For about eight months now, I have been spending a chunk of my free time working with a great group of people on a side project to bring free wireless access (cFree Wireless) to key public areas in what started as the Iowa City area, but has expanded recently to include the entire corridor (Iowa… Read more »
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Independent Games Festival
The awards for the Independent Games Festival were announced (a while ago). I knew this was happening sometime in March, but totally forgot to check the site again until yesterday. The Independent Games Festival is an outlet for independent game developers to show their creativity and get some recognition for some really creative games. These… Read more »
New Mentos Sours!
While waiting for the flight to Phoenix last Saturday I was looking around the magazine shop/news stand in O’hare Airport in Chicago and discovered a new type of mentos… mentos sours. They’re actually pretty good. They come in three flavors in a new green striped box. The flavors are sour apple, which doesn’t taste too… Read more »
Free Software
Along the lines of my free games list post, I ran across another list of free windows software broken down into categories. This is a pretty extensive list covering just about everything you need your computer to do. Who knows the quality on some of this stuff though… I guess you get what you pay… Read more »
GoogleFight
Who would win in a Google battle between God and Satan? How about the pen vs. the sword? (turns out that the pen really is mightier) This site pits opponents against each other based on their rating in Google. http://www.googlefight.com
Lego Characters
Have you ever been curious what you’d look like as a Lego character? Well, the wait is over… you can find out here! Here’s the outfit I’d wear to Lego Land.
Orisinal
Orisinal : Morning Sunshine is a great collection of flash games. This site has been around for quite some time. I think I ran across it for the first time about 3 years ago, and just recently ran across it again. The games on this site aren’t your typical flash shoot-em-up games that are found… Read more »
Playing With Time
Here is a cool site where someone has done a bunch of time lapse and slow-mo movies of common objects. Playing With Time I think my favorite is the ice sculpture (the sounds are great!).
Technical Difficulties
If you stopped by looking to find the brilliant ramblings that make up techory.com any time later Saturday night through Sunday afternoon, you may have noticed an error message… and no techory.com. That is because I single-handedly destroyed the site on Saturday night. I was doing some cleaning on the site, removing some items that… Read more »
Found: Weird Mentos Video
While playing around with an alternative search engine (defined as anything that’s not Google), I did a video search for… you guessed it, mentos! It came back with a rather humorous video from some guys named Jay & Jon. Jon and Jay’s Mentos Commerical (QuickTime Movie) They also have some other videos on their site… Read more »
Time to Buy Pepsi Again
How terrible it is that I will buy Pepsi for a chance to win a song? Well, actually I would probably buy Pepsi anyway… I’ll just buy more now. Pepsi is slated to kick off another “Drink, Win, Play” campaign where 1 in 3 bottle tops will have a code for a free song on… Read more »
Turn your iPod into an iPod Shuffle
For those of you who have an iPod but want a new iPod Shuffle w/out plunking down the $99 or $149 for one… here is a pretty cool Do-it-yourself. Via Flickr
Ads EVERWHERE
Another odd ebay auction – A man in Omaha, NE is auctioning his forehead for advertising. He’ll accept any non-permanent ad for 30 days on his forehead. He’s up to almost $15,000 with 3 days left. He has also registered the domain: http://www.humanadspace.com/ for more information.
Technology to keep your plants alive
After returning from vacation to find my plant (lovingly named Bachi) near death… well, more near death than usual, I decided to order the Dr. Frog Plant Monitor. For only $5.99 you can get a doctor for your plants that let you know when they need water. Don’t you wish your plants could talk back… Read more »
How about another weird holiday?
Happy Holifestigala! – America’s Holidayest Holiday The official site comes with tradition, songs, recipes and e-cards to make your Holifestigala more holifestigalative. When we get together to carve the Crab Rangoon, dress the pet Chinchilla and hang a Purple Tumbleweed over our heads, it must mean that the celebration of Holifestigala is upon us. This… Read more »
