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Entries from January 2006

Try this out.

January 31st, 2006 · Comments Off

The object of the game is to move the red block around without getting
hit
by the blue blocks or touching the black walls.
If you can go longer than 18 seconds you are phenomenal. It’s been said
that
the US Air Force uses this for fighter pilots. They are expected to go
for
at least 2 minutes.
Give it a try but [...]

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BBClone Integration

January 31st, 2006 · Comments Off

How to integrate Wordpress 2.0 and BBclone.
Modify wp-blog-header.php: 
//– Insert BBclone Code from here @
define(”_BBC_PAGE_NAME”, get_bloginfo(”name”) . wp_title(”/”, false));
define(”_BBCLONE_DIR”, “/full/path/to/bbclone/”);
define(”COUNTER”, _BBCLONE_DIR.”mark_page.php”);
if (is_readable(COUNTER)) include_once(COUNTER);
//– @ to Here
require_once(ABSPATH . WPINC . ‘/template-loader.php’);
endif;
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MPAA admits to unauthorized movie copying

January 24th, 2006 · Comments Off

This is WAY too funny.  I think they should sue themselves so that they go bankrupt and have to dissolve the organization! 

The MPAA gets caught doing what it warns consumers about: making unauthorized copies of a film. At least they didn’t throw them up on BitTorrent.

[Ars Technica]

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Korea to introduce household bots to watch the kids, clean and order pizza

January 18th, 2006 · Comments Off

Uh, am I the only one that thinks this is creepy?  Don’t get me wrong, I would love to have one, but I don’t think I would leave it alone with the kids, or the cats… 

Filed under: Robots

South Korea’s Ministry of Information and Communications hopes to introduce a series of internet-connected household robots this October. [...]

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The Sound Pillow: tampering with a classic

January 18th, 2006 · 1 Comment

Info from someone who listens to his MP3 player while he sleeps, this is way cool!  I can never find a set of earbuds or headphones that don’t end up either falling out/off or hurting my ears.  Now, one would ask, why not just hook regular speakers up to it?  Well, the wife tends to [...]

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Superstition, (Fri, Jan 13th)

January 13th, 2006 · Comments Off

I hope my buddy Bill does ok today.  I seem to recall that he has Triskaidekaphobia or Paraskevidekatriaphobia.  I think it is the first one but anyway, I guess I shouldn’t also mention that it should be a full moon tonight…..

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Hack your 4GB iPod nano to 8GB?

January 12th, 2006 · Comments Off

Way cool!  But, if I had put out the dough to get an iPod, I would be afraid to break it open and start messin’ with it. 

Filed under: Portable Audio

We definitely absolutely positively cannot attest to the validity of efficacy of this hack, but word on the street is you can actually solder in a [...]

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Good Enough For Frank

January 12th, 2006 · Comments Off

Hehe, I have to agree with Noded that this is the best blond joke ever.

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An Umbrella That Makes Sense (We Think)

January 11th, 2006 · Comments Off

This would be cool but what they need is an umbrella that is surgically attached so I don’t leave it in the car when I go INTO the office….. 

Do you demand the dopest umbrella around with the ultimate rain-prediction technology? Look no further than the Forcasting Umbrella from Ambient Devices. Announced at CES, the Forcasting [...]

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Unintentially Geeky Joke In Apple’s Share Price

January 11th, 2006 · Comments Off

This is funny.  I looked it up on yahoo: http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=AAPL and it is true.  Too funny. 

Unless you’re the sort of person who immediately recognized why the folks at Google originally sought to raise $2,718,281,828 in its IPO, you might want to just pass over this story. A reporter at News.com noticed an extremely unintentional inside [...]

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