hi, I’m a co-founder of blip.tv and all around geek.Tumblr (3.0; @jaredklett)http://jaredklett.com/<p>Her (slams down phone): “Arnold Schwarzenegger is killing me!” (pause) Me: “Can I tweet that?”</p>http://jaredklett.com/post/1053884284http://jaredklett.com/post/1053884284Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:32:13 -0400<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l8330zLICP1qz9vk1o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>The latest improvement at Blip HQ. Choose your weapon!</p>http://jaredklett.com/post/1049238897http://jaredklett.com/post/1049238897Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:48:25 -0400<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l82zhjga2c1qz9vk1o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>2 big Cisco routers + 100’s of fiber optics + many gallons of water = Someone’s a Sad Panda.</p> <p>Click for the original.</p> <p>(hat tip: <a href="http://pseudonym.tumblr.com/">pseudonym</a>)</p>http://jaredklett.com/post/1048934620http://jaredklett.com/post/1048934620Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:32:05 -0400<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l82v4yScrM1qz4cuyo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://links.laughingsquid.com/post/1048745392/photos-world-maker-faire-meetup-in-new-york-city" class="tumblr_blog">laughingsquid</a>:</p> <blockquote><p><a href="http://laughingsquid.com/photos-world-maker-faire-meetup-in-new-york-city/">Photos: World Maker Faire Meetup In New York City</a></p></blockquote> <p>MakerBunny! And Bre! And Phil! So much awesome in one photo!</p>http://jaredklett.com/post/1048909643http://jaredklett.com/post/1048909643Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:25:29 -0400<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7r045n18X1qzd1noo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://jacobjoaquin.tumblr.com/post/1038171859/extrememakeunder-dirtygondola-commondense" class="tumblr_blog">jacobjoaquin</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://extrememakeunder.tumblr.com/post/1038033286/dirtygondola-commondense-by-rennie-ellis">extrememakeunder</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>[<a href="http://dirtygondola.tumblr.com/post/1038008329/commondense-by-rennie-ellis">dirtygondola</a>:<a href="http://commondense.tumblr.com/post/1013187033/by-rennie-ellis">commondense</a>]</p> <blockquote> <blockquote> <p>by <a href="http://www.rennieellis.com.au/">Rennie Ellis</a></p> </blockquote> </blockquote> </blockquote> </blockquote> <p>This is how I live my life.</p>http://jaredklett.com/post/1038221902http://jaredklett.com/post/1038221902Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:47:38 -0400<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7xq5oxjuh1qba67qo1_r9_500.gif"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://blog.worshiptheglitch.com/post/1037519959/rocketboomdev-in-todays-age-we-dont-judge" class="tumblr_blog">ericmortensen</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://dev.rocketboom.com/post/1037419160/in-todays-age-we-dont-judge-books-by-their">rocketboomdev</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>In today’s age, we don’t judge books by their covers. We judge them by their thumbnails. We also judge videos, e-books, software, and people the same way. Engaging an audience demands engaging them visually, no matter the medium. Some of our peers in the online video community recently <a href="http://mhudack.com/post/963993474/ericmortensen-kateoplis-hayekd">noted that</a> Tumblr allows the display of thumbnails for YouTube embeds on their dashboard, but other popular video sites, such as <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a> and <a href="http://blip.tv/">Blip.tv</a>, are currently left out from showcasing their user videos with a thumbnail image.</p> <p><a href="http://dev.rocketboom.com/">Rocketboom R&D</a>, the development unit of the <a href="http://rocketboom.com/">Rocketboom</a> network, has created a simple solution: a browser add-on that allows Tumblr users to see any video’s known thumbnail in their Tumblr dashboard. There’s no platform favoritism; this enables nearly every other common video platform the ability for thumbnail display. The add-on was created using <a href="http://mag.ma/">Mag.ma</a>, our own video aggregation service, to do thumbnail lookups for numerous video platforms with our simple <a href="http://docs.mag.ma/">API methods</a>. The results? Uniformity for Tumblr users and creative support for content creators.</p> <p>Get your browser add-on for <strong><a href="http://dev.rocketboom.com/projects/tumblr-video-thumbnail-browser-add-ons/firefox">Firefox</a></strong>, <strong><a href="http://dev.rocketboom.com/projects/tumblr-video-thumbnail-browser-add-ons/chrome">Chrome</a></strong>, or <strong><a href="http://dev.rocketboom.com/projects/tumblr-video-thumbnail-browser-add-ons/safari">Safari</a></strong>, and visit the <a href="http://dev.rocketboom.com/projects/tumblr-video-thumbnail-browser-add-ons">Tumblr Video Thumbnails add-on page</a> for information, installation help, and more. Special thanks to our friends at <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>, <a href="http://blip.tv/">Blip.tv</a>, and <a href="http://wreckandsalvage.com/">Wreck & Salvage</a> for their testing and support.</p> </blockquote> <p>Yay!  Big thanks to <a href="http://blog.gleuch.com/">Greg</a>, <a href="http://andrearosen.tumblr.com/">Andrea</a> and the rest of the <a href="http://www.rocketboom.com/">RB</a> crew!  Please reblog this <em>like mad</em> so everyone can have a better Tumblr experience.</p> </blockquote> <p>Really, really awesome. Great work, y’all!