Free with Wired Magazine

November 5, 2009
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So if you subscribe to WIRED magazine what do you get for free?  A wireless mouse of course.  In other news, Field & Stream is giving away chunks of asphalt and Scientific American is giving away dowser rods.

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Free Version of Splunk

October 31, 2009

Splunk now offers a free version.

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Computers make it easier…

October 30, 2009

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don’t need to be done. ~Andy Rooney

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Virtualappoint

October 28, 2009

Virtualappoint will do cold calling for you.  They say that many of the people doing the calling have their MBA.  Seriously?! Oh wait.  They hire people in other countries who don’t have accents.

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Dropbox Review

October 26, 2009

Updated review of Dropbox after using it a bit more.

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Proof of Time Travel?

October 22, 2009
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On Tuesday, March 11th, 2008, somebody made one of the craziest bets Wall Street has ever seen. The mystery figure spent $1.7 million on a series of options, gambling that shares in the venerable investment bank Bear Stearns would lose more than half their value in nine days or less.
via Wall Street’s Naked Swindle
And it [...]

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WikiReader – Wikipedia in your pocket

October 13, 2009
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WikiReader is an electronic encyclopedia giving physical form to Wikipedia. Now you can take it with you wherever you go.
WikiReader
This looks like an incredibly cool device. It is fairly small, has a touch screen, can be read in daylight and only costs $99. You can download updates from the internet and it looks like they [...]

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How to Fire a Headhunter

October 9, 2009
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A programmer was working with a headhunter who misrepresented him to some potential clients.  He asked the Slashdot crowd if and how he should fire the guy.  The best response:
In my experience, headhunters are very forthright about their desire to kill people, eat them, and hang their shrunken, stuffed heads from strings around their neck. [...]

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How to keep Hitler from reading your email

October 6, 2009
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Email encryption is readily available, but not many people use it.
Many of the processes that currently require printing on dead trees and then using fossil fuels to transport sheets of paper through the mail could be done electronically if more people would use encryption.
via Digital Signatures & Encryption : Productivity501.

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Mind Shower

October 6, 2009
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From the Wikipedia page on Brainstorming:
Some governmental organisations (The Welsh Development Agency and the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment in Belfast) have reached the conclusion that the term ‘brainstorming’ is offensive to people with epilepsy. Some organisations have suggested the alternative “mind shower”. However, research by the National Society for Epilepsy found of those [...]

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Panama Canal

October 5, 2009
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I just finished watching a NOVA show on the Panama canal.  It was very fascinating.  A few things of interest:

A private corporation in France started building the canal in 1881, but collapsed.  It was the biggest financial collapse up to that point in time.
Approximately 22,000 people died while working there for the French corporation–primarily from [...]

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The Socialist

October 4, 2009

Overheard about a mutual acquaintance:
He has pretty socialistic leanings–although they aren’t quite as strong as they were before he made a million dollars.

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Cupcake Tower

October 2, 2009

A friend of mine started a business selling Cupcake Towers. Worth checking out if you do any type of entertaining.

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Ooma Telo

October 1, 2009

Ooma has released their next generation hardware.  They have also raised some of the prices, but it still looks more cost effective than Vonage.

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Sharks with Lasers

September 6, 2009
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In a recent Slashdot poll, users were asked which what breakthrough was the most likely from the following list:

Time Travel
Human-Level AI
Immortality
World Peace
Sharks with Lasers

Most people said that World Peace didn’t stand a chance prompting this comment:
It is deeply depressing that from amongst a list of alternatives whose achievements are up there in the realms of [...]

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Problem with Belkin Flip

September 3, 2009

I have the DVI version of the Belkin Flip (F1DG102D).  It allows me to use my MacBook Pro and Linux desktop on the same monitor, mouse and keyboard.  After a recent move I noticed that switching to Ubuntu would take 20 to 30 seconds to activate the keyboard and mouse.  It had worked before with [...]

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