The Rigged-Up Net

I would imagine, to those people who actually love and play golf, this may be a bastardization of the game: Swingless Golf Clubs

Google recently filed a US patent which reveals a great deal of how they rank your web site. Some of it you could never have guessed at… Great Site Ranking in Google The Secret’s Out

Some recovery of memory may be possible in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease, suggests a provocative new study in mice that could help researchers open a two-pronged attack against the mind-robbing illness. Study Links Protein to Severe Memory Loss

Wanna learn how to fold napkins for your next dinner shin-dig? Napkin Folding 101

Intelligence may lead to a better paid job and quality of life but, in old age, cleverness has no effect on happiness, new research suggests. Intelligence is irrelevant to a happy old age

This guy is pretty clever- he even moved an entire building…. good stuff. This guy moves barns by himself

Nevada has Area 51. New Mexico has Roswell. Texas has the Marfa Lights. Mysterious Texas Lights Draw Crowds

Everything you wanted to know about superchargers: Supercharger Buyer’s Guide

They find solace in $325 Christian Dior sunglasses, a shot of confidence in a $600 Louis Vuitton handbag. Never mind that they still live with their parents and earn modest salaries in service jobs. Generation gold-collar lives big, and at home

So you don’t wanna pay the $20 on the Sveasoft firmward for your shiny new WRT54G? Check this out: As you might know, Linksys released the source code of the WRT54G firmware under GPL a while ago. Sveasoft (as well as other projects like WiFi-Box) took this code, added some features and patches and released […]

I always wondered what happened to Earful of Books a few years ago… Earful of Books Inc. founder and Chief Executive Officer Paul Adams Rush was found guilty of 17 counts of fraud and money laundering, federal prosecutors said Friday. Earful of Books CEO found guilty of fraud, money laundering

Genuine Swarovski crystals for your cellphone, Sidekick, iPod, Blackberry and anything else you want to bling! Give your phone a face lift! In just a couple hours go from bland to bling! Bling Ring is the perfect gift! http://www.myblingring.com/ I kinda wanna see Pouya show up with a blinged-out blackberry…. 😀

The lobotomy, once a widely used method for treating mental illness, epilepsy and even chronic headaches, is generating fresh controversy 30 years after doctors stopped performing the procedure now viewed as barbaric. Lobotomy Back in Spotlight After 30 Years

Introducing the iPod FLEA! iPOD Flea

I dunno what to say – I guess I’m glad that its still going strong even tho’ we’ve parted ways. 🙂 ServerBeach was launched in March 2002 by Rackspace founder Richard Yoo in a bid to tap into a market for lower-scale hosting services. San Antonio-based Rackspace was, at the time, beginning to focus on […]

This is just nuts – this guy is saying that this new phone is actually worth $725! Thats a pretty bold statement: HP iPAQ hw6515 – A Navigating Smarty

“Apple and the mainstream media are making a monumental mistake,” says Richard Bluestein, who podcasts on YeastRadio.com under the pen name Madge Weinstein. Bluestein argues that people are not looking for repackaged traditional media when they look for podcasts in most cases, and Apple is promoting exactly that. Podcasters Finding Ways to Stay Afloat

You know, owning my Treo650 reminds me of my initial experiences of Windows NT – by which you were better off rebooting NT once a day so it wouldn’t crash unexpectedly. I wonder if this little handy app will reboot the Treo on a schedule: Summary: Simple Tool to Soft Reset the PALM PDA without […]

Well… Duh! TV advertisers are facing a potential disaster as more consumers buy digital video recorders (DVRs), according to a new study, since about 90 percent of current users fast-forward through ads. Ninety pct of DVR users skip TV ads – new study On a side note, my MythTV box now has four tuners in […]

Nivin talked about Rackspace, a San Antonio-based Web site hosting company, which can’t keep many of its young employees long enough because they’re quickly lured away by Austin’s huge music scene. Cover Story: Culture wars

You may have noticed the link in the Subscribe section of the right-hand sidebar… for those of you who have not adopted RSS yet, you can now subscribe to my blog via email. Just click on it, and follow the instructions. 🙂 This site allows anyone to subscribe to any RSS / Atom feed and […]

