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Sourceforge Website Redesign

• Sourceforge Website Redesign • Microsoft on Twitter • Facebook for iPhone 3.0 • O2 wins exclusive Palm Pre deal • Q2 2009 Spam Trends • Improving Sharing Through Control, Simplicity and Connection • Hulu to work with British ISPs on imminent UK launch • Morgan Stanley: Mac shipments...

Jackson downloads soar

Just days following his death, Michael Jackson's albums sold at 100,000 apiece, according to news reports . And according to preliminary sales numbers from Nielsen SoundScan, as reported here , there were 2.6 million downloads of his work in just one week. The week before, only 48,000 Mich...

Jackson's estate: the blooduckers zero in

Michael Jackson had a weird life so it's not surprising that the story about the battle over his estate is getting stranger by the day. Now we are told that no will for Jackson has emerged and that his father, Joe Jackson, has issued a statement saying he and his wife, Katherine, have the...

Hands-on with Wave: Weird and quite wonderful

• Hands-on with Wave: Weird and quite wonderful • Google Squared • 天涯调整业务重心 将在全国建立销售团队 • 创业，你准备好了吗？ • 新闻集团证实DirecTV CEO归来 7月1日上任 • Bing vs. Google face-off, round 3 • gReactions • TweetMyPC 2.0 Update Released • Tweetree Puts Actual Shared Content In Your Twitter Stream • CrunchPa...

Oprah Hearts Skype

Oprah dedicated her show today to singing the praises of Skype . "On the show, titled ' Where the Skype Are You? ,' Winfrey conducts video chats - via Skype - with people in weird places," writes the WSJ's Geoffrey A. Fowler . "Those places include a Canadian...

Peanut Butter Bullying Among Adults

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Image# 3245418 How many times have we heard of food allergies being used as weapons for bullying? Too many. But this has got to be one of the most nutty (pun intended) I've ever encountered: Ex-Fiance Accused Of Using Woman's Nut Allergy As Weapon To Harm...

Young Women Drinking Heavily, Not Impressing The Men

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Image# 2869288 Young women in college are drinking heavily under the misconception that doing so is sexually attractive and impresses their male counterparts . However, a survey of 3,616 college students at two American universities revealed that the men are no...

Some thoughts as the month ends

-The survey question this week was how often do you answer surveys. That's just an odd questions - they can tell that from the system's data and honestly, people reporting their own data is usually not completely accurate. Were they out of good questions this week? -So bingo is now limiting...

Three Major Engines Now Recognize Canonical URL Tag

The canonical url tag has been around for a while, but it is about to become much more important in optimizing your websites for use by search engines, according to SEOmozBlog . Search Engine Journal carried a news story earlier this month on the announcement by Google, Yahoo!, and Live regard...

Kindle 2 is Non-Officially Official

Truth be told, I love my Amazon Kindle. I use it nearly everyday. I thought the idea of an ebook was going to be a gimmick, and it was, but it was a very successful gimmick. The Amazon Kindle got me to read more and spend more on written material than I have in a very long time. Now, the rumor ...

RFID: A real solution to prevent spread of AIDS?

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Image# 387925 I would rate this as one of the weirdest use of technology if it gets the approval!!! Papua province of Indonesia is in the process of passing a law which would require HIV patients to be implanted with microchips in order to prevent infection fr...

Date My Ex

If you've tried every method of dating imaginable, perhaps you should try dating your friend's ex. In fact, wouldn't it be great for your friend to bring all their ex's, and you could bring all of yours, and the two of you could have a pick from each of your... leftovers (for lac...

Everyday iLow Prices on iPhones!?!

© cookieevans5 I wrote a few months ago regarding how the iPhone flood was coming. Back then, Apple was poised to sell 10,000,000 iPhones this year. Well, some people think that Apple has already met that goal for this year, and is now sailing past it. So, I get it, iPhones are not sheik,...

Protecting your Assetts

Are you doing everything possible to protect your assets? Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Evgeny Terentyev If you have an invention you are trying to sell or your looking for investors in your business you need to take your assets seriously. How many times have you heard of ideas being stole...

Lonely?

© Michael448 Is your business causing loneliness? For those of us that work from home, it can get Lonely when the only thing you have in front of you is your computer. Families may lesson the problem but you still have many hours of having no interaction except with the computer. Afte...

