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  • Facebook Is Better Than Porn

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    Time has an interesting article that states that Generation Y craves electronic social networking more than electronic porn. Stating: … [a] way to figure out where college students are going online is to assess which of the 172 web categories tracked by Hitwise get the most hits from 18- to 24-year-olds. Here’s a shocker: Porn…

  • Halloween: A Day With Black Sclera Contacts

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    [[innerindex]] Intro Two years ago I rocked the house with a sweet Scooby Doo costume. Last year I was a Ninja (but aren’t I always?). This year was a bit different…a bit more traditional/spooky/subtle. Black Sclera contacts. For those of you that don’t know and are slightly curious, Sclera Contacts are contacts that cover…well…the sclera:…

  • Squirrel vs. Sunflower

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    My wife grew some sunflowers this year and near the end of the growing season, a friendly squirrel began to visit and relieve us of the flower heads. I captured the above picture of our friend the squirrel taking a break from actually mowing down the top of the sunflower prior to its removal from…

  • Automattic Acquires Gravatar!

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    In a surprising move, Automattic has acquired Gravatar, which was announced this morning in Gravatar’s new WordPress installation. This breathes life into a quality idea that had floundered due to fast popularity and (I can only assume) poor funding. For those of you that don’t know what Gravatar is: A gravatar, or globally recognized avatar,…

  • Kruger National Park: Buffalo vs Lions vs Crocodiles

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    Jason Schlosberg and David Budzinski, from National Geographic, found themselves in an amazing filming opportunity in South Africa’s Kruger National Park. While filming at a watering hole, a group of lionesses attacked a young water buffalo, throwing him into the water. As the lionesses began to drag the buffalo out, a crocodile found interest in…

  • Introducing My Kid!

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    My wife and I have had a baby girl. Samantha Joy. 8lbs 4oz, 20.5inches long. Here she is: You can see more of my awesome child here.

  • Vonage Takes It In The Eye

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    Some of you may know the problems Vonage has been having with Verizon and being found guilty of violating some patents. Well, via Slashdot I discovered that Vonage has reached a bit of a rocky situation. Slashdot writes: The latest in Verizon vs. Vonage is in. The judge has basically stopped Vonage from accepting new…

  • Our Actions Now Effect Us Later: Antonella Barba, MySpace, Facebook

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    The blogosphere is abuzz with Antonella Barba, an American Idol contestant of Season 6. It appears that earlier this week some racy pictures (NSFW) of the fairly attractive Idol-wanna-be surfaced on the net ranging from college-fun-party pictures to wet t-shirt shots to porn. Now it’s important to note that most of these pictures – the…

  • Gmail Address Flexibility And Filtering

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    You hate spam. I hate spam. Lets face it, we sign up for things online and our e-mail address become prone to being spread all over hell’s half acre and our inboxes inevitably gets invaded by irritating e-mail. Heck…sometimes we set up accounts on sites that we want kept out of our inboxes to avoid…

  • 70’s Haircuts

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    After the bomb scare in Boston on the 31st, the two men being tried in court due to their participation had a press conference…sort of. This is the best way I’ve heard someone plead the fifth…ever. They are my heroes. Thanks to Zach for telling me about this awesome, heavily televised event. My friend Cliff…

  • Monster Rabbits Feed North Korea

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    Spiegel.de writes that a German rabbit breeder has bred rabbits the size of dogs! This breeder, Karl Szmolinsky won a prize for breeding Germany’s largest rabbit, a 23 pound “German Gray Giant” called Robert, in February 2006. Now that is quite a feat in breeding. The article discusses the deal struck with Korea: Szmolinsky, 67,…

  • iPhone is a Reality

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    Engadget has a nice summary of the iPhone: Capping literally years of speculation on perhaps the most intensely followed unconfirmed product in Apple’s history — and that’s saying a lot — the iPhone has been announced today. Yeah, we said it: “iPhone,” the name the entire free world had all but unanimously christened it from…

  • Slashdot: Would You Trust RFID-Enabled ATM Cards?

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    Slashdot posted an article on RFID-Enabled ATM Cards by one of its readers, race_k2. What is commonly the case, the comments at Slashdot tend to be more entertaining and occasionally more informative than the article itself. This article is highlighting some of the comments that have stood out to me thus far. But first, here’s…

  • Firefox Search Plugin for PHP.net

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    Dan, one of my co-workers, has been tooling around with PHP and easily plopped a PHP search extension into Internet Explorer 7. Well. I don’t like IE7 as much as Firefox and sadly there’s no super easy way to add a search plugin (if it doesn’t exist or you can’t find one…like in my case)…

  • DotA 6.38 Released!

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    After a long wait, Icefrog and co. have released DotA Allstars version 6.38! Download here or here. For those interested, here’s the changelog: 4 New Recipe items 1 New Hero Added -reverse (-rv) mode Every 6 waves, a glaive thrower/meat wagon comes out with the creeps Bottle with Rune now returns a Full Bottle after…