I like to think of my self as a curator of sorts for some of stuff coming through the fat pipes of teh internets... Enjoy!
Oracle Goddess writes “After 30 years, CompuServe is all but dead, as AOL has pulled the plug on the once-great company. The original CompuServe service, first offered in 1979, provided its users…
Since weather records began in San Diego in 1850, there has never been measurable rain on July 4. That record isn’t threatened this year.
movesguy sends us to The Daily Galaxy for comments by Stephen Hawking about how humans are evolving in a different way than any species before us. Quoting: “‘At first, evolution proceeded by natural…
jadoon88 writes to share a series of old Atari 7800 games that have been unofficially open sourced. “Remember Dig Dug or Centipede or Robotron? They used to be favorites when Atari’s 7800 series was…
Jake Lazaroff writes “According to the W3 News Archive, the charter for the XHTML2 Working Group — set to expire on December 31st, 2009 — will not be renewed. What does this mean? XHTML2 will never…
Harry writes “In 1968, computers tended to occupy entire rooms, and were therefore hard to take with you. But Computerworld reports on Anderson Jacobson’s 75-pound Teletype-terminal-in-a-case, an…
It’s June, and most of us reading this post are stuck at work instead of wasting a summer vacation away with lemonade and the dreaded “playing outside.” And to make matters worse, there’s…
Check out some more people getting caught on camera at Pwned on Camera!
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No detail on this, but reader AJ has a lame joke to go along with this submission:
Q: How does Geek Squad fix Macs?
A: They drop ‘em off at their local Apple store.
[Thanks AJ!]
Misadventures in do-it-yourself home repair, or lateral thinking of McGuyver-esque proportions? We’ve all pulled something stupid like this in our time. Hey, I once tried to fix a waterbed with…
File this review from a rancher who used only his Palm Pre to access the web under “phones are computers now”:
I did a lot of study and comparison shopping before I decided on the Pre….