The Rigged-Up Net

So, what is the FeedMesh? OK, here is the basic idea: When a blog is updated it pings—sends a signal—to a number of services to let them know that the content has been updated. This method, of the blog pinning the search engine, is much more efficient then the blog search engines check the blog […]

So sad – since the bulk of Tivo’s subscribers are coming from DirecTV, the fact that they aren’t going to be working together anymore is simply doom for Tivo… I guess its a good thing I’ve switched to MythTV. DirecTV to stop marketing TiVo

Accident with Policeman

Scientists have proposed two new techniques for growing meat in a lab by a process that could one day make beef cows obsolete. Cow-free Beef Proposed

Bad Cop

Prius is comfortable, a festival of technology and unquestionably cleaner-burning than the VW can be today with only high-sulfur diesel fuel available. But the real-world mileage of pleasant-driving Jetta was better than that of Prius, and diesel fuel typically was 16% to 20% cheaper than unleaded gas. Jetta lived up to its one-tank billing. Prius […]

This is really slow on my Nokia 6820, but it does work…. I think this is actually the first useful app I’ve ever installed on this S40 phone. Mobile GMaps is a free piece of software that displays Google Maps and Keyhole satellite imagery on Java J2ME-enabled mobile phones or other devices Mobile GMaps

Pulp Fiction Tune Played With A Kitchen Blender

This is a collection of pinouts that I’ve gathered over the years and umpteen hours of buzzing out cables Chan’s Pinouts Page

Classic99 is a freeware TI-99/4A emulator for Windows 9x. Classic99 runs most stuff fine Classic99

This four-step wizard will guide you through the process of creating a new SPF record for your DNS domain. Sender ID Framework SPF Record Wizard

Art of Moving was established in 1987 to make the moving experience more manageable and reliable. We move every day and each project is informed by the hundreds of relocations we have completed over the years, throughout the country. Art of Moving

Certain items in your house practically scream “toss me” when their prime has passed. That mysterious extra white layer on the Cheddar? A sure sign it needs to be put out of its misery. Chunky milk? Down the drain it goes. Surprising Expiration Dates

Greylisting is a new method of blocking significant amounts of spam at the mailserver level, but without resorting to heavyweight statistical analysis or other heuristical (and error-prone) approaches. Consequently, implementations are fairly lightweight, and may even decrease network traffic and processor load on your mailserver. Greylisting

US scientists have succeeded in reviving the dogs after three hours of clinical death, paving the way for trials on humans within years. Boffins create zombie dogs

Deutsche Telekom (DTEGn.DE) has been sounding out institutional investors on whether to sell off U.S. mobile operator T-Mobile USA or spend billions of dollars to expand the business, according to fund managers. Deutsche Telekom may sell T-Mobile USA

Regular doses of vitamin C will not prevent a cold in most people – though they might reduce its duration slightly, according to a major new review of existing research. Regular vitamin C does not prevent colds

Imagine a light bulb that lasts 10 years and consumes only 2-3 watts of power… LED technology has made it possible! These LED replacement bulbs are smaller than standard bulbs and screw into standard light sockets. Perfect for hard-to-reach installations where bulbs are difficult to change. If left on for 12 hours a day for […]

If you’re building a MythTV box and you don’t have enough tuners, here’s a really good deal on PVR-250’s for $80/each… which is a crazy great price for them. Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-250 TV Tuner Card $80 at AscendTech.us

Plug Forward Express is showing up on Palmgear, it’s new and looks interesting. Save your minutes! Now you can have your calls automatically forwarded to a land line while your Treo™ smartphone is plugged in. Plug Forward Express

Good GOD! My damn Treo just rebooted upon trying to answer a call… what a piece of CRAP!

The new podcasting support in iTunes 4.9 is sweet… just remember to update your ipod as well, otherwise you won’t see a “podcast” catagory on it – it wasn’t clear to me that you had to upgrade both iTunes and the iPod (they’re separate downloads, in separate sections of the website). Now I can finally […]

Ever since Yahoo acquired San Francisco e-mail provider Oddpost last summer, we’ve been anxious to see how it intended to take the Oddpost technology and apply it to Yahoo Mail. The wait is finally over. We got a peek at the new Yahoo Mail today. And the company is announcing tonight the upcoming start of […]

Inconsistencies and a culture of non-standardization pervades TSA screenings — and Audi keys aren’t allowed either Put Down Your Key And No One Will Be Hurt

South Korea’s love for cabbage — the key ingredient in its national dish, kimchi — apparently doesn’t extend to the baseball field. Koreans Nix Cabbage Inside Baseball Caps

This was driving me nuts just today on the freeway: The reason talking on a cell phone makes drivers less safe may be that the brain can’t simultaneously give full attention to both the visual task of driving and the auditory task of listening, a study by a Johns Hopkins University psychologist suggests. Lab findings […]

I’m sitting in my doctor’s waiting room, and there’s free wifi here…. thats very cool. Now, waiting for the doctor is no big deal… sweet! 🙂

This is VERY funny… An actual note written by a Continental Airlines passenger sitting in seat 29E. Complaint from Seat 29E

Married men earn more than bachelors so long as their wives stay at home doing the housework, according to a report Wednesday from Britain’s Institute for Social and Economic Research Married men earn more if wives do the chores?

Man, I never had these many problems with my PPC… Evidentally, you cannot open PDF’s on a Palm device without converting them to a Palm-PDF first – how retarded is that? Support Knowledge Library Solution ID: 32960 ‘Adobe Reader: Failed to receive beamed document,’ then ‘Transfer: Error: Database: corrupt database (0x0209)’ (when receiving a PDF […]

These are pretty funny… REAL INCOMING CALLS AT A PIZZA JOINT

A study of smells shows that the scent of grapefruit on women make them seem younger to men — about six years younger Grapefruit May Make Women Seem Younger

Looks like the new upgrade has made my Treo650 pretty stable… It hasn’t crashed since the upgrade, and even the bluetooth DUN is flawless now. Its very cool, but now I’m thinking it would be silly to replace it with a PPC PDA phone since it (finally) works as advertised now. I guess I’ll just […]

The new 1.13 firmware for the Unlocked GSM Treo 650 is finally here… yay! Perhaps it will fix the constant rebooting and sound problems. Treo 650 Updater 1.13

Is your agent really working for the enemy? A user’s guide to home economics (and how to beat the expert industry). Cracking the Real Estate Code

Useless Facts

Among Texas cities, Austin made a clean sweep in a new ranking of the country’s cleanest metropolitan areas. Study: Austin one of country’s cleanest cities

Whaaat?! “Li’l Jon in high school. He wasen’t skeeting on anybody.”

Dude! Where’s my Lighsaber?!

What a way to lose a race… oh boy Premature Celebration