Don't Even Look At Your Hotel Room's Minibar Or You Might Get Charged [Hotel Bills] (1)
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Gregg emailed us from the Westin Hotel in San Francisco: My wife and I are there right now. We opened the minibar last night to put a piece of pizza in there in a pizza box. This morning, there’s a $26.04 charge for food on the bill slid under our door. Why? My wife just called to ask and was told, "If you open the mini bar door, there’s a sensor in there and if ...
There is No Social Media Overload (1)
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Every day, there are more and more great services to investigate in the world of social media. Each one breaks new ground in terms of features, focus or user interface. There are many different sites that target general social networking, some are for business, some are for dating, some are for microblogging, and others for service aggregation. And there will be many more. While some are calling for a pause in the innovation, somewhat fatigued ...
Me-Too Software and Web Apps Often Find Their Own Niche (1)
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As the price to develop Web applications and communities has decreased, and investment in people is less-demanding, it's no surprise that we've seen a boom in sites with significant similarities - be they social networking, lifestreaming, status updaters, online file storage or virtual worlds. While the rule holds true in software as it does in Silicon Valley, that the vast majority of products may meet a less than optimal fate, the potential payout continues to ...
Bicycle Generator Brainstorming (1)
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Late last week we held a brainstorming session on concepts for a bicycle generator for charging the XO where we looked both at system level designs as well as individual mechanisms in the system. We extracted several ideas from the session that we’ll look into a little more. The bicycle generator we’re developing is a fairly simple system that uses either a working bicycle or cannibalized bicycle that’s connected to a car or truck alternator ...
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i haz a nobