Hillary Special
Saturday, January 28th, 2006Whether or not you agree with Hillary Clinton’s politics, this KFC sign is just plain funny (courtesy of Facts, Jokes N Fun).
Archive for January, 2006
Increased CD-R Lifespan
Thursday, January 26th, 2006
With all the reports about CD-Rs only lasting a few years, the disc vendors are taking note. TDK claims its discs will last 70 years, and Memorex has come out with a gold-based CD-R.
Russia Aims For the Moon
Thursday, January 26th, 2006
Russia is planning to have an active moonbase and mining facility by 2020. In light of China and Japan’s efforts, I think we might actually make it back to the moon before I hit retirement age.
Zero to 60 in 5 Seconds—On a Bicycle!
Wednesday, January 25th, 2006Rocket scientists and their toys…
Text Messaging Via Email
Wednesday, January 25th, 2006
I can’t say I’m big on text messaging—if I have something to say, I just call or email the person. That said, this site provides an easy and free way to send text messages from your computer. You just send the message as an email to
<phone_number>@teleflip.com
(where “<phone_number>” is a 10-digit phone number without dashes). I tried it with my own number, and it worked fine.
Virus Anniversary
Tuesday, January 24th, 2006
A short read about the origin of computer viruses, on the 20th anniversary of the first one.
House of Cards
Saturday, January 21st, 2006This guy has developed a way to make some amazing and very stable structures out of standard playing cards.
Fun Mensa Test
Friday, January 20th, 2006Here’s a fairly quick and fun Mensa test. I was able to answer 19 of them.
The answers can be found at this link. There are several I’d never heard of. And I object to the ones requiring knowledge of British culture.
US Gov’t Subpoenas Google Search Records
Friday, January 20th, 2006
This is disturbing in two ways: first because the government is trying to access Google’s search records, and second because Google keeps a record of everyone’s searches. I have a feeling that Google is going to lose this one.
2.5 Billion Cell Phone Subscribers
Friday, January 20th, 2006
2.5 billion didn’t seem like a huge amount, until I realized it was approximately 35 percent of the world’s population. Pretty amazing, considering cell phones have only been around for a couple decades.
Pentium No More
Tuesday, January 17th, 2006The end of an era, for sure.
The Last Page of the Internet
Tuesday, January 17th, 2006
This must be the home page for Douglas Adams’ restaurant at the end of the universe.
