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Okay, this is really silly but it’s also really funny and captures all the main plot points of the movie Kill Bill. Kill Bill in One Minute has the main character (the Bride) moving across a football field meeting (and mainly killing) all the characters in the movie. I give it 2 thumbs up.

My first opinion is that companies never space out their products to match the way that I purchase them. I have wanted a netbook for years (a small, light portable computer) and was really happy when that market took off. Not being one to jump in to a new category I was waiting for the [...]

↑ Apple Care

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My 10 month old iMac died about 10 days ago and I called Apple Care. The support rep quickly determined that it was the hard drive and set up an appointment at the nearest Apple Store for the next day. In the store they flashed my name on a big board showing the next appointments [...]

I hate printing web pages because of all the miscellaneous junk on them. I usually do a lot of cut and paste to pick out just what I want. Well, no more thanks to Print What You Like. This very innovative and useful website allows you to easily manipulate web pages to get just the [...]

The Periodic Table of Videos is a great website with videos for each of the elements in the periodic table. Besides being educational it is very entertaining.

As memory gets cheaper people will start to record everything they experience. I predict audio in about 5 years and video in 10. Audio recording already exists with personal notetakers where you push a button and speak into the microphone of a tiny, handheld device. Just add memory to that and keep the recording going [...]

↑ Evernote

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Evernote is a note-taking application. It works both on the desktop (Mac and PC) and the web and syncs between the different versions so that you have access anywhere (including smart phones). It has nice features both for creating and finding notes. Notes can be created through the application, via an email message (to the [...]

↑ Woopra

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Woopra is an application for tracking website access. It involves both a webserver and local client applications. The client interface is really spectacular. First off, it is in beta release. I had to wait several weeks to get my website approved. I have since applied for two additional websites and am awaiting approval on them. [...]

I read an interesting article in Wired magazine about a service call Twine. However, when I went to the site I discovered that I couldn’t try it out because it is in closed beta. I have no interest in giving them my name and other information and then wait some unknown length of time to [...]

I have been using Google Reader as my RSS reader for a few months now. It has the main requirements that I have for reading blogs: is a web service not a separate application lets me easily place a blog article into a new tab to read lets me quickly scan articles from a blog [...]

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