How cool, AirSwimmers has an interesting take on an indoors remote-controlled airship. They make them in the shape of fish (Shark and Clownfish), and you propel them by waving their tail back and forth.
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Air Swimmers – cruise a shark around your house!
August 15, 2011
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Netflix – rate changes
July 13, 2011
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I received an email from Netflix yesterday advising me that they are discontinuing the $9.99/mo program I originally signed up for. This gave me unlimited streaming and 1 DVD at a time checkout (unlimited per month, I think). They told me they were going to split my plan into TWO plans: 1) Unlimited streaming for [...]
Prius carpool lane stickers – End of an era
July 6, 2011
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I drive a Toyota Prius which I purchased back in 2005. At that time, California DMV had an incentive program for low-emissions cars. They allowed you to purchase a carpool lane access sticker which allowed you to drive in the carpool lane by yourself. I was just moving to the mountains, but still working in [...]
Are you getting old?
June 23, 2011
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I’m not sure which is a more sad indication of advancing age… needing to take naps, or the blithe acceptance of needing to take naps.
Edgar Müeller – Street art
June 17, 2011
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Edgar Müeller is one of an elite group of artists who create 3D masterpieces on streets with chalk. These images have to be viewed from a certain angle for the effect to work. Looking at them from a side angle shows a very weird, distorted picture. Since 1998 Edgar Müller has held the title of [...]
Jetman’s Grand Canyon overflight
May 17, 2011
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French pilot Yvess Rossy strapped a small wing and a jet engine to his back, launched from a helicopter at 8,000 feet and overflew the grand canyon about 200 feet above the rim. His flight reached speeds of 190 mph and lasted for more than 8 minutes! He then deployed his parachute and landed on [...]
Rube Goldberg – hilarious inventions
May 16, 2011
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Many people refer to complicated processes as “Rube Goldberg” devices, but a lot of folks haven’t actually seen Mr Goldberg’s cartoons. They are admittedly a little dated these days, but still definitely a lot of fun and quite amusing. Check out www.rubegoldberg.com and see for yourself!
Sidebar gadgets burning up your CPU in Windows 7?
April 22, 2011
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I have a problem sometimes with gadgets malfunctioning and hogging CPU and memory resources. They don’t display properly anymore either until I restart the sidebar process. Fortunately, this is a known problem, and according to Microsoft, symptoms include: “Gadgets may appear as black squares, may appear to have vertical green lines down the center or [...]
Amazon cloud glitch highlights cloud fallibility
April 22, 2011
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According to Computerworld: “Amazon began reporting trouble on its Service Health Dashboard about 5 a.m. Eastern today [April 21, 2011]. At 5:16 a.m., the site reported connectivity issues that were affecting its Relational Database Service, which is used to manage a relational database in the cloud, across multiple zones in the eastern U.S.” Many customers [...]
GO HERE to watch all Star Trek episodes online. This is a great archive and points to video sources all over the net. They include ST Original series, as well as Next Gen and all the spinoffs! WARNING: Not all of this is hosted in one place. This means that depending on the episode, it’ll [...]
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