August 2009
2 posts
Win a New Sony Vaio W Mini Notebook #Buy_com #TweetnSeek- Follow & RT to enter to win. http://buy.com/tweetnseekmini
Funnies
The other night while watching TV the commercial with Geico Kash texting came on and I made a funny…
Where does he keep his phone? There are no pockets in that money!
June 2009
3 posts
Trillian Beta Goes Public →
Trillian Astra, which has been in development for nearly three years, is now available to users as a public beta. You won’t need to register for a private key to download it, although if you’ve been…
Announcing Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook →
Product Manager Chris Vander Mey, Senior Product Manager for enterprise, is talking about the new sync product. Users need to move from Exchange to Google seemelessly, he says. Calendar, contacts,…
The "original" FaceBook →
FaceBook, circa 1902.
December 2008
1 post
William S. Stevens, 60, Dies; Wrote Infield Fly... →
Mr. Stevens’s semi-parodic analogy between the infield-fly rule and development of Anglo-American common law achieved longstanding legal fame.
September 2008
1 post
Excited that I got a Bag ‘O Crap in yesterday’s Woot-off!!! w00t w00t
July 2008
1 post
is playing with pinging on ping.fm with Mozilla’s Prism.
May 2008
1 post
Amusing Software EULA
NOTE: No warranties, either express or implied, are hereby given. All software is supplied as is, without guarantee. The user assumes all responsibility for damages resulting from the use of this software, including, but not limited to, frustration, disgust, system abends, disk head-crashes, general malfeasance, floods, fires, shark attack, nerve gas, locust infestation, cyclones, hurricanes,...
March 2008
1 post
Yahoo Embraces The Semantic Web →
Yahoo’s embrace of all things open continues today.What does all this mean? It means we can expect the web to get itself organized, in a hurry. At stake is a significant amount of traffic from Yahoo…
February 2008
1 post
IM Dating Service
When will people get it that IM services are NOT dating services! The purpose of an IM service is NOT to look for a girlfriend/boyfriend/date/sex partner/cybersex partner. Not that you can’t use it for that, but that is not it’s sole purpose. Some people just like to CHAT on a CHAT service, go figure!
January 2008
2 posts
NASA Spacecraft Streams Back Surprises From... →
The recent flyby of Mercury by NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft has given scientists an entirely new look at a planet once thought to have characteristics similar to those of Earth’s moon. The spacecraft also discovered a unique feature that scientists dubbed “The Spider.”
Say Cheeeese! →
Well with CES 2008 still in full swing, yet another nifty gadget has surfaced. It seems that Polaroid is back in the game, with a soon to be released portable printer for cell phones, as well as digital cameras.
December 2007
1 post
Twitter Sez "T-Mobile Mix-Up Was... →
Straight from Twitter’s Official Blog -spoken by PimpMyNews.com, so you don’t have to read it.
November 2007
2 posts
Get unlimited local and long-distance calling for... →
USB hardware plus local phone number and service - best price yet for VOIP.
Are you feeling a powerful thirst? Could we run... →
A ZDNet.com Blog about the growing (permanent) water shortage in the U.S. and the world, and its effect on that most important of commodities - beer!
October 2007
4 posts
Black Friday Ads: the Prequel →
If it’s fall, these must be cease-and-desists for Black Friday ads. This year, they seem to be coming earlier than ever, as Wal-Mart sends pre-notifications against future posting.
Wal-Mart tries to stop early Black Friday ad posts →
[Summary: Wal-Mart’s lawyers have an early holiday message for Web sites that post Black Friday ads ahead of their official release date: Don’t do it.] Once again Wal-Mart proves to be a big bully crybaby.I think Wal-Mart is cutting off its own foot. Shoppers who heavily plan their Black Friday outing may be leaving Wal-Mart off the list this year.
Wal-Mart plays Black Friday spoilsport →
With a short notice sent to a handful of Web sites last week, the largest retailer in the world put a damper on the biggest shopping day of the year for die-hard bargain hunters.
The biggest sex event on Earth →
Every year, and shortly after a full moon, billions of corals across a third of a million square kilometers of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef enter in a frenzy of reproduction. Now, an international team of Australian and Israeli researchers has discovered the key to this moonlight romance.
September 2007
1 post
Aluminum briefcase computer →
Photo Gallery of a computer built inside an aluminum briefcase. Complete with cooling fans, optical drive and all usual ports. Very cool!
“Too many people spend money they haven’t earned to buy things they...”
