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Toilet Trivia
Toilets filled with water aren’t usually the first thing you’d think would catch on fire. Earlier this month, some bidets in Japan defied common knowledge and their manufacturer Toto is in the “hot seat” so to speak. Sorry I just couldn’t resist. “The fire would have been just under your buttocks,” said [...]
Is it real? Google Phone
So this rumor has been leaking and dripping and spilling over for almost a year now (maybe more, I’ve so fallen off the Tech Train ohno!). The rumors escalated around Andy Rubin’s presence on the Google campus. Andy Rubin (don’t feel bad because I didn’t know who the heck he was either) is [...]
Yahoo! is better than sex
…well, it’s the #1 search term on Google anyway, beating out searches for “sex”. I must apologize if you’ve already heard this story.. Chris told me about it last Wednesday and oh my god I have a life and I have work and I’m not a lightning quick blogger like Chris and I kinda [...]
Look Ma, no buttons! It’s my new iPhone
The great big announcement at Macworld from Steve Jobs is the iPhone. Even if you knew it was coming, you weren’t sure it would be quite like this. As always, dummy images were dispersed on blogs and the media as some kind of speculation diversion. Apple was supposedly in talks with (it [...]
Strong enough for a cop but made for a woman
Motorola Razrs aren’t the only items to get prettified for purses. Tasers will now come in a variety of colors such as blue, silver, black, and metallic light pink. The new C2 Taser has a sleek new design, resembling a shiny Norelco or something. It has a 15 foot range and 50 [...]
North Korean nukes, South Korean robots give birth
Seoul’s Kyunghee University Medical Center realized that South Korean birth rate is at its lowest dip (about one kid per woman). To accommodate this, they are training its students with “Noelle” the pregnant robot. Because the mannequin was purchased from American company Gaumard Scientific, it’s face is exactly like those CPR dummies [...]
My X-tra X-travagant X-mas list
I know it’s too late for Christmas 2006, but these are items I will leave for my frugal mind to battle out with my consuming id until next Christmas. Just kidding, I know that my frugal mind is stronger. :)
This blurb was written shortly before I read this article where 10 people in [...]
“why this @#!# Duck get out his tongue??”
I haven’t touched Adium (like Trillian for Mac with a green duck for a logo) since I quit working for Apple, but I have a shiny new MacBook Pro at me new job at Yahoo!, so I cruised on over to the Adium website to check out what’s new in their icon-mania. Right smack [...]
Google loves dogs and dog people
No confirmation on this just yet, but I heard that Google’s hiring criteria has just gotten even weirder. If you weren’t lucky enough to fall into the nepotism or Stanford alumni hiring line, you may have been scrutinized for all the little details including your college GPA, a practice more commonly reserved for high-end [...]
I Want My iTV
So today Steve Jobs unveiled to the world that Apple will not only be in your car, in your pocket, but in your living room. Before thoughts of a creepy Big Brother invasion wash over you, just remember that Apple is neither the Patriot Act nor Microsoft. But Apple wants to rule the [...]
We made the iPod even smaller
We made the iMacs bigger (24″) and our iPods smaller! Proudly showcased at our Apple keynote address this morning and glorious web and product push, I can now publicly confirm that we have the goods.
Wow, where do I start? We’ve got scrollwheel games like Tetris and Pacman ($4.99), iPod movies (partnership with Disney [...]
Like that smell? Take it with you!
This is a trip. A Japanese inventor has created a device that can “record and replicate” smells.
People stopping to smell the roses can now take that sweet floral fragrance home with them or even send it to a faraway grandmother thanks to a new gadget in Japan that records and replicates the world’s odors.
The new [...]
More Google.cn stuff
So google.cn now redirects to google.com if accessed in the US via a Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 browser. Perhaps this is intended to prevent less net-savvy (aka: non Firefox using) American internet users from easily comparing the radically different sets of results for human rights, democracy, and bird flu related searches after upgrading to the [...]
Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2
I’ve been using Firefox since it was called Firebird, but I can’t deny being at least somewhat curious about Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7. Anyways Microsoft has just released IE7 Beta 2 for public download. Check it out here.
So far I really like the font rendering. Fonts are super smooth even when magnified 400%. Pages look [...]
HELLO, NURSE!!!!
The Japanese have come up with a robot nurse. Well, not quite a full-fledged nurse, but it can pick up patients from hospital beds. And it’s very polite!! Watch a video of the robot in action.
Google Pagerank and Backlink update underway
So there’s another pagerank and backlink update underway (looks like we’re still holding strong around a 5, but we gained a few hundred incoming links). Because of this you may be interested in seeing your pagerank, but you may not be so interested in installing the pesky Google spybar. I’ve tried a bunch of sites [...]
More on Search Engine Politics
I just got a couple links from Steve and aL.
First, Steve pointed out this flash comic by Mark Fiore of SFGate.com. The cartoon addresses some of the latest news developments with American Search Engines forays into China. You can watch the cartoon here.
Secondly, aL has pointed out an article on Digg regarding a simple [...]
Google Succumbs to the Dark Side
The China myth has lured many an American business in the past, with its promise of billions of consumers with wallets waiting to be tapped, Google being the latest to take the bait. Though many have tried to make headway into the market, on the whole most have had nothing to show for it. [...]
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