Latest Celebrity Style Screw-Ups

What the...? Man, I'm sorry but that's just too weird. Maybe I'm too old to appreciate it, but that's one bizarre head of hair. And, oh yeah, the makeup, I think this guy has a girl tucked away inside. What can I say? This is a clear case of "One picture being worth 10,00...

Tikitag: Connection between online and offline world

You need a Tikitag? The unusual name must have aroused your curiosity till now. Tikitag (weird but certainly a cute name) implements RFID technology to create a connection between offline devices and the online world. You can place these tags with information on certain products such as business car...

Do You Wear Your Engagement Ring?

I never knew that anyone felt ambivalent about wearing their engagement ring until I read this weddingbee post . The comments are very interesting and let me know that not every engaged woman feels comfortable sporting a big rock on her hand. Granted, when I first got engaged many moons ago, I f...

Ex-Tyco CEO Kozlowski: still trying to get out

Weird days in the US justice system with former Tyco CEO Dennis Kozlowski and his chief numbers man Mark Swartz demanding that the New York State Court of Appeals throw out their convictions. This is someone who got an 8 to 25 year sentence for plundering shareholders of $400 million and l...

Happy Birthday Michael Jackson! [Geburtstag]

Heute am 29.08.2008 hat der, damals, selbsternannte " King of Pop" Michael Jackson Geburtstag. 50 wird der, oft unter Beschuss gestandene, "Megastar". Von Michael Jackson mag man halt was man will. Die einen mögen ihn immer noch während ihm andere den Rücken zugekehrt habe...

Microsoft's Blue Track says good bye to the Laser?

Microsoft has recently been running a weird ad campaign recently with poster-like posts that have a weird logo plus writing that reads: "Say Goodbye to Laser". Considering that a lot of our technology is based on lasers, I can't imagine saying good-bye to them anytime soon. ...

Handy der Woche: Nokia N79

In dieser Woche ist es mir wirklich schwer gefallen, ein handy der Woche zu küren. Das liegt vermutlich daran, dass aus dem Hause Nokia gleich zwei absolute Top-Geräte vorgestellt wurden. Ich habe mal eher gelost als dass ich echte Argumente vorbringen könnte und so darf sich das N79 über d...

Zone ZUP8020 Multifunctional Mouse Pad

The Zone ZUP8020 Multifunctional Mouse Pad is a pad that any mouse would be proud to live on. Seriously, if computer mice were celebrities, then you would definitely be seeing the Zone ZUP8020 on an episode of MTV's Cribs . Take a look at the picture and get a load of the specs. It has f...

Golf And Other Weird Stuff In Las Vegas

Here's the latest in oddities from Las Vegas, the city where you can find anything and everything. Now, bear in mind that when I say 'The latest oddities" I'm referring to the latest ones I came across, which means that they may have occurred any number of years ago. Still, fo...

JavaFX SDK not available on Linux

Uploaded with plasq 's Skitch ! Two years in the making and Sun Microsystems finally unwrapped a preview version of the JavaFX SDK to allow developers to start playing with it and developing cool applications. Some folks say that this is too late considering that players such as ...

Armpit Adertising Captures the Imagination

If you think that watching advertisements is the pits, then vote now. Deodorant Manufacturer Right Guard was the first to raise their hand and agree. In fact, they have pitted themselves against against all other deodorant manufacturers and caused a stink with their new ad campaign. Right Gua...

Rumor: MacBook touch Coming in October

• Rumor: MacBook touch Coming in October • WordPress 1.0 blogging tool for iPhone 3G • Facebook 新版 Notes 发布可选择显示模式：全部、摘要以及单行提示 • 3 Ways to Make More Money Blogging • Researcher's hypothesis may expose uber-secret DNS flaw • The Death of Google's Patents • 卡巴斯基误杀奇虎360风波调查 • ...

For the Fashionistas: Fashionation

This site is supremely cool for anyone who cares about fashion- Fashionation is fresh, it's hip, and why why why didn't I learn about it earlier? This fresh site scoops together the very nicest editorials (and some wildly weird ones as well) to make sure that our thirst for fashion is...

