For the 50th anniversary of the Twinkie last year, Hostess released a cookbook full of recipes using Twinkies. It includes some weird stuff like a Twinkie Burrito and Twinkie Lasagna (some of the recipes are available here). I think Perfetti Van Melle (the brilliant company behind Mentos) need to get their act together and make… Read more »
Yearly Archives: 2006
New Picasa (with Web Albums)
Last week Google came out with a new service called Picasa Web Albums. It is the online photo album for Picasa users that has been rumored to be coming out for some time now. It is still in “Test,” which is odd since everything else google puts out there is in “beta,” so there are… Read more »
iPods More Popular Than Beer
I think the title of this one says it all. A survey was done of undergraduate college students and 73% responded that iPods were more “in” than beer. It is the second time that beer has been unseated as #1 in the annual survey. The last time beer lost was in 1997 when it lost… Read more »
Another Special Date/Time
This year has brought another special date and time. It is now 6:06:06 on 6/6/06 Happy 6-6-6-6-6-6 day!
Awesome Mentos Fountain
101 two-liter bottles of Diet Coke + 523 Mentos = one awesome choreographed fountain display that I would say rivals the Bellagio (only because the Bellagio doesn’t use Mentos). I totally need to build a Mentos fountain! Hmmm, what else could be done with Mentos and Diet Coke sprays?
Farecast
I just got my beta account for Farecast yesterday and was able to take it for a spin. Farecast is a different type of travel site than your typical dime-a-dozen Expedias and Travelocities. Those sites search the airlines for the lowest price right now. What Fareast does is try to predict how the airline fares… Read more »
Office Supplies Trebuchet
If I had some needle-nose pliers right now, I would totally build one of these.
Computer Part Mona Lisa
Is that a half-smile? Nope, it’s just some sticks of of RAM and a PCI card. The Computer part Mona Lisa is titled: Technology Smiling, and is on display at a tech exhibit in Beijing.
Wikimapia
Taking the customization of Wikipedia and the mapping ability of Google Maps, the new Wikimapia lets anyone anywhere put location specific information on a map of the world. Similar to just about any wiki, information can be tagged and edited by anyone visiting the site. To add something to the wikimap, just zoom to the… Read more »
Mosaic Zoom
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Flickr Gamma?
Flickr is finally out of beta (which they’ve been in since their launch in Feb ’04) and now in gamma! With their gamma release, they’ve added some nice new features to the site. There are now nice drop-down on many of the menu items and site elements. A nice new search has been added to… Read more »
Apple MacBook
Today Apple quietly released the MacBook, their new version of the iBook with an Intel chip inside. This is the fourth in their computer line to switch to the Intel chips, leaving only one machine left still using their older PowerPC processors. The new Macbooks include the Intel Core Duo chips running 1.83 – 2.0… Read more »
Google Trends
Google Trends was released today along with a few other new tools. Trends is a bit like Google Fight that I blogged about last year except the data is probably a little more detailed and accurate since it’s coming straight from the source. You can type in several terms and Google will show you a… Read more »
ASCII Maps
Ever wondered what a map of your neighborhood looked like in ASCII text? Well, wonder no more – ASCII Maps is now available to provide an ASCII text version of Google Maps. It isn’t very useful at all since you can’t really tell what you’re looking at. But for you die-hard text-lovin’ ASCII art fans,… Read more »
New Mac Ads
Apple released a new set of ads recently that are pretty funny. Good ole Justin Long (Warren Cheswick from Ed) and John Hodgman (I think that’s who it is) make a pretty funny pair.
