U9O.net: You and I Know.

[Via Engadget]

AT&T has a long history of hanging around in the world of technology, and apparently a group of prophets were running the show circa 1993, but the wise men and women in charge were a bit slow on engaging their own predictions. A marvelous artifact of “what technology would become” was recently unearthed, showing AT&T’s hypotheses about what devices and marvels we’d see in the years to come. The video file (click on for the YouTube demonstration), originally found on a CD-ROM called “Newsweek Interactive,” speaks of e-readers, in-car GPS units, tablet PCs, WiFi, memory chips, interactive ATMs, videoconferencing, biometrics, digital medical cards, downloadable flicks, on-demand content, distance education, and even internet browsers — all years before these things hit the mainstream (or were even invented). Ironically, none of these creations were crafted directly by AT&T, as other firms apparently pulled the trigger on these ideas before the telecom giant could do it itself. While it’s easy to take text messaging, Bluetooth syncs, and quad-core processors for granted now, we’ve got to wonder how wild things will be in just another decade further from 1985.

Flowers. (quite possibly NSFW… but it really is just pictures of flowers)

http://www.slate.com/id/2154625

You have to see it to believe it. so you look like a cool person.

Welcome to Fake Your Space. You have found a new and exciting service which offers help to all the men and women out there who don’t feel like they are popular enough on social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook. If you are tired of seeing everyone else with the hottest friends and want some hotties of your own, then this is the place for you.

I wanted one of those 3d controllers for a LONG time coming, so I can use it in my graphics programs, my carputer, and other apps (I’m sure I can think up a few new uses for the controller, including 3d games of course). But it was always insanely priced at around $200 to $600 . At $59, the price point is a lot more palatable, and it looks super sleek in the uber-geek way.

[Read more about it here]

http://www.dumpalink.com/media/1163975746/One_picture_every_day_parody

A new world record. Dominos.

check it out.

A video about underground protesters in modern day China.

Didn’t update this for awhile but I finally got done with all my food today (except cereal, etc). 11/17

Eggs 2.99
Bread 2.99

There are these vegetable packs that you can steam… pretty good portions in these plastic bags you stick in the microwave for 5 minutes and they come out great. Anyway, I got 10 of them for 1 buck each. Things like melted broccoli cheese, steamed vegetables,  creamed corn, etc.

10.00

Hormel Beef Roast: 10.99 (Lasts 3 meals. microwaveable)

Pork chops 7.11

banana:  1.30
apples: 1.99
pineapple: 3.99
cantaloupe: 1.95
2 ready-go salad packs: 3.99 x 2: 7.98

My sister sent it to me.

http://www.collectivegood.com/news.asp#War

Kind of a game, more of a cool adventure story supplemented by clicking.

Hint: Click everywhere. Sometimes you need to click on a thing more than once. Sometimes if repeatly clicking doesn’t do anything you need to wait for some other action to happen. Don’t give up, everything makes sense eventually.

If you are like me and wish that your bookmarks are available whereever you go, but you really like the convience of having it available not just on google homepages of delicious or whatever and just want it on Firefox, without a lot of hassle and thinking…. You are in luck. Foxmarks.com is da shiznit.

I know I’ve been writing like an accountant when it comes to food lately– my 3 month experiment comes to mind– but I’m actually quite knowledgeble in terms of food. Here is a slate.com article about steaks you can order (apparently you can order Kobe style beef made right here in the US) on the net. Being the good souls they are, they used rib-eyes (my most fav cut).

I’ve been pretty addicted to both Stumbleupon and Del.icio.us in the last few years. Stumbleupon uses a simple thumbs up or thumbs down symbol to rate websites. You click on the “stumble” button and it automatically takes you to a website in that category. If you like it, you get a thumbs up. If you hate it, you get a thumbs down. You can add web sites to its system by simply rating it, so boring, neutral, sites hardly ever get any kind of action. After awhile, with enough ratings from your own, it’ll show similar stumblers who have similar tastes as yours, and you can go and see what web sites they have rated. It’s not just a great time-waster, but it can also be a productive time waster, as it’ll quickly show you some websites in a field and cross connections you may not have thought about. Think of it a sitting on a couch and mindlessly going through the channels. Except it kind of knows what you want to see after awhile, and only shows you stuff other people like too. Only sites you rate become available for public review, so it’s not as creepy as it sounds.

Del.icio.us is a bit more precise in that it’s a persistent (it stays the same, since it’s not relegated to just one computer, so you can access it from anywhere) bookmarking system. Kind of like what gmail did for email, it is doing for bookmarking (I have del.icio.us on my google homepages now, on every tab, separated out by section).  But that’s not quite an accurate description as it’s strength is more social (but does describe the kind of effect it’s having). You can tag my site, glowsticking.com, with the tags, rave, glowstick, glowsticking, and if you want, you can see other bookmarks that other people have also tagged with. It’s great if you want to quickly learn more about Photoshop, for instance. You can quickly see the most popular links, as well as related links.

In short, Stumbleupon is a broad based way of interacting with the internet, while Del.icio.us is a bit more razer sharp in terms of interacting with the internet, but if you don’t use these now and then, I really advise you to start. It can easily raise your perceived IQ point by about 15. Just like what google did for searching for precise bits of info, both of these sites are awesome for a more broadbased interaction with information, kind of like browsing books at a library or bookstore. Except faster and you don’t need a library card or gas money.