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Technology

  • My brother got me another stick of ram for pennies, er, just about. I’ve been complaining that my computer has been running slower and he said it’s from all the junk that I run. Hey now. Anyways, the deal master came through and here it is, next to the old RAM that’s covered with a…

  • Ok, this one’s for my boys. I love them to death, but they need some work on learning how to play pranks on people. Some tips that come to mind: Do not conspire in public or talk about doing a prank in front of the people you’re prankin’ on. Don’t do anything while the prank-ees…

  • A company named ventureDESIGNworks has a product called “Press-bot“, a coffee maker designed to work with Nalgene water bottles. Specifically for widemouth varieties of the Nalgene water bottles, it allows people-on-the-go to make a cup of joe out of their water bottle. The Press-bot is a press style coffee maker using a precision etched filter…

  • 1.5.0.3 out: A security fix for Firefox.

  • Office Building Tetris Game– Love the music. Thanks for the link, Jordan.

  • I already told you how I liked Yahoo Maps Beta Now they have Yahoo Mail Beta, but apparently there’s a waiting list. Go go gadget super sneak… To get Yahoo Mail Beta, switch your content preference to UK, France, or Germany. When you log into your mail area, you’ll be asked if you want to…

  • Nerd news

    This Wednesday, at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the morning, the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06. This millennial moment occurs every hundred years. I think I’ll sleep through it.

  • The ipod flea

    A hilarious Apple ad spoof for something called the iPod Flea.

  • IPOWER Domain names for $2.95 Limit 50 domain names per customer at special $2.95 pricing. Pricing valid for first year only. Domains will renew at $8.25 at time of renewal, unless volume pricing arrangements have been made.

  • Look!  You can take the JEOPARDY! Contestant Test online!  Too bad I’ll be on my way to Tahoe.  Oh well!

  • My new favorite search site in my old age: Big.com

  • CenSEARCHip

    CenSEARCHip – A neat project at the Indiana School of Informatics compares Google US and CN for the same search.  From the about page: When you click the "Web Search" button, each side of the display will first show you an estimate of how many English-language results the search engine has for that national version.…

  • Performancing for Firefox is a full featured blog editor that sits right in your Firefox browser and lets you post to your blog easily. You can drag and drop formatted text from the page you happen to be browsing, and take notes as well as post to your blog. Check out the Performance Metrics Plugin…

  • My photoblog

    Just playing around with a photoblog.

  • Ok, this is just for my own geeky records in case I ever need this information again.  I just got my gallery for my friends and family back up, but my root .htaccess was birthing 404’s everywhere.  I couldn’t get to the gallery, but once I got it fixed, all my permalinks were broken. So…

  • This has got to be the best spelling bee clip evar!

  • Multi-Touch Interaction — Make it vertical and transparent and we’ve got ourselves Minority Report.

  • A video of some Asian guy’s quest for answers — definitely worth the 15 minutes. Thanks to Gordon for the heads up.

  • Ok, this is definitely more than meets the eye–way too cool.

  • Clicking random things on the screen to make a guy go crazy and destroy his computer is my idea of fun.