Looks like HDTV prices will drop like bricks during the Christmas season in 2008. That will be great for consumers, and it’ll also be the time when I finally make the plung towards HDTV. I bet by that time we’ll see 100+ hour HD PVRs, Hi-Def DVD will be figured out, and most shows will […]

Yay! Now perhaps I’ll finally get off my ass and get my license! The FCC has proposed dropping the 5 WPM Morse code element as a requirement to obtain an Amateur Radio license of any class FCC Proposes to Drop Morse Code Requirement for All License Classes

I can’t decide if these guys are really cool, or just nuts… NCE was established in 1983 to design & build convertibles, that represent the highest standards of automotive design quality & craftmanship. Newport Convertible Engineering Notable convertible conversions that you should check out in their gallery are: Cadillac Escalade Ford F350 Lincoln Limo Convertible […]

The ever-popular low-carbohydrate diets appear to work because they force people to eat more protein, which consequently suppresses the appetite, not because of a lower carbohydrate intake, according to new study findings published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. High-protein diets curb appetite

Beginning Sept. 6, PBS will make available – exclusively over the Internet – broadcast television’s first entirely downloadable series, featuring PBS technology columnist and industry insider Robert X. Cringely’s interviews with personalities from the ever-changing world of technology. NerdTV will be available for download from www.pbs.org/nerdtv.

Turns out that if you’ve got four tuners in your MythTV box you should probably get 1gig memory… now that I’ve bumped it up to 1gig from 256mb, the UI is much more responsive and the commerical flagging is completing much quicker. 🙂

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As Emril would say – “BAM!” Google missed their earnings… beginning of the end? Stock is already down by $23 in the afterhours… Oh no! It appears they earned 1.19 Vs. an estimate of $1.22.

This is going on all over the country: General Motors is inviting consumers in your area to participate in a unique driving experience. It’s an opportunity for you and your guests to experience most of General Motors’ vehicle line up and actually drive them head to head against some of the primary competition. We provide […]

It was inevitable: Bloggers who previously wrote endlessly about everything from politics to tech tips to how to fry an egg on a hot sidewalk can now take their commentary, advice and random experiments to the next level by filming and broadcasting their work, thanks to the latest web trend — video blogging. Blogging + […]

We all know the drinking game “Quarters”.. well if this guy ever got out of the house, he would KILL you at it! Pretty incredible stuff.. despite the fact that when these guys stopped filming, they probably celebrated by having sex with each other Quarters Like You’ve Never Seen

If you’re on the job, and you’re reading this story, you should probably get back to work. The average worker wastes more than two hours a day, and that’s not including lunch, according to a new Web survey by America Online and Salary.com. That means companies spend as much as $759 billion on salaries annually […]

Evidentally, Hilfiger must have some sort of new reality show that I missed? Funny quotes, gotta see this: Hilfiger Sayings Oh, here it is… Rags-to-riches style icon Tommy Hilfiger hosts The Cut, the search for America’s next top fashion designer. 16 style-savvy contestants compete for the opportunity to design their own collection under the Tommy […]

Drivers using cellular phones are four times as likely to get into a crash that can cause injuries serious enough to send them to the hospital, said an insurance study released Tuesday. Study Sounds Alarm on Driving, Cell Phones Related: Using hands-free cellphone headsets while driving is not risk free. People who chat on their […]

I’m so close to getting my hands on a hw6515… but meanwhile you can check out most of the features in the flash emulator of it: HP iPAQ hw6515 with Windows Mobile Software

This is mildly amusing… particularly if you’ve seen Undercover Brother… Undercover Star Wars Kid

The path to better health and lower blood pressure may be paved with cobblestones. When people over 60 walked on smooth, rounded cobblestones for just a half-hour a day over four months, they significantly lowered their blood pressure and improved their balance, a study showed. Study: Walking on Cobblestones Is Healthy

Everything you ever wanted to know about GSM frequency bands: Two frequency bands are used by GSM services in the US. Two different frequency bands are used by GSM services elsewhere in the world. Ideally, you’d want a phone that can work on all four bands – commonly called a quad-band phone. But these are […]

On the eve of an industry summit to discuss how e-mail authentication can stem the flood of spam, one security firm says that spammers are already using the protocols — to slip their junk mail past filters. Spammers Most Likely Users Of E-Mail Authentication