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It’s either cool or really weird, probably both. This little Flash site let’s you explore Amsterdam’s Old Church graveyard. You can drill down (no pun intended) to see the headstones of those buried in the Church.

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I’m actually a little surprised by this.

Wireless Internet Popular in SE Michigan (AP) AP – Wireless Internet is spreading faster in southeast Michigan than any other metropolitan area across the country, according to a new national study.

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Ever wanted that HP sweatshirt? Or how about a floating pen? Yeah, well, here’s where you can get it. Reasonable prices, too. I need to look for a Dell site like this.
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I’m just posting this so I don’t loose it. I need to build a new machine… this seems as good a place as any to start.

The DIY $1000 Athlon XP Gaming Rig Build It: A couple of weeks ago, we built a Pentium 4 gaming PC for $1000. We’ve constructed another one for the same price, this time based on the Athlon XP. Find out which do-it-yourself rig is faster.

[via Extremetech]

I’d burn it up within a week…

I’m having a total geek moment right now. Yes, this is nothing new, but I really love the idea of real digital paper. Tablet PCs seem to be the avenue to this for me, but I wish they weren’t so big. We need something half-way between a large PDA (like an iPaq) and a full-blown laptop; portable yet big enought to write on. Geek moment over.

Link to Gateway’s entries in the Tablet PC market

This furor over RFID tags got me thinking; what if we could come up with a way that RFID tags could be inserted in a common place. If the tags were always in the same spot, the tin-foil hatters could remove them from the product and toss it, fry it, burn it, whatever.

We could even make it something that people are used to seeing on packaging already, something like the proof of purchase. Putting the RFID tag on the Proof of Purchase also lets the manufacturer get an end-to-end picture of where that product went. They would literally receive the RFID tag back in the mail when someone cashed in a refund (think Best Buy or Fry’s).

Just a quick thought here at lunch; obviously there are huge holes in this idea (how would such a process work for clothing, for instance). But this might be worth exploring.

Study: MP3 Sharing Not Serious Threat To CD Sales

I remember spending hours in the car with my folks, either going to the store or driving to vacation (like we ever flew!) and listening to beach songs. Jan and Dean featured prominently in this. Jeez, I even remember having a Jan & Dean casette tape of my very own.

Jan Berry dead at 62.

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This is pretty cool stuff. I wonder how much it would cost to make a room with in it.

Yeah, I think this craze has about burned itself out, hasn’t it?

Ever wonder which Johnny Depp character you’re most like? Take this quiz to find out. (via DaddyD)

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