Musings of an Internet Traveler
I’ve been meaning to write about the passing of Bobby Fischer for awhile. I used to be quite the avid chess player, and while I was never any good, Bobby Fischer always fascinated me. While not someone to be emulated(his erratic behavior often included anti-semitic comments), his match with 1972 match with Boris Spassky was […]
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Please Save Scrabulous, Join the Save Scrabulous Facebook Group, Hasbro Sends DMCA Notice to Facebook, Sign This Petition to Save Scrabulous: As of this post the group is up to 45,047 members and 1,109 wall posts and a heated thread that talks about not saving Scrabulous.Mike Huckabee, The Elephant in the Room: The updates on […]
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Of the 152 product recalls between January and June of 2007, 104 were products of China, while these recalls weren’t just limited to food and drug products, China has gotten a black eye when it comes to product safety.
So its only with a little humour that I read that China manufacturers are going kosher […]
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Since I originally wrote the piece regarding Hasbro’s contacting of Facebook with regard to Scrabulous, I have discovered a group on Facebook that serves as a petition to save the application. If you’re interested in helping to save save this great Facebook app, join the Save Scrabulous group and spread the word to all of […]
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Can you believe it? Its been five years since Trogdor, one of the most famous old internet memes was created. Some readers may be unfamiliar with Homestar Runner, but it used to be one of most visited comidic sites before the days of Ask a Ninja, LOLCats, and even web 2.0. The Trogdor song was […]
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2008 Presidential Race: Now With Kung-Fu Action Grip, KungFuElection.com: Apparently the original lyrics were “Replace these pricks, who will you pick?”, which became, “Replac them with…? Who will you pick?”
In the Future Your Computer Will be a Bigass Table: Microsoft Surface at CES: Stuff still hasn’t gotten the Surface video up on their site that […]
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Ever since Robert Scoble got banned from Facebook, the idea of data portability has been abuzz all over the internet, the idea that one should be able to take their data anywhere. It started last week with Facebook being invited to join the Data Portability Workgroup. After that, Facebook, Google, and Plaxo joined the group. […]
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I was listening to POTUS 2008 coverage on XM on my commute the other day and they were talking to the runner of a betting service in Ireland that paid out on Barack Obama winning the democratic nomination all told, the bookmaker, Paddy Power paid out 50,000 Euros(~75,000 USD). Apprently the U.S. election is big […]
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First off, don’t worry, all the links in this article are safe for work. It’s been a busy few days in the HD format war, it all started with the Financial Times reporting that Paramount was poised to switch from HD DVD to Blu-Ray, and that Paramount has a clause in their contract that allows […]
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Everyone was elated when Sony became the last studio to back DRM-free music. But it isn’t really, instead they are forcing consumers to visit a store to get a download card for albums, a very limited number of albums at this point(37).
Whats the point of that? If I have to go to a store to […]
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