Slot Machines Rule In Atlantic City

Slot machines were king in the then new atlantic city casinos when I lived in New Jersey and they still are. Back then, a slot machine, was a slot machine, and there wasn't much of a difference among machines other than the denomination, and the number of "pay" lines. Playe...

Shampoo-less Hair Washing

© desi.italy I was talking to a girlfriend this weekend and we got on the topic of dry shampoo. An odd creation to be sure, but one that can come in handy when you're traveling. Now, I had heard of using talcum powder or corn starch and combing it out, but then you have residue is...

Where is Classmates.com?

Is it just me or has Classmates.com been missing? I can't get to their site no matter what I try. I received a notification from Classmates.com a couple weeks ago telling me about their new, free, friends feature. I wanted to give it a try and then tell you all about it. Free, that's for m...

法国电信 420 亿美元洽购瑞典最大电信公司

法国电信420亿美元洽购瑞典最大电信公司 Make Your Own Coat Of Arms Rain被女"跟踪狂"骚扰五年 The Next-Gen Web: HTML5 - Will We Ever See A Real Standard? 3G iPhone to go for €100/£100, less with contracts? 2008第四届中国网络社区发展状况调查简介 铁通移动合并已上报 一两个月内将完成重组 Google Gadgets for Linux Flock 1.2 Bakes Social Networ...

The Little Mermaids Birthday - a fin and a tale

The Little Mermaid in Copenhagen will be 95 years of age on the 23 August 2008. The statue, by the Danish sculptor Edvard Eriksen, was presented to the city by the Carlsberg Brewery on August 23 1913. The tragic heroine of the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale gazes wistfully in search of her Princ...

Digital Photo Urn helps you remember your pets

This Digital Photo Urn is designed to allow you to relive the good times you had with your pet long after it's passed away....and contain your pets ashes. The somewhat disturbing urn holds the remains of your pet and then has a digital photo frame on the front to continuously show photos of ...

'Bed and Bizarre' or 'Weird and Wonderful' Lodging Options in Michigan

© vanz As reported by traveling coach Kim Schneider , there are various creative lodging options in Michigan - offering a taste of offbeat in travel. In Michigan, if you look a bit, you'll find a remodeled boathouse-turned scenic island-in-itself . Or build your travel tale repertoi...

No More Heroes Review

Image from IGN.com I bit the bullet and finally gave No More Heroes a rental. I'm going to have a much longer critical analysis on my personal blog , but for the purposes of House of Nintendo, I'm going to focus this on the its gameplay merits for the most part. No More Heroes has a go...

Installing Linux on Windows XP Home-based Eee PC 900 Part 1

I was able to get a review unit of the Asus Eee PC 900 last week but the review unit I got had Windows XP Home pre-installed. Being an ABM (Anything BUT Microsoft) kinda guy, I immediately decided to reformat it and install linux . First choice is Xandros Linux, the default Linux dis...

Digital Frame To Hold Your Deceased Pet's Ashes

Digital Picture Frames are some of the best ways people are using to display their memories these days. I suppose some people's best memories are of their pets, and so it stands to reason that someone would invent a digital picture frame that would hold their pet's ashes. This...

Ori Ori Mochi Mochi: Origami Phone of the Future

Remember that pre- Matrix keanu reeves movie Johnny Mnemonic , the one that showed us that the Internet of the future is accessed via virtual reality and is some weird origami interface. I believe this film was supposed to take place in 1995, and that vision never came to pass. This...

优秀 Web 设计：Weird template for 4T

Weird template for 4T by ~ nodethirtythree on deviant ART

五大超级懒人发明

　　有些发明是必要的，比如电视机的遥控器。如果没有它，你就无法充分享受电视带来的乐趣，因为转台是极其痛苦的事，你必须要离开舒适的沙发及可口的薯片。但如果一些发明过于体贴懒人，那它们就将会成为"懒人发明"。比如： *声控/遥控电灯开关-坐在沙发上开关灯 *自动搅拌杯-手可以退休了 *旋转叉子-吃意粉不用烦了 *旋转冰淇淋杯筒-舌头省力了 *同时喝汽水及吃薯片的杯-全省了 　　这些超级懒人发明，你可以在下面这个视频里看到演示： 　　当然，如果要买，你最好整套购买，因为那样效果最好。：Ｄ 　　你只需注意一点，那便是拥有越多这样的产品，你就会越懒。最后看起来像是...

