New Size Mentos Rolls
While waiting to see King Kong the other night, I ran across a new size roll of Mentos at the dollar store. They’re not the tiny mini-rolls, and they’re not as long as the regular size rolls either.…
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More Old School Computer Games
Along the same lines as my last post about Sim City Classic Online, here is an entire virtual Apple IIgs computer that runs through your web browser (again, unfortunately only Internet Explorer). This one has some great old…
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Sim City Classic Online
I can remember playing Sim City on an old Mac Classic in black and white! That’s back when you had to wind up computers before turnign them on! Well, guess what… The Original Sim City is now available…
Continue reading →Christmas Story Parodies
Another Christmas movie in 30 seconds re-enacted by bunnies… A Christmas Story with bunnies And what if A Christmas Story was a horror movie? It might look a little like this.
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MS Adds “Bird’s Eye View” to Virtual Earth
Microsoft launched a new feature called “Bird’s Eye View” to their Virtual Earth mapping service. From what I can tell, it provides aerial shots of just a few spots around the country. I have to assume that they’ll…
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Creative Uses for Old Altoids Tins
Altoids has announced the winners of their “Tin Million Uses” contest which challenged people to come up with innovative uses for old Altoids tins. They selected six winners: Electronic Musical Instrument MP3 Player Case Cookie Baking Tin Speaker/Headphone…
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Firefox 1.5 Released
Late yesterday the Mozilla Corporation released version 1.5 of the Firefox Browser just a little over a year after Firefox 1.0 was released. There are a number of notable new features (from the release notes): Automated update to…
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Geek Gift Guides
I guess I’m a day late for the newly coined “Cyber Monday,” but I’ve put together a collection of geek holiday gift guides, for that hard to buy for person on your list this year. Wired Magazine: Ultimate…
Continue reading →Online Secret Santa Take 2
I’m trying again this year with the Online Secret Santa. Last year’s effort didn’t turn out that great. I didn’t receive a gift and the one I sent turned out to be a non-deliverable address. Oh well! I…
Continue reading →Black Friday
The day after Thanksgiving, or “Black Friday” usually provides some pretty good deals. Here are a few sites to give you a jump on what the stores will be discounting this year. http://bf2005.com/ http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/ http://www.blackfridaydeals.net/ http://blackfridaydeals.blogspot.com/ http://www.theblackfriday.com/index.shtml
Continue reading →Best Ads On TV
I ran across a site a little while back that reminded me a lot of the old Adcritic site which used to host free ads from all over TV. Well, their bandwidth costs were too high or something…
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Warner Bros. Jumping Into Internet Delivered TV
It looks like the big three (ABC, CBS, NBC) aren’t the only networks jumping on the internet delivered TV bandwagon. Warner Brothers has announced that they too will deliver video content via the internet for free (yes free!).…
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NBC and CBS to Offer TV on Demand
CBS and NBC announced separate ventures into the realm of on-demand TV delivery. So now, all three of the major networks (after ABC’s iTunes Music Store venture) have stuck their toes in to test the waters of a…
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New Yahoo Maps Beta
You probably could have guessed that this was on its way based on how Yahoo has been closly following behind Google on just about every new release. In addition, given the fact that Microsoft also has a similar…
Continue reading →Jon’s HTPC: Wrap-up Negatives & Positives
This is Part of Jon’s HTPC setup. For more, see: Introduction and Table of Contents The only negative I can think of: Once setup, the system is very FF (Fiancé friendly); one simple remote controls everything and it’s…
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