Friday, June 30th, 2006
Three girl connection
Compare “Three Girl Rhumba” by Wire to Elastica’s “Connection”.
Friday, June 30th, 2006
Compare “Three Girl Rhumba” by Wire to Elastica’s “Connection”.
Friday, June 30th, 2006
Do you find CNET video reviews helpful or at least interesting? Would you like your 15 SECONDS of fame? ShopWiki, which I posted earlier this week, now has video reviews for any product contained within their database. They are paying $50 to the first 500 accepted video reviews. And yes, you can submit multiple reviews.
Thursday, June 29th, 2006
Not to be paranoid, but is giving Google your credit card to hold really the best idea? Google Checkout seems to think so.
Thursday, June 29th, 2006
Snap the correct pictures: Zoo Tycoon 2 Photo Safari.
Thursday, June 29th, 2006
Thursday, June 29th, 2006
The History of Toys and Games via The History Channel.
Thursday, June 29th, 2006
If you want a wood carved replica of a Commodore 64 keyboard you may want to reply to a 419 scam.
Wednesday, June 28th, 2006
There was some problems with the MySQL server I use for this site today so no posts (I’m leaving for work now). Back tomorrow!
Shameless plug: I started a new mp3blog over at www.pressrandom.com if you’re looking for music.
Tuesday, June 27th, 2006
After watching Jimi Hendrix on the Dick Cavett Show I headed to the Wikipedia where I found out he was once kidnapped for two days. Bizarre.
Tuesday, June 27th, 2006
Songbirdnest looks like an interesting music player. It’s indexing my music collection now and I’ll report in if it causes any problems.
Tuesday, June 27th, 2006
This is a huge selection of full-length cartoons that are hosted on YouTube. They have South Park’s “Woodland Critter Christmas” so I have at least one to watch again.
Monday, June 26th, 2006
13 things that do not make sense. This is from the New Scientist Space website so it’s pretty serious.
Monday, June 26th, 2006
The NNDB is a people database focusing on people they deem noteworthy. There’s a “news” section that pointed me to Aaron Spelling where I found out he was married to Carolyn Jones, otherwise known as Morticia Addams. That strikes me as crazy for some reason, don’t ask.
Monday, June 26th, 2006
I haven’t posted much lately, but thought I would begin Monday by geeking out with some new and old personal faves.
Frankly I am on the fence with the influx of Social websites and bookmarking software. Its all very cool, but so overwhelming. Plus you need to sign up for each one- what a pain! But with the 2-year old Yelp, it’s at least functional with finding local businesses on a modified google map. Idealab’s Insiderpages is moving in a similar direction.
A real old standby of mine is Michael Fagan’s Fagan Finder’s URLinfo. Rather than try to summarize, here it is from the horse’s mouth: “URLinfo is a tool for handling web pages, such as finding information about it, translating it, finding related pages, etc. To use it, type a URL (web page address) into the box in the top frame. Then choose a tab (such as General or Cache), and click on the name of the specific tool you wish to use. ” Be sure to use the bookmarklet too!
So new, the launch date hits today! Jellyfish is yet another shopping engine (various interviews and thoughts on its pre-launch, including references to Jellyfish’s Blog posts) that is claiming to be a “Robin-Hood-like search engine …SHARING at least half of every $1 they earn when you shop and buy products using Jellyfish.com (they have a handful of stores that won’t allow them to share, so when you buy from them they can’t give cash back, but you will always see clearly the amount of cash back you get on any purchase). ” I’ve been looking for an upright freezer for awhile now and the results came back with zilch, but I’m willing to wait things out if not at least for curiosity.
Here some other cool shopping sites I’ve been using lately: auction/classified focused Mpire and ShopWiki which has a new sweet color-enhanced search engine.
Enjoy not getting nothing done today….Paul
Friday, June 23rd, 2006
647 “street names” for marijuana in the shape of a leaf. “Goblet of Jam” is a definitely a new one to me.