By Mark O’Neill If you want to crack me up, just show me an episode of South Park. The episode from a few days back, entitled “Over Logging” has to go down as one of the most classic episodes ever. Here’s a clip from the episode that I found on YouTube and a scene which […]
By Mark O’Neill A university professor who is dying of cancer and whose “Last Lecture” became a viral sensation on YouTube is now seeing that lecture become number one on online bestseller lists. Randy Pausch, a computer-science professor from Carnegie Mellon University, is dying from pancreatic cancer and at the time of his lecture last […]
By JR Raphael Contributing Writer, [GAS] Okay, so we made it past the doomsday of Y2K…but now, another technological apocalypse is on the way. At least, if you believe AT&T. A company exec has started quite the buzz by predicting we’ll reach the end of the internet by the year 2010. CNET News reported the […]
If there’s one thing that Sony knows how to do well, it’s commercials. They’ve done another “tour du chapeau” with their latest ad, promoting various models of their digital camera line. This commercial was filmed in Miami using the world’s largest foam machine, which was custom-built for the very purpose of the shoot. Enjoy!
By Mark O’Neill Some of us (including me) have shocking short-term memories. Mine is so bad that I constantly consider buying shares in the Post-It Notes company since I rely on them full time to run my life. But if you could have a computer chip implanted in your brain that would turn your memory […]
By Mark O’Neill
If you’re an avid Twitter user, you might from time to time find it difficult to keep track of who is following you. I personally only have a couple of hundred people following me and I don’t religiously follow everything that they all say (not that I’m rude, I just don’t have the time). But if you’re a really heavy user with a couple of thousand people following you, you might find it difficult sorting through everyone. You might also miss a good message or two. That’s where CrowdStatus comes in to mix things up and make things interesting.
Ever wondered about what’s really inside a U.S. blended cigarette? If you are a smoker and haven’t been given enough reasons to stop smoking yet, you’ll want to watch the following documentary. I know most smokers will dismiss everything said in the video as sensationalism, but as someone who lost 4 dear friends (who were […]
Wow, you have to admit this thing is darn sexy… in kind of an evil way. In fact, I think it would fit Darth Vader’s outfit perfectly! The Van Der Led WM2 is a watch / cellphone hybrid that features a 1.3-inch, 260k color touchscreen, 1 GB of internal memory, and a 1.3 MP digital […]
By Mark O’Neill For the geek housewife who has everything – the keyboard shopping bag.
I don’t know exactly why, but Germans have the reputation of having absolutely no sense of humor. Just ask Mark, our resident German contributor, he’ll tell you so. So if you’re planning to visit Germany during your next vacation and want to experience German gastronomy, don’t expect to get a smile from employees when going […]