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Thursday, January 6th, 2005
It happened again. During a presentation about Microsoft's "Digital Lifestyle" at this year's, currently underway, CES, Bill Gates' Windows XP machine crashed. Not once, but twice.
But while promoting what he calls the "digital lifestyle," Gates showed how vulnerable all consumers - even the world's richest man - are ...
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Tuesday, January 4th, 2005
Do you have a weird uncle or a senile aunt that for some reason keeps sending all the boys in the family gift cards to "Victoria's Secret"? ...or sends all the girls gift cards to...ummm...the "Jock-strap Emporium", or some place equally wrong? Wouldn't it be great to try ...
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Monday, December 27th, 2004
Want to play Monopoly? You might want to play it more after reading these hints at winning. The blog BookOfJoe discusses some of the best techniques to win at Monopoly. For example:
Despite appearances, the number of moves with each throw of the dice is not random: because ...
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Friday, December 17th, 2004
This lovely creation has been going around the blogs a lot today.
Word is that soon after this photo was taken, the laptop broke. No word yet wether or not the cause of the break is becuase it was made out of gingerbread or becuase it is running windows.
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Tuesday, December 14th, 2004
There is a web site making the rounds lately, so I decided to give it go. This particular site's claim to fame is that you can type type whatever you want (kinda) into the text field and it will spit a audio clip back at you that says what ...
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Tuesday, December 7th, 2004
According to Cambridge University geneticist and hippie Aubrey de Grey (right) it is possible that people could live to be 1,000 years old. Not only that, but he states that people are that currently 60 or younger could be in line for this treatment. In fact he believes ...
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Thursday, December 2nd, 2004
Well the new MSN Spaces is already blocking some dirty language, but now someone noticed that their terms of use includes this lovely little paragraph:
For materials you post or otherwise provide to Microsoft related to the MSN Web Sites (a "Submission"), you grant Microsoft permission to (1) use, copy, distribute, ...
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Thursday, December 2nd, 2004
Apparently Lycos Europe created a screensaver that works like SETI@HOME but instead of working on data to find ET, this screensaver commits Denial of Service attacks on known SPAMers' servers. Lycos says they checked and they say its legal, but a big company DoSing servers?
Lycos Europe: Balls...Huge balls.
Link: CNN ...
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Monday, November 22nd, 2004
Apparently there has been a study conducted at New York University and MIT that supposedly shows that people that have Superman on the brian are less likely to help others. Why? Becuase, they say, that these people that they can never measure up to their hero, so why ...
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Tuesday, November 16th, 2004
EPSN.com | ABC apologetic, not "Desperate'Over Monday Night Football
Apparently people complained about the opening to Monday Night Football last night. Here is the awfull skit they showed leading into the start of the game last night:
Before the Philadelphia-Dallas game, ABC showed Owens and Sheridan in an empty locker room ...
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