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Posts from August 2004

G5 iMac Launched

The new G5 iMac from Apple is launched today. It looks a bit “iffy,” I much prefer the old design that sits across the room from me…


The Passion of the Clerks

Coming next year to a cinema somewhere near you, “The Passion of the Clerks.” After swearing the New Jersey Chronicles were over, Kevin Smith goes back to his roots with a new “Clerks” film, set 10 years after the original…


Bling-Bling

Sean “Puffy” Combes sports a diamond encrusted iPod at the MTV VMA’s. Will it ever go on sale to the general public? Does anyone care?


5 Years Removed and a Spot of Perfection

Just typical, in the back of my mind I had a cool way to celebrate the 5th anniversary of Scam City yesterday, but when the day came I clean forgot about it…


Paperformers

Paperformers, robots in disguise. Make your very own tiny transformers using PDF cutouts…


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27 August 2004 @ 12pm

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The HP-Pod is Just an iPod

In January of this year, HP and Apple announced that HP would “deliver an HP-branded digital music player based on Apple’s iPod,” they even made a mock up of what it could look like, that horrible grey/blue coloured 3G iPod. Well, they went on sale today and guess what…


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27 August 2004 @ 11am

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Gmail Overload

Well that didnt take long, 2 months to fill up my Gmail account…


Half-Life 2

Steam users can pre-load Half-Life 2 from today, but they need to purchase it in order to play it, and that option isn’t available right now. Not long to go now… Seems like this game has been delayed forever.


Rags to Righteous Babe…

Michael Hanscom finds a great article from inc. magazine about Ani DiFranco and her rise and rise from indie folk singer to the all-encompassing empire that is Righteous Babe Records.

I’ve been a big fan of Ani’s music since I first heard “Not a Pretty Girl” back in 1998…


On the QT

Quentin Tarantino has a blog, didn’t'cha know? Well, I didn’t, and it’s a pretty interesting read… Big, mad, phat shout outs to Simon who found this gem…


Things Google Knows About You

Some of the things Google knows about you. Big brother is always watching…


White House West

Will Ferrell, as George W. Bush, delivers a message, eventually, from White House West. The funniest commercial you’ll see this election


Mark Cuban on the Future

Mark Cuban muses about DVD’s and their capacity, HDTV and the future of things. “This time next year we should be talking about 1TB (that’s 1,000GBS) drives at 25c per GB or less. The increased capacity means not only that I can stick more HDNet movies or TV shows on a drive and sell them [...]


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23 August 2004 @ 2pm

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After 23 Miles in the Blazing Sun…

Paula Radcliffe pulls up with 3 miles to go in the Oympic Marathon because she wasn’t going to win a medal was “injured.”
Oh well…


The Scream

Armed robbers stole a version of Norwegian artist Edvard Munch’s “The Scream,” regarded by many as his most important work and an icon of existentialist angst, from the Munch Museum in Oslo. Not the first time this has happened, and there are a few versions still in the Museum, but you gotta wonder who would steal it in broad daylight…


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