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No, meebo is chatware with which to widgetize* your sidebar. I have done this. Now you can chat with me in real time.
No, no. Please. No need to thank me. It’s just the kind of guy I am.
*Once again, I’ve usurped a feature of mis_nomer’s blog. Luckily she lives in a whole nother country so she won’t think I’m a stalker. Round the bend maybe, but no stalker.
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I secretly added a new blog to the roll a few days ago. Did you catch it? It’s called Dark Roasted Blend, although when you follow the link you find yourself at a domain called thrillingwonder. It’s alright. However you get there, it’s a neat blog.
Avi primarily posts photos with a bit of explanatory text. He finds all kinds of cool stuff! Like the world’s most dangerous roads (yowza!), and pictures of world leaders with babies (or in the last case, world leaders ogling babes). His the only blog I know of with a series of lenticular cloud pictures; and we’ve all been looking for that, right?
I found Avi because he found me. For reasons unknown, he added me to his rather brief blogroll. I’m glad he did since my obsessive linkback checking habit revealed his misjudgment pretty quickly, thereby allowing me to discover his blog. Which I’m now telling you about.
Avi’s got lots of other pages too, including a ton of SciFi and Fantasy stuff as well as some homegrown music.
A cool place on the web. Get ye hence.
A fascinating article from Popular Mechanics lists 10 technological breakthroughs that will change the way we live. Pretty cool.
A couple of highlights:
Phase Change RAM: “…memory that’s 30 times faster than flash, with more than 10 times the life span.”
Vehicle Infrastructure Integration: “The program involves installing a 5.9-GHz short-range wireless link in your car that can talk with other cars, as well as with control units at intersections and along the side of the road.” The name needs a rework, though; it sounds like geekspeak for a multi-car pileup.
Smart Pills: “swallowable, vitamin-size sensor… transmits data about pressure, acidity and temperature to a 5 x 4-in. receiver that patients carry around with them during the pill’s trip through their gastrointestinal tract.” Yes, but what flavors are available?
Data Cloud: “A host of products and services let you create a data cloud right now… Add a synchronization service…, which applies a change you’ve made on your PDA to that same file on your laptop and PC, and you’re one step closer to retiring the original data storage device—the one in your head.”
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15 Best Places To Waste Time On the Web.You would think that serotoninrain would have easily made it onto the list. But noooooo!
Oh well, I’m glad both my readers know what a complete waste of time this site is. Thanks!
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Who are these people? Seriously, who actually sits down after a long day at work and says, I’m not going to watch Lost tonight. I’m going to turn on my computer and make a movie starring my pet iguana? I’m going to mash up 50 Cent’s vocals with Queen’s instrumentals? I’m going to blog about my state of mind or the state of the nation or the steak-frites at the new bistro down the street? Who has that time and that energy and that passion?
The answer is, you do.
Short quote from Time’s person of the year story. Read it here. Interesting choice, I’m grateful to have been chosen.
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Find out where you’ll end up if you dig straight through the earth from… wherever you are.
The site was obviously written by a non-english speaker, which makes it even more amusing.
via Rocketboom
Test that very theory with word shoot, a little game in which your enemies want to take you down, but you can stop them by typing the word next to them before they have a chance to fill you full of lead.
I played the easy game and managed a score of something like 44000 before being overwhelmed by little men and tanks and fishlike creatures all shooting at me simultaneously. Spelling is stressful business!
This is pretty funny: Fake Sites Insist Microsoft Bought Firefox
I mean, the idea itself is funny enough, but check this…
Two sites — www.msfirefox.com and www.msfirefox.net — both direct to similar parodies that tout the newly purchased browser as “It’s better now like seriously” and sport IE 7-esque features, including one dubbed “Cut Away Effect,” which disables rendering of nine-tenths of a page to “save system resources.” It also claims: “This is not a bug.”
Other faux features include Firefox 2007’s “TakeOver” technology that, according to the site, “protects the Windows Kernel by automatically recognizing all McAfee and Symantec programs as viruses.”
and…
Another feature claims that “Visiting the following sites using MS Firefox 2007 will cause your computer to shut down unexpectedly,” then lists examples such as Google, iTunes, Apple, and Yahoo. The final item on the banned list: “Any sites with the phrase: microsoft/windows/explorer/vista/bill sucks.”
And in the interest of fairness, one of the fauxsites downloads MSIE7, the other download Ffox 2.0. Alas, the .com site is down, but the .net site is still up. Check out that logo! Crax me up, I tell you.
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Will, one of those bloggers who encouraged me to try [ahem, harangued me about] WordPress, also insisted I try Zoundry. So I’m trying it. Maybe he’ll leave me alone now.
Night has fallen in the east on this Halloween and the girls are off trick or treating. This is the first year we’ve let them go without a parent. Here they are looking scary alright.
That’s Kristin in the middle. She did her makeup herself. Can you tell?
Meanwhile, the jack-o-lanterns are lighting the way up our driveway for the non-existent trick or treaters.
The purple fabric is supposed to be blood oozing out. Frightening.
People have been linking to the new firefox build all day. But I decided to wait until tomorrow, which is the official release day.
And I just now read this by preed of Mozilla.org and am glad I chose the way I did.
It’s got a lot of language I don’t quite get, but the message is crystal clear:
“Preed the Release Engineer says: friends don’t let friends download Firefox before it’s released.”
So, tomorrow, I’m gonna get me some new Firefox. But not before.
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