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  • Summit 2007 Presentation Proposal

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    Like Zach, its time for me to submit my Summit Presentation Proposals. My plans for submitting presentations for Student Query v2.0 and Course Query v2.0 were smashed when competing priorities at work prevented me from pushing forward with those projects. They remain in the same state as last year. Regardless, I still have one presentation…

  • Pluto Forcibly Retired at the Age of 6,000,000,000,000,003

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    No, this isn’t an article like The Moon Is Made of Gas. According to C-Net, Pluto is no longer considered a planet by scientists due to the re-working of the definition of a planet. Had Pluto remained a planet in our solar system, our planet total would have quickly jumped to 12 by: including Ceres,…

  • Chuck Norris Bridge?

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    C-Net writes: Hungary’s Economy Ministry probably didn’t know what it was getting into when it launched an Internet voting campaign to allow Web users to choose a famous person as the namesake for a new bridge to be built over the Danube in Budapest. Reuters mentions that the head-runner is none other than Chuck Norris.…

  • 51% of College Humor Sold for ~$20mil

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    I’m not really a fan of College Humor…don’t get me wrong, I don’t hate it, I’m just not an avid viewer. It seems that some people are…in fact, some 6 million unique visitors a month are. The Gawker reports that InterActiveCorp took notice of the sheer number (read: success) of hits going to the beer-drinking-boob-posting-frat-boy…

  • WordPress Plugin: MyComic Browser

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    [[innerindex]]While creating the Uber-Geeks Web Comic, I wanted to keep WordPress as the backend for all my comic posting needs…which was fine. In doing so, I lacked the appropriate browsing features that seem common amongst many web comics (like Penny Arcade and RealLife). Description This plugin places a comic browser in a comic post (along…

  • World of Warcraft MySpace Layouts

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    Blizzard, in their infinite wisdom has blessed MySpace with its presence! Over the past few months I’ve received a number of requests for World of Warcraft MySpace layouts and I’m happy to say that Blizzard has created a number of those layouts for anyone to use! They’ve got one for each WoW race. To get…

  • Google Talk Just Got A Whole Lot Sweeter

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    The other day, Zach posted about some sweet features that were coming to Google Talk. File Transfer Voicemail (up to 10 minutes!) Music Status The first two are hugely cool, the third is a little lame (in my opinion). Check out the announcements on this alternate “Just Launched” page. Shortly after NoSheep posted about the…

  • 4 Million Dollar TV

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    (found via Digg) Amazon currently has a $4 million tv up for sale. In all actuality, Trinet Electronic Networks seems to have entered an incorrect price for the 32″ LCD television which has sparked a few interesting comments: Great value for your money Eric Pheterson I was kind of sketch about buying this specific unit…

  • Site Redesign

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    It was high time I re-design BorkWeb. I’ve been screwing around with this design for a few weeks now and I’ve finally got it working for go-live today :D I began construction on the site using LifeAfterCoffee’s Caffeine Theme. Jon did a great job in structuring the templates and a fairly solid CSS stylesheet. However,…

  • Pink Stang

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    Alan Baker is getting a Mustang. Alan refuses to blog. PinkStang.com is his friends’ effort to create a blog on Alan Baker related topics in honor of him. PinkStang is simply an aggregation of blog posts tagged “Alan Baker”. This will give him a record of events relating to him on both a personal and…

  • Game & Teamspeak Server

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    A few years ago, My friends and I established Clan Ubergeek (complete with officers and ranks) to organize and frag in the wonderful Battlefield 1942. We rented a server (whose name I cannot recall) at a pretty bloated price – but were reasonably happy. However, as with most things, interest slowly faded and our game…

  • New Version Of Bsuite…w00t!

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    I was thrilled when Casey over at MaisonBisson posted about the release of Bsuite b2v6. After much prodding by me, Casey has separated tags from posts into their own tables. He and I sat down one evening and fleshed out the overall goal for the tagging structure…we butted heads on a few things but the…

  • Blingo Partners With Publishers Clearing House

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    This is a tad late in begin posted but still quite intriguing. As of July 2, Blingo has partnered with Publishers Clearing House. They write: Over the last two years you’ve come to enjoy great search results and fun prizes at Blingo. We’ve given away over 22,000 gifts since we started, but in an effort…

  • Targeted SPAM?

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    I received this piece of SPAM today that I found quite entertaining. By the title of the e-mail, I think it was sent to me by mistake and should have gone to either Jon or Zach.

  • First Intuos3 Sketch

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    I just bought an Wacom Intuos3 9X12 USB Tablet for all my art and doodling needs. Here’s a brief description on what the product is: Intuos3 gives you the power to quickly and professionally edit photos and create digital artwork by turning on the full power of Adobe Photoshop, Corel Painter, and over 100 other…