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Entries for February, 2009

Mobile Platforms Give Facebook Facial

Now if I could only get 4 million mobile users to hit this blog daily, I’d be set. Shit, if I could get 4 mobile users to hit this blog daily, I’d be moderately happy… Facebook Has Over 4 Million Daily Mobile Users Last week while at Davos, Mark Zuckerberg mentioned that the company currently [...]

Seagate Tells Western Digital “No You Did’ant”

Just the other day, Western Digital released its new 2TB drive (here is a review). In answer to this challenge, Seagate launched the 2TB Constellation ES 3.5 inch drive replacing the Barracuda. It’s faster than Jessica Simpson through a bucket of wings. Seagate sets Constellation above Barracuda – The Register Seagate has launched its much-expected [...]

Cash4Gold Tarnished

Didn’t Cash4Gold just have a SuperBowl commercial? I like that they at least know the Adsense/Google game. Cash 4 Gold would like to melt down and recast their reputation On October 6th, that Cockeyed article was featured on Consumerist.com (http://consumerist.com/5059452/how-to-avoid-getting-ripped-off-by-cash4gold). Consumerist is so popular that thousands of people read the article, and the high Consumerist [...]

Green is the New Black

Check out and vote for your favorite Greener Gadgets Design Competition. Core77 Presents: Greener Gadgets Design Competition Core77 is proud to once again parter with Greener Gadgets to produce a design competition aimed at generating outstanding design innovations for greener electronics. The top 50 entries are published online for voting and commenting, and from these [...]

ShareThis Sucks Less

I stopped using the ShareThis service because it was so freaking slow. I’m glad to see that it’s faster. I’m going to consider putting ShareThis back on this site. Alex King blogged: ShareThis Snappiness | alexking.org You may have noticed ShareThis loading a lot faster these days. The team has made some great changes under [...]

I Welcome Our New 2TB Overlords

I remember my first 1GB drive…can you imagine how long it’s going to take to format this sucker??can you imagine how long it’s going to take to format this sucker?? Western Digital debuts 2TB Green Power hard drives – Ars Technica If you’ve been holding off on a 1TB or 1.5TB upgrade in the hopes [...]

Google SearchWiki Screws with SERP Ranking

Heh. First thing I did was hit some of my sites to number one. Stupid, stupid, stupid. Did the same thing as quoted and keep thinking my sites are number one naturally. I don’t do that anymore. Read the freaking article though, thoughts on PageRank and other Googley stuff. SearchWiki – The end of PageRank? [...]

Southeast Asian Homo Erectus Rocked

AFP: Malaysian scientists find stone tools ‘oldest in Southeast Asia’ KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) — Malaysian archaeologists have announced the discovery of stone tools they believe are more than 1.8 million years old and the earliest evidence of human ancestors in Southeast Asia. “This is the earliest evidence of Paleolithic culture in the Southeast Asian region,” [...]

Slain Ibex Brought Back from Dead

Lots of people fear for humanity. Not me, I think we are experts at adaptation and survival and we have this nasty streak of goodness and responsibility. Take our good friend the Ibex here, look at what scientists are doing to ensure the species that went extinct 9 years ago makes a full recovery. Put [...]






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