The Scientific Atlanta Explorer 8000 PVR (Explorer from now on) is the absolute worst piece of consumer electronics that I have ever owned. Nothing else I have ever owned causes me to say out loud about once a week, “what a piece of _____” (the blank word varying depending on how exasperated I am). I [...]
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Reports say that the BBC may have added a fictional character (boy-band singer Jamie Kane) to Wikipedia. BBC officially denied the charge saying it was a fan that made the entry. Either way, I think that this is a good thing: 1) the community caught it very quickly. What reference book is scrutinized and corrected [...]
digg.com is consistently the best site that I check every day. It is a social bookmarking site where people vote for “articles” (websites) and the best float up to the home page. Like a democratic google where people decide popularity instead of an algorithm (pagerank). I’m too lazy to actually register and vote. I subscribe [...]
Another great mashup: cheap gas and google maps. A very good use of google maps. The only negative is that gas prices change so quickly here (in Toronto)–several times a day in some cases–that it is hard to keep up to date. At the moment the prices being shown are from last night (95-99 cents/liter) [...]
The page is here. Top ten items are: 1. Manned space exploration 2. Kozmo.com 3. Napster 4. The Concorde 5. GM’s EV1 6. The original Palm Pilot 7. Good keyboards 8. Wires 9. LPs 10. the Newton The only one I agree with is #1. NASA has dropped the ball, the Russian program is broke [...]
