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As some of you may or may not know I was recently laid off from my job at the illustrious Eastman Kodak Company.  Some may have seen this coming, I would like to say I have no regrets about my time there as it allowed me 3.5 years of valuable experience and income.  But now that I have some free time on my hands I find myself in the middle of an awesome vacation.  I haven't been contributing to this blog as regualarly as I wanted to, so I have decided to just build a website where I will post the blog to. This will take up some of my free time, and it will allow me to dabble in my hobbies of information and web design.  I will post updates on where I am on the site to the blog for those that care and until I eventually host the blog on the site.  All the same, step one: get dreamweaver since its easy enough and my roommate approves. 

How do I get in on this shit?

In a story proclaiming that 57% of Brits polled don't know that IM stands for Instant Messaging, we now understand why they were our biggest supporter in the war in Iraq.  And they vote!

Check out this video

The Story is here, they are robotic whiskers that sense texture and shape as they stroke a surface.  I think the model that they used in the video could have been a little less "House of Wax" like...

This is a pretty cool little monitor from Sharp.  Reminds me of those black and white vignettes you can make using two different photos. 

In a stunningly retarded move, Microsoft plans to start a social networking site that is pretty much the same as the myriad of Soc-Net sites around, only Microsoft will make you pay for the content that you put on your page.

Wallop says the plan to charge users for the decorations will supplant the advertising that supports many such free sites. The add-ons will initially cost somewhere between 99 cents and $4, said Karl Jacob, the San Francisco company's chief executive. The company will offer some elements for free.

Why would I want to join a site where I have to pay for content that goes on my page just to avoid ads? I don't remember ads being such a problem that I would be willing to pay for my page layout to avoid them. Oh yeah, you can only join if someone else invites you, a practice sure to keep their site membership nice and low. This kind of ignorance of the market place does not belong in today's society. Also the name Wallop sounds ridiculous and forced.

I forget what other website does this (village voice maybe?), provides a picture and then lets you decide what the caption should say.  This thing just looks totally ridiculous, but still pretty cool (damn you Toyota). 



I am going to have to go with "Aqua Teen Hunger Force Technology makes
it to Reality".  This references the ATHF episode known as "e-Dork"
where Master Shake and Carl after adorning cell phone helmets (the
e-helmet) with numerous attachments (the e-iano, e-piano!) gets the
Head (brain of a 4 year old) and leg upgrades to their e-helmet, which
then promptly jump into the pool killing Carl.