I love Dave Berry and his warped sense of humor. So it’s with great joy and a huge laugh I ran across his 2006 Gift Guide.
If you still haven’t finished your Christmas Shopping then perhaps your crazed enough to take advice from Dave Berry.
[Holiday Guide 2006: Dave Barry's Desperation Gift Guide]
I love Top Gear… and just in time for Christmas they now are selling Top Gear™ branded merchandise.
If you’re a regular reader of Autoblog, you’ll know we’re big fans of Top Gear. The BBC car show has a dedicated following in the UK who watch the show, read the magazine and even show up for [...]
Engadget has written an article about a very nice offering from Linksys that has really captured my interest. Besides being based on the extremely fast (but not ratified) new n format, it has the ability to jump frequencies automatically for best perfoamce… even jumping bands. Plus the real coup de grais… a USB [...]
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I’ve written about the Ariel Atom before, and so it was with interest that I ran across this video put on by KRON 4.
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Digital music is great but isn’t it a pity you can’t transfer your old records on to your computer? Well guess what? You can! That’s right vinyl lovers, thanks to the ingenious USB Turntable you can put all your LPs, 12″s and singles straight into your digital library.
Simply plug this chic little turntable into [...]
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The Lie: Lemmings commit suicide en masse.
The Truth: Lemmings are stupid, not depressed. The myth of lemming suicide goes back a long way - at least to Freud, who in Civilization and Its Discontents (1929) examined the human death instinct in the context of the purported mass suicide of lemmings. But suicidal lemmings didn’t fully [...]
I saw one of these at Costco last weekend, but it was the $2000 Ultimate Arcade (basically MAME Arcade). But the smaller and relatively cheaper “My Big Games Arcade Cabinet” would work out nice as a Christmas gift or such. I spent much less, mind you, building my own full size cabinet. [...]
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Lasers – the TV of tomorrow?
High-definition laser televisions have been popping up at various trade shows and industry events for more than a year. Now, on the heels of yet another prototype appearance — this time at an event for Arasor International, an Australian company that produces a key component for the semiconductor lasers — [...]
The Perfect Wordpress Image Plugin
I was asked to come up with the idea of the ultimate image plugin to be written for Wordpress. The above is what I’ve come up with so far. Any other ideas strike your fancy? I’m trying to keep this to just image handling for posts and such, and not worrying [...]
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This slick little number is a concept phone from BenQ that’s basically one big touchscreen. Dynamically changing based on what application you’re using, the Black Box looks pretty stunning. A keypad appears onscreen if you want to make a call, while a viewfinder appears when you go to take a picture, and so on and [...]
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