Life on the Grid

Thursday, August 31, 2006

Generate Your Very Own Official Seal

Official Seal Generator - Enter some text, choose a border and an emblem, pick your colors, and click the 'Go' button. An Official Seal will be generated for you. Collect 'em, trade 'em, put 'em on your website, or e-mail 'em to your friends.....

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Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Electric Mini: 0-60 in 4 Seconds: It Has Motors In Its Wheels

This newly unveiled electric Mini has an output 640 horsepower and top speed of 150 mph. The car uses a small gasoline engine with four 160 horsepower electric motors on each wheel. It can out accelerate a Porsche 911 Carrera.

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Don't Keep Secrets on your Cell Phone

Flash memory is inexpensive and durable. But it is slow to erase information in ways that make it impossible to recover. So phone manufacturers compensate with methods that erase data less completely but don't make a phone seem sluggish.

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Monday, August 28, 2006

Social networking after Death

The world's first generation to double-click its way through elementary school is using the Web to stay connected - even in death, where the popularity of MySpace has given rise to MyDeathSpace.com. The site archives profiles of deceased MySpace members.

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A Short History of Electronic Arts

The game company known for ruthlessly guarding its market dominance through franchise purchase and protection -- though it began life with a noble mission to foster and reward 'art'

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Sunday, August 27, 2006

Sony's Mylo -- can a gadget make them matter again?

Sony is counting on Wi-Fi to make it hip again. A portable gizmo introduced by the electronics giant this month represents a big bet on the wireless networking standard. The device, dubbed Mylo, allows users to surf the web, exchange instant messages with friends, and place Internet voice calls over Wi-Fi connections.

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Commodore 64 emulator in Flash!

FC64 is the first low level Commodore 64 emulator for the Flash Player. Yes, Flash! It emulates most C64 hardware and executes the original Kernel and Basic ROMs. Best of all, it's all open source and extensible so you could easily write an emulator for *your* favourite eightbitter (NES, Apple][, Atari 2600, you name it).

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Saturday, July 29, 2006

The Steve Ballmer Dance

this is priceless...Just what Microsoft needs right now, more...er...energy.
just about any small clip of this, looped would make for one helluva animated .gif profile shot on myspace, no?

Friday, July 28, 2006

Monday, July 24, 2006

Google and the new punk era of IT | The Register

(Cool technical reading)It shouldn't be that surprising to anyone who watches google closely, but this article basically illustrates how google doesn't rely on any of the big corporate IT environments...

Saturday, July 22, 2006

MySpace

I can't log in to myspace tonight. No checking messages or for new comments for me. Their servers must be overwhelmed on a Friday Night. It's popularity is still growing by leads and bounds. It is after all, the coolest thing on the internet thats not google.

it's like not being able to check your email, but worse.

I'm a Hopeless Myspace Addict:

Friday, July 21, 2006

Download Your Favorite TV Themes

Both old and new...all your favorite and not so favorite tv show themes!!
Thanx to Blitboy07 for posting this to digg. Worth a del.icio.us tag for sure.

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Thursday, July 20, 2006

Google "not seeing the problems others are"

Google announced that their revenue grew by a whopping 77% from the 2nd quarter of '05! It's worth pointing out that Yahoo, Ebay, and Microsoft have all recently reported declines of some sort in their business...

Sunday, July 16, 2006

Wired 14.07: His Space

This is a SMOKING GOOD article.

Wired consistantly sets the standard of journalistic excellence. Props Spencer!!Seriously, tho... this is the inside view from the people who own and run myspace!!

Thursday, July 13, 2006

Bush laughs off Putin's Cheney quip - World - Times Online

The headline is misleading. He's actually taking sides with Putin essentially. Without aggreeing with the president's remarks, I appreciate the delicacy of the situation and the need to be diplomatic - something our president is actually doing here for a change. Ever since he said he looked into Putin's eyes, and read his soul...I don't know...

Wednesday, July 12, 2006

NYTimes launches MyTimes,

lame me-too-ish RSS play

What would I do different if I had to start my blog over? - Guy Kawasaki

words from Guy Kawasaki one of Apple's original pitch-men.

Sunday, July 09, 2006

Stephen Hawking Seeks Answers on Web

Hawking's question posted on Yahoo Answers:"In a world that is in chaos politically, socially, and environmentally, how can the human race sustain another 100 years?"I wouldn't ask anyone on Yahoo, but that's just me ;-)

Magic Eye Image Creator

This flash tool lets you created your own Magic Eye image. You draw the image you want to be seen once the magic eye is seen from the correct view, and it generates an image like that. Thanks Logiedan for posting this to Digg...awesome site and Flash-Tools is really cool, too.

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Monday, June 05, 2006

testblog for blogger GM Script

If anyone is reading this or happens to stumble upon it, please let me know by commenting below. Thanks and have a nice day.

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