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Music Talent Or Fancy Editing?
2008-02-21 06:40:00 Who says you have to actually play an instrument to be able to put together a song… or an ensemble? This video is taken of a guy who cannot play either the drums or the piano, but he played various sounds and recorded video of it. Then using basic timeline editing he composed a musical piece. Very cool! Click through to the site if you cannot see the video. More About: Music , Editing , Talent , Fancy
Win $3,000 Or An Xbox!
2008-02-18 16:18:00 ZoneAlarm is hosting the Safe and Secure Sweepstakes where you can win some pretty decent prizes. It is quick and harmless to enter; all you have to give them is your name and email address. The prizes include: $3,000 Visa® Gift Card Xbox ® & $600 Visa® Gift Card $50 Visa® Gift Card Plus they have a pretty fun space ... More About: Giveaways
Applying Math To Humor
2008-02-18 16:05:00 I thought this was a funny Dilbert and thought I’d share it with you. Click the image to view the whole comic. More About: Humor , Math
Friday Song Of The Day - Never Gonna Give You Up
2008-02-15 21:34:00 The Friday Song Of The Day for this week is Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up from his 1990 debut album, Whenever You Need Somebody. It can also be found on a more recent greatest hits version baring the same name as the song. Finally, you have to check this awesome version of ...
Pet Peeve - My Language Doesn?t Need That Feature!
2008-02-12 18:49:00 I apologize ahead of time for this soap box, but I have just read the nth forum posting with a response like this. I have been a fairly flexible software engineer for the majority of my career and this means that I use many different programming languages. What language do you need? If I do ... More About: Feature , Language
Friday Song Of The Day: Wake Me Up When September Ends
2008-02-08 15:46:00 Today’s song has no reason or rhyme… well, it has rhyme, but not in the sense that I picked it for any particular reason. This is Wake Me Up When September Ends from Green Day’s American Idiot album. Summer has come and passed The innocent can never last Wake me up when September ends Like my father’s come to ... More About: Song , Friday
In The Future Will We Grow Computers?
2008-02-07 17:50:00 “Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.” - Morpheus It’s fun sometimes to think about what the future will be like. For instance in The Matrix, a futuristic movie by Larry and Andy Wachowski, machines and computers have taken over the world ... More About: Technology , Computers , Future , The Future , Grow
Does Your Job Ever Make You Feel Like This?
2008-02-06 18:48:00 Sometimes if you only focus on your daily grind, the J-O-B, then you can start feel some despair. This Dilbert comic sums it up quite nicely. Click the snippet to see the whole comic. More About: Make , Daily Grind , Feel
Best Buyer Beware - Digital Picture Frames Carry Virus
2008-01-26 00:13:00 The high tech retail store, Best Buy (Public, NYSE:BBY) recently confirmed that they sold a “limited number” of 10.4 inch digital picture frames during the holiday season that came with a computer virus pre-installed. The frames were part of their in-house Insignia brand and they were “contaminated with a computer virus during the manufacturing ... More About: News , Virus , Toys , Picture , Buyer
Friday Song Of The Day - I?m Already There
2008-01-25 12:00:00 I thought this song was appropriate for me being away from home for so long. It’s been the longest I’ve ever spent away from my family and I truly miss them. Fortunately I’m going home tomorrow! Here is I’m Already There by Lonestar. He called her on the road From a lonely cold hotel room Just to hear ... More About: Song , Friday
Alienware?s Curved Monitor For Gamers
2008-01-20 06:42:00 Alienware came to the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada to turn some heads. They succeeded. This LED lit monitor has a resolution of 2880×900 and is reported to have a 0.02 ms response time. All you gamers out there with extra cash to spend listen up. If you want to completely immerse ... More About: News , Toys , Monitor , Alienware , Gamers
You?ll Never Get Ahead Saying Yes To ?The Man?
2008-01-19 02:48:00 A good friend of mine (actually a family member) sent me a link to this video and I was absolutely in awe. There are so many glorious moments in this video, you just have to watch it to understand. Absolutely hilarious. Click through to the site if you cannot see the video. More About: Video , Humor , Ahead
Friday Song Of The Day - Space Oddity
2008-01-18 20:43:00 This week I bring you Space Oddity by David Bowie. This song appeared on his album by the same title, Space Oddity in 1972. Actually it first appeared in the U.K. in 1969 on the album with the same title and was later re-released in the US. Ground control to Major Tom Ground control to Major Tom Take ... More About: Song , Friday
Subscriber Count Madness
2008-01-17 19:31:00 Wow, I loaded up my page this morning and noticed that I had a slight increase in my FeedBurner subscriber stats. By slight increase of course I mean it jumped from around 70 - 80 to 2,887. Wow, talk about a jump in numbers! I checked my web statistics and there isn’t a huge jump ... More About: Technology , Blogging , Count , Subscriber , Madness
The Ultimate Cubicle Prank?
