoyYourDigitalLife to talk about his super cool Gestation Project. Basically he took a picture of his wife every day during her pregnancy
and combined all those pictures into a single video. Check out the video here.
IS: Why did you create EnjoyYourDigitalLife.com?
MP: […]

Welcome to Joe’s Blog!

Good morning everyone and welcome to Joe’s Blog! Here I hope to chronicle any and all little things that come up relating to Joe’s Goals! I also plan to wax verbose from time to time about topics of interest to me including personal development tactics and tools, lessons learned from building a Web 2.0 application, […]