Archive for the 'Ramblings' category
Junk Postal Mail
Tired of junk mail in your postal box?
DMA’s Mail Preference Service will allow you to receive more of the mail you want to receive and less of the mail you do not wish to receive. You may add your name to individual organization lists and remove your name from individual organization lists. Complete the form and we will send it along to our members, asking them to honor your preferences
Continental gets Wifi
Wow… non-stop flights globally from Houston AND wifi too! Love it! 😀
Continental (NYSE: CAL) will also be introducing onboard Wi-Fi services including e-mail and instant messaging connectivity offered by LiveTV.
UPDATE: D’oh! It might suck! 🙁
Magic or Trickery
Gotta love Penn & Teller… only they would point out that its all trickery… 😀
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Hush Labs at Creative Space
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Bat-Phone
Now, you too can own a Bat-Phone!
Inspired by Batman. No-dial red desk phone with flashing light.
Insomnia from Cell Phones?
Some say cell phones are fine… others, not so much…
Using a mobile phone before going to bed could stop you getting a decent night’s sleep, research suggests.
Teleportation Movie
The latest on teleportation…
Actor Christensen, of Star Wars fame, and director Liman discuss teleportation with MIT professors
Teleportation: The leap from fact to fiction in new movie Jumper
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Best Cost/GB for Harddrives
Someone wrote a script to show what the best value for hard drives is currently at Newegg:
Arrived at Inventables
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Electric luggage conveyor
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Fake C-Notes
‘Klaus Bender, the author of Moneymakers: The Secret World of Banknote Printing, said the phony $100 bill is “not a fake anymore. It’s an illegal parallel print of a genuine note.” He claims that the supernotes are of such high quality and are updated so frequently that they could be produced only by a U.S. government agency such as the CIA.’
Mysterious $100 ‘supernote’ counterfeit bills appear across world
Bumblebee from Transformers Movie
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EVDO vs UMTS
I’ve been a Verizon EV-DO customer for a couple of years now, but it seems like everyone has jumped on the bandwagon. When I got to CES in Las Vegas the fastest speeds I got over EV-DO was about 200kbps:
So, so I decided to switch to UMTS to see what I’d get on ATT and here’s what I got:
I think I maybe canceling my EV-DO service when I get back. 😀
Late at the office on a weekend
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Nurses Live Longer?
Its weird that a subgroup of nurses have a much higher rate of dying, but overall they do better than the rest of us…
Nurses have a lower risk of dying from several different conditions compared with individuals in the general population, according to the findings of a large Canadian study of registered nurses (RNs).
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