Archive for March, 2008

TOS on CBS

Posted on March 30th, 2008.

CBS.com has full episodes of Star Trek (the original series) here. Hopefully kids everywhere will discover this seminal sci fi series.

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Remember Melissa?

Posted on March 30th, 2008.

The worst computer viruses of all time.

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Our Sci Fi Future

Posted on March 29th, 2008.

From Popular Mechanics: The ten most prophetic science fiction movies, ever.

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Healthy Recipes

Posted on March 29th, 2008.

SparkRecipes is a growing database of healthy diet-friendly recipes from the folks at community diet site SparkPeople.

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Image Editing In The Cloud

Posted on March 29th, 2008.

With Adobe releasing PhotoShop Express, online photo editors get some street cred. Picnik is another popular online photo editor. I’m still skeptical of online apps in general (email not withstanding), but they certainly seem inevitable.

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Come On Down To South Park

Posted on March 24th, 2008.

Every episode of South Park is now available online at South Park Digital Studios.

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How I Blew My Google Interview

Posted on March 24th, 2008.

Facing rejection in a Google job interview is apparently a badge of honor.

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Sirius Buyout of XM Radio Approved

Posted on March 24th, 2008.

Merger details:
The Justice Department approved Sirius Satellite Radio’s $5 billion buyout of rival XM Satellite Radio on Monday, saying the deal was unlikely to hurt competition or consumers.
The deal was approved despite opposition from consumer groups and an intense lobbying campaign by the land-based radio industry.
The buyout received shareholder approval in November. The companies [...]

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Cheap Laptops Get Better

Posted on March 24th, 2008.

The Dell Vostro 1000 laptop has a starting price of $399 with free shipping. That seems to be the normal “every day” price, but a bundle is now available for $429 that ups the ante with a fast dual core cpu, double the memory, a battery upgrade, and a DVD burner. Nice.

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Gamma Ray Burst Lights Up The Universe

Posted on March 22nd, 2008.

Really, really energetic:
Scientists have detected an interstellar explosion so bright that it was briefly visible to the naked eye—from 7.5 billion light-years away.
Viewers looking at the right patch of night sky on Wednesday would have seen several afterglows from the massive gamma-ray burst, slightly brighter than the faintest visible stars.

Gamma-ray bursts occur when massive stars [...]

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HD DVD RIP

Posted on March 21st, 2008.

The 10 Video Formats HD DVD Will Meet in Heaven.

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Centro Sales Success Won’t Save Palm

Posted on March 21st, 2008.

The Palm Centro is a big hit, but can the company actually make money off a $99 smartphone? Probably not. Palm has maybe one chance to come out with a serious iPhone competitor if they hope to recapture even a small amount of their former glory. I hope they pull it off, [...]

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Classmate PC Coming To America…and Europe

Posted on March 20th, 2008.

Intel wants everyone to have a computer:
Up until now, both Intel’s Classmate PC and the OLPC Foundation’s OLPC XO laptop have been explicitly targeted towards poor students in developing countries. Intel plans to change that focus with the second generation of the Classmate PC, however, announcing that future versions of the laptop will be available [...]

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Be A Star

Posted on March 20th, 2008.

The NY Times asks: So You Want to Be a Blogging Star?

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Arthur C. Clarke; Dead At 90

Posted on March 18th, 2008.

Arthur C. Clarke has died.
Here’s Clarke’s WikiPedia entry.

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Hack Your Life

Posted on March 17th, 2008.

Get organized, motivated and incredibly efficient! The Top 100 Productivity and Lifehack Blogs

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Hulu Goes Public Tomorrow

Posted on March 11th, 2008.

Online video site Hulu, a joint venture of Fox and NBC, opens to the public tomorrow, March 12. I’ve been a beta user for a while, and Hulu has a lot to offer. The Reuters blurb sums up Hulu’s depth of content nicely:
At launch, Hulu will offer full-length episodes of more than 250 [...]

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Free 50gb Hard Drive

Posted on March 9th, 2008.

From WebWare: online Storage newcomer ADrive offers “a whopping 50GB of storage for free, with the only bandwidth limitations being in the size of the files you can upload, which are capped at a reasonable 2GB.”
ADrive

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Crazy Cool Home Theaters

Posted on March 9th, 2008.

Via deputydog: 10 of the best themed home cinemas on earth.
The sci fi themes are awesome, but I really like the Titanic room.

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In The Year 2525

Posted on March 9th, 2008.

Cleopatra 2525 was short-lived camp sci-fi series from 2000-2001 — think Xena, only set in a post-apocalyptic future. Full episodes are available online via Hulu.
Firefly fans might enjoy seeing Gina Torres playing “Helen”.
Here’s more background on the series.

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MacBook Rebates

Posted on March 9th, 2008.

Amazon is offering Apple MacBook rebates of $50 - %150.

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Vista Fallout

Posted on March 9th, 2008.

One year after the birth of Windows Vista, why do so many Windows XP users still decline to “upgrade”?

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