Unedited extended interview of Jim Cramer and Jon Stewart go toe-to-toe – all three parts in one playlist.

UPDATE: Viacom canned the video. 🙁

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If you’ve ever been to SxSWi you’ve seen the folks the song talks about… funny stuff:

It all started as a joke. On a Twitter challenge from a record-industry friend, Eston made a rap song about SXSWi. While we weren’t able to finish the video in time for SXSW, that doesn’t mean that you can’t. Make a video using Double D’s single and submit it to the Vimeo group….

http://southbygirls.com/

So as I start thinking about what gear I may need in my cart for the Gumball 3000 in May my research led me to a guy named Alex.

Alex Roy is a bit of a legend when it comes to rally racing… in this video below he shows the gear he’s got in his BMW M5:

And here’s Alex reviewing someone else’s car:

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So I’m thinking about going on the Gumball 3000 this year… Growing up, the movie Cannonball Run was a staple for every young boy, much like the obligatory Lamborghini Countach poster. The Gumball 3000 is essentially like the rally in the Cannonball Run movie.

In the past recent years, the Gumball was this international event… and after watching some videos of people getting detained at the borders of various countries, I decided that I wasn’t going to get caught up in any mess like that… and I flippantly told my self that if it ever became a US-only rally again, I’d consider it…

Well… turns out, for 2009, the Gumball 3000 is a US-only event… starting in LA and heading to Miami… it even comes through Dallas and Houston!

So I applied and got accepted. So I guess I’m doing it this year… 😀

More about the rally and videos after the break:
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I think there are definitely more than 8… but this is a decent start… 🙂

The iPhone is like the bacon-wrapped scallop of the mobile world. Both are quite visually pleasing relative to their peers, easy to use, and generally liked by the masses. Spend a little too much time with either, however, and you start to see the flaws. With the scallops, the grease and animal fat that was oh-so delicious on the way down begins to clog your arteries and slow your saunter. With the iPhone, the interface that seemed oh-so-polished when it first met your fingertips begins to show signs of oversight and imperfection.

8 Little Things We Still Can’t Stand About the iPhone

My inner-geek loves this spoof… hah!

Jeff Bezos visits Jon Stewart and The Daily Show

Of all the presentations I sat through this year at TED in Long Beach, this was probably the coolest technology related one:

I think its crazy that lightening contiues to kill 60 people a year on average in the US…

New high-speed video cameras are helping reveal the structure of lightning, allowing scientists to study these deadly bolts of electricity in much greater detail than ever before.

High-speed video captures the nuts and bolts of lightning

CNC lathe pencil sharpener:

Your bluetooth headset is NOT secure… just watch this howto video:

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I admit it, I take some vitamins… maybe I should stop?

Ever since the Nobel Prize-winning biochemist Linus Pauling first promoted “megadoses” of essential nutrients 40 years ago, Americans have been devoted to their vitamins. Today about half of all adults use some form of dietary supplement, at a cost of $23 billion a year.

But are vitamins worth it? In the past few years, several high-quality studies have failed to show that extra vitamins, at least in pill form, help prevent chronic disease or prolong life.

Vitamin Pills: A False Hope?

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The latest from Sony…

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I don’t know if these actually improve the performance of XP, but its probably worth trying…

Windows XP is made up of a bunch of different applications running side by side. These applications are broken down into services, DLL files, and registry entries. Before I get a bunch emails, I know it’s far more complex than this but I am trying to keep it simple. Today we are going to focus in on some default XP services that are completely useless, or close to it. These services run in the background and take up memory, so disabling some of them will increase the amount of available memory in your system.

The ultimate guide to tweaking useless Windows XP services

I actually missed this talk after misreading the schedule… but I heard it was great:

The Discovery:
With only three varieties of plants, we can “grow our own fresh air” indoors, to keep us healthy.

How to Grow Your Own Fresh Air – TED 2009

How to Grow Your Own Fresh Air – TED 2009 Talk

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More progress on teleportation… this time – for real.

Teleportation is no longer science fiction. If that information is hard to swallow check this out: A U.S. science team has successfully teleported a bunch of Ytterbium metal ions across their laboratory. For real.

Scientist Teleport Particles a Few Meters, Beaming Up Kirk Still Far Off