"This is Going to be BIG" has a piece about pay walls which pretty accurately describes what News sites want to believe.  That if you make great content people will pay for it.  That’s true.  If you make great content.  Wired has an AMAZING iPad app for its content. It costs more money than the [...]

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If you are shopping for a display you may notice that some use ANSI Lumens, some use NITs and some use CDM.  So which is better?  Well NIT and CDM are the same thing, so that makes that part of the equation easy.  They are both a measure of Candelas Per Square Meter.  Get the [...]

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Harvey Pekar, found dead this morning at around 1:00 AM, made a living as a file clerk in Cleveland, Ohio’s Veteran’s Administration Hospital. It’s what made his, and others’, life worth living that makes his passing a moment to be mourned. Pekar wrote the semi-autobiographical comic strip, “American Splendor”, chronicling the every day disappointments and [...]

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Eden Prairie. When most people hear these words spoken, they think of…absolutely nothing. Until today, when Money Magazine released its long-awaited “Best Places to Live 2010″ feature, naming the top ten small cities in America to call home. According to the article, Eden Prairie (zipcode 55344), a town of about 64,000 in eastern Minnesota, boasts [...]

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Another awful, potentially harmful product has hit the American bloodstream. This time, it’s not America’s colons or waistlines that are at risk, but our eyesight. ANY CHARACTER HERE Thanks to the cultural crack that is pop sensation Lady Gaga (who rocked the look, albeit digitally enhanced, in the music video for “Bad Romance”), American teens [...]

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America has got a fever. And the only cure is more Landon Donovan. ANY CHARACTER HERE Corny SNL-reference aside, the red, white, and blue has finally caught Football Fever, the disease that has ravaged virtually every nation except the US. Until now. With Landon Donovan as the face, and it’s a nice face, of US [...]

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Who will be the next Oprah? This is the question on everyone-who-doesn’t-have-anything-better-to-do’s mind. Ms. Winfrey is hosting a supposedly democratic contest on her website, Oprah.com, in which possible TV hosts can strut their hosting stuff and you, as the all-powerful viewer, can vote as to who will fill those shoes (a daunting task, considering Oprah’s [...]

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Well what do you know, someone has spoken out against the Obama administration.  General McChrystal, the brains, and brawn, behind America’s offensive in Afghanistan, apparently let some comments slip about his less-than-friendly feelings toward President Obama and various Cabinet members, including Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.  The burning question behind all of this is, how [...]

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The Euro isn’t the only circular object Spain can’t seem to get a handle on recently.  After Switzerland’s Gelson Fernandes snuck one past Spanish goalkeeper Iker Casillas in a rare show of Swiss aggression in today’s game, it became time to add “soccer ball” to the list. ANY CHARACTER HERE That goal, scored in the [...]

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Lindsay Lohan is a wanted women  – – Judge Marsha Revel has just issued a bench warrant for Lindsay’s arrest, and it’s all about the SCRAM. Bail bond is modified due to last court hearing. The present bail is adjusted to $200,000. We’re going to simplify this in lame terms. Lindsay was a no show [...]

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Gary Coleman Death Photo — For Sale TMZ has received knowledge that a series of pictures have been taken of Gary Coleman while in the hospital alive & deceased. Pictures of Gary are being delivered to the media at a price. In one of the pic. that were taking of Gary is extremely uncomfortable to [...]

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So based on this e-mail I think I might buy a house… or a private island. I can’t believe how lucky I am I didn’t even know I entered and now I’m a Billionaire… I’ll have to look up the exchange rate to see what that is in US Dollars. Do you think I should [...]

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This year Daylight Saving Time begins on the second Sunday of March 2010 at 2 a.m.  At that time clocks should move ahead (Spring forward) one hour. Daylight Saving Time in the United States lasts for eight months and ends on the first Sunday in November of 2010.  At that time clocks should move back [...]

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A recent article in the Vatican’s News Paper entitled “Aristotle’s Virtues and Homer’s Doughnut” acknowledges that Homer as an everyman has the same kinds of trials of faith that normal people face. Every few years overly critical social critics share their feelings on why the Simpson’s are “OK”  I remember a very long while back [...]

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December 7, 1941 is as Franklin D Roosevelt a date which will live in Infamy.  The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941, stunned virtually everyone in the United States military. Japan’s carrier-launched bombers found Pearl Harbor totally unprepared. President Franklin Roosevelt quickly addressed Congress to ask for a declaration of war. [...]

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This is really just a neat exercise in image reconstruction.  This is the image on CEO Jen-Hsun Huang’s Tablet. Original photo from here. Reconstructed image from the reflection. You can see he is playing Ratatouille Not real exciting, but still.

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Growing up on a working dirt farm in Michigan, I know a thing or two about agricultural farming.  So I get a little up in arms when my friends tell me things like “The way corn is raised depletes the land in 7-10 years”.  Bull-SH**. My family has raised Corn, Wheat, and Oats on the [...]

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Slate is running an article entitled “What Ever Happened to Acid Rain” which was clearly not fact checked.  The headline grabbed me, Acid Rain was a big problem in a Transformers episode I saw as a kid, and it had me scared of clouds for months.  I was scared rain was going to have me [...]

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Do Midgets Have Night Vision? No.  Of course they don’t.  They are Midgets not Dwarves.  They don’t work in the mines of Mordor.  The Internet is making people stupid.  If you have to Google to find out the answers to obvious questions you are an idiot. The problem with having the answer to any question [...]

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There is a few websites to “simulate” the Helen Keller experience.  Hint they are just black pages.  The song “Do the Helen Keller” is stupid.  It says “talk with your hips” Helen Keller was famous for learning to talk, even though she was blind and deaf.  She even became a rather famous lecturer.  The Idea [...]

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