Archive for the ‘General’ Category

Poor RIM

I have to say what is happening to RIM lately just seems like a great shame. If you haven’t seen it already you can read the latest here. What is really sad is the US patent office is now thinking that NTPs patents may be invalid. I think it’s fair to say that a great […]

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Do you love the original StarTrek?

If so I have great news for you. It seems a group of original episode trekkers have continued the 5 year mission that Kirk set out on. They have done a great job of getting the set and uniforms to be accurate to the original. I will say that the special effects are more of […]

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IT Worker the sitcom

It appears that the UK is going to have a sitcom about the IT worker starting Febuary 3rd. The show will be called the IT Crowd and will be shown on Channel 4 in the UK. You can watch it a whole week earlier on this website. The premise is that the 3 members of […]

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Microsofts Banned Xbox 360 ad

Heard about the Xbox 360 advertisement that Microsoft is refusing to air? Well, its the best ad Microsoft has ever done, and I think it is pretty well done. I can still understand why the lawyers stopped them from airing the ad though.

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Where do I find the anykey?

If you do a search on HP’s website for the answer you will get the following FAQ answer. So we need to actually tell people this key doesn’t exist now huh? That reminds me I need to lookup why my escape key doesn’t properly get me out of work. 🙂

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Amazon.com Mechanical Turk

Complete simple tasks that people do better than computers. And, get paid for it. Choose from thousands of tasks, control when you work, and decide how much you earn. You can check it out here. It’s a pretty good idea actually.

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21st century Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego

Remember playing “Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego” as a kid? Well now the new game Brewster Jennings Protects America brings this classic adventure into the 21st century by merging the game play with Google maps technology. In the web-based Brewster Jennings Protects America game you race around the globe as a government agent […]

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King Tut’s wine

Now that we have found a way to determine the color of King Tut’s wine all of the worlds problems should soon go away. It’s good to know science is working on all of the major issues like world hunger and cancer huh?

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Postaroo.com goes live

You have probably seen ads with a Kangaroo on a yellow background but didn’t know what they were for right? Well it was apparently a marketing ramp up for the new site Postaroo.com. It’s a new, free, local community bulletin board. They have many major cities listed already and I am sure more will be […]

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The Rocket Racing league

Yeah, you read that right. Apparently now that private citizens can build their own spaceships it’s time for Nascar in space. The press conference was held today in New York to announce it. You know as silly as it may seem to you I see it as planning to make money on the inevitable. You […]

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