You know who you are… and you can just go straight to hell. The different between a parent that stays home and misses movies, or gets a sitter and goes to one every few months versus the one that drags their infant, stroller and all, into an R-Rated movie on opening weekend is that one parent [...]
Continue reading...18. July 2008
Introduction The purpose of this post is to take a look at a phenomenon I saw in my life and I think some of you might see in yours: chronic almost-achievement. The ability to give every task 95%, but avoid giving anything 100% like the plague for fear of failure and self-disappointment. Outline What’s a 95%-er? Why is 95% Bad? Why [...]
Continue reading...10. July 2008
Konami, creators of Dance Dance Revolution, Karaoke Revolution and Drum Mania rhythm games (and the Metal Gear Solid series), sued Viacom/Harmonix, creators of Rock Band, for patent infringement (this patent). Viacom/Harmonix claim they are doing nothing wrong and have their own patent to prove it. Any guesses as to what this means for Rock Band 2? [...]
Continue reading...10. July 2008
Did you see the above picture yesterday or did a friend forward it to you? I got it in my inbox and over IM a few times and it looks like it’s made it’s rounds online: We better be scared right? A story with the word “Iran” in it, and then the associated picture. If I [...]
Continue reading...8. July 2008
They say that the chain is only as strong as the weakest link… unfortunately for you, if that weakest link is a retarded Customer Service Rep at Apple and he’s reading an email that says: am forget my password of mac,did you give me password on new email marko.[redacted]@yahoo.com And decides “Heck, I should probably email this [...]
Continue reading...8. July 2008
The Washington Times is reporting that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) expressed “great interest” in a “safety bracelet” that all air-travelers would be forced to wear if implemented. This information was from a promotional video (Link Dead, they have removed the movie after all the attention it got) over at the Lamperd Less Lethal website. The [...]
Continue reading...5. July 2008
With gas prices around $4/gallon and budgets everywhere getting crunched with higher costs of… everything, states are struggling to figure out how to lower costs and try and accomodate greener practices. After a year-long study, Utah has announced this week that it will be moving to a 4-day (Monday through Thursday), 10hr/day work week. The announcement will [...]
Continue reading...3. July 2008
Was browsing through Slashdot today and saw two interesting articles. It looks like nations, naturally under the guidence of the RIAA/MPAA and similar groups, are beginning to move ‘anti-piracy’ legislation forward. The first part of the problem is to give ISPs complete amnesty from pirated material, which will protect them from litigation and give them an [...]
Continue reading...1. July 2008
We normally don’t cover a lot of product announcements here but from time to time there will be something interesting that pops across our desks that we want to share. Uniross, rechargable technology company, issued a press release for a few new products 1 of which is a solar-powered battery recharger… how cool is that? So [...]
Continue reading...1. July 2008
The Antro Solo, pictured above, is a Solar-Gas-Electric and “Human” powered hybrid vehicles that came out of design shops in Hungary. The car is designed to go 150mpg and is planned to enter the market in 2012 at a $20,000 price point. The entire car, chasis made out of carbon fiber, weighs less than 600lbs but [...]
Continue reading...1. July 2008
Quick “interesting news” post, scientists have found that the “wisdom of crowds” effect that is so commonly referenced with Web 2.0/social networking sites actually exists within each of us (assuming you are atleast of average intelligence). More specifically, if you take a crowd of people and ask them a question, the average of the answers is [...]
Continue reading...29. June 2008
Imagine you are sitting on a park bench, in the middle of the day and a stranger sits down next to you. He then turns to you and says: You have 24hrs to take control of your life, or you will die. What do you do? What does that phrase, “take control of your life”, mean to [...]
Continue reading...29. June 2008
For the business folks in the ground, a recent Harvard study has come out that is declaring the much-referenced Long Tail Theory is infact false, and in most markets the “long tail” is not profitable after all or has very little room to profit from, where as attacking the “big hits” are much more profitable [...]
Continue reading...28. June 2008
News is trickling out that scientists believe the North Pole will be completely ice-free (melted) by September… and not September 2050… or September 2020… they mean this freaking year. Can someone fill me in when this happened? I know global warming is just a hoax, George Bush told me, but when did we manage to melt [...]
Continue reading...23. June 2008
Summary [8 out of 10] At $99, the Brookstone Tranquil Moments Sound Therapy Machine is a safe buy for anyone that is entertaining the idea of a sound therapy (aka “dream machine”) device. While the build and sound quality at it’s price could be better, for some reason… it just works, and that is all the [...]
Continue reading...11. June 2008
At first, I thought it was just me… getting multiple calls a day, at 7am to 7pm calls from “News” and the phone number 1-314-963-8895 popping up on my Caller ID. No problem, I’ll just ignore it… 6 months later, it’s still happening… all the fucking time. I decided to finally Google this number and see if [...]
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21. July 2008
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