May 2010
1 post
Smart use of smartphone?
When listening to voicemail…
What currently happens:
To replay this message, press X
To delete this message, press Y
To save this message, press Z
To hear more options, press AA
Then if you haven’t heard what you wanted to do, you press AA and then go through it all over again with the extra long list of options.
What I wish my future smartphone would do:
While listening to the...
April 2010
2 posts
Buy or Rent →
Tracking Tracking Number
If you forget to record your tracking number with FedEx, they try to help you find it by destination address and ship date. However, if the package is going to an address that receives a lot of packages (like a laptop repair center), they apparently are unable to or too lazy to sift through to find your tracking number.
How hard would it to further filter the search by the from address or...
March 2010
6 posts
Creation On The Fly →
For future online doodling.
WatchFlying Cheap (on regional jets)
(via Consumerist)
Homework Goggles? →
Foreign language reading homework + Google Goggles = That’s like cheating?
January 2010
1 post
December 2009
2 posts
Ya, boo....
I make sure to uncheck all the toolbars, search engines, and “value added services” that installers might try to sneak in. However, somehow I still managed to have Yahoo search be snuck in as my default for Firefox.
I tried many suggestions such as reinstalling Firefox, changing the values for “browser.search.defaultenginename” and/or...
October 2009
2 posts
Reinstalling in your sleep →
This will definitely make me less reluctant to reinstall Windows.
Like the name too.
Ikea Meatballs
I did not believe that Ikea has restaurants in their stores and sells Swedish meatballs.
Visited an Ikea a couple of weeks ago. Now I believe. And believe it’s yummy.
(Picture: utne.com)
August 2009
5 posts
PowerTOP →
PowerTOP is a Linux tool that helps you find those programs that are misbehaving while your computer is idle…
Unix Find →
Helped me find my -prune
July 2009
2 posts
In China, job seekers are resorting to plastic...
By Don Lee
March 30, 2009
Reporting from Shanghai — In this crummy job market, Stephanie Yang figures any little advantage will help. Even double eyelids.
So on a cold January morning, the 21-year-old college senior walked into one of dozens of plastic surgery clinics here and plopped down $730, the equivalent of one year’s tuition. An hour later she came out with two big bandages over...
Colors
Today, my five-year-old came home from summer camp crying because her friends and counselors had all laughed at her when she couldn’t identify colors correctly during a game. My husband then confessed that he had taught her colors wrong because he thought it would be funny. FML.
(FML)
June 2009
5 posts
Pixar grants girl's dying wish to see 'Up'
Thursday, June 18, 2009 By ANNIE BURRIS THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER HUNTINGTON BEACH – Colby Curtin, a 10-year-old with a rare form of cancer, was staying alive for one thing – a movie. From the minute Colby saw the previews to the Disney-Pixar movie Up, she was desperate to see it. Colby had been diagnosed with vascular cancer about three years ago, said her mother, Lisa Curtin, and at the...
Guess
Today, my boyfriend and I took a late night drive, and after a while he stopped at a gas station and asked if I wanted anything I replied “guess”. He came out and gave me a box of tampons. Apparently I’ve been bitchy. FML
(FML)
Pinouts wiki: USB example →
Boring but necessary.
Pinout / hardware documentation : ECE ::
API’s & programming documentation : CS.
(via Slashdot)
January 2008
1 post
December 2007
4 posts
Auxetic, Blast-proof Fabric - Zetix →
Pass The Popcorn! Study Finds That Film Enjoyment...
ScienceDaily (Dec. 7, 2007) — Loud commentary and cell phone fumbling may be distracting, but new research suggests that the presence of other people may enhance our movie-watching experiences. Over the course of the film, movie-watchers influence one another and gradually synchronize their emotional responses. This mutual mimicry also affects each participant’s evaluation of the overall...
November 2007
1 post
Practice for the SATs and feed the hungry at the... →
October 2007
1 post
September 2007
6 posts
One Phone Charger To Rule Them All? →
Non-Stick Chewing Gum Invented by British... →
Russian scientists discover radiation- absorbing...
Russian scientists in the Khibinsky Mountains in the Arctic Circle have made an important scientific discovery. They’ve found a new mineral which absorbs radiation. It does not yet have an official name and is known only as number 27-4. It can absorb radioactivity from liquid nuclear waste. “It can extract radioactive substances from any water-based solution and so has a very...
Nintendo sees Wii as a hybrid against two SUVs
Nintendo’s George Harrison gives the company’s view of the video game business as it currently stands. The differences between the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Wii have previously been described by analogies like food and film, but in a new interview, Nintendo of America’s senior vice president of marketing and communications, George Harrison, threw a new one into the mix: cars....
August 2007
9 posts
Todoist - online task manager →
WatchBohemian Rhapsody A Capella (groovy grooves)
Our century's "Duck and Cover" →
You Can Get Arrested For That
Randomly found this book, You Can Get Arrested For That, in Borders about things that are illegal to do in the US. Here are some examples: Tying a giraffe to a light post (forget where) Falling asleep in a cheesecake factory in South Dakota Playing cards on the street with a Native American in Globe, AZ
Gene For Left-Handedness Is Found
Australian research published last year found left-handed people can think quicker when carrying out tasks such as playing computer games or playing sport. And French researchers concluded that being left-handed could be an advantage in hand-to-hand combat. (BBC News article)
July 2007
8 posts
