Interesting… I wonder if CNN knows about this? IRAQI EMIGRES ON ABU GHRAIB: This is interesting: n Iraqi engineer who moved to Australia in 1997 and lives in Sydney with his wife and three children. He is amazed at the gullibility of those Australians who have taken the Arab response to the photos at face […]
We’re finally home from Baltimore… friggen 12 hours straight to get home. We hated it that much. I remember being in Boston, SoPo, Maine, and Vermont and having a really good time. Maryland (well, to be fair, I should only say Baltimore), you suck. Sorry. I’ve never been in a place that so segregated the […]
What, in the name of God, are these people smoking? After PSTN, Cable Networks and Wireless Networks, uber venture capitalist Gary Morgenthaler thinks it is time for the fourth network, or what I would like to call the MegaNET What I am suggesting is nothing less than the creation of a 4th Network. The new […]
Fart Filter: Doctor Recommended – Flatulence Deodorizer(tm)… Quote: “Take Back Your Life Again! No Need to Remain Trapped in Your Home! Now you can go out in public without fear of embarrassment due to the odour of excessive intestinal gas: Flatulence – caused by any reason or condition! Say Goodbye to malodorous gas – permanently! […]
No, not that DaVinci book. I mean an actual DaVinci book. The British Library has digitized and posted images of classic books, including Leonardo DaVinci’s famous notebook of mirror writings. The site uses the Shockwave plug-in to display the book image, and let’s you zoom in to get a better look. [via Christian Science Monitor […]
Holy crap is this cool! 3D desktop; check out the movies to get a better feel for how it works. If MS puts this in Longhorn, it would be incredible. Link [via Channel9 Forums]
Ok, I stole that headline from Gizmodo. I don’t know why, I just think it’s funny. Actually, since Jamie sent me a link to an MSNBC/MSN story about the new Palms, my brain was tuned to scan for reviews of the units. They really aren’t bad units when you read what you get. For $299 […]
Comcast digital cable provides an on-screen menu to select what to watch. Very handy usually; especially the Reminder feature (Note to any Comcast people; provide more listings… go like two weeks out so I can set reminders farthur out.) The guide also provides descriptions of the shows so you can get an idea of what […]
This idiocy of the pictures and Bush “hiding” the dead returning from Iraq needs to stop. From “Curtains Ordered for Media Coverage of Returning Coffins” by Dana Milbank (Washington Post, 21 Oct 2003): Since the end of the Vietnam War, presidents have worried that their military actions would lose support once the public glimpsed the […]
This is the article on BoingBoing: Used cellphone market taking off The NYT reports on the growing US market for refurbished, used cellphones. But there is also the cellphone equivalent of the preowned BMW. ReCellular, a company based in Dexter, Mich., resells about four million handsets in bulk worldwide each year. Of the 1.5 million […]