David Pogue has an article out regarding Spammers today… Quite entertaining, but I think he missed something…. Take a look at his article first… You Can’t Spell “Bad” Without Spelling “Ad” And here\’s my reply… David, You\’re usually right on it, but I think you missed something here… The spammers are *NOT* trying to get […]
From Wikipedia… The most celebrated invention of frequency hopping was that of actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil, who in 1942 received patent number 2,292,387 for their \”Secret Communications System.\” This early version of frequency hopping used a piano-roll to change between 88 frequencies, and was intended to make radio-guided torpedoes harder for enemies […]
Technology is letting this puppy, from Pixar\’s Up, remind you of your pet\’s priorities: squirrels, fetching, and tracking. It is nice to see a slightly new spin on the common \’make the dog talk\’ animation idea (even though snausages did it first.) Granted, if they wanted to make it really fresh, they would have made […]
Here comes Ada Lovelace & Charles Babbage to save the day! There\’s a new web comic (2D Googles), that follows the adventures of Lovelace & Babbage through their various adventures… Click here for for Science!\”
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Shout! Factory has given the public a glimpse of the DVD cover art selection process of the MiddleMan! – The Complete series box set… (See the Rest of the Story at Shout! Factory – Behind the MiddleMan – The Complete Set.)
I don\’t think that I have mentioned Darths & Droids. Darths & Droids is a screen capture comic, typically taking footage from the Star Wars Prequel movies, but using a different script. In this series Star Wars never was filmed, and the players are playing a SciFi RPG game… It\’s quite funny, and neat at […]
Apple today released an iMac Firmware Update 1.4 to resolve some outstanding issues with certain models freezing and another issue with Bootcamp, Apple\’s technology for allowing users to run Windows on Mac. According to Apple\’s documentation, the update fixes intermittent system freeze issues for iMac computers with ATI Radeon HD 4850 graphics and fixes wake-from-sleep […]