I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.I just finished watching the mid-season finale of Heroes. I’m not sure if it was better because it was a good episode or if it was better because the season finale of season one was so bad.I did like Hiro’s solution to the Adam Monroe problem and I…
SUP Acquires LiveJournal From Six Apart
SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–SUP, an international media company based in Moscow, today announced that it has acquired LiveJournal from Six Apart, Ltd. LiveJournal is one of the world’s leading global online communities, with a monthly audience of more than 18m1 unique visitors in nearly every country in the world. Additionally, SUP today launched a new U.S….
Marvin I Love You
A long time ago. Way back when I was in high school (or was it middle school) I read an interesting series of books known as the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy. It was a very good four book set.I also watched the original BBC TV series and listened to the audio drama version….
Spam Arrest LLC Wins Lawsuit against Hormel over SPAM Trademark
SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Spam Arrest LLC, which provides the popular SPAM ARREST software and services to eliminate email spam, finally won its five year legal battle against Hormel.Hormel filed suit against Spam Arrest in 2002 before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (Number: 92042134), the federal administrative court charged with overseeing the national trademark office, alleging canned…
Heroes: What happened?
I know the writer’s strike is going on but what is the deal with Heroes last night? Was the script written on the eve of the strike? The previous episode was so good so why did it suck so bad last night?For example, we heard Adam tell Peter that losing your head is the one…
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption has ruined me
My first foray into the world of FPS (first person shooter) video games was Wolfenstein. A friend of mine had this on his 286 back when I was stationed in Germany while serving in the US Army. The game was fun but it wasn’t real 3-D.Next I moved on to Doom and its sequels on…
One Laptop per Child Extends Give One Get One Program Through December 31
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–One Laptop per Child (OLPC), a non-profit organization dedicated to providing every child in the world access to new channels of learning, sharing and self-expression, is extending its recently launched Give One Get One program beyond the initial two-week limited time offer through December 31, 2007, in the USA and Canada. The extended…
AMD Introduces World’s First Comprehensive, Cutting-Edge PC Platform
SUNNYVALE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Rewriting the rules for enthusiast computing, AMD (NYSE: AMD) today unveiled its new platform codenamed “Spider”, with the first true quad-core processor supporting scalable graphics for The Ultimate Visual Experience. The AMD Spider platform combines the introduction of AMD Phenom quad-core processors, ATI Radeon HD 3800 Series graphics processors with Microsoft DirectX 10.1…
Nail Art of Leonardo da Vinci [image]
Take a famous drawing of Leonardo da Vinci and reproduce it by banging nails into a piece of wood. AMAZING!You need to take a look at this. What we have is a guy who copied a famous sketch of Leonardo da Vinci by banging nails (varying heights) into a large piece of wood. You have…
Google Knows Hypocrisy
Google has long claimed that the one guiding principle it lives by is “Do No Evil”. Sadly the Internet giant is becoming a beacon of hypocrisy that shines brighter than the evils of cable companies that sell ‘unlimited’ Internet access while screwing around with traffic and sending spoofed reset packets.In order to understand the hypocrisy…
DirecTV to offer HD package in space
To congratulate NASA on its recent success with the International Space Station and the opening of the new living space area DirceTV has offered to equip the station with a 42″ flat panel HDTV, it’s top of the line HD-DVR and a velcro-wrapped remote.If the offer is accepted (not sure if it will be because…
My Interview on Forum Business Blog
I was recently interviewed on the Forum Business Blog in regards to the forums over on PokeFarm. It is a short piece but the rest of the content on the site is worth reading if you are thinking of starting your own forum.I heard about Forum Business Blog after my friend Nomar was interviewed about…