Jajah bags Yahoo

Jajah is taking yet another milestone - 10 Mio users (that is downloads I guess) and integration into yahoo messenger . The Jajah guys are really pushing the already impressive success story. Yahoo's PhoneIn/PhoneOut was never a real hit but with Jajah it may only get better: The ...

Dry shampoo, your new friend.

You know when you just don't want to get out of bed and the alarm goes off and you just keep hitting the snooze button? You hit so often and loose track up time and before you know it you only have 15 minutes to get out the door? Yeah, it's fun right? Well I have a little trick for you, one ...

More Twitter Growing Pains

Chances are, if you use Twitter heavily like I do, you noticed all kinds of weird things over the past several days. Twitter did some maintenance Friday night, which isn't all that unusual. After that maintenance, most people's updates were not showing up properly on people's timelin...

More Twitter Growing Pains

Chances are, if you use Twitter heavily like I do, you noticed all kinds of weird things over the past several days. Twitter did some maintenance Friday night, which isn't all that unusual. After that maintenance, most people's updates were not showing up properly on people's timelin...

Wedding Cake Toppers for the Unconventional

Having an unconventional wedding? The thought of churches, bridesmaid dresses , limo rides and flowery bouquets not what you have planned? If so, you may have cake at your wedding, but the topper won't be a plain old bride and groom. Not for you. If you're into weird, wacky and slig...

Need more proof that the gaming media can't stand Wii?

Image from amazon.com Running like a speeding bullet from the blogosphere is the latest slam on Wii from a games industry hotshot, this time the villain being the president of Epic Games (note: I liked it better when they were Epic Megagames!). I'm not so much interested in Epic's anti-W...

MySpace: Hidden Camera and Games

Here are two really great MySpace features. Hidden Camera This is where they play a prank on someone and tape the whole thing. Then you get to watch as the poor person is duped. Some of the videos are just plain silly. Others are just plain weird. If you need a laugh, this is the way to go. Tu...

What's On The Horizon? The Top Five Best Lookin' Wii Games

Image from IGN.com With so many big Wii titles already released (with one big exception), one can wonder what is left to look forward to? Let's take a look at some exciting titles coming out for Wii during the rest of the spring and summer: 1. Mario Kart Wii Yep, the last big blast in Ninten...

Bargain Finds Among Las Vegas More Expensive Haunts

Prices have gone up in Las Vegas, for everything, just as they have for everything else, everywhere else. It's a sign of the times but boy am I glad that the Federal Government says there isn't any inflation. I'd be real upset if all these price hikes were the result of inflation, r...

Reader email- boots!

Dear Ryan, When is it time to stop wearing your leather boots? I love them so much but I don't want to be the weird boot lady in the summer. Please help! stacy Stacy, What a great question! One I am struggling with myself actually. Well, I think boots are ok until like Mayish...

Tagged by Allergizer: The 7 Random Things About Me

Hey...April Fools' Day is over and here comes another month. Hello, Spring! Done your spring cleaning already? Anyways...to start the month off, lemme answer the tag by Ruth of Allergizer . 1. Link to the person that tagged you and post the rules on your blog. 2. Share seven random and/...

Reader email- letting go of the boot.

Dear Ryan, When is it time to stop wearing your leather boots? I love them so much but I don't want to be the weird boot lady in the summer. Please help! - stacy Stacy, What a great question! One I am struggling with myself actually. Well, I think boots are ok until like Mayish...

Tagged: 7 Things

Last week I was tagged by Ruth, a fellow Creative Weblogging contributor who writes for a site called Allergizer . There's a lot of great information there if you suffer from allergies. I am to reveal Seven Weird and Random Things About Me . And there are rules... THE RULES: 1. Link to the...

Tagged: 7 Random Things About Me

This is in response to Ria's tag : 1. Link to the person that tagged you and post the rules on your blog. 2. Share seven random and/or weird things about yourself. 3. Tag seven people at the end of your post and include links to their blogs. 4. Let each person know that they have been t...

