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Daily del.icio.us Bookmarks for 05/12/08 12 May 2008 at 12:02 pm by Jason 253 views

These are my daily “Good to Know” links for 05/12/08 … please enjoy:

WiiWare is live!! | Joystiq

We know there’s little chance that the Nintendo faithful among you haven’t already circled May 12 on your calendar with your Nintendo World Championships 1990 commemorative Sharpie, but just in case, let us remind you that the WiiWare service is now live.

11-year-old gives $440 to Clinton campaign | The Times West Virginian

11-year-old Dalton Hatfield feels so strongly that Hillary Clinton should be the next president he not only sold his bicycle, but video games and anything else that “I could make money with” to donate to the former first lady’s bid for the nomination.

Not Quite Yet | RealClearPolitics

Elite opinion on the Democratic race has congealed around the idea that it is over. Clinton has no chance whatsoever to win the nomination now. I think she is nearly finished, but not quite yet.

Colossal Castle or Humble Home? Same Price ? Your Choice | DivineCaroline

From the rolling green pastures of France, to the sparkling coastline of Mexico, why live in a cramped, rat-infested junior one-bedroom when you can reign high in your very own castle?

The Get Out Clause, Manchester’s stars of CCTV cameras | Telegraph

Unable to afford a camera crew and equipment, The Get Out Clause decided to make use of the cameras seen all over British streets. Afterwards they wrote to the companies involved and asked for the footage under the Freedom of Information Act.

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+ Daily del.icio.us Bookmarks for 04/04/08 By Jason 04 April 2008 at 5:00 pm 225 views 1 Comment

These are my daily “Good to Know” links for 04/04/08 … please enjoy:

Edwards would not accept VP nomination | MSNBC

Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards said on Thursday he would not accept the nomination for U.S. vice president as he did four years ago. Declines to say whether he would endorse Clinton or Obama. Good for him!

Personal Soundtrack T-Shirt | ThinkGeek

Looks like we're the fools here. The Personal Soundtrack T-Shirt was originally an April Fool's Prank… but due to overwhelming positive response and hundreds of e-mails screaming to "make the damn shirt already" we're putting this item in to production

The Peril of Obama | The Atlantic

The glamour of Obama may be hard to resist, but could it get the country into trouble if he wins the presidency? At the risk of bitter disillusionment, perhaps Obama hopes to do for the country what his father?s image did for him: provide a noble lie t

Server room during a rain shower | Google Video

Server room floods during a storm. Sends shivers down my spine!

Ross Ching: Eclectic 2.0 | Rossching.com

This is one of the most beautiful movies I have ever seen. The entire movie was shot using a digital SLR still camera and pieced together using Quicktime Pro and Final cut Pro. Since it was shot on a still camera, all the raw footage is 1080p HD.

Outsourced Comcast Tech Goes Vigilante On Xbox Cheaters | dslreports.com

A Convergsys support technician outsourced by Comcast may have gone a little overboard in a quest for videogame vengeance. After getting packet flooded by some fellow gamers on the Xbox Live! service, the rep decided to use Comcast support systems to wage

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+ Daily del.icio.us Bookmarks for 03/28/08 By Jason 28 March 2008 at 2:05 pm 336 views 3 Comments

These are my daily “Good to Know” links for 03/28/08 … please enjoy:

Legs manual wins odd title prize | BBC NEWS

A self-help guide called If You Want Closure In Your Relationship, Start With Your Legs has been voted the oddest book title of the year. Joel Rickett, deputy editor of The Bookseller, said of the winner: “So effective is the title that you don’t even ne

The Accurate Watch Reminds You Of Unavoidable Death | OhGizmo!

The only things that appear on the face of this watch are a simple second hand along with hour and minute hands that read ?remember you will die.? Seriously, how morbid is that? I don?t think anyone is really going to forget the fact that they will

John McCain’s First Presidential Ad | YouTube

With such a head start (and such a good ad), I have a feeling Democrats will have a very hard uphill battle this year.

Alien Sociology | Space.com

According to Hollywood, Earth is surely one of the galaxy’s “top places to visit before you die.” Cinema aliens come here often enough that the State Department should probably set up passport control. Of course, that’s fiction. But in the last hundred y

Medical transcriptionist melts keyboard with fingertips | Boing Boing

“We have a medical transcriptionist on staff who has been using the same keyboard for the last 8.5 years. My co-worker replaced it yesterday, and when he first showed it to me I thought someone had taken a blowtorch to it! The most frequently used keys ha

Prepare for the Worst, Because Solar Storms Are About to Get Ugly | Wired

Every 11 years or so, the sun gets a little pissy. It breaks out in a rash of planet-sized sunspots that spew superhot gas, hurling clouds of electrons, protons, and heavier ions toward Earth at nearly the speed of light. These solar windstorms have been

Make Ur Lolcat Famous Contest | I Can Has Cheezburger?

From the site: “Jones Soda wanted to put a lolcat on their clever soda bottles across the country. So we asked if we can run a contest to find that special lol. (It?s like American Idol, but we don?t has to listen to ur singing voice.)”

Made You Look | Adobe Photoshop Express

Adobe’s new Photoshop Express… 2 GB of storage space, a gallery, and an online version of Photoshop. Oh, and it’s free. Could you ask for more?

MacBook Air gets seized in 2 minutes flat | Engadget

At PWN 2 OWN, famed iPhone hacker Charlie Miller showed the MacBook Air who its daddy really was. Miller visited a site which contained his exploit code which then allowed him to seize control of the computer.

What worms, virus and spam attacks look like in 3D | Vallywag

On April 7, the Varnish Fine Art gallery and bar in San Francisco will host an exhibit called Infected Art. The works represent what worms, virus and spam attacks such as Storm, MyDoom and Netsky look like when put through a “computational art” algorithm.

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