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Saturday, April 30, 2005

46 Awesome Free Programs

There are a lot of great freeware products out there. Many are as good or even better than their commercial alternatives. Here is a list of the 46 best freeware programs.

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Thursday, April 28, 2005

Forums Can Kill

This is a sad story of a man and online communities. According to the coroner he died of starvation. He was linked into to 15,250 other community members, many of whom he exchanged notes with daily. He also contributed to 375 blogs and was expected to start an online column about the impact of interactive communications on health, when he died.

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Wednesday, April 27, 2005

Poor Man's Segway

AKA Project Emanual this nifty invention combines the function of a segway with a 2 wheeled skateboard. The links contains various pictures and videos.

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Monday, April 25, 2005

The Revenge of These Green Saviors

The Laporte Report has their second podcast posted for download, 'Episode 2: The Revenge of These Green Saviors'. [link]

This week join Patrick Norton, Kevin Rose, and Leo, as they discuss journalistic credibility, car stereo support for iPods, LAN Party addiction, and more.

Adobe Photoshop CS2 New Features

An overview of the new features of Photoshop CS2, which I must say look amazing.

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PopeBenedictXVI.com Seling on eBay!

PopeBenedictXVI.com is selling on eBay. It is currently at $18,100. The seller is also funny to the third power when he replies to people's questions.

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Thursday, April 21, 2005

I made a new friend... I call him Will Farel, being that he is without a owner and extremely friendly he wonders by our house a couple times out of the week. Oh Will when will you find what you are looking for?

William Farel the Wisconsin stray

CALL the payphone by the Star Wars Campers!!

This is the number to the payphone where all the star wars fans are camping!
1-323-462-9609 expect a busy single but keep trying you'll get through.

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Tuesday, April 19, 2005

Freeheadset.org is giving away free wireless headsets

This group is trying to promote safer driving. They have headsets for all major brands of cell phones and some PDAs. They do charge shipping, but it's only $3.00. Not a bad deal!

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beck black tambourine

Looks like a Beck video run through some funky ascii-art/aalib filters. Very cool.

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Monday, April 11, 2005

The Half Bakery

Ever have a half baked idea? Well your not alone; The Half Bakery is a communal database of original, fictitious inventions, edited by its users and spanning many subjects and appetites.

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Sunday, April 10, 2005

Come sit in glowing toxic waste!

Photo of a "radium water bath" sign in Nowata Oklahoma. For a fee you could pay to sit in glowing toxic waste.

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Wednesday, April 06, 2005

Sin City Comic-To-Film Comparison

It really gives you a sense for just how painstakingly Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller went about creating this film. Some shots are very similar while others are damn near exact.

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Britney Spears and husband to star in new show

As reported by CNN; "I feel that last year the tabloids ran my life," Spears said Tuesday, in commenting on her new series, "and I am really excited about showing my fans what really happened rather than all the stories, which have been misconstrued by journalists in the past."

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Monday, April 04, 2005

Zip Zap Rap

The zip zap rap [mp3]

Sunday, April 03, 2005

Dell Inspiron 2200 notebook $599

Celeron 1.4GHz, 14.1" XGA Display, 512MB DDR Ram, 30GB Hard Drive, 802.11g Wireless all for $599. I thought about out buying a mac mini; now that just seems silly.

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3.6 million different convincing, ready-made excuses.

The excuse-o-mat... 3.6 million different convincing, ready-made excuses. More clever than you can come up with.

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Comedian Mitch Hedberg Dead

The Howard Stern Show is saddened to learn that legendary comedian Mitch Hedberg has allegedly passed away. Mitch was just on the show two weeks ago...

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Saturday, April 02, 2005

World's First Open Source Beer

Students from Copenhagen create the world's first open source beer published under a Creative Commons license.

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Friday, April 01, 2005

Google to raise GMail capacity to 2GB

Web giant to offer a bottomless cup of Web-based e-mail, dramatically raising the bar for rivals for the second time in a year.

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Top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes Of All Time

Top 100 April Fools Jokes/Hoaxes of all time.

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