FaceSpace and MyBook are out, these badboys are in. I’ve stumbled across a few “social networking” sites over the past few days that are definitely worth a look or two from you, my loyal reader[s]: Open Source Food: exchange recipes,…
For those of you with an interest in educating your extended family on the dangers of phishing websites, McAfee is obviously selling its SiteAdvisor software via this nifty little quiz but it offers a great learning opportunity and more than…
I know that Apple always does things a bit differently than their competitors, but the 20 minute iPhone tour they posted today should simultaneously put every single other cell phone company 1) on notice and 2) to shame. Can you…
Real men don’t do laser light Floyd shows. They use a Tesla coil to play the Tetris theme song and the Super Mario Brothers’ “underground theme”:
Now that the unlimited invite version of Joost, the new Web 2.0-ish streaming “TV” application, has arrived, I have unlimited invites to drop. Anyone looking to get in on the beta, please just leave a comment in the comments section…
An enterprising Slashdotter, spurred by a pair of articles, asks Are Sysadmins Really that Bad? The short answer is: yes, yes we are. The long answer is: be nice to us, include us on the planning stages of your projects,…
The Washington Post ran a very interesting piece the other day documenting the affinity that our military’s finest tend to develop with the robots placed in their care. The article starts off with, quite literally, a bang: The most effective…
My browsers on each and every machine I have access to have been collecting open tabs like some hideously geeky HTTP-fueled version of Garbage Pail Kids figurines/Pogs/[insert some other non-Pokemon hackneyed pop cultural reference here] and so, in order to…
I’m actually surprised nobrainer hasn’t commented on this story as of yet — seems like it’d be right up his alley. Anyways, here goes: some moron idiot charlatan high school dropout enterprising inventor has proposed placing wind turbines along New…
Or: Idiotically digging Your Community’s Grave A “minor” rebellion over at digg yesterday has simply reinforced my perception that the comments section of said news aggregator is filled with either a) 14-year-old males with little-to-no understanding of the real world…
