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Facebook Beacon: Perfect for self-centered pricks.

Friday, November 16th, 2007

Facebook Beacon is a new effort announced by Facebook to allow users to share their buying preferences. A few lines of javascript allows a website to post to facebook what items you purchased, games you played, movies you saw etc. Hell attach the three lines of code to ...

Zune 2: Bigger Faster Stronger

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

Simply put the new version of the Zune software is amazing. Microsoft took all the suck out of the last version and released something that rivals iTunes. Its podcast support is awesome now. Simple and to the point with an excellent browsing interface. The social actually ...

Steam = Everything wrong with DRM

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

Oh well I do beg your pardon Steam. How absurd of me to attempt to play a game I purchased. Please accept my apology for bothering you while you were doing other, much more important things. I'll try back later when its more convenient for you.

T-Mobile trademarks magenta

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

Apparently one can trademark colors now. Gizmodo reports (via a long chain of sources) T-Mobile, in their copyright and trademark statements has managed to state that: T-MOBILE, the T-MOBILE logo, T-ZONES, the T-ZONES design, the HOTSPOT design, T-MOBILE MDA, T-MOBILE SDA, T-MOBILEWEB, the WORLDCLASS logo, the “digits” design, the T-MOBILE ...

Why Java applets are obsolete.

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

Recently I took a test where I had to write a Java Applet. I realized something while I was writing it. Java Applets are obsolete and deprecated. Anything they can do, faster newer technologies can do better. Lets look at the two main purposes of a ...

Child’s Play 2007 Starts

Monday, November 5th, 2007

Just letting all my 3 readers know that Child's Play 2007 has started. Child's play is a charity created by Penny Arcade to give video games to children's hospitals. Contributors can directly contribute by purchasing items on a local children's hospital's Amazon.com gift list. This way you ...

Oh Snap! Jimmy Carter Tells Dick Cheney.

Thursday, October 11th, 2007

BBC Television recently interviewed Jimmy Carter about Dick Cheney. In it Carter calls Cheney "overly persuasive to George Bush" and "a disaster for our country". Funny stuff... Well except for the fact it's true. I guess that's a bit scary. Here's the video. Think Progress - ...

Halo 3: More addicting than cigarettes and WoW

Thursday, September 27th, 2007

Wow halo 3 is good looking. So much better than the beta. Anyways its fun and addicting too. Attached please find sweet screenshot of Tony and I pwning some blue forces in a neutral bomb game. The first is us in an ATV me on the ...

Adding microformats to Facebook with Greasemonkey

Thursday, September 27th, 2007

Why not tag facebook with microformats. Its already got the data there. So in an attempt to learn javascript namely the DOM I created a greasemonkey script which will tag a profile for a microformat reader. This works great in operator. I can visit a facebook ...

I caved!

Friday, September 21st, 2007

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