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More Self Assembling Robots, skynet is near.
2008-06-07 23:00:00
Robots with a mind of their own This isn’t as scary as the last one, since they don’t seem to work that well, but once and for all people, I really don’t think this is good idea.
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Social Media Woes
2008-06-05 04:53:00
I am totally addicted to Mob Wars on Facebook. Its sick.
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Great list of Photo sites
2008-05-14 04:35:00
http://www.cameraporn.net/2008/05/12/60-p hotography-links-you-cant-live-without/
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Bookthisblog.com
2008-05-04 18:09:00
OK, so I am revisiting my idea of doing blog printing from syndicated feeds… I’m working on a business plan and will be seeking venture or angel funding. Take a blog, suck its feeds, format them, and send to a digital press with inline bindery. We’ll see if it has legs this time. The future of ...

HP?s Tabblo Test
2008-04-30 17:24:00
These photos were taken at the Ferrari factory museum in Modena Italy. … See my Tabblo>
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SkyNet is next :: Self Assembling Robots
2008-04-30 03:59:00
I’m not so sure that this is a great idea:
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Southern Workmanship and Incompetence
2008-04-29 03:53:00
http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/wwl042 408tpleveepaper.98095b74.html ?It blows my mind.? Those are the words St. Bernard parish president Craig Taffaro used to watch videotape Eyewitness News showed him, of floodwalls built to protect his parish. ?That should be criminal,? Taffaro continues. What he’s talking about was witnessed by a St. Bernard Parish resident who didn’t want to be identified, but did have sharp ...
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Ebay Sues Craig?s List
2008-04-27 16:40:00
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/73622 21.stm I think its funny that ebay feels so dumb about investing money into a competitor that they are now suing. I doubt this will raise the stock…
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UFOs are coming!! Oh wait?
2008-04-15 03:50:00
EUREKA SPRINGS? Aliens wear cowboy hats, or at least some of them do. ?I finished it too soon,? author Don Ray Walton said about his book that he says needs to be rewritten because beings from outer space gave him new information when they picked him up outside of Stephensville, Texas, earlier this year. ...
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Editing in progress
2008-04-13 20:14:00
Be patient, I am re-writing a bunch of the template code… I’ll prolly mix it up pretty bad…
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Google VS. Sicko and Michael Moore
2007-07-03 05:28:00
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?a rticle=40717hehe, hehe, heheheh Thanks Inquirer!! THE LATEST TWIST in Google 's do-no-evil saga reflects a growing uncertainty about the direction Silicon Valley's biggest startup is taking. The public and press perception of the company is now heading towards the Microsoft end of the scale, rather than the Apple one. And it also marks yet another PR disaster for the firm that wasn't supposed to need any PR. Here's the recap. Michael Moore 's new film, Sick o , goes on general release this week and has been widely applauded by critics, pundits and bloggers - across party lines, interestingly enough - as a well-made and powerful document of the flaws in the American health care system and the providers of that care. Consequently, the health care industry is taking something of a beating in the popular press, and many would argue deservedly so. Not, however, Lauren Turner of the Google Advertising team - she suggested in a recent blog pos...

Wall Walking Robots
2007-07-01 00:00:00
I found this on Cnet, wacky wall walking robot. Pretty cool, till you hear the sound of a massive vacuum whining away. Not exactly a Ninja spy, though useful if you want to see on top of something if don't have to stay quiet...
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Guillaume Bijl?s ?Archeological Site (A Sorry Installation).?
2007-07-01 00:00:00
I love this piece.
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Plaxo Kicks it up a Notch
2007-06-29 00:00:00
http://beta.plaxo.com I've re-signed up with Plaxo , trying to see if I can get all of my data to synch to a single place... We'll see how it works. The new online interface to Plaxo is an AJAX Web 2.0 application, with multiple components, presented in an integrated, interactive environment. Key features include: -- A new sync dashboard for monitoring multiple "sync endpoints" -- An expanded choice of sync endpoints, including: ---- Google (starting with Calendar, with Gmail coming soon) ---- Microsoft (Outlook, Outlook Express, Vista Mail, and Hotmail) ---- Yahoo! (Mail and Calendar) ---- Mac OSX Sync Services (for Address Book, iCal, iPhone, and more) ---- AOL (AIM) ---- Mozilla Thunderbird ---- LinkedIn (available as part of Plaxo Premium) ---- Mobile phones ---- A new address book, with Find-as-You-Type Search, One-Click Directions (via mashup with Yahoo!), and Click-to-Call (via mashup with Jajah) ---- A new calendar, built by the HipCal team (acquired in ...
