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I think this maintains my reign as the air hockey champion!

Flash Forward is pretty cool so far…although I might choose the word interesting instead. It’s always a strange situation to come from a different industry…I’ll have more soon, but I am EXHAUSTED!

En Route:

Saw the Rockies (be nice, it’s from a plane):

Yeah, me neither…I’m a little too focused on my trip to New Orleans for Mardi Gras!!!

But if you are interested, here’s some great reading:
http://www.yelvington.com/item.php?id=404

As for me…I’ll be busy yelling: “THROW ME SOMETHIN’ MISTA!”

Slate.com took a look at “Top Gun” for your backyard.

For any other water war aficionado like myself, this was not only the highlight of my day but also a great review (with video and all) of what has become of the measly squirt guns that I grew up with.

Slate.com reviewed six water guns: Hornet, Spin Blaster, Sneak Attack, Tarantula, Arctic Blast and Stream Machine. They lightheartedly poke fun at these names…I mean, when I was a kid it was a squirt fun that shot about 5 feet if that…and your choices were red, blue or green. But today’s water weapons are ranked on Strength, Ease of Use, and Fun and range in price from $4.99 to $19.99 and higher I’m sure. Do they even sell little rinky-dink water guns anymore?

Moving on…check out the video. It’s funny…But I am still partial to inflatable alligators and slip ‘n’ slides! More on that later…but here’s the link:

Top Gun: The best weapon for water wars

This is a nicely composed piece using some good apps from washingtonpost.com. Too bad it’s impossible to find on their website.

Two other crits:
1. The graphics appears on top of the panoramas…well part of it…
2. It’s impossible to find the back button in the top left corner…who said that a nice close button in the upper right was a bad idea? It’s only the most obvious!

Other than that, I love it…Newspapers, etc have finally come to understand multimedia immersion. I mean, we finally get the idea behind multimedia as merging media rather than just having things link out to something else…yay for combining graphics and panos/photos!

Why can’t I work there?!?!?! Anyone want to hire me?!?!? Come on Tom Kennedy, pick me!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/metro/interactives/richmondcap/index.html

It makes me very, very sad to not be doing news right now. I’ve only been in museum world for 5 months, and I am dying to get back to news! At least the Newseum will be cool…