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9/27/2005 · 1 min read · 4 comments

A Fitting Home

I finally had a chance to build a fitting home for my newest prize possession last night. I made a trip out to Hobby Lobby and found myself a shadow box and created a museum-quality display for the…

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9/26/2005 · 1 min read

VW To Add USB Ports to Cars

This news is a few weeks old, but I still think that it’s pretty cool. Volkswagen is going to start adding USB ports to their cars. We will start with the Golf, Golf Plus and Touran and then…

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9/20/2005 · 1 min read · 2 comments

Games Galore

With the next geek LAN gaming party scheduled for later in October, I ran across a nice site with a pretty sizable list of free (yes, I said FREE) Multiplayer games. We might have to try a few…

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9/19/2005 · 1 min read

Mentos rocket

Sombody spent a little time building a rocket out of a big mentos tube. I guess this is one way to ensure that evil martians don’t kill us when we rocket towards their planet. How could anyone or…

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9/14/2005 · 1 min read · 5 comments

Rare Kidney Bean Mentos Owner

You all may recall this post about the “Kidney Bean Cinnamon Mentos Candy” up for bid on ebay. Well, I returned home from work today to find a package from my friend Jon (who by-the-way just got engaged……

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9/14/2005 · 1 min read

Google Blog Search

Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later… Google has finally launched a blog-specific search engine (blogsearch.google.com) . I haven’t had a whole lot of time to play with it, but it seems to work pretty well.…

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9/7/2005 · 2 min read · 3 comments

Apple Releases Some New iPod Stuff

At a special media event today, Apple rolled out a few new products to their digital music offerings. iPod Nano Probably the most notable of the new products is the iPod Nano. This tiny new flash-based digital music…

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9/6/2005 · 1 min read

Awesometown

Three guys (Ardy, Jorma, and Kiva) put together a pretty funny pilot called Awesometown for Fox. When Fox passed, they shopped the pilot to MTV and Comedy Central, who also passed. Both pilots are available for viewing on…

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8/29/2005 · 4 min read · 7 comments

New Peach Mentos

The Mentos gods have been smiling down on me the past couple weeks. Not only did Mentos update their website recently, but I have finally discovered the holy grail of Mentos… peach flavor! I don’t remember when I…

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8/25/2005 · 3 min read · 1 comment

Last.FM and Audioscrobbler

A few months back I discovered a neat service that at that time was actually two separate services. Audioscrobbler and Last.FM have since merged into one super-cool tool for finding and listening to new music. The thing that…

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8/19/2005 · 1 min read · 1 comment

Mentos USA Updates Their Website

Mentos USA has a new website! Sometime in the past couple of weeks, Mentos updated their website (I try to check it on a regular basis). The site now has a new darker blue swirly look, and includes…

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8/18/2005 · 1 min read · 4 comments

Kidney Bean Cinnamon Mentos Candy

I regularly do searches on ebay for “mentos” just to see what kind of cool Mentos merchandise is out there and ran across an interesting one today. Someone is selling a malformed Mentos Candy in the shape of…

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8/15/2005 · 2 min read · 1 comment

Hillary Rosen Guest Blogging on Lessig.org

Hilary Rosen, the former Chairman and CEO of the RIAA (Recording Industry Ass. of America) will be guest blogging on Lawrence Lessig’s blog this week. I think it will be interesting to see what she has to say…

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8/14/2005 · 1 min read

Swipe

Have you ever wondered what information was in that funny looking barcode on the back of your driver’s license? Well, wonder no more. There is a site called Swipe where you can download a tool (or upload it…

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