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Your own little Hobbit house
2007-06-29 00:00:00
http://sense4fun.com/woodland-home.php "The house was built with maximum regard for the environment and by reciprocation gives us a unique opportunity to live close to nature. Being your own (have a go) architect is a lot of fun and allows you to create and enjoy something which is part of yourself and the land rather than, at worst, a mass produced box designed for maximum profit and convenience of the construction industry. Building from natural materials does away with producers profits and the cocktail of carcinogenic poisons that fill most modern buildings." http://sense4fun.com/woodland-home.php I've got to say, this is once of the sweetest little houses I've seen in some time. A story book home with a nice eco-friendly story to tell.
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Mini Opera, no luck
2007-06-22 00:00:00
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/21/technol ogy/21browser.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&ref=t echnology&pagewanted=print I've been trying for hours to get the mini opera to work on my Treo... grrr.... Apple?s iPhone, which goes on sale June 29, gets oohs and ahhs for a number of reasons, a big one being the way its Safari Web browser displays pages just like the desktop version, then lets you run your fingers over the screen to zoom in and out. Taking a page ? albeit a tinier one ? from the iPhone?s design is a new test version of the Opera Mini browser for cellphones. There are two important differences: The first is that people can get their hands on the free browser, officially named Opera Mini 4 beta, by visiting mini.opera.com, which also lists compatible phones. The second is that most phones that can run the browser have considerably smaller screens than the iPhone and don?t respond to taps of the finger (though those with touch screens will).
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IPhone's Competition has Head Firmly in the Sand
2007-06-21 00:00:00
http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/130 65/53/ What, me worry? A friend of mine used to write tech articles for several outlets pre-bust. He had mP3 players coming out of his ears, a giant collection manufacturers would send them to generate buzz. Apple has wiped the floor with them, again, and again, and again. None of them exist today. Apple "owns" user experience. In the commodified world we live in, there is only one point of true differentiation, USER EXPERIENCE. Get it or get out. I can't wait to see Verizon a few years from now. Gone or bought out, if the idiot quoted here stays on: Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg is putting a brave face on rival carrier AT&T's iPhone exclusive. "The way we see it, our customers have price points and service packaging that is different," he said. The company's strategy will be to counter the iPhone with services such as over-the-air music downloads and mobile TV. At this stage we don't know whether or not the iPhone will allow over-th...
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Surface Surfaces part 2
2007-06-21 00:00:00
http://coolass.com/index.php?title=surfac e_surfaces_then_sinks&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb= 1 Well I have to admit, I am a bit excited, I'll get to see Microsoft demo the Surface device in July...
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This Modern World :: What we have wrought
2007-06-21 00:00:00
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/art icles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=4 60077&in_page_id=1811 Watch what happens when globalization brings industrialization to the rest of the world: How does that make you feel to get that cheap shirt, that cheap toy for your kid, a great deal on jeans. This is what you have done.
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Husker Du Live at the Pink Pop
2007-06-21 00:00:00
One of my all time favorite bands, their music brings me back to a place in life that I cherish. Enjoy this bit of legendary music history.
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Own a Piece of the Moon :: Help make Dennis Hope Rich
2007-06-21 00:00:00
http://discovermagazine.com/2007/jul/loca tion-location-location Lets file this under the "Now why didn't I think of that" category... Dennis Hope , self-proclaimed Head Cheese of the Lunar Embassy, will promise you the moon. Or at least a piece of it. Since 1980, Hope has raked in over $9 million selling acres of lunar real estate for $19.99 a pop. So far, 4.25 million people have purchased a piece of the moon, including celebrities like Barbara Walters, George Lucas, Ronald Reagan, and even the first President Bush. Hope says he exploited a loophole in the 1967 United Nations Outer Space Treaty, which prohibits nations from owning the moon. Because the law says nothing about individual holders, he says, his claim?which he sent to the United Nations?has some clout. ?It was unowned land,? he says. ?For private property claims, 197 countries at one time or another had a basis by which private citizens could make claims on land and not make payment. There are no standardized rules.?
