Microsoft has a page where you can answer a few easy questions and get a free USB thumbdrive with a Microsoft logo on it. Delivery will take 6 to 8 weeks, and you don’t really have to get all of the questions right to get one.
This was on Digg.com earlier, so they probably had [...]
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Let me start this post with a yawn. Apple had a media event for this? Not exactly earth shattering news. It turns out that reports circulating around the internet starting at ThinkSecret.com were true. Apple is making a boom-box like add-on for the iPod.
It’s ugly.
It’s certainly not going to replace the home stereo that [...]
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Something no closet should be without, the “quickie dickey” (the designer’s name, not mine) can fulfill many purposes. First of all, it solves the quandry of those many times when you’ve thought, “A sweater would look so good under this t-shirt/button-up shirt/blazer/vest/other sweater/ but it would be so hot and bulky!” The quickie dickey allows [...]
There is something terribly wrong with Poseidon - more than the fact that they are remaking “The Poseidon Adventure.” Rather than merely tell you what is wrong with the Poseidon, I am going to provide you with some images from the trailer - and I’m going to let you see if you can identify what [...]
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I have noticed a lot of people coming into the site searching for “Olympic Medal Design”, and I felt bad because I don’t think they found what they were looking for. Here’s an image from the associated press that describes the Medal Design.
It’s interesting to note that the back of each medal is unique to [...]
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Excellent work on the previous two Caption Contests. Let’s see how you do with this image:
Be sure to check out the Buy.com deal of the day (linked to on the sidebar) - it’s kind of like Woot, only less trendy. Today they’ve got a 1 gig USB 2.0 flash drive for $30 - if [...]
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This is an actual scene from an actual Olympic Ice Dancer program. This is the second of three Olympic Caption Contests. Get in on the fun now
Please keep your captions PG-13 or lower
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One of the best parts about being a college student is the fact that you can get academic pricing on software. This means that instead of shelling out only $119 for a Student version of Maple 10 instead of $2000 for a “my-boss-paid-for-this” copy of the same exact software. It also means that you can [...]
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$2 bills are of special value to me, as most of you know. We have been using a $2 bill as the trophy for the Sheep Seekers tournament for a long time now, and never had any bad luck because of it. (at least not that I can remember.)
Some guy on eBay, however, thinks his [...]
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