Archive for September, 2003

“12:51″ - The Strokes

Thursday, September 11th, 2003

The new Strokes song, “12:51″ is available as a free/legitimate/can’t be hassled by the RIAA download at thestrokes.com…
It’s pretty good and quite “Strokes-ish”… :)

Small Town Free WiFi

Tuesday, September 9th, 2003

WiFi is a good thing. Free WiFi is even a better thing.
Small towns (very very close to where I went to college) jumping ahead of the curve and offering free WiFi? That’s an awesome thing.
Businesses of the world can learn a thing or two from this small coffee shop in Central Illinois.

Journalism At It’s Best

Monday, September 8th, 2003

Steven Frank’s auto-generating newspaper from LiveJournal feeds now has a new home: http://www.ljtimes.com/
Bookmark it and make it your homepage. You’ll never need news from anywhere else! :)

How Ikea Names It’s Products

Friday, September 5th, 2003

Practically all of us have been to an Ikea and I’m sure that most of us who have shopped there have several Ikea products in our homes/offices (or at least the Zillion-pack of tea light candles for dirt cheap that is at the main entrance)… With that said, we all know that the products [...]

Very Nice G5 Pictures

Friday, September 5th, 2003

Very nice pictures of the new Apple G5 PowerMac are over at http://www.billnoll.com/g5/…
After taking a look at those shots, wander over here and see the page that his Windows-Using friend put together… Very funny! :)

Canyonero!

Thursday, September 4th, 2003

Can you name the truck with four wheel drive,
smells like a steak and seats thirty-five..
Canyonero! Canyonero!
Well, it goes real slow with the hammer down,
It’s the country-fried truck endorsed by a clown!
Canyonero! (Yah!) Canyonero!
[Krusty:] Hey Hey
The Federal Highway comission has ruled the
Canyonero unsafe for highway or city driving.
Canyonero!
12 yards long, 2 lanes wide,
65 tons of American [...]

European Fanta vs. American Fanta

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2003

So sitting in front of me is a 20 oz bottle of Day-Glo Orange Fanta that somehow tempted it’s way out of the vending machine and onto my desk. I knew what I was getting into when purchasing said Fanta, but a Coke didn’t sound good right now (and then vending machine only has [...]

Segway Fest

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2003

Ok, I cannot believe that I missed this years Segway Fest that was right in my own backyard…
Not that I own a Segway, but the chance to meet Dean Kamen and Steve Wozniak bums me out! :)