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The National Crime Information Center
2007-09-20 23:53:00 Reading a textbook on ethics in business as part of my MBA, I came across an astonishing fact about the FBI’s National Crime Information Center . The National Crime Information Center is a database of integrated, real-time processing and online fingerprint matching data for terrorists, fugitives, outstanding arrest warrants, missing people, gang members and more. The ... More About: Rime
Golfing in style
2007-09-20 00:18:00 What I want for Christmas is … a Berline Cadillac Escalade golf cart. Whoever wants this would have to cough up $13,995 for it. The shipping charge alone is about $850.00 in the continental U.S. It basically costs more than a Kia and around the price of a Toyota or a Saturn. It ... More About: Style , Golfing , In Style
Avast, maties!
2007-09-19 19:59:00 Avast, maties! This be Talk Like A Pirate Day and hope ye day is good. ARRR! Me pirate name tis year is Landlubber Morgan the Gold and tis me song: Most days are like all of the others, Go to work, come back home, watch TV, But, brother, if I had me druthers, I’d chuck it and head out to ... More About: Vast
Blades of Glory
2007-09-18 18:45:00 We watched Blades of Glory on the weekend, the one starring Will Ferrell and Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite). The movie is about 2 skating rival superstars with opposite styles being stripped of their medals and banned for life. Years later, they find a loop hole in the skating regulations and realize that they can still ... More About: Blades of Glory
Love is a snowmobile?
2007-09-18 03:40:00 Not sure whether I agree with it fully but this quote is pretty funny. “Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.” - Matt Groening, Creator of the Simpsons Share This More About: Bile
iPod Death Clock
2007-09-17 12:46:00 iPodMechanic is offering you a way to check how long your iPod?s life is left in this world. You can find that out by going to iPod Death Clock . Type in your iPod Serial Number, answer a few questions about the general usage and the software algorithms will crank out your iPod?s life expectancy. To ... More About: Ipod
Morphing Digg and Del.icio.us
2007-09-16 10:36:00 Another interesting mashup I found while surfing … What happens when you combine Digg with Del.icio.us? You’ll get a site called Digglicious. Digglicious is an Ajax based site that updates (in real time) all the most popular articles that have been dugg and bookmarked on del.icio.us in the past couple of days. The real time list ... More About: Morph
The futuristic libary
2007-09-15 08:25:00 Changing the way libraries are built and run, Chicago State University’s library is run with robots. Costing $38 million, every book, CD and DVD is tagged with a RFID (radio Frequency ID Chip) and when someone wants to borrow an item or return it, the robot identifies it and sort it accordingly. The robots are ... More About: Futuristic , The Futurist
Fairy tale Google
2007-09-14 18:11:00 10 years ago Larry Page and Sergey Brin, then Stanford University students, registered the name Googl e .com on September 15th 1997. They incorporated a year later still working in their garage. 10 years later, the company now trades on the US stock exchange and is estimated at $164 billion dollars, with multiple streams of revenue from ... More About: Fairy Tale , Tale
Simply Allth.at!
2007-09-14 07:47:00 Allth.at is a unique search tool that allows you to do persistent searching. What that means is that the search engine never stops searching i.e. you select a site, an item and it will keep reporting new search results back to you. Search results can be delivered right to your RSS Reader, email or saved ... More About: Simply
Quote of the day
2007-09-14 00:41:00 “Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It’s already tomorrow in Australia.” - Charles Schultz, Creator of Peanuts Share This More About: Quote Of The Day , Quote , The D
Twitterlicious
2007-09-13 08:15:00 Twitter + Del.icio.us + Ma.gnolia = Twitterlicious Innovation is the key in Myk O’Leary’s latest mashup, Twitterlicious (Alpha). For those of you who don’t know what a mashup is, it is “mashed data from multiple sites to create a new site with integrated data”. What he has done is combine the Yahoo bookmarking system, Twitter.com, Del.icio.us ...
iPhone bill (in a box)
2007-09-12 22:12:00 And talking about being eco friendly … Thanks to Justine from Tasty Blog Snack for making this. Share This More About: Iphone , Bill
Happy Camper
2007-09-12 07:13:00 I bought a nice atomic watch from Sharper Image over the weekend. I meant to spend my $100 gift card weeks ago but the mall we went to (on the other side of Cleveland) didn’t have the store there. Being a guy that loves his watches (I have a large collection indeed), this has ... More About: Happy , Camper
A simple eco friendly software solution
2007-09-11 10:40:00 For the eco friendly computer folks, GreenPrint software may be something to look at. GreenPrint eliminates the unwanted pages when you try to print something from the internet. It’s patent-pending technology analyzes each page before it is sent to the printer for the most common of wasted characteristics e.g. pages with just the URL, banner ... More About: Software , Simple , Friendly , Solution
Site Invites for Grabs
2007-09-10 07:27:00 I’ve got a bunch of free closed beta invites. These sites are by invite only so you can’t even sign up for it yet. If you want it, let me know in the comments. Invites are on a first come, first served basis. Note: Put your email address (where you want the invite to be sent ... More About: Site , Grab
I have to get ready!
