Last month, I finally got myself one of the custom Katamari’s that Amy’s Babies sells on her Etsy.Com shop. I was so impressed with the Katamari, that I sent her an e-mail about getting a Little Prince to go along with the Katamari. Amy sent me a reply saying she was working on a pattern…
October, 2006
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So the Sony Reader is finally out and getting generally favorable reviews, though also with a lot of reservations. I really hoped Sony would get things right with the Reader, and they appear to have gotten a lot of things right. The thing is, I’m not so much a reader as an annotator. When I…
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You supply the images and the tagline, and The Motivator will set you up with a nice motivational poster. Nice.
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Slate’s Stefan Fatsis has the rundown on what the article bills as “the highest Scrabble score ever,” but which really appears to be just the highest score in North America. Earlier this month in a game between two lower-level players, Michael Cresta managed to score 830 points, besting the previous North American record of 770…
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I was so close to buying a Sonos system until I read about the 40,000 track limit on its hand controller. The weird thing is that I’ve read dozens of reviews of the Sonos system in computer and audio magazines and not a single one mentioned this limit. Maybe most people don’t have 40,000 tracks,…
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I haven’t been able to find a link to it online, but November issue of Previews — the enormous catalog that Diamond Distributors sends for orders to comic book stores — features Marvel comics-branded “fragrances.” At $14.95 a bottle, there will apparently be a Storm, X-Men and a Wolverine fragrances. That’s several shades of WTF.…
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Google Co-Up search went live this week and is just as awesome a search product as we’ve come to expect from Google. Like Rollyo, Google Co-Op allows the user to define a custom search engine that performs a search on a subset of websites. For example, here’s a quick custom search of Google that searches…
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Last week I mentioned the coolest Nerf gun you can actually buy in stores. Well, there’s an even cooler Nerf gun, but its built entirely from scratch — the Fast-Action Rifle. This is custom bolt-action Nerf gun that is awe-inspring in the detail. For example, check out the video of firing the gun, where the…
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For the researchers out there, The Postmodern Language Association has a nice resource for citing those usually hard-to-reference quotes that you might need to include in your next missive. For example, When citing epithets hollered out car windows: Describe the vehicle from which epithet emanated (approximations are acceptable in cases of great speed). Identify the…
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This week saw a flurry of articles on an alleged security risk — 1/3rd of workers in a survey said they write down their passwords in one form or another. Nucleus Research and KnowledgeStorm, which performed the survey, portrayed this as a serious security problem and recommended biometrics and other security methods. According to ZDNet,…