A Little on the Light Side October 25, 2009
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Just in case you needed something fun today, try this.
[ INCREDIBOX ] presents [ THE INCREDIBLE POLO ]
Need More Bandwidth? September 10, 2009
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Maybe I should upgrade to pigeon for my next network upgrade. I wonder how long it would take my ISP to offer carrier pigeon as an option. Just think of the bundle of services: satellite TV, phone service, and Internet pigeons! Read the BBC article for more details.
BBC NEWS | Africa | SA pigeon ‘faster than broadband’
Twitter, Meet Woofer August 25, 2009
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If you thought 140 characters of micro-blogging at Twitter was mostly pointless, try a site that requires a minimum of 1400 characters. Good thing so many people know about copy-paste. From a MacWorld UK article.
The opposite of Twitter: new site requires 1,400-character minimum – Digital Lifestyle – Macworld UK
God Does Not Twitter July 9, 2009
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Just a link to a comic I read today. GoComics lets you link to a comic, instead of letting you embed one. That would be cool. Anyway, worth clicking through for a good chuckle.
http://www.gocomics.com/speedbump/2009/07/09/
303,398 May 5, 2009
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I thought my daughter texted a lot. At one time we calculated her texting in terms of hours per day. I guess those numbers are relative. Here is a CNET News story about Crystal Wiski, a California teen who averaged 7 texts a minute to wrack up an astonishing 303,398 texts in one month. Yes, that is a total for one month! In addition to texting, Crystal gets straight As in school, and works 40 hours a week at McDonalds.
Teen claims 303,398 iPhone texts in one month | Technically Incorrect – CNET News
Tonally Cool April 16, 2009
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Fun little diversion. I’m sure people could use this for sending coded messages or something. Me, I just like clicking on the squares to see what it sounds like. Try diagonal lines, blocks of squares, and alternating patterns. Very fun!
http://lab.andre-michelle.com/swf/fl10/ToneMatrix.swf
Twitter Fine March 29, 2009
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Looks like Twitter and the NBA have something going here. Previously, a player was told not to tweet during games, and another player said he was going to tweet during a game. Now an owner has been fined by the league office for publicly criticizing the referees in public, in this case, on Twitter. Mark Cuban has quite a history with NBA fines, and also has his own connections to the Internet prior to being the owner of the Dallas Mavericks. Seems like someone should have explained to Mark that comments made on the Internet can be seen by anyone, employers, governing boards, just about anyone! At $25,000 a tweet, even Mark Cuban won’t be able to afford that for too long.
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban fined $25,000 for ref comments – ESPN
Twitter and Lose Your Job! March 17, 2009
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Okay, so it isn’t quite that dire, but the Milwaukee Bucks, NBA basket ball team, has a player who is on Twitter. Seems he tweeted at half-time of an important game. Now the coach has banned Twitter during games. I guess I can see his point. When the coach of the other team was asked about the incident, he summed it up this way:
“Yeah, well, I have no comment,” Rivers said. “New generation.”
Milwaukee Bucks tell Charlie Villanueva not to Twitter during games anymore – ESPN
