Archive for January, 2006

Science of Sleep

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

I decided to order one of these “Sleepmate” thingies… we’ll see if it works… 🙂 Have you ever laid awake at night wondering, “What do I have to do to get a peaceful night’s sleep?” as your neighbor’s dog barks all night and traffic roars by? Why Constant Noise is the Perfect Sleep Solution

Korean Earwax

Monday, January 30th, 2006

I had no idea that there are different kinds of earwax… quite frankly, I find the notion of “wet” earwax to be kinda yucky… weird. 🙂 Genetics researchers have uncovered the key gene behind the mystery of human earwax. Finally. The report in Monday’s Nature Genetics journal solves a long-running anthropologist’s riddle – why many […]

Free SysAdmin

Thursday, January 26th, 2006

Free year of SysAdmin… W00T! Sys Admin delivers information for systems and network administrators. Every month you’ll get all the information you need to handle the daily challenges of systems administration efficiently and effectively. You’ll find ways to improve the performance or extend the capabilities of your system. Whether administration is your full-time job, or […]

Live Email

Thursday, January 26th, 2006

This is really cool – Its free… now you can finally recommend a solution for your friends for hosting their email for their own domain names… 20 accounts per domain, 250megs of storage per account… Its basically Hotmail but instead of having “[email protected]” you can get “[email protected]” and use all of the normal hotmail features […]

Glass Piercing

Thursday, January 26th, 2006

Woah, you gotta see this… Venezuelan tattoo maker Constantino, with a glass piercing in the ear, offers his service outside the venue of the annual World Social Forum in Caracas Venezuelan tattoo maker Constantino

Rubik’s Cube

Monday, January 23rd, 2006

I admit it, I have a bit of a fascination with the Rubik’s Cube. Growing up, the best I could complete was two adjacent sides… then I’d just get frustrated and dis-assemble the whole thing, and just put it back together the correct way… which I felt was a far-superior way of solving it than […]

YouTube Acquisition Rumors

Saturday, January 21st, 2006

It turns out that all the YouTube acquisition rumors… are just all that… rumors. On the other hand, it was exiciting to think that someone could have bought YouTube after only being alive for 11 months (founded in Feb. ’05)… oh well. 🙂 YouTube Acquisition Rumors

4gig SD Cards

Saturday, January 14th, 2006

This is amazing… FOUR gigs on a high-speed SD card, and its only 200 bucks! And its not vapor-ware! You can buy it today! Incredible! Surplus Computers has the A-Data 4GB 150x Turbo Secure Digital Card for $200 with free shipping. A-Data 4GB 150x Turbo Secure Digital Card $200

MacBook Pro

Friday, January 13th, 2006

Ya know, I kinda wanna own a Mac… but I’m attached to Windows… I know, I know – “MacOS is better – yadda, yadda…” Anyhow, the question was – can one run Windows on the new Intel-based Macs? With the announcement of the Intel chip based Macbook, the door is now open for running the […]

Morning Person?

Thursday, January 12th, 2006

Wow, sounds like everyone’s better off just sleeping-in than trying to rush into the office if you’re still a little groggy… If it takes a while to clear the cobwebs after waking up, that’s understandable — “sleep inertia” leaves some people so groggy they might as well be drunk, researchers said on Tuesday. Study: Waking […]