2008-01-16 03:21:00 This is hilarious and one of the absolute best cubicle pranks I’ve seen. The video of the making of the cubicle house and the revealing to the victim is also very well put together. Enjoy! Click through to the site if you cannot see the video. More About: Video , Prank , Daily Grind , Ultimate
Video Progression? 1 Year Old To 100
2008-01-14 07:54:00 Scott Johnson over at My Extra Life posted this and I thought it was a really cool video. Thought I’d repost it here, though I’m sure many of you may have already seen it. Click through to the site if you cannot see the video. More About: Video , Year
Friday Song Of The Day - Ain?t No Sunshine
2008-01-11 07:37:00 This Friday Song Of The Day comes to you by request from one of my good friends. Bill Withers - Ain’t No Sunshine from his first album produced in 1971 titled Just As I Am. Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone It’s not warm when she’s away. Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone And she’s always gone too ...
Watch Out For The Robotic Guitar!
2008-01-10 06:14:00 Now I realize that this has typically not been a blog about music gear, but please bare with me. I am a musician myself (somewhat) and so I appreciate the latest news in the music industry. Anyway, this guitar by Gibson and Musician’s Friend really caught my eye. Why? If you know anything about guitars ... More About: Watch , Toys , Robotic , Guitar
IM Using Yahoo While Flying
2008-01-08 23:08:00 Yahoo has launched instant messaging in the skies! Of course it’s currently only on their BetaBlue plane, the first domestic carrier to offer in-flight WiFi internet access. While on board you can connect via your WiFi enabled laptop or Blackberry device to use your Yahoo Instant Messaging service. What’s next? World of Warcraft anyone? Read the ... More About: Technology , Yahoo , Flying , Yahoo!
Pimp My Ride? Jihad Style
2008-01-06 12:00:00 This is a funny parody on the Pimp My Ride television series, brought to you by NationalLampoon.com. Click through to the site if you cannot see the video. More About: Video , Humor , Jihad
Manualist Plays The Pink Panther Them On His Hands
2008-01-05 12:00:00 Gerry Phillips, aka The Gunecologist, never ceases to amaze with his musical hand farting talents. Here he is playing the theme to The Pink Panther. More About: Video , Humor , Hands , Plays
Friday Song Of The Day - If You Leave Me Now
2008-01-04 06:45:00 This installation of the Friday Song Of The Day is brought to you by… ummm, the polar bears. You can’t really see any where I am at because they are all further north. Anyway, here’s a nice depressing love song to go along with my furlough in Fairbanks, Alaska. Chicago’s If You Leave Me Now ...
Agile Blogger Forums? Where Bloggers Meet
2008-01-04 06:07:00 If you are into blogging then you know that it can sometimes be a lonely world. Boy, that sounded like an E-Harmony advertisement. Anyway, it’s cool to have some place that you can go and ask questions from other people that are into blogging. Agile Blogger Forums is just such a place. They boards for ... More About: Blogging , Giveaways
Video Tutorial - How To Draw A Geek
2008-01-03 07:23:00 Fitz from the blaugh.com web comic shows us how to draw a geek. The really interesting thing that I enjoyed is that it shows first the hands-on portion with pencil. Then he moves on to show how to convert that into a digital drawing. I’ve always had an artist hiding somewhere inside me and seeing ... More About: Video , Humor , Tutorial , Geek , Draw
Happy New Year - 2008!
2008-01-01 21:34:00 What a holiday season it has been for me! I am in transition to a new job… a job working from home. Yay! I had lost work back in June and so took an office gig to pay the bills. This gig came with a side of commute up to 2 hours each way. Yuck! ... More About: New Year , Happy , Happy New Year , Year , 2008
Reset - What!?
2007-12-28 22:28:00 This web comic is brought to you by xkcd.com and Randall Munroe (A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math and language). More About: Humor , Reset
John Denver - Leaving On A Jet Plane
2007-12-26 14:23:00 This Friday Song Of The Day comes to you a bit earlier in the week, because well… I am leaving on a jet plane today. Where am I going? Nice, balmy Fairbanks, Alaska! I have a new job and will be doing some job training at the company’s headquarters. Of course for this occasion I ... More About: John , Plane , Denver , John Denver , Leaving
Geek Gift Ideas - Dec 21
2007-12-21 18:08:00 Have you seriously waited this long to get your geek a gift? Well, not to worry! ThinkGeek .com has you covered with a gift certificate. What a great idea too! Your geek can get whatever (s)he wants at the greatest online geek store on the internet. Gift certificates come in denominations from $10 USD all the ... More About: Ideas , Toys , Gift Ideas
Geek Gift Ideas - Dec 20 (Backyard Ballistics)
2007-12-20 17:46:00 Have you ever wanted to build a potato canon? a rocket powered by match sticks? a Cincinnati fire kite (yeah, I don’t know what that is either)? a tennis ball mortar? or a pneumatic missile? No? Well, then this book is not for you. If it is… then hot dang, Backyard Ballistics is just the ... More About: Ideas , Toys , Gift Ideas , Gift , Geek
Geek Gift Ideas - Dec 18 (56 Geeks Poster)
More articles from this author:2007-12-18 17:30:00 56 Geek s Poster Scott Johnson, the always smooth and sultry baritone of the Extra Life Radio podcast and The Instance podcast, has created a poster full of 56 stereotypical geeks. This is a very nice poster, too! You are sure to find yourself peeking back at you from one or more of the characters. Comes in ... More About: Ideas , Gift Ideas , Gift 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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