Author: Johnny Canuck
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Zero Emission Air Car
I saw this idea for the zero emission air car and thought it sounded pretty cool except for the fact that it still requires energy to compress the air that push the pistons to provide drive. I was a little more skeptical when they start talking about how the engine that drives the car could…
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Mahalo Daily: The Oscars in 60 Seconds
Another great 60 Seconds video from Veronica Belmont @ Mahalo Daily!
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Free Google WiFi Through your Toilet?
Google TiSP (BETA) is a fully functional, end-to-end system that provides in-home wireless access by connecting your commode-based TiSP wireless router to one of thousands of TiSP Access Nodes via fiber-optic cable strung through your local municipal sewage lines. Thanks to Eric for giving us the heads up on this new Google Labs Beta program.…
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Any Random Evening at the Fat Dad Household
I have on more than one occasion used this excuse when the missus calls me up to bed. Hadn’t posted any XKCD in a while.
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Unicat RV: Now this is a Land Yacht!
My parents spend their winters driving around the south in a 34 foot RV with an expendable kitchen and living. I _USED_ to think it was real cool until I saw this Unicat! Even Bobby DeNiro would be envious of this rig. I so need one and I have already set up a special savings…
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Twitter and the SuperBowl Effect
I have to admit even I found this a little shocking and very cool. [via Daring Fireball]
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Social Networking Bankruptcy?
A good friend and fellow techie, Steve McGurn, has done the unthinkable and declared amnesty on his social networking profiles. I know this will sound insane coming from a WEB2.0 evangelist such as me, but he’s right. The idea of all these networks sounds great. Find old school chums on Facebook, keep up to date…
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The Quicksilver-for-Windows Showdown
Before I owned my first Mac, Quicksilver was the application that made me wish I did. Luckily, slowly but surely, Windows developers began building apps intended to successfully attain that Quicksilver-for-Windows status. They started as simple application launchers, but recently the Quicksilver-for-Windows battle has exploded with tons of new applications. [From LifeHacker] Sometimes Dreams do…
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Depriving the Middle East of YouTube
Disruption to internet services in south Asia and the Middle East continues after undersea cable damage.[via the Beeb] Stealing their oil and trying to instill democracy is one thing but depriving the Middle East of YouTube is just plain cruel and most contravene the Geneva Convention. [UPDATED] FEB 6th, OK this isn’t funny anymore. There…
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Download your Free PUGScreen Cleaner Here
The Flash video of the pug licking you monitor from the inside has been taken down. Some like to call this the Fat Dad effect! I try to keep my blog as clean as possible, but sometimes you need a little extra help from some professionals. Thanks to Eric for sending in the Pros