Archive for the ‘Around The Web’ Category

Make Your Own Bacon

The Consumerist has a post on making your own bacon. I did not know that a mortal can make such a delicious meat. I thought you had to be at least an angel to create something so good. I knew about the Life Cycle Of Bacon, but didn’t know humans are allowed [...]

Fake Steve Revealed

What do Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and just about anyone in tech have in common besides using computers? They all read The Secret Diary of [Fake] Steve Jobs. Fake Steve has been a cult icon the tech community, especially bloggers within the tech community. There has been an ongoing search for [...]

Segway Still Cool?

Is the Segway still cool? I don’t know, I tried one and liked it, but I think I might like this even better.
[Hat tip: Gizmodo]

White Glove Tracking

The most bizarre website you will ever encounter. White Glove Tracking needs your help to isolate the white glove in Michael Jackson’s performance of Billy Jean. Every frame. This would have been an ideal project for Amazon’s Mechanical Turk.

Fark Redesign

Fark is one of those websites that is was stuck in the past. It’s now been redesigned in a “Web 2.0″ scheme. I’ve got mixed feelings on this redesign:

Not sure if it’s just extra load, but it’s a bit slow. They just added a banner that says “We’re working on the slow [...]

April Fools 2007

Some of my favorites for this year:

heise.de - Mozilla sues Microsoft over tabbed browsing.
WebKit - Switching to Trident (IE)
NASA - Americans Defeat Russians in First Space Quidditch Match.
CNet - Dalai Lama exiled to Second Life. Among other great fake story titles.
BBC - Sniff Screen Technology.
Google TiSP - Broadband via Your Toilet.
Gmail Paper - [...]

Book Mapping

Matthew Gray over at Google came up with the idea of plotting places referenced in books on a map. It’s really an interesting thing to see. As he notes, you can see westward expansion by filtering by publication date. Not much is said about the books used, but I would assume it’s [...]

Confessions?

I’ve seen a few of these types of blog posts before. This one being “7 Confessions of a Cingular Sales Rep“. Overall it’s a good read, but it has me wondering. Are these legitimate “confessions”? Or Lonelygirl15 reincarnated?
There was an underlying message in that confession: If you buy more, [...]

Junk in Preloads

The Lenovo Blogs are just fantastic examples of corporate blogging. A great example is this rather candid post on Junk in Preloads. There isn’t much that’s really “new” in the post, but the amount of honesty in it is somewhat refreshing. My favorite quote is simply:

Now let’s be honest. We load [...]

Browser Tax?

We all know Tax season is here (in the US). So don’t forget to file. We also know there is a Microsoft Tax (you know, the price of the pre-installed copy of Windows on your soon to be Linux PC), and it is possible to get it refunded. New this year is [...]