Adam Mesh sells a business kit, which already puts in him in the shady guy category.  It’s a get rich from home business plan that relies on the volatility of penny trader stocks to make him a lot of money, and the people at the front of the information chain money.
Here’s how any of these [...]

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YuDu Screen Printing Machine Kit is the first "As Seen on TV" item I have wanted in a long while.  I have a lot of funny t-shirts, and I often have ideas for new ones.
I'm having a hard time justifying the Nearly $300 Price tag, but Amazon has it for a lot less (about [...]

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Cute animals preparing to sleep, is a great way to get your kid to fall asleep.  The Nighty Night Video works almost as well as playing Dr. Phil before bedtime.  This DVD as seen on Dr. Phil “triggers” your kids to fall asleep.
I’m personally very fond of this image of the polar bear [...]

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Pic doesn’t do them justice as you can’t see the Silver Foil, or the UV Spot gloss, or how high of resolution the print is.

I ordered them from Taste of Ink Studios.  Good price for great looking cards.

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Two of my friends have reported that they say $7.50 taken from their PayPal account in recent days by Rebatesoft.  The small unauthorized Charge might not be noticed by some.  But taken from 100’s of thousands of people the amount adds up.
Why PayPal hasn’t blocked this obvious scam is beyond me.  Several posts on the [...]

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I saw a BigFoot KillerNic (killernic.com) in the Microcenter the other day, and wondered how good it really was, so I bought it figuring if it sucked I could return it.  It did, and I did.
I put the KillerNic up against the real world experiences I could simulate in my humble home, and compared [...]

Filed under : Computers, PCs, and Macs, Hard on the Pocket Book, Reviews

I was in the neighborhood, and am looking to possibly burn some money, so I decided to check out the Tesla dealer on Santa Monica Blvd.  Having spent a lot of time in a Lotus Elise, I expected that I was not going to be impressed.  I was however pleasantly surprised.  The Tesla is a [...]

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I received an excellent Four Hand Massage from June and Nadia while in LA.  I had never indulged in this type of extravagance, because I always assumed a longer 2 hand would be better.  In truth I have never had such a great massage.  Both June and Nadia are very conversational, fun, and friendly, and [...]

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Ever wished your phone looked a little more like a scene from 2001:A space Odessy" Yeah, me neither.  But you could blow a grand and do just that.  And 8 people did.  The idiots.

Similar to the Grand Theft Auto 4 joke about $1000 ring tones.  This is the ultimate bling for the iPhone.
If I'd [...]

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I saw an ad for the Optic 1050 Binoculars, and I have to say that 1000% is 10x.  This is not "ultra-high" magnification like they say in the ad.  Combine this with the weird coating they put on the lens which reduces the light levels, and the fact that there is no image stabilization, and [...]

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I bought a 97 Jeep Wrangler.  4.0 Liter inline 6, a gas guzzler for its size.  This one was eating even more gas than I thought it should 14 miles to the gallon Highway.  So I looked for low hanging fruit.  The Idle didn't sound quite right, so I assumed the spark plugs, or distributor [...]

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I'm tempted to drive down the hill and put gas in my car which doesn't need it, just to annoy the people who organized today's Gas Strike (which is actually a Gas Boycott, but no need to piss off the idiots who organized it).
Gas is subject to supply and demand, and while I suspect that [...]

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LG is going all out with the Premiere of the LG Scarlet line of HDTV's.
I'm pretty pscyhed about these TV's.  The Scarlet series is a set of LED backlit LCD's, with 120hz upconversion.  The result is a breathtaking picture when attached to Blu-ray or HD-DVD. 
But when push comes to shove this is not the [...]

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Maybe in an e-bay picture you could pass these fakes off as real, but a quick look at the interior, and anyone who watched Magnum PI is going to know this is not a vintage Ferrari.  While a nice conversion from Toyota to Ferrari, a test drive would tell you this isn't the real thing.  [...]

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I don't usually get too excited over prices of hard disks, but I was browsing for my next set of drives for a Raid Array and thought I was going to be looking at 250 Gig Sata's times 4, but I came across a deal that was too good to pass up.
1 Terabyte Sata for [...]

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I couldn't find any good resources to really show me how easy or hard it was going to be to replace the lamp (bulb) in my Samsung DLP.  So Christina made one, and it was quite simple.
Christina shows how easy it is to swap the lamp in your front or rear projection DLP, LCOS, [...]

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I bought a Xincom Dual Wan Load Balacing Router to "bond" or at least aggregate my EVDO Rev A and my Hughes Satellite connection.  How was the result?  Seemingly great.
While optimized for multiple users rather than for boosting the speed of a single user across two connections, it does do that as well.
I have a [...]