– Will Smith
August 2007
10 posts
Sonicwall, Watchguard, or Untangle? →
I was in the process of spiffing up our Sonicwall firewall and came across an open source alternative, called Untangle. According to the company’s website, Untangle is The Open Source Network Gateway The best open source projects, integrated and made easier for spam blocking, web filtering, remote access and more….
Save the planet by switching to a “black” Google? →
Dozens of websites promoting the idea that switching over to using a version of Google that had a black background as opposed to a white one would save money/electricity/the planet
“You can try to rise through the ranks through hard work, diligence or...”
– Michael Kanellos in Tech cliches to live by
Amazing story: web2.0 software developer donates... →
“Songbird” is a developer at web2.0 startup Me.dium - which launched last week. For every download Me.dium gets, Songbird is donating a dollar to the Lance Armstrong Foundation. This helps cancer survivors like his wife, his mom, his nephew and his uncle. This makes “Songbird” a bloody legend. Let’s help him reach his target of $20,000.
Users hold fast to public folders despite iffy... →
Popular demand kept Microsoft from dumping public folders from Exchange Server 2007, but support won’t last forever.
Marykay: Still searching for the “ultimate” online profile to combine/link to all my identities. Cluztr comes close… (via Twitter / Marykay)
Stacy's Favorite Freeware: Me.dium - A Revolution... →
Me.dium is a sidebar addon for both Firefox, Flock, and Internet Explorer that allows it’s users to interact with each other in real time! Find out more about this revolutionary concept that takes social networking to an entirely different level!
House panel approves legal shield for bloggers →
A congressional panel on Wednesday voted, against the Bush administration’s wishes, to shield journalists including advertising-supported bloggers from having to reveal their confidential sources in many situations.
July 2007
3 posts
Cracking open Microsoft's Wireless Notebook... →
Laptop mouse I use in pieces.
The Google Phone: My Ultimate Wishlist →
I’m not a fan of the Apple iPhone but it DID get me thinking about the (rumored) Google Phone and how they can one-up Apple as well as the rest of the mobile market. I’ve created my ultimate gPhone wishlist. Read on and digg if you like! :)
3Guppies gets media to your mobile →
Here’s a useful Web-based utility for mobile phone users: 3Guppies. It takes media from the Web or your hard disk, and sends it to your phone. You can use visuals as wallpapers, and music tracks as ringtones. An embeddable 3Guppies widget will enable the transfer of any image on a Web page to a mobile phone.
June 2007
4 posts
“So there it was on the Fex-Ex website, 22.5 lbs that means not a thing and a...”
– -amatt76 Woot: The Community: Random Crap
Botnet assault: Spammers launch DDoS offensive →
The spammers behind last year’s destruction of Blue Security are back with a vengeance, using a variant of the ‘Storm Worm’ malware to launch a sustained distributed denial-of-service attack against three anti-spam services.
Nuke power not so clean or green | Newsmakers |... →
Of course the major “emission” from current nuclear power is radioactive waste. But I never knew about all the fossil fuel used — and CFC gas leaking — in the uranium enrichment process.
Spammers Launch DDoS Offensive →
The spammers behind last year’s destruction of Blue Security are back with a vengeance, using a variant of the ‘Storm Worm’ malware to launch a sustained distributed denial-of-service attack against three anti-spam services. The ongoing attacks successfully shut down the Web servers that power the Spamhaus Project […]
May 2007
2 posts
Astronaut Walter Schirra Dies at 84 →
Walter M. Schirra Jr., one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts and the only man to fly on NASA’s Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs, has died. He was 84.
Thoughts on Second Life
The more I read stuff from the extreme fringe of praisers and nay-sayers alike, the more I think folks are missing the point…
Second Life is like real life in that you can do what you want…
But it’s also not like real life because you can do what you want!
April 2007
9 posts
Trend alert: These trailers are hardly trashy →
The trailer makes a comeback!
“Everything that can be invented has been invented.”
– Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
Windows cursor patch causing trouble | Tech News... →
At least it wasn’t just us having this issue. Make sure you read the comments also; useful links in there for new Realtek drivers.
MyCyberTwin- create the cyber version of yourself →
“Paying a bot that’s just like you to chat on the internet? That’s kind of creepy.”
Second Life | Community: Police Blotter →
UPS launches package intercept option →
Finally!! It used to be that you could only have a package redirected after an unsuccessful delivery attempt. I’m glad they finally have this option.
Daylight saving shift fails to curb energy use -... →
Other than forcing drowsy Americans into the dark, wintry weather three weeks early, move appears to be a bust in power savings.
Photos: $100 One Laptop Per Child Laptop →
Students sue plagiarism service for copyright... →
March 2007
23 posts
