The Associated Press reports that Western Digital reached an agreement in late June to settle a lawsuit involving how it counts the number of bytes that its hard drives can store. The basic problem is that OS companies like Microsoft and Apple use a binary system to count bytes, meaning a gigabyte is 1.07 billion…
August, 2006
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Megos are some of the most sought after action figures — damn I wish I still had my Spider-Man Mego. For me, Megos always rocked because they produce awesome superhero themed cars. That, and the awesome Star Trek playset. MegoMuseum.Com is dedicated to all things Mego, from the aforementioned Star Trek line to the company’s…
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Captain Nod’s website offers downloadable, printable paper models of Quake and Half-Life characters.
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Broken Saints, the Flash animated web epic comic book is now available on DVD.
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LifeHacker.Com’s Gina Trapani has a nice introduction to using e-mail filters to deal with large volumes of e-mail. The comments also include a lot of tips and suggestions on handling and filtering e-mail.
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For a very brief moment, disgraced reporter and all-around fabulist Jason Leopold was back in the news in May when he incorrectly reported that White House adviser Karl Rove had been indicted in the Valerie Plame case. Of course, Rove was not indicted in the case, and once again Leopold proved his inability to distinguish…
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There are a lot of very nice classic horror-related weblogs out there. My personal favorites include: Monster Kid Monsterama Scar Stuff
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With my comic book collection growing a bit out of control, I needed something to track all the issues I’ve got and, more importantly, the issues I still need. It’s not perfect, but ComicBase was the most full-featured, complete comic book collection tracking system I could find. The main drawback with ComicBase is the price.…
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Monster Kid Home Movies sounds like a very cool DVD, In the days before home video and camcorders the only way to capture family events and vacations was with 8mm & 16mm movie cameras and projectors. It wasn’t long before imaginative kids & teenagers were borrowing Dad’s camera to shoot their own cinematic epics. The…
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Lego’s Run was an attempt to re-shoot Logan’s Run in Legos: Very nice sets and mini-figs with a lot of attention to detail, but it looks like the project died as the site hasn’t been updated since July 2002.