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Monthly Archives: May 2006
25 Worst Tech Products
PCWorld.com judges The 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time. It includes such awful products as RealPlayer, Windows Millennium, and Microsoft Bob, all well deserving of their places on the list. Pride of place, however, goes to AOL as the … Continue reading
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Citizen Soldiers
Here’s one kind of immigration I don’t have any problem with: Iron Brigade Soldiers Become US Citizens. Pretty inspiring stuff.
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“Random” book
How can a book of 600 pages literally contain absolutely no information? Here’s how. (In a technical sense, information is a means of quantizing a population’s deviation from randomness, so by definition a string of purely random data is completely … Continue reading
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Woot.com
Woot.com has an interesting marketing idea: offer only a single product each day, generally purchased wholesale and sold at a steep discount. Recent product offerings range from mundane to ultra-cool with everything in between. The vast majority of their stuff … Continue reading
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More trouble in the PA . . .
Hey, I never said it couldn’t be any worse. On second thought, that sounds just like something the U.N. might try. “Life imitates The Onion,” after all.
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I keep all my cash in the freezer. Why? Don’t you?
Memo to Democrats who plan to spend the 2006 election cycle pinning the “culture of corruption” label on their GOP opponents: Good luck. (Thanks to Tim Joiner for the link.)
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Unexpected fame, cont.
The improbable saga of Guy Goma continues: he’s got his own fan website now. I have a feeling he’ll more than make up for the embarrassment once the endorsement offers start rolling in. How much do you suppose he got … Continue reading
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Tour the world?
Here’s a site that demonstrates just how revolutionary Google Earth has been over the past < 1 year. It's inspired a number of imitators (from Yahoo and Microsoft for instance), but great features and Google’s inclusion of an open geographic … Continue reading
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Last in their class
A new book tells the story of the goats and washouts of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. It sounds like an entertaining read, judging by the excerpts on the promo site.
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Top 10 U.N. Slogans
It’s been around for a while now, but these are hilarious.
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