</p>http://jaredklett.com/post/1037747708http://jaredklett.com/post/1037747708Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:50:04 -0400<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7x7j9RQmZ1qz9vk1o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Best beer can design ever.</p>http://jaredklett.com/post/1031455024http://jaredklett.com/post/1031455024Sun, 29 Aug 2010 11:40:10 -0400<p>Breakfast of champions: Homemade sandwich of baked wild-caught sockeye salmon on flax seed whole grain bread w/guacamole. And a Brain Toniq.</p>http://jaredklett.com/post/1018666859http://jaredklett.com/post/1018666859Fri, 27 Aug 2010 03:21:03 -0400<a href="http://floodlite.tumblr.com/post/1011047822/apples-attention-to-detail">Flood Lite: Apple's Attention to Detail</a>: <blockquote> <p><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7qcglAIVa1qz7g5t.jpg"/></p> <p>In July 2002, Appled filed a patent for a “Breathing Status LED Indicator” (<a href="http://www.freepatentsonline.com/6658577.html">No. US 6,658,577 B2</a>). They described it as a “blinking effect of the sleep-mode indicator in accordance with the present invention <b>mimics the rhythm of breathing</b> which is psychologically appealing.”</p> <p>The average…</p> </blockquote>http://jaredklett.com/post/1014264822http://jaredklett.com/post/1014264822Thu, 26 Aug 2010 09:25:49 -0400<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="300" data="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=14218584&server=vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF"><param name="quality" value="best" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="scale" value="showAll" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=14218584&server=vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF" /><embed src="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=14218584&server=www.vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>Josh Owens of Webpulp.tv kindly asked me to do an interview about blip.tv and the serving technology behind it.</p> <p>Thanks Josh!</p> <p>(Unfortunately, my voice is deep enough that the ambient noise reduction in my Macbook was filtering it out a little bit at parts, which is why the audio on my side fades out at parts.)</p>http://jaredklett.com/post/982744303http://jaredklett.com/post/982744303Fri, 20 Aug 2010 11:24:00 -0400<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/tW1S2tsxVHg&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/tW1S2tsxVHg&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>Mr. T shills for Hitachi in this increasingly bizarre promo for their virtualization products.</p> <p>(via <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/17/funniest-mr-t-videos-youtube_n_685145.html">HuffPo</a>)</p>http://jaredklett.com/post/977459808http://jaredklett.com/post/977459808Thu, 19 Aug 2010 11:05:11 -0400<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7bh36aXhZ1qdnoxno1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://randigirl.tumblr.com/post/968656867/55-story-high-infinity-pool-in-singapore" class="tumblr_blog">randigirl</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>55 story high infinity pool in Singapore.  </p></blockquote> <p>I want to go to there.</p>http://jaredklett.com/post/977452319http://jaredklett.com/post/977452319Thu, 19 Aug 2010 11:02:57 -0400<a href="http://technologizer.com/2010/08/18/the-tragic-death-of-practically-everything">The Tragic Death of Practically Everything</a>: <p>Harry McCracken has quite possibly the best (and most humorous) take on <a href="http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/08/ff_webrip/all/1">this recent wave of stupidity</a>.</p>http://jaredklett.com/post/973020237http://jaredklett.com/post/973020237Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:23:37 -0400<p>Declaring things dead is dead.</p>http://jaredklett.com/post/970049239http://jaredklett.com/post/970049239Tue, 17 Aug 2010 23:17:16 -0400<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l75xh9fyKo1qdnoxno1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://randigirl.tumblr.com/post/954126571" class="tumblr_blog">randigirl</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>I just made a fantastically awesome coffee cake!</p></blockquote> <p>I can testify on this subject: it was indeed awesome.</p>http://jaredklett.com/post/957562163http://jaredklett.com/post/957562163Sun, 15 Aug 2010 10:33:10 -0400<p>Seriously. Best donuts in the whole damn world. (@ 7th Avenue Donuts w/ @ericmortensen) <a href="http://4sq.com/6Pi3Ra">http://4sq.com/6Pi3Ra</a></p>http://jaredklett.com/post/951370887http://jaredklett.com/post/951370887Sat, 14 Aug 2010 03:15:46 -0400<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l650t4u2wL1qz9vk1o1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Scuba Cat sez: IM IN UR POOLZ</p>http://jaredklett.com/post/949208376http://jaredklett.com/post/949208376Fri, 13 Aug 2010 18:13:34 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7282ikrjD1qz4cuyo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://links.laughingsquid.com/post/944027523/bioshock-infinite" class="tumblr_blog">laughingsquid</a>:</p> <blockquote><p><a href="http://laughingsquid.com/bioshock-infinite/">BioShock Infinite</a></p></blockquote> <p>Yesssss</p>http://jaredklett.com/post/944533585http://jaredklett.com/post/944533585Thu, 12 Aug 2010 20:11:38 -0400<p>Sorry y’all, but Dry Erase Girl has already been revealed as a hoax: <a href="http://tcrn.ch/cn39OD">http://tcrn.ch/cn39OD</a></p>http://jaredklett.com/post/937774550http://jaredklett.com/post/937774550Wed, 11 Aug 2010 13:10:49 -0400<p>Introducing the family to the Flea (@ Brooklyn Flea Market w/ 39 others) <a href="http://4sq.com/3KLQGc">http://4sq.com/3KLQGc</a></p>http://jaredklett.com/post/918568769http://jaredklett.com/post/918568769Sat, 07 Aug 2010 14:25:03 -0400