Category: TECHnically
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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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Currys stops selling analogue TVs
[From BEEB] Electrical retailers Currys, Dixons and PC World will now promote digital TV sets with built-in Freeview tuners. Why hasn’t this happened in be in Canada yet? This is perfect excuse for going out getting that 50 LCD everyone absolutely _needs_!
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Mahalo’s Veronica Belmont Interviews Stan Lee, Excelsior!
Spider-Man is a superhero created by writer-editor Stan Lee and writer-artist Steve Ditko. He first appeared in the anthology comic book Amazing Fantasy #15 (Aug. 1962) in the Silver Age of Comic Books. He appears in American comic books published by Marvel Comics and in movies, television shows, and video game adaptations set in the…