No lie.

NY Times – If you venture into a coffee shop in the coming months and see someone with a pair of futuristic glasses that look like a prop from “Star Trek,” don’t worry. It’s probably just a Google employee testing the company’s new augmented-reality glasses. On Wednesday, Google gave people a clearer picture of its secret initiative called Project Glass. The glasses are the company’s first venture into wearable computing. The glasses are not yet for sale. Google will, however, be testing them in public. In a post shared on Google Plus, employees in the company laboratory known as Google X, including Babak Parviz, Steve Lee and Sebastian Thrun, asked people for input about the prototype of Project Glass. Mr. Lee, a Google product manager and originally worked on Google mapping software Latitude, mobile maps and indoor maps, is responsible for the software component and the location-based aspects of the glasses. “We’re sharing this information now because we want to start a conversation and learn from your valuable input,” the three employees wrote. “Please follow along as we share some of our ideas and stories. We’d love to hear yours, too. What would you like to see from Project Glass?”

What’s next? Jamming a USB port up my ass so that I can print? The only plus to these glasses is the ability to fire up Spankwire pretty much anywhere and not have to worry about someone looking over my shoulder.

Kids these days with their PS3′s and XBOX 360′s had no idea what it was like growing up on Nintendo’s early systems. Having to fucking blow into the cartridges to get them to work, or pushing the cartridge down and sliding it over to the right or left just so it would read, are some of the best childhood memories I’ve got. And don’t sleep on that up, down, up, down, left, right, left, right, b,a,b,a,start all in under 5 seconds. Wasn’t that Contra’s code?

Greatest. Run. Ever.

ABC News – South by Southwest, the festival being held in Austin this week, has been chock full of interesting panels, lots of geeks on their phones, and marketing stunts. But the most daring marketing attempt — and probably the biggest backfire — has come from New York-based advertising agency Bartle, Bogle and Hegarty (BBH). The company turned homeless people on the streets of Austin into wireless hotspots. Knowing there would be high demand for free Internet at the event, the agency outfit 13 homeless people from Front Steps shelter in Austin with 4G MiFi devices, which broadcast Internet signals. Each participant was given a T-shirt to help advertise: “I’m Melvin, a 4G Hotspot.” Each homeless participant was paid $20 a day and got to keep all the donations. It was suggested users pay $2 per 15 minutes of Internet time. Users could pay in cash or donate through PayPal. “Homeless Hotspots in particular came about when we focused on the environment at the annual SXSW event, at which getting high-speed Internet access can be a challenge,” Emma Cookson, chairman of BBH, told ABC News.”We thought it might be worth trialling, giving the opportunity to homeless people to sell 4G connectivity to the tech-oriented attendees instead of a printed paper,” she added. The reaction to the “experiment” was overwhelmingly negative. Wired’s Tim Carmody described it as distopian and said “the homeless turned not just into walking, talking hotspots, but walking, talking billboards for a program that doesn’t care anything at all about them or their future.” But the “homeless hotspots” might not actually have felt that way. “I would say that these people are trying to help the homeless, and increase awareness,” Melvin, one of the 13 homeless people in the program, told Buzzfeed. “That’s a good side of it, too — we get to talk to people. Maybe give them a different perception of what homeless is like,” he said. Similarly, another participant Dusty White told ABC News that he doesn’t feel taken for granted and that he enjoyed talking to people. BBH said this was simply a pilot program. Although it has been rumored that they might bring the program to New York City, Cookson told ABC News that it doesn’t have any specific future plans yet, in New York or anywhere. “We are listening hard to this deluge of feedback, trying to learn and respond, and we’ll then consider what is appropriate to do next.”

I need Clarence to just follow me around my house. Time Warner Internet is fucking terrible and I’d rather have him bring me the Internets for the Homies™. I’d make his day when that thing lights up like a Christmas tree as I’m waiting for Spankwire to buffer my videos.

I had to fix his shirt. Clarence is definitely old school and needed his shirt to read “I’m an OG Hotspot”. Westsiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiide!!