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I spent Easter day in the car with Pete driving toward's Las Vegas New Mexico to drop his Chevy Avalanche off at the shop that is going to install his Hydrogen Assist Fuel Cell (HFAC).  The Truck got 17 to 18 Mile per Gallon prior to having the install done.  So it will be interesting [...]

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Nostalgic for a time when Baseball wasn't all about performance enhancing drugs?  When it was still a metaphor for what life should be.  If you hurry you can still get one of the 1000 limited copies of Ballet in the Dirt: Baseball photography of the 1960s and 70s  by Neil Leifer.

 
To the baby boomers of [...]

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When South Park spoofed 300, and the Persian's were going to remake Les Bo's they were going to do it up in Blue and gold.  It probably would have looked like the image below, which is an interior shot of the Qaddisat Saddam
Radar Online has a full tour which is pretty impressive.  The Yacht is [...]

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I don't know what to think of MJ Safety Solutions BulletProof (resistant) Backpack.  Part of me thinks that is the stupidest thing I have heard, and part of me thinks I want one.  I would rather just have the bullet proof insert, that I could then put in what ever I want, like my Leather [...]

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I have two cats, neither glow in the dark, except for that time that Macy walked in the paint I used on My Halo 3 Dance Pad .  South Korean scientists tinkering with fluorescence protein genes say they have bred white Turkish Angora cats to glow red under ultraviolet light. This doesn't seem all that [...]

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If Facebook is worth $15 billion, and Myspace is $65 billion XYHD.tv is worth $571k.  The math would seem simple.  If Facebook has 42 million users and you calculate the value of a user to be 15billion divided by 42million you see that each User has a value of $357.14.  My 1622 users results in [...]

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A hybrid four-wheel concept bike (dual-scythe), the Tesseract from Yamaha Motor Co., will be displayed at the upcoming Tokyo Motor Show, Yamaha says Oct. 5. The Tesseract, powered by a water-cooled V-twin-engine and an electric motor, is one of 19 concept vehicles the bike maker will exhibit under the "Art of Engineering" theme at the [...]

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  in a Trailer… Last night while driving in the Mini we passed the Tesla Truck and Trailer.  For those of you who don't know Tesla makes the Tesla Roadster which is a fully electric sports car built on a Lotus Chasis.  The car is fast, and has a 200 mile Range.  They are in [...]

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I have a new love in my life.  She doesn't have a name, yet, but she will.  and I'll pinstripe it on with loving care, right above her rear bumper on the passenger side.  Yes, my new love is a car.  A 2007 Mini Cooper S Hatchback. This is the perfect balance between fun to [...]

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It looks sweet.
 
To celebrate the Xbox 360 console's first birthday in Australia, the Xbox Australia team has joined forces with an array of celebrities to raise money for the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Australia by auctioning off celebrity autographed Xbox 360 consoles. This is a 1-of-a-kind customised Xbox 360 console personally autographed by Bungie, creators of [...]

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"Your family Must Be Loaded" pretty much sums it up as we play the most expensive game of Uno ever caught on camera. We take Xbox 360 Gaming to a whhole new level as the XYHD crew piles in to my Jeep Wrangler, connected to Google WiFi, and mix it up in a round of Tom Clancy's Rainbow [...]

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My mom needed a new TV.  Her last TV cost almost nothing and came from Wal-mart. 
The requirements:

Has to fit a 36 inch wide cabinet.
Must have an ATSC tuner
Must cost under $1000
Must have an amazing SD picture because she only has an aerial so there will be a good deal of static on many of [...]

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I got it all hooked up, was playing, and the stewardess comes over to tell me the controllers are wireless and I have to stop….
 2 I-suns, a power inverter, a Personal DVD player, and I'm playing Xbox 360 In first class.  12 year old next to me thinks he won the lotto. 
The 767 I [...]

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Jake released a very good workflow for copying HD-DVDs.  I am planning to put out a work flow for grabbing screenshots from Xbox Games, but this will do until then.  

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 I have to point out going into this I was expecting that Xbox Live Video Marketplace to be better than DirectTV, but to pale next to HD-DVD.  This doesn't appear to be the case.
What Marketplace got right:
Lets start with the Basics.  HD-DVD has the potential to be 36.55 Megabits per second, but tends to average [...]

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Inlet's Fathom encoding solution can be best summed up as a super computer on a PCI card. Inlet has put six Texas Instruments DSP's on to a PCI board and ported the Windows Media 9, and VC1 encoder. The result is the ability to encode 1080i content in real time or Standard definition content at [...]

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