Wikinomics: a review

The book by Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams describes Wikinomics as the "new art and science of collaboration". Actually, it actually has strong echoes of CK Prahalad and Venkat Ramaswamy's excellent 2004 book The Future of Competition . Still, they manage to build a compellin...

Paris Hilton To Pick New "BFF" On TV Reality Show

There's a new Reality TV show on the horizon that I think will be quite different from the usual fare. Everyone knows that Paris Hilton's longtime friendship with Nicole Richie , her first, "BFF", or "Best Friend for Life", has gone south. For a brief time she ...

Jeff Pulver And The Personal Social Networking Toolkit

Jeff Pulver is responsible for, among other things, creating the VON trade show for the Voice over IP industry. In what is a first for me, I am going to attend the VON.x conference in San Jose this week! I am not going to be there for the entire thing as I have other work I am doing up the ...

Take an i-Spin from Sega Toys

It seems like everything makes a comeback eventually. For example, those weird Coke Cans, "Boppin Flowers", and other nifty devices that would move to the beat of your music. Well, these devices have received an update for the new millennium with the i-Spin. The i-Spin is this speaker...

Softbank Toshiba 815T PB

So kann man ein Handy auch präsentieren: Softbank zeigt das neue Toshiba 815T PB in einer gewissermaßen vermenschlichten Version. Denn wie auf dem Foto erkennbar, lässt sich das Gerät wie eine Actionfigur ausklappen. Übergizmo formuliert es so: It looks rather weird with all the limbs displ...

Nokia Working on Super Flexible Mobile Phone

Nokia has another futuristic mobile phone concept that might possibly redefine the way we use mobile phones. Introducing Morph - a joint project joint nanotechnology model created by Nokia Research Center and the University of Cambridge. Morph is a concept that demonstrates how future mobile de...

Skiing: On Plastic?!

Photo (c) Alexandra Skiing in South America isn't something that you might set out to find, but the Brazilians know how to do things right, and they definitely make this work, too. Nubbly plastic ski slopes make for easy gliding in Sao Roque, which is in Sao Paulo state and a qu...

Digital Music to wipe the floor with CDs soon?

A new analyst's report (oh how we do love them), has claimed that by 2012 digital music sales will have surpassed CD sales. This distresses me in a number of ways, firstly because, I personally like my physical product, which I can store on my shelf and look at now and again, but more...

PaintPod helps you paint your walls

The PaintPod system by dulux is designed for do-it yourself painters who want to keep it clean. The device pumps paint directly onto it's paint roller at the perfect rate so you don't end up with those pesky drips on the floor, or weird splotches on your wall where you had just a l...

A Tale of Two Babies

I was surfing the web the other day, and I happened upon an ad for Crave Entertainment's "Baby Pals" game for DS. Before we get going keep in mind that I'm not saying that I like to play these games. I haven't in fact played them. I only mention this because I have defended c...

Putters - A World of Weird

Courtesy: Hookedongolfblog.com The science of metallurgy has taken golf equipment forward in leaps and bounds in the past 10 years. The use of titanium and other even stranger sounding metals, cutting-edge welding techniques and so forth have given us clubs that do result in longer shot...

Cool and Weird: Bionic Golf Gloves

Bionic Gloves are just too cool. Sure, they may not give you super powers or even some powers, but they beat the heck out of a callous-covered grip. Bionic Gloves have gotten rave reviewes, and since they've been engineered by an orthopedic hand surgeon, they've got the technology to ...

The Struggle With Skepticism

A comment on an earlier post asked if I would round out my time here by writing more about some personal experiences and insights. I'll try my best, and I'll start with the aspect of my personality that is at once my greatest source of both joy and pain - my skepticism. I will admit that I ...

Gap Maternity Jeans

I'm a jeans-and-sneakers type of gal, and I'm not willing to change that just because I'm pregnant. I just scored myself a couple of pairs of jeans from Gap Maternity . I've previously bought another brand of maternity jeans with the waistband reaching just below the be...

Here is our Weekly Saturday Weird but True Automotive Story

This is a tale of two knuckleheads - Late last Sunday night, two 21-year-old Bellevue Washington dealership employees got a great idea. An Infiniti G35 had just been traded in, and one can guess that their discussion somehow gravitated to street racing . So, who would know - they decided ...