Posted in Business, Gadgets, Lifestyle, Site News, Video on Nov 6th, 2007 1 Comment »
I absolutely hate it when a blog I read goes quiet for a while, and then the author writes some lame post about why he’s been absent for so long. Usually, I think to myself that I could care less about his excuses and explanations, and how I really only want more good [...]
Posted in Gadgets, Lifestyle on Oct 24th, 2007 No Comments »
On October 15th, Singapore Airlines became the first to accept delivery of the Airbus A380, the largest airliner in the world. In its most cramped configuration, carriers have the option of packing 555 people into the A380. But Singapore Airlines is taking a different tack. Beginning with their first flight, scheduled [...]
Posted in Lifestyle, Reviews on Oct 9th, 2007 1 Comment »
You may not be planning any trips right now, but this is one site you’ll definitely want to bookmark for the future. New web service TripIt makes it incredibly easy to gather all the information about a pending trip in one centralized place. You don’t even have to sign up for an account [...]
Posted in Lifestyle on Oct 2nd, 2007 No Comments »
Every time I see one of these awesome Japanese sports cars it takes me back to high school, when all my friends and I would lament the recent passing of the Toyota Supra and Mazda RX-7, and would dream of the day when the Nissan Skyline and Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution would come to the United [...]
Posted in Lifestyle on Aug 21st, 2007 1 Comment »
Microsoft has released a new service called Windows Live SkyDrive. It gives you 500MB of free webspace that can be used for personal, shared, or public storage, even allowing you set individual read/write permissions on any folder you create. Similar services have existed for a long time, but this one comes from a [...]
Posted in Design, Entertainment, Lifestyle on Aug 17th, 2007 No Comments »
One of my favorite movies as a kid was Clue. (Trivia: Clue was the first movie based on a board game). I always loved all of the various secret doorways and passages, and vowed to one day build my own house, complete with rotating fireplaces and sliding bookshelves.
Of course, I really have no [...]
Posted in Geekery, Lifestyle on Aug 12th, 2007 No Comments »
Call it a fear of commitment, a fear of needles, or a general satisfaction with the natural pastiness of my skin. No matter what you chalk it up too, I’m not much of a tattoo man myself. However, that doesn’t stop me from enjoying the sight of a good tattoo on someone else, especially [...]
Posted in Lifestyle on Jul 27th, 2007 No Comments »
Snoozester is a nifty service that allows you to schedule wake up calls, or really any kind of reminder, to be sent to you via telephone. It has a bunch of useful features, like robust call scheduling, funny characters, and what they call SecureAwake. SecureAwake is meant for heavy sleepers, in that it [...]
Posted in Lifestyle on Jul 11th, 2007 1 Comment »
Google has been looking for a way to bring Google Maps mashups (the overlay of geographic data onto google maps) to their own web site. In the past, these mashups have been hosted on other people’s sites. They’ve succeeded by giving us a new feature, the ability to add “Mapplets” to any Google [...]
Posted in Business, Entertainment, Lifestyle on Jul 11th, 2007 1 Comment »
Amazon and TiVo just made their Amazon Unbox on TiVo service (man, that really needs a better name) a whole lot more useful. For the uninitiated, the service allows you to buy or rent movies from the Amazon Unbox web site, and watch them on your TiVo. The clumsy part was that you [...]
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