Archive for the 'General' Category

ReleaseGuide.com

Monday, May 8th, 2006

ReleaseGuide.com keeps track of Movie, Music, and Book releases. That way you can buy that DVD the first week it is released instead of finding out months later that it’s out and getting it on half.com for half the price…  ;p

An excellent Web Developer’s resource

Monday, May 8th, 2006

Web Developer’s Handbook

Printable Maps from The National Atlas

Sunday, May 7th, 2006

I like it when I can access the fruits of my tax dollars.

Microsoft launches froogle competitor

Saturday, May 6th, 2006

Microsoft just cannot resist the opportunity to play catch-up with google. Here is their own best price search engine…

Stellarium

Saturday, May 6th, 2006

Stellarium is a suave little desktop planetarium program. Available for Windows, Linux and Mac…

Scientists harness the power of pee

Thursday, May 4th, 2006

Imagine there are no iPod batteries.

It’s easy if you try.

No sending your iPod back to apple for a replacement.

(ok I’m going to stop the parody now as I cannot remember the lyrics to imagine).  ;-)

But you could charge your iPod by peeing on it from time to time…  ;-)

Abandonia – Home of abandonware DOS games

Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006

Play all your favorite old DOS games on the Home of abandonware DOS games.

Japanese honey bees take on the Japanese hornet.

Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006

If you have ever seen the Japanese hornets slaughter a bee hive on discovery channel, This little video will give you all the vengeful goodness…

Excellent tutorial on how the human eye/brain sees perspective

Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006

Perspective Tutorial

What exactly is in your beer?

Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006

All hail the German Purity Law, probably the single greatest achievement by mankind….

What exactly is in your beer?

Pirate radio station snubs the FCC and RIAA

Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006

Pirate radio station says they can broadcast under wartime loophole as long as Bush claims we are at “War”…

I do not believe the FCC agrees…

Reported on earlier… Now reality… You can watch streaming ABC tv for free.

Monday, May 1st, 2006

Hmmmm… I wonder if the cable companies are getting nervous
ABC.com: Full Episode Streaming

No Linux player yet….

NOAA’s adds live RSS feeds for emergency weather updates

Monday, May 1st, 2006

Subscribe to NOAA’s National Weather Service XML/RSS data feeds for all your emergency weather needs.

Microsoft piracy check comes calling

Monday, May 1st, 2006

For all you users of Pirated Windows products out there it is only a matter of time before Microsoft comes calling in a less nice way…

Better start your Mac or Linux migration soon… ;-)

Funny comment from SANS.org “Just think how much more useful this [the windows software validity check] could be if it also detected and removed rootkits.”

Utility to disable USB drives on your XP machine.

Friday, April 28th, 2006

Keep the evil neighbor from thumbing your data away.

Battle of the lobbyists…

Friday, April 28th, 2006

The ISP giants are lining up against the Internet giants in a 2 round cage match. At steak is whether the ISP is allowed to give preference to specific internet services they favor, or if they have to provide neutral access to the internet for customers. Currently favor can be had in exchange for cash payoffs extorted from the internet giants by the Telcos, but in the future this type of tactic could be used against specific forms of traffic: encrypted email, VOIP (I bet the telcos would like to limit VOIP to their own offering providers instead of allowing traffic to go to another company they do not profit from); torrents (other high bandwidth less profitable traffic) etc…

Tech Giants’ Internet Battles

Now this is interesting. An Amazon tribe that lacks the ability to learn to count.

Friday, April 28th, 2006

Life without numbers in a unique Amazon tribe. Piraha apparently can’t learn to count and have no distinct words for colors.

BBC Report

NSA spying comes under attack

Thursday, April 27th, 2006

Just in case anyone got caught up in the gasoline price hysteria and forgot about the government collecting our taxes so and using the money to spy on us.

So you thought the iPod was simply an entertainment device.

Thursday, April 27th, 2006

5 Cool things you can do with your iPod

Congress Struggles to Act on Gas Prices

Thursday, April 27th, 2006

Even though there really isn’t anything helpful they can do in the short term. They appear to be more than willing to jerk knees for public approval!