2007-09-09 14:40:00 This is me, I relate to this 100% … “I have to get ready!”. And this too … “Procrastination”. Funny but scarily true. Share This More About: Ready , Get Ready
Watch out when you say ?That?s Hot?
2007-09-08 18:55:00 I just read that Paris Hilton owns the US patent to “That’s Hot” and it was officially registered this year in February. I am not a patent law expert but does that mean that she has the right to sue anyone and everyone who writes and says the phrase? She has already started suing Hallmark ... More About: Watch
Create simple to-do lists online
2007-09-08 12:30:00 Shopgetwhat.com offers an easy to use tool that allows you to create shopping lists, to-do lists, or any other lists online. You can then interactively cross it off, group the items with different headers, save it for later use or print it out. Using this free online tool is as simple as it gets and ... More About: Lists , Online , Simple , Create
iPod buzz
2007-09-07 23:17:00 So the whole buzz this week is the release of the new iPods. They are smaller, thinner and are packed with more technology. The old iPods are also being rebranded with a new name: the iPod Classic. I’m almost tempted to buy one but I already have a mini and J to stop me from ... More About: Ipod , Buzz
CoScripter for Firefox
2007-09-07 19:58:00 CoScripter is a firefox add-on that captures, records and automates tasks that you perform in a web browser. It is intelligent enough to watch what you do and as you perform a task, it will record the instructions/ actions to a script file. For example, it can record the actions of printing online, changing your mailing ... More About: Firefox
Eating myself silly
2007-09-04 22:34:00 Hope everyone’s labor day weekend went well. This past weekend was a good one at the in-laws. However, I ate myself silly with Hamburgers, Hot Dogs, Spicy Sausages, Potato & Green Pepper Omelettes, Chocolate with Almonds, Pizza, Spaghetti, Habanero Doritos Chips, Fries and Ice Cream. Not very healthy at all. Can’t believe I didn’t gain ... More About: Silly , Eating
My good deed of the day
2007-08-31 17:53:00 I always have interesting trips to Starbucks. Buying a coffee and banana nut cake there, I decided to change my coffee size from a Grande to Venti. This was after the lady cashier had rung me up and given me $14.50 (change for the $20 bill I gave her). The manager comes over and cancels ... More About: Good , The D
Nervous, are we?
2007-08-29 15:43:00 This question was posed to Miss South Carolina at Miss Teen USA 2007. Question: Why do you think 1/5 of Americans can’t locate the US on the world map? Her answer: “I personally believe that US Americans are unable to do so, because, is that some people out there, in our nation, don’t have maps, and ...
Presidential candidate logos and websites
2007-08-28 11:04:00 The logos for next year’s presidential election seem to have two characteristics - most of them opted for a blue background and the American flag theme (red, white and blue). Four have their first name instead of their last name on their logo e.g. Hillary Clinton, Rudy Giuliani, Fred Thompson and Dennis Kucinich. Classiest logo: ... More About: Presidential , Websites , Logos , Resident , Candidate
Kid in a candy store
2007-08-25 17:10:00 I am going to be like a kid in a candy store today. That’s because I have a $100 gift card to Sharper Image and there is a big store at a mall on the other site of Cleveland. Actually, it’ll be a gift card spending day with J having a Macy’s and a ... More About: Store , Candy
How ya like me now?
2007-08-24 20:42:00 Blue is my favorite color, especially the blue of this theme. Thanks Yoshi from Hello! Yoshi for giving me the best Robot colored theme yet. I now have 5 different colored themes. How ya like me now? Share This
Getting organized!
2007-08-24 17:29:00 I have finally downsized my Outlook Inbox from a whopping 1125 emails to 105 with only 10 unread emails. I have been meaning to do this email cleanup for about a year now. Since I am in a get your life together mood, here are some useful free life hacking tools to do exactly that: Calendar: ... More About: Organ
Cat fish
2007-08-23 14:08:00 I’ve been an admirer of Janet from A Planet Named Janet ever since I started blogging. Her nick name is Jan Van Gogh, a fitting name for such a talented artist. One of my favorites of Janet is her colorful patterned fishes. At first glance, you’ll see a colorful fish but you’ll soon notice that ... More About: Fish
10 tallest buildings in the world
More articles from this author:2007-08-22 12:18:00 This is taken from one of my favorite websites The Skyscraper Page. The site gives you information about all the building and tall structures in the world. Buildings can be searched by the name, date it was built, where it was located and more. It’s a great resource and I can spend hours on this ... More About: World , The World 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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