Archive for February, 2006
Tuesday, February 28th, 2006
Live your life the Benjamin Franklin Way…
Live your life the Benjamin Franklin way… The 13 rules to live by, written by the genious himself. Quoted: 1. Temperance: Eat not to dullness and drink not to elevation. 2. Silence: Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself. Avoid trifling conversation. 3. Order: Let all your things have their places. Let each [...]
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Monday, February 27th, 2006
Annual Northwest Atari 2600 Championships
it would have been fun to see this! I could have done pretty well in pitfall maybe? read more
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Sunday, February 26th, 2006
The National Archives video now available on Google
Awesome! The National Archives has gotten together with Google and provided some old and famous footage/film online for free… Some are quite entertaining. Quoted: This selection of nineteen “Headquarters Films (HQ)” preserved in the National Archives, represent a series of over 250 titles collected by the NASA Office of Public Affairs between 1962 and 1981. [...]
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Saturday, February 25th, 2006
Autistic high schooler scores 20 in debut
Great story of an Austictic high schooler who suits up for the last game of the season and scores 20 points for the team. Unbelievable. Great store….. I give it about 10 minutes until this is made into a movie on PAX. Quoted: Team manager McElwain finally plays, and becomes instant superstar read more
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Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006
Crooked Japanese Companies Unite against consumers.
Japanese companies are quite crooked and have the government in their pocket… they did this with cars by making people need to get a $2000 to $4000 inspection every 2 years on their car…. now it appears that consumer electronics are in the same boat… FOR SECURITY REASONS?! come on!? Quoted: So from April 1st [...]
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Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006
Ricky Gervais… Comedic Genius.
There is no currently funnier man alive… Inventor of “The Office” and “Extras” and a top notch podcast staring Karl Pilkington… (“I could eat a knob at night”)… If you don’t know who he is, you are not part of the in crowd. Think “the father of Steve Carell”. Quoted: Multi-award-winning writer/comedian Ricky Gervais’s officially [...]
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Tuesday, February 21st, 2006
Web 2.0 App Review
This is a pretty darn good review of the best new/promising Web 2.0 apps… That term is getting pretty cliche, but appropriate sometimes I guess. Quoted: It’s been almost three months since my last major roundup of Web 2.0 software and I thought it’s about time to release another update. The pace of innovation in [...]
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Tuesday, February 21st, 2006
Free Internet TV – Software called “Democracy”
This is an epic software solution for media. This in my opinion (along with iTunes video download) is going to revolutionize media distribution to the masses. Perfect solution for those with video players but no good/dependable source of fresh content. Simply subscribe to an internet TV channel, and this will automatically download content to your [...]
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Monday, February 20th, 2006
Luna has a homepage.
Essentially myspace for dogs… Luna (our dog) has a website…. check it out sometime and give her a bone. read more
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Monday, February 20th, 2006
My Camera Broke, Long Live my New Camera.
New Camera for me. Ok, my Canon Powershot SD300 finally went tits up. I carry my camera with me every day… So I figure that if I have a camera for a year, that’s like 3 years for an average person. So I bought a new camera. At first I thought it was going to [...]