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Microsoft Farecast Predicts Ticket Prices for Best Price

28. May 2008

Todd Swarthout sent in a link to a pretty cool new site from Microsoft: Farecast. The idea behind Farecast is very similar to Kayak or Mobissimo where you specify your departure and arrival city and then use all these nice AJAX-ey controls to fine-tune your search results on the fly. The difference with Farecast is that it [...]

HomePlug Powerline AV II Spec Nearing Release

28. May 2008

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For the folks that preferred wired connections to wireless (even you Wireless-N folks) rejoice! The HomePlug Powerline Alliance has announced that the AV II specification is nearing completion and will be announced later this year with products dropping early 2009. For those that don’t know, the Powerline spec allows the transmission of ethernet network traffic over [...]

Monster Cable Would Sue Jesus

28. May 2008

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Monster Cable, the company that produces the bullshit-performing and overly expensive A/V cables that Circuit City and Best Buy always try and ram down your throat when you buy a new TV doesn’t just create cables with a 800% markup, they also sue every other company that uses the term “Monster” in their name (Except [...]

Windows 7 (Vienna) Screenshots - Confirmed for 2010 Release

28. May 2008

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If you haven’t seen it already, supposed pictures of the Windows 7 (Vienna) interface were leaked online yesterday along with a bit of information of “what we know so far”. Possible returns of WinFS, obviously a much more enhanced candy-esque UI is going to grace us and also a confirmation that consumers will be getting [...]

Recommendation Systems - Let ME Decide What I Like

27. May 2008

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I’ve been a NetFlix user for years, and always pretty happy with the service (except for a few throttling issues), but one aspect of the service that has really been bugging me recently is how the stars that NetFlix shows you for the movie ratings is not based off the community’s collective reviews, but rather [...]

Trash Art Imitating Life (No Seriously.. It’s Garbage)

27. May 2008

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Ran across this one on digg, pretty cool piles of trash-art by Tim Nobel and Sue Webster that cast real-life shadows but you’d never guess it looking at them… this is almost like spotting shapes in clouds, you have to be looking at them at the right angle to see it. Enjoy:

Price of Gas Likely More than $4/gal this Summer

27. May 2008

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Well the poll results are in and it looks like most of you think gas is going to go to $5/gal and a good majority also think it will hit $6/gal this summer. If that is the case… holy shit. Gas is already at $4/gal or higher in certain parts of the country (and a fuck-ton [...]

Samsung Releases 256GB SSD - Only Jesus and Santa Can Afford It

27. May 2008

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Samsung has released the world’s largest solid state drive (SSD) in the form of their new 256GB FlashSSD flagship drive. For those not in the know about the SSD craze, basically these hard drives are giant collections of flash-based memory, offering no moving parts (physically very strong, don’t need to worry about dropping it killing it) [...]

Bush Signs the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act

26. May 2008

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In an effort to go down in history as the second worst and not the worst president in US history, Bush has signed the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) which would make it illegal for health care companies or employers to discriminate against people based on their generic information (e.g. Bob has a gene that [...]

I Finally Figured Out What the Nintendo Wii is For

26. May 2008

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I have owned a Nintendo Wii since it was launched… actually I got one 2 days after the launch or something. I own all the “must have” games for it (Zelda, Mario, Resident Evil 4, etc.). I have two Wiimotes. I have tried… jesus I have tried to like the Wii, but for all my trying, I’ve played [...]

Diet Coke Drops DNA-Damaging Additive

26. May 2008

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Coca-Cola has announced that it will be discontinuing the use of Sodium benzoate (AKA E211) in it’s Diet Coke drink. Sodium benzoate has been used to to stop carbonated drinks from moulding but research has also linked it to DNA-damage (leading to cirrhosis of the liver and Parkinson’s disease) and hyperactivity (A.D.D.) in young children. It seems [...]

McDonald’s Dumps Trans-Fat Oil

24. May 2008

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I shouldn’t be so happy about this, but loving McDonald’s fries, along with 2/3rds of the world, it was nice to see that McD’s has finally decided to drop the trans-fat induced oil they were using to make fries. I seriously think that just extended the American lifespan by 5 years collective across our entire population. I [...]

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Archive | May, 2008

Microsoft Farecast Predicts Ticket Prices for Best Price

HomePlug Powerline AV II Spec Nearing Release

Monster Cable Would Sue Jesus

Windows 7 (Vienna) Screenshots - Confirmed for 2010 Release

Recommendation Systems - Let ME Decide What I Like

Trash Art Imitating Life (No Seriously.. It’s Garbage)

Price of Gas Likely More than $4/gal this Summer

Samsung Releases 256GB SSD - Only Jesus and Santa Can Afford It

Bush Signs the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act

I Finally Figured Out What the Nintendo Wii is For

Diet Coke Drops DNA-Damaging Additive

McDonald’s Dumps Trans-Fat Oil

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