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Math Problems
2007-06-21 00:00:00
http://www.jimmyr.com/blog/Funny_Student_ Exam_Answers_91_2007.php Jimmyr has some really funny math stuff on his site. Here are tow of my faves.... http://www.jimmyr.com/blog/Funny_Student_ Exam_Answers_91_2007.php
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The G-Shot, G-Spot Renewed
2007-06-21 00:00:00
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi ?f=/c/a/2007/06/03/LVG2QQ3F6J1.DTL Oh my go, we've been wasting so much time! Why didn't we think of this sooner... Oh wait... wtf, where is the viagra for women? Karen Roberts scheduled an appointment with her plastic surgeon at the end of a long day. The 22-year-old student at Solano Community College attended morning classes, caught up with homework and took her 4-year-old daughter to a matinee. By 4 p.m. she sat inside Dr. Justin Salerno's office, readying to become the surgeon's first patient to receive an injection called a G-Shot , also known as G-spot Amplification. With a 3 1/2-inch needle, Salerno would pump a small dose of collagen into his patient's Grafenberg Spot and make it swell to the size of a quarter. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi ?f=/c/a/2007/06/03/LVG2QQ3F6J1.DTL
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Google buys Feedburner
2007-06-21 00:00:00
In a giddy, Googl e -esque statement, he wrote: "Unlike the rumor that FeedBurn er is nearly code-complete on a multiplayer Wii edition, the blog posts, phone calls and conjecture about our future as part of the Google family tree are now officially true. FeedBurner has been acquired by Google. The local weather forecast calls for general euphoria with intermittent periods of off-the-rails delight." In a press conference Friday afternoon, Costolo and Susan Wojcicki, vice president of advertising product management at Google in Mountainview, Calif., declined to disclose details on the deal, rumored to be $100 million.
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Going on Safari in your Windowed World
2007-06-21 00:00:00
http://www.apple.com/safari/ I'm not sure I understand this move, it may just be a play to make sure that developers for the iPhone have something to create their apps on since many good programmers till refuse to get a Mac. I've converted a few, but it is a tough sell... When I asked the Apple folks why they thought it was a good idea to make a competitor to FireFox they just shrugged... grrr...
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iGASM
2007-06-21 00:00:00
http://tech.monstersandcritics.com/news/a rticle_1309375.php/Apple_not_reaching_iGa sm_climax Apple is a little pissed about their fabu product getting mixed up with the sex trade. i dunno, seems like a fine little accessory. Specifically, Ann Summers has released an iPod-compatible vibrating sex aid, the iGasm, which, while certainly questionable in terms of naming, is employing an advertising campaign that closely resembles the dancing silhouette commercials used so successfully by Apple?s iconic iPod. In the case of the iGasm, one ad image shows a white trailing lead from the iGasm clearly disappearing beneath the invisible underwear line of a provocatively silhouetted female, while another lead runs to a pair of head phones. It?s all VERY iPod. ?Load up your iPod with killa choons and take your appreciation of music to a whole new level,? exclaims the official iGasm product page on the Ann Summers Web site. ?Go at it hard and fast with a pounding drum 'n' bass track or chill w...

Shutitoff.com kill your television
2007-06-21 00:00:00
http://www.shutitoff.com/ Shut itoff.com has an interesting selection of books on its home page, all about silence and spirituality. The world has become so filled with bips and bleeps its hard to think what it would be like without them. Maybe I'll take that leap, get back to the garden, live off the grid, and shut it off. http://www.shutitoff.com/
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Wind Blows as Steel Goes
2007-06-21 00:00:00
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/22/nyregio n/22wind.html?pagewanted=print Yet in the past few months, a different sight has emerged on the 2.2-mile shoreline above a labyrinth of pipes, blackened buildings and crumbling coke ovens that was once home to a behemoth Bethlehem Steel plant: eight gleaming white windmills with 153-foot blades slowly turning in the wind off Lake Erie, on a former Superfund site where iron and steel slag and other industrial waste were dumped during 80 years of production. ?It?s changing the image of the city of Lackawanna,? said Norman L. Polanski Jr., the city?s mayor and a former Bethlehem worker who lost his job when the company stopped making steel here in 1983. ?We were the old Rust Belt, with all the negatives. Right now, we are progressive and we are leading the way on the waterfront.? Christine Real de Azua, of the American Wind Energy Association, said Steel Winds, as this wind farm is known, is the largest to rise in a city, and according to th...
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5 Types of Black Holes
2007-06-21 00:00:00
http://www.nmg-uk.com/blog/black-holes/10 -things-you-didnt-know-about-black-holes. htm There are 5 categories for black holes which are: Supermassive black holes: These behemoths are believed to exist at the center of all solar systems (including ours!), and contain millions to billions of solar masses (1 solar mass = the mass of our sun!). Intermediate-mass black holes: At only thousands of solar masses, these black holes are thought to be the power behind X-Rays. Stellar-mass black holes: Ranging from only 1.44 to 15 solar masses, these black holes are created by the smallest stars that are capable of forming black holes. Micro black holes: With the mass of a helium atom, these babies are nothing to worry about?unless you are within 100million miles of one! http://www.nmg-uk.com/blog/black-holes/10 -things-you-didnt-know-about-black-holes. htm
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Surface Surfaces then sinks
2007-06-21 00:00:00
http://www.microsoft.com/surface/ Microsoft detailed its new Surface computing table. It has some interesting twists on the ill promoted tablet PC OS with an added dash of Pizzeria Space Invaders table game technology. Very boring, and a little silly. I could see some interesting applications coming down the pike, though Microsoft will have to apy me to get them.
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