When a dating site desired to trim its rolls of those who had gotten the most complaints about being the most problematic… actually no. Those whose posted pictures showing they gained a little over the holidays. BeautifulPeople.com made more than 5,000 users re-apply after they posted pictures of themselves looking chubbier than usual celebrating the [...]
I’m often bombarded with ideas on how to monopolize this blog (and others I have). Most the time I take the information, glance over it and ignore it. But in this case the “network” I was getting emails and updates about, Pepperjam, kept adding more features and becoming more and more interesting. This last one [...]
Aurora seems a popular name. Besides the fabled Jet, its also a Web Browsing experience cooked up by teh development arm of Mozilla (the creatots of Firefox and Thunderbird). In it web browsing becomes a seemless interactive and collaborative experience. Watch the video and tell me. Do you have the same security concerns and wonder [...]
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There are a lot of entertaining videos out there… and some are downright revolting. Right before the puke stage (a number would argue that it is at the puke stage) there is a video called 2 girls and 1 cup. It starts with what some guys would consider a nice scene of 2 girls kissing… [...]
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“Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.” –Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949 “I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.” –Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 “I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I [...]
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As a regular user of wifi hotspots, and a subscriber of AT&T wifi I’m glad to see that they just expanded a lot. At Starbucks, T-Mobile is out and AT&T is in, at least when it comes to WiFi. AT&T and Starbucks announced their new partnership this morning, saying that the carrier plans to offer [...]
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I was trolling along and I read a couple stories of servers that end up being forgotten. And I thought I’d share. Server 54, Where Are You? The University of North Carolina has finally found a network server that, although missing for four years, hasn’t missed a packet in all that time. Try as they [...]
Voters at Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year 2007 poll have chosen “w00t” as 2007′s most iconic word. M-W says that the word is a gamer’s acronym for “we own the other team,” but I’m inclined to think that that’s a backronym, a back-formed acronym created to explain a word already in use. 1. w00t (interjection) [...]
Stats from Valleywag showed that Apple’s iPhone browser has grabbed a 0.09 percent share, which might not seem like much until you compare it to the competition. Windows CE, which encompasses every Windows Mobile device shipped, holds a 0.06 percent share; Danger Research’s Sidekick product family holds a tiny 0.02 percent share; and the Symbian S60 [...]
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I’ve been doing a lot of searching for airline tickets recently. With planning a vacation in the beginning of next summer, this is the time of year to start making plans. So I already have a hotel reserved, and was working out the airfare. and a couple things I noticed. The default fare that airlines [...]
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