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When you name something, you do some research.
Mad TV came up with the iPad name and angle in 2007. And Apple probably missed it.
“Please don’t make us explain how it works”. How long till they come out with the IMaxiPad.
I know what I’m getting my wife for Valentine’s Day:
Agent Provocateur staring model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley
Great inventions and a way to beat the taxman:
In a US ruling, a judge ruled the Food and Drug Administration may not block the importation of “electronic cigarettes,” battery-powered versions of conventional smokes.
If yu are a smoker and haven’t heard of this yet, check out this site…
After your initial investment, it costs about $5-10 per equivalent carton of smokes.. leaving the taxman with nothing.
As the e-cigarette is essentially a nicotine patch, with the joyous mechanics of smoking, this is the way it should be.
Watch for Ottawa to make a move once this catches on. Canadians paying $10-a-pack will love this. Plus you can smoke in bars and planes again without annoying anyone.
Electronic Cigarettes (a.k.a E-Cigarettes or E-Cigs) are quite literally the next wave of recreational smoking. While tobacco cigarettes deliver a whole host of carcinogens as they are burned and inhaled, toxicological studies on e-cigs show it to be a much safer means of delivering nicotine while still resembling typical smoking behavior.
E-Cigarettes do not produce tar so your lungs are not polluted, your teeth and fingers will not stain, your clothes and skin will not stink while those around you will not be offended.
Whereas in most developed countries a smoker is required to step outside for a smoke, e-cig smokers can smoke anywhere because the ’second-hand smoke’ contains nothing dangerous to those around you. Being an electronic smoker means not having to leave your friends and loved ones for a smoke, it means you get to enjoy a smoke like you normally would but in a more comfortable location. Not only will you not harm those around you, your walls will not turn yellow and your room or car will not stink.
Imagine having an electronic cigarette and relaxing while traveling on a plane or at the bar without having to leave your seat or your drink. Circumstances like this can be frustrating to the modern tobacco smoker but the e-cig smoker experiences none of these difficulties. The modern tobacco smoker faces a whole host of health problems related to smoking while the e-cig smoker enjoys a much more measured, controlled and safer smoking experience.
Electronic cigarettes are the future of smoking and it is time for all smokers to evolve and leave tobacco with all its dangers and annoyances behind. Electronic cigarettes are the new, safer and more enjoyable way to smoke.
Microsoft Easter Egg… it works, and is really easy to set up.
You’ll get almost 300 settings to play with all located in one convenient location, as a second control panel.
Here’s how.
Go to your C drive and create a new folder with this name (copy and paste from below):
GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
It creates it’s own special icon.
Have fun. h/t
If you are still on the fence about the upgrade to Windows 7, this video should help you make up your mind.
In typical Microsoft fashion, the launch of Windows 7 was… well…
P.S. My Mac hasn’t been rebooted for 164 days.
They finally found it. I am hoping that FaceBook follows their path.
MOL Retail and Payment Channels and Leading Online Social Network Combine to Form Massive Content Distribution and E-commerce Platform in Asia for Over 100 Million Users
KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA – December 10, 2009 – MOL Global Pte. Ltd. (“MOL Global”), an affiliate of leading online payment solutions provider MOL AccessPortal Berhad (“MOL”), and Friendster, Inc. (“Friendster”), the operator of a top global web site based on traffic and a leading social network in Asia, announced today they have entered into a definitive agreement under which MOL Global will acquire 100% of Friendster. The principal shareholder of MOL is Tan Sri Vincent Tan, the Chairman and CEO of Berjaya Corporation Berhad, a leading, diversified Malaysian conglomerate that has annual revenues in excess of US$1.8 billion. Following the acquisition, the operations of MOL and Friendster will be combined to create Asia’s largest end-to-end content, distribution and commerce network, pairing MOL’s offline retail channel partners and payment platform with Friendster’s large online footprint, social network and user community in Asia.
“I uploaded (Panic Attack!) on a Thursday and on Monday my inbox was totally full of e-mails from Hollywood studios,” Alveraz told the BBC’s Latin American service BBC Mundo.
Alvarez’s short film has received 1.5 million views since it was posted on YouTube in November. The movie Alveraz has been asked to produce a science fiction film, which is to be shot in Uruguay and Argentina, and will require some original story development from the new producer. The movie is being sponsored by the Spiderman films director Sam Raimi.
“If some director from some country can achieve this just uploading a video to YouTube, it obviously means that anyone could do it,” says Alveraz.
This is cool.. a 360 video where you can mouse into and around the crowd… even go upside down.
“By using a Google Streetview-like camera, a system with six lenses, not as a photo but as a video camera, an all-encompassing picture is captured.
From the point where the images were recorded, the viewer can look in any direction, let his eyes wander through the crowd, or stare at the ground or the air, which makes viewing a video an experience without boundaries.”
Great for filming events and riots.
If global warming scares you, you may not want to watch this.
Best movie trailer ever… go full screen – it’s in hi-def.
If you hate that slow surfing experience, try Google’s new Public DNS service.
It’s easy to do if you know how to configure your router.. just change the DNS settings to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4
You can get the long version instructions from Google.
Makes a real difference for me as Shaw’s DNS is not very fast.
If words could describe the awesomeness of Apple.. Apple’s Keynote address in September 2009.
I’ll let them tell you in their own words:
The life and times of a $50 (euro) bill.. brilliant video
Apparently, when you do an search for Michelle Obama, choose “images” instead of web results, some interesting things come up..
First, Google asks if you’d like to find “Related searches: michelle obama monkey”
And if you look to the top, you’ll notice the ad:
You’d wonder why the fuss..
It’s because someone put up an image (since removed) of a doctored photo:
Inside Google’s ad:
We apologize if you’ve had an upsetting experience using Google. We hope you understand our position regarding offensive results.
There’s a lot more like this in the results:
They’ve even posted unflattering images of the first lady:
It makes sense… I was always puzzled why the number one image that people come to my blog for using Google image search is:
It’s odd that when you search George Bush Monkey, Google hasn’t run an ad… on the offensive meter, these are much worse.
But, it’s great to know that Google is out there looking after us.
Ken Blocks, DC Co-Founder has joined with Subaru to make the worlds fastest cat track operation automobile for back country.
This car opens a lot of new terrain for snowboarders, and a great way to avoid the lift lines…
Dubbed the TRAX STI, this is a new teaser video from the test session for the highly-modified, snow-ready (to say the least) car.
Maybe they can sell a retrofit?
The ones that started it all, a long time ago… Geocities… is dead. Now the net is a few billion pages lighter.
If you remember the good old days, back before MySpace, Geocities ruled.
Anyone could let the artist shine through with their easy to build websites.
This site is probably most representative of the best of Geocities.
Wired has a good farewell article.
photo credit: encouragement
Andrew Richmond at reikman@gmail.com sent a hate mail to a blogger, and suffered the humiliation of Google picking up on it.
Because I am a study of SEO techniques, I am always surprised at the power of blogs and how top Google results are only a hate mail away…
Remember, when doing search engine optimization, links rule. Especially when they come from blogs with high page rank.
Careful what you say, Google has a way of catching you at your worst.
