3 cool things – quick

Cool animation (and a nice story too) which lead to … cool person ( IMHO ) which lead to …cool furniture … which lead to sleep!

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Lust fulfilled

As any of you who read my drivel may be aware I’ve been lusting (along with about a billion other people) after an iPhone since the announcement last January.
Well I’ve been blessed with one and I gotta say it’s freaking awesome
In addition to all the inherit goodness I’ve found some web apps that [...]

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IBM is wise

Okay, so we’ve been living with quite a bit of IBM induced ‘pain’ this last little while at work (VIO and Logical Volume failures and such) but I keep thinking they’ve got loads of brilliant people tucked away somewhere – so where the @(#*&$(@* are they at?
Well I found them over at IBM Research. Very [...]

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Collaborative searching (for real)

I heard this on NPR today – don’t know how I missed it.Apparently the inherit goodness of the internet is being utilized to perform a REAL search – for the missing aviator Steve Fossett.
Google and Amazon are teaming together to provide up to date satellite images of the crash site and volunteers from all over [...]

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Ode to my lawnmower

I’ve been meaning to write this one for quite some time but with fall fast approaching (the Sears wishbook has been here for a few weeks now) I thought it an appropo time.
For the longest time (ever since I bought my first house some 17 years ago now) I’ve owned an electric lawn mower. Ever [...]

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Why blondes have more fun (a scientific study)

It seems sadly prejudicial to say so and I’m uncertain if there is any truth behind the saying but these gents from jolly old england think they know where blondes came from and why (they have more fun).
There is an interesting bit at the very end of this article in which the W.H.O. (World Health [...]

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