Blake Helms | Birmingham, Alabama

Front Row Seats To NASA’s Lunar Impact — The (TV) Tax­man Cometh — Photo of the Day: “Why Peo­ple Sag Their Pants” — The Quick 10: 10 Res­i­dents of the Motion Pic­ture Coun­try House — Cal­cu­late the cost of your sand­wich — For all those who make fun of me bring­ing my lunch everyday ★ […]

A Review of the Pirated Copy of Win­dows 7 I Bought On eBay | Cracked.com — Palm throws the doors open: review-free app dis­tri­b­u­tion over the web, open source devel­op­ers can hop in for free — Are you get­ting this Apple? This is how you should be treat­ing the App store Get ready for the LCROSS […]

Turn your Flash into iPhone apps with Flash Pro­fes­sional CS5 — This is a HUGE boost for Adobe! I might actu­ally learn action­script Bump­Top for Mac is Now in Alpha — Jason Pin­ter: Why the Dig­i­tal Rev­o­lu­tion is Miss­ing the Big Pic­ture — In Case You For­got: IE6 Still Holds 25% of the Browser Market […]

New Microsoft Courier video shows more of inter­face, sug­gests lim­i­ta­tions — Toy­ota Recall: 3.8 Mil­lion Vehi­cles! — Photo of the Day: “Invis­i­ble Home­less Guy” — The IIHS Crashes A Clas­sic To Cel­e­brate High­way Safety — I’m kinda glad “they don’t make’em like they used to” Heads-Up Dis­play for iPhone-Toting Cyclists — iPhone Acces­sories Can Now Trigger […]

Spot­ted: Ulti­mate Apple Fan­boy Vis­its The Moth­er­ship — Barack Obama’s amaz­ingly con­sis­tent smile — Too Far, Nerds: Fly­ing a Cam­era on an R/C Heli­copter Over an Under-Construction Apple Store [Fan­boys] — You don’t see peo­ple doing this at the new Microsoft stores Too Far, Nerds: Fly­ing a Cam­era on an R/C Heli­copter Over an Under-Construction […]

The weight of a human soul — An Impor­tant Mes­sage About Apple Indus­trial Design from Jon Ive [Block­quote] — Three probes send back “unam­bigu­ous” evi­dence of lunar water — 5 Brazen Exam­ples of Price Fix­ing — Announc­ing the Web­siteS­park Pro­gram — Microsoft is kick­ing it up a notch! At Least You Won’t Be Pick­ing Ticks Off […]

This Incred­i­ble Win­dows 7 Launch Party Video Is Either the Best or Worst Microsoft Ad This Year [Win­dows 7] — <blockquote>Shared by helmsb <br> I can’t wait for MY Win­dows 7 Launch Party</blockquote> <p><a rel=“nofollow” target=“_blank” href=“http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2009/09/win7party.jpg”><img src=“http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/4/2009/09/500x_win7party.jpg” width=“500” /></a>Holy Steve Ballmer. This set of Launch Party videos are incred­i­ble for its nos­tal­gia sake. No, […]

The God­fa­ther: ‘Nobody enjoyed one day of it’ — Just like the film, the mak­ing of ‘The God­fa­ther’ was an ugly story of fear and dys­func­tion. A look back at the story of mak­ing one of the great­est films of all time. Giz­modo reveals the Microsoft Courier tablet — Bring it on Microsoft? How ’bout it Apple? […]

FCC Backs Net Neu­tral­ity, Chairman’s Full Speech Posted — Burn­ing Man’s burned man denied appeal — Peo­ple like this should be led out of the court and shot for stu­pid­ity Entire City Ren­dered In 3D Using Noth­ing But Flickr Pho­tos [Visu­al­iza­tions] — Peo­ple Really Love Their Volvos — Google Acquires reCaptcha To Power Scan­ning For […]

Sur­veil­lance video of insur­gents in Afghanistan acci­den­tally blow­ing them­selves up while plant­ing a bomb — YouTube — Kanye West Inter­rupts Barack Obama Speech (MTV VMAs Spoof) — Kanye West inter­rupts Barack Obama Medicare Would Rather Buy $8000 Com­puter than $150 iPhone App [Pol­i­tics] — Our gov­ern­ment in action! Lil’ Bow Wow — Stuff like this […]