Archive for August, 2006

Waiter! There’s an RFID in My Soup!

Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006

Y’know what’d be sweet? Food with RFID tags built in. I don’t mean actually in the food (necessarily) but in the packaging.
For a snack, I just had an Odwalla Berries GoMEGA drink and an Odwalla Super Protein bar. Both products have some nutrition info printed on them as required by law, but [...]

The TV is Mocking Him

Thursday, August 10th, 2006

Sagan is watching Mr. Bean (the live series on DVD) set up his new TV. The TV only works when he is sitting in a spot where he can’t see the screen. So he sits in one spot while the TV is working then leaps up to try and see what’s on; and [...]

Web 2.0 Means More Yelling Apparently

Monday, August 7th, 2006

Speaking of web sites that yell…
Finding myself interested in news about the shutting down of Alaska’s Pipeline due to massive corrosion, I clicked through to Forbes.com to read more about it.
Within a few seconds, Steve Forbes himself was espousing, in what I can only assume was real-time video transfer, the value of something. [...]

Technorati is Freaking Me Out

Friday, August 4th, 2006

Well, perhaps just the advertisers they allow on their site.

This thing freaks me out on so many levels. The head and eyes follow the mouse movement. It talks. It says the sentence I type in (”This is a horrible thing”). It takes me to a page that yells at me without [...]

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