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Entries from February 2007

Happy Birthday To Me - Buy Me a Samsung i760

February 26th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Since I cannot think of anything I want for my birthday that is in the price range of one person, for my birthday I have decided to ask for people to contribute towards the cost of my next PDAPhone which I hope to purchase later this year.
The PDAPhone I want is the Samsung i760 from [...]

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Tags: Phone PDA · Tech

Tear Any Menisci Lately?

February 25th, 2007 · 3 Comments

Tuesday morning of this week I was lucky enough to slip on a patch of ice in front of our apartment.  When I fell I heard the one thing you never want to hear, no not the sound of people laughing at you, a pop!  For the un-initiated, if you fall or twist your knee [...]

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Tags: Misc.

WebComic - Your Brain On Violent Games

February 22nd, 2007 · No Comments

If you have been keeping up with the news lately you may have heard about a senseless crime in Wisconsin. Two teens beat and killed a homeless man for no apparent reason. One of the teens recalls that the day started like normal, drugs and alcohol, and ended with feces smeared on a [...]

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Tags: Games · Rant · Tech · comic

Increase Your GoogleFu Grasshopper

February 20th, 2007 · No Comments

If you are looking to increase your GoogleFu I have a tip or two for you.

Use a ~ before a word to search for synonyms of the word. This can greatly increase your chances of finding what you want if there are many words that are similar to your keyword. You use it [...]

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Tags: How To · Lifehacks · Tech

Bare Naked Ladies New Video Features Youtube Stars

February 19th, 2007 · No Comments

Found this clip through BoingBoing, The newest BNL song - Sound of Your Voice, features a cast of vertiable Youtube all stars.  Including a Bluffton University Alumni, Judson Laipply, Now if only we could get a clip of him doing the Beaver Song.  I highly reccomend checking out thier new album.  Anyway for your enjoyment, [...]

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Tags: Humor · Music

Penny Arcade - Valentines Day Comic

February 16th, 2007 · 1 Comment

I am catching up with my RSS feeds and I came across Penny Arcade’s Valentines Day offering.  Several things describe this; Classic, Hilarious, and True.
Penny Arcade Celebrates Valentine’s Day

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Tags: Games · Humor

Time Warner HD DVR - Show not available

February 16th, 2007 · No Comments

What I would love to be doing right now is watching CSI in high definition on my HD DVR form Time Warner.  However since the Scientific Atlanta 8300HD decided to “goof” CSI is not available for playback at this time.  This is the second strike for my Time Warner DVR, as last week Time Warner [...]

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Tags: TV · Tech

Xbox 360 High Attach Rate Due to Demos and XBLA

February 16th, 2007 · No Comments

Analysts have stated in the not so distant past that the high attach rate of the Xbox 360 is not a good sign. The attach rate is the number of games per console and for the Xbox 360 it is pegged at 5.2 games per console.  The analysts have claimed that this means only [...]

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Tags: Games · Tech

Inside the Griffin Powerdock for Sansa

February 15th, 2007 · 5 Comments

Griffin Technology produces a dock for the Sansa e200, c100 and c 200 series of mp3 players called the Powerdock for Sansa. This dock provides a charger and a true line out for the Sansa e200 series. This is to my knowledge the only product which enables a true line out function for [...]

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Tags: How To · Tech

ToughBook Takes A Bullet for A Soldier

February 15th, 2007 · No Comments

A story about a Panasonic Toughbook rolled into my Google Reader today via Boing Boing, however when I went to check otu the article on Boing Boing it was gone, I decided to follow the link to the original story on MobileMag.com but it had disappeared as well.  It seems really odd that both would [...]

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Tags: Tech