Don’t Get Stampeded By The 7.1 Parade Page 1 - Talkbacks - Designtechnica

Don’t Get Stampeded By The 7.1 Parade Page 1 - Talkbacks - Designtechnica

In the article I linked there, some dude explains why a 7.1 sound system is overkill for most homes, and that you should stick with 5.1.

Why the hell would you need so many speakers? You got only two ears!

How much do these spammers like to do business?

The more email addresses you have, the more spam you will receive, unless your name is John C Dvorak of course.
I sometimes take the time to respond, if I am really bored. Here’s one of those cases:

>>Good morning,
>>
>>I apologize for this disruption and hope you do not mind me
>>dropping you an email just to see if you might be interested having
>>some search engine-ranking work done on your site. We specialize
>>in web design and search engine optimization that ranks our clients
>>in the top five on Google, Yahoo, MSN and many others, for their
>>specific search terms. Our services are tailored to
>>companies/firms such as yours that have the potential for a large
>>volume of web-generated business. Recently we ranked one of our
>>clients #1 in 55 categories and in the top 5 in 145 categories.
>>Their business is booming. I would be happy to send you
>>information that is more detailed and references if you wish.
>>
>>Best wishes,
>>
>>Brianna Foss
>>“Not All SEO Companies Are Created Equally”
>>858.274.5275

My response was as follows:

>I just had a question:
>
>Is this actually a good idea? I heard that bmw.de was banned from
>google for doing stuff like this.
>
>I await your reply.
>
>Kind Regards,
>
>Nick
>Webmaster xxxxx.xx

Their reply:

Nick,

I definatly would not recomend you doing this then. There is a a large chance that you might get black listed. But thank you for your time.

So if they’re not desperate to sell me something, why do they bother mailing me in the first place?

AWARDSPACE.COM - Free Web Hosting, Domain Hosting, Reliable Web Hosting Provider, Domain registration, Inexpensive, Low Cost, Affordable, Reseller Program, PHP, MySQL, Linux, Ecommerce

AWARDSPACE.COM is a hosting provider that has a free plan that looks pretty interesting, so i thought i’d check it out. Their signup form is impossible.

They have one of those annoying captcha’s where you can’t tell the difference between a 0 and an O , and when you screw up the captcha it tells you to fix that. Then you’re lucky to get your captcha right, only to find out that it erased fields like your country and email address. So you fix that, only to find out it’s one of those impossible captcha’s again. Argh!

Time for more coffee I suppose.

The Sect of Homokaasu - The Kill Everyone Project - Bowling for Columbine since 2001

The Sect of Homokaasu - The Kill Everyone Project - Bowling for Columbine since 2001

Wi-Fi to Go: The Hot Spot in a Box - New York Times

Wi-Fi to Go: The Hot Spot in a Box - New York Times

So they made every geek’s dream come true: A wifi hotspot that just plugs in wherever there’s power. Though where does that internet come from, one might wonder:

Each requires the insertion of a PC laptop card provided by a cellular carrier like Verizon, Sprint or Cingular. The card provides the Internet connection, courtesy of those companies’ 3G (”third generation”) high-speed cellular data networks.

Okay, so why not plug that card directly into your laptop?

Conclusion: This product is only for people that have a crappy iBook or no (free?) pcmcia slot for some other reason.

Need to publish something dodgy? Go Blogger!

I contacted Blogger’s abuse department because one of their users published some personal emails that I didn’t want to see online (Don’t bother googling them, i doubt you will actually find them).

This is their response:

Hello,
	
Thank you for your note. Blogger is a provider of
content creation tools, not a mediator of that content.
We allow our users to create blogs, but we don't
make any claims about the content of these pages. In
cases where contact information for the author is
listed on the page, we recommend working directly
with this person to have this information removed or
changed.
	
Sincerely,
Blogger Support

So if you ever need to publish something dodgy, Blogger is the way to go.

Chip prototype gets under the skin

Chip prototype gets under the skin

According to the article, these korean guys are working on a technology that would allow you to listen to your ipod without headphones, cause it would use your body to get the sound in your ears.

Even though I call BS on this one, it would be very cool cause i would no longer get people complaining at my boss that I wear headphones while at work. I’d love to be the first to get this chip implanted!

30 Boxes | it’s your life

30 Boxes tells me it’s my life. Well, it’s my life indeed. And 30 Boxes tells me what I do in my life. Or, it reminds me, cause I have to tell it first.

30 Boxes tells me there are no plans this weekend. Awesome.

Official Google Blog: Chat + Email = Crazy Delicious

Official Google Blog: Chat + Email = Crazy Delicious

So Google is going to add chat to my email.

Which is why, within a few weeks, when you log into Gmail you’ll find a list of your most important contacts on the left-hand side of the window, and you can chat right away with those who are online. You can also save, search for, and view your chat histories just like your Gmail messages.

So basically, that means that in a few weeks, when you check your gmail, people can see when you do this, and can bother you while you do it. Thanks Google!