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PSP Catches Fire, Burns Schoolboy?s Pants
2008-02-07 21:00:00 This is why teachers never let you bring electronics to school: In Michigan, a twelve-year-old boy suffered second degree burns after a portable video game system spontaneously caught fire while in his pants pocket. Harold Clay, a sixth-grader at Warner Middle School in Farmington Hills, Michigan, was in his band class when he felt a ... More About: Technology , Pants , Fire , Burns
Fluid Leaking From Corpses At Bodies Revealed
2008-02-07 03:46:00 Since late last year, Sacramento has played home to one of the most fascinating science exhibitions of our time. The exhibition Bodies Revealed, which is calling the old CompUSA building on Alta Arden Expressway home until March, features fourteen real preserved corpses which are, according to its website, “painstakingly prepared and respectfully displayed.” ... More About: California
Boy Robbed Of Pokémon Cards At Gunpoint
2008-02-06 21:20:00 This morning in Redwood City, California , a ten-year-old boy was arrested and sent to juvenile hall after allegedly stealing a classmate’s Pokémon cards. The boy is accused of pointing an airsoft gun at a six-year-old’s forehead and demanding the cards. According to the Associated Press, nobody was injured in the incident. Roosevelt Elementary School ... More About: Technology , Cards , Archives , The D
Wireless Internet Coming To BART?
2008-02-06 20:11:00 San Francisco’s commuter system may going high-tech soon?passengers on the Bay Area Rapid Transit mass subway could soon be able to connect to wireless internet while travelling from station to station, at Internet speeds matched or faster than common home wireless Internet setups. The company making BART a moving hotspot, Wi-Fi Rail, said Friday in a ... More About: Technology , Wireless , Computers , California
Happy Birthday To Me?Now Go Vote
2008-02-05 10:46:00 Today is New Year’s Day in my life (screw the calendar). For the past couple of years, I’ve made it pretty apparent that I don’t want anyone knowing when my birthday is; however, today I’m 21 and for the first time ever, I’ve had an amazing year filled with success. Being 20 was ... More About: Personal , Life , Happy , Vote , Birthday
Rhapsody Takes Over Yahoo! Music Unlimited
2008-02-04 14:46:00 By now, everyone’s heard at least a little bit of Microsoft’s $40+ billion bid to purchase the once-great search engine Yahoo ! in an effort to stop giant Google from dominating the Internet (which it already does at 77% of Internet searches over Yahoo’s 14%). However, this morning’s news that Yahoo! pay service Music Unlimited ... More About: Technology , Computers , Online
Beatles To Soar Across The Universe
2008-02-04 11:37:00 Monday, NASA will beam The Beatles ’ track Across The Universe to the North Star Polaris across the galaxy. This “space radio” broadcast will be in celebration of three events: The 40th anniversary of the song, the 45th anniversary of NASA’s Deep Space Network and the 50th anniversary of NASA. “Send my love to the ... More About: Music , Technology , The Universe
Music Video Monday: Beautiful Love
2008-02-04 10:59:00 What do you get when four guys working at a Starbucks decide to form an alternative band? You get The Afters, a band that was originally called Blisse but was forced to change their name one album and one concert later after discovering that another band had already claimed the name. Too bad for Blisse! ... More About: Video , Music , Love , Music Video , Beautiful
Pointless Research: Scratching Itches Feels Good!
2008-02-01 23:58:00 It may not be a cure for cancer, nor will it help stop Alzheimer’s disease. But Wake Forest University’s Gil Yosipovitch doesn’t care about that. Instead, he needs to know the crucial medical question of life: Why does scratching an itch feel good? According to Yosipovitch, as reported by CBS News today, “we found ... More About: Research , Scratching , Good , Archives , The D
Slacker Portable Available Today
2008-02-01 23:30:00 Remember last April when I wrote about Slacker , the device that was supposed to change the way we listened to Internet and satellite radio on the go? Remember how I said it would be coming out in Fall 2007? I was a little late in my prediction. However, for everyone who has eagerly ... More About: Music , Portable , Today , Online
Domino?s Pizza Allows Ordering & Tracking Online
2008-01-30 23:12:00 Retailers have Christmas to boost sales; pizza delivery companies have Super Bowl Sunday. Domino ’s Pizza is kicking things up a notch?now you can order and track your pizza delivery online. Today, Domino’s unveiled Pizza Tracker, a piece of online technology that accurately reports where your pie is within forty seconds of accuracy. According to ... More About: Technology , Online , Tracking
Robot Weekend: Bender Beer (For Realsies!)
2008-01-27 13:14:00 The animated FOX sitcom Futurama took a few years off before recently returning with new episodes to Comedy Central. In its time off, the show?set a millennium in the future and featuring transportation pipes and space aliens?garnished a cult following when repeats of the program appeared on Cartoon Network’s prime-time block Adult Swim. One of ... More About: Technology , Robot , Beer , Weekend , Online
Robot Weekend: The Hall Of Fame
2008-01-26 16:57:00 Carnegie Mellon University pays tribute to robots, real and fake, annually by announcing them for their Robot Hall of Fame ?the first-ever anywhere on the planet. The following robots, ficticious and real, are just some of the artificial beings that have been added to the Robot Hall of Fame in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania since the program’s ... More About: Technology , Weekend
Robot Weekend: Meet WALL-E
2008-01-25 12:25:00 This summer, Pixar Studios will release a movie in the works since the debut of Toy Story way back in 1995. The movie, set 700 years in the future, deals with a lone robot who has been programmed to clean up the planet following a tidal wave of mass consumerism that left Earth completely ... More About: Technology , Robot , Weekend , Wall , Meet
More Reasons Why The Macbook Air Will Fail
2008-01-25 05:16:00 More than a week ago, Apple introduced the brand-new Macbook Air, the lightest, thinnest Apple computer on the market (but NOT the lightest computer in general, as another company had a computer lighter by one pound already in existance). You, the generous friends and readers of RadioMatthew.com, weighed in on a post I wrote ... More About: Technology , Reasons , Macbook Air
The Quietest Place On Earth
2008-01-24 15:04:00 The old saying is “Silence is golden,” or something to that extent, right? When you think of quiet and serenity, do you think of a mountain landscape with fresh fallen snow coating the forced jagged hills of the earth’s faultline? Or do you think of the water flowing in with the tide while ... More About: Music , Technology , Earth , Place
RadioMatthew.com On My925 Radio
2008-01-23 07:23:00 This afternoon as I was leaving the house for the first day of class, I got a call from Brian at My925 telling me they wanted to record some stuff for a My925 radio contest called the My925 Midday MyPod. A listener picks five songs and My925 plays it on the air; then, the ... More About: Radio , Personal , Music , Sacramento
Oprah To Launch Television Network, Gets OWNed
2008-01-21 13:23:00 She’s one of the most powerful and influential people on this planet (and one of my favorite inspirations). Oprah Winfrey announced last week that she will be launching a television network in partnership with Discovery Communications. The Oprah Winfrey Network ?to be known as OWN?will launch in 2009 and replaces the already existing Discovery Health Channel. ... More About: Television , Media , Online
Music Video Monday: Mr. Writer
2008-01-21 09:42:00 Usually, I’m not that big on covers of music that people post on YouTube, but every once in a blue moon I find one that blows me away. Such is the case of Katter85, whose one and only video is an amazing cover of the Stereophonics track Mr. Writer . Three months ago, I ... More About: Video , Music , Music Video , Online
Protected: One Year Anniversary
2008-01-20 00:08:00 Ninja Jim and I are celebrating our one year anniversary today! We met in early January last year and we became an official couple on January 19th, 2007. Tons of stuff has happened since then?Discovery Kingdom, Conan O’Brien, getting inked, finding our inner zen, doing that Summerthing and launching Jim’s blog, among other ... More About: Personal , Anniversary , Year
Why The New Macbook Air Will Fail
2008-01-19 02:59:00 Steve Jobs unveiled the world’s thinnest notebook computer yesterday at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco. Dubbed the “Macbook Air“, the notebook computer, which sports a 13.3″ screen and wireless peripherals including the ability to borrow hard drive components from neighboring computers via a wireless connection (print something from across the room!), is truly ... More About: Technology , California , Macbook Air
Everything?s Okay Again
More articles from this author:2008-01-19 02:25:00 Hey guys, sorry about the outage over the past two days. Some stuff happened, then some other stuff happened, and then a lot of people fixed the stuff. That’s the short version. The long version is, something happened on the technical side of the blog that I wasn’t in control over. I quickly ... More About: Blogging , Online 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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