The other day I spent several hours looking at different notetaking/writing applications for my laptop. I wanted something that would let me take notes, jot down facts, and organize disparate information on a number of projects. I looked at a number of commercial products before revisiting the much improved wikidPad. I remember using wikidPad a…
January, 2007
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Alas, it looks like a stake has been put through the heart of any future Buffy/Angel-related live action series or movie spinoffs, but of course new Buffy materials continue to be churned out and will likely not abate for a long time. One of the most exciting such projects is what Dark Horse Comics is…
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Until literally a couple months ago, I had never used bookmarks in any incarnation of any browser. It wasn’t that I didn’t know how to use bookmarks, but that the implementation in most browsers was crappy. Even when the implementation wasn’t too shabby, a) most systems were useless once you got past a few hundred…
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Secret World is an interesting collaboration by Mercedes Lackey, Steve Libbey and others to create a shared science fiction world where metahumans (superheroes) emerge in the 1940s (much like the Wildcards series). The series is being podcasted with a new episode every week.
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Belkin now makes a clamp-on surge protector that can be attached to the back of desks, entertainment centers, and tables,
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Office Guns is the definitive guide to taking common office supplies and transforming them into potentially dangerous projectile weapons. I think I’ll stick with Nerf Guns, but this is interesting in a McGyver sort of way.
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In November, Toshiba announced that it would begin shipping high speed 8gb SD cards in January 2007. Of course, 8gb SD cards have been available for awhile, but only Class 2 cards which average about 2MB/sec write speeds. Toshiba will start making Class 4 card which average about 4MB/sec write speeds, which are much better…
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A couple weeks ago I posted about a docking station for charging multiple handheld devices. Its a bit more expensive, but Brookstone’s Charging Valet looks like a much nicer take on this sort of product,
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Moving Through Matter With Buckaroo Banzai is a nice scientific examination of the plausibility of various futuristic technologies from Buckaroo Banzai.
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NASA has a popular Astronomy Picture of the Day site, and this has to be one of the most awesome pictures to appear there yet, That’s a bucket-wheel excavator that is 200 meters long and 100 meters high. Presumably when Skynet goes online, that thing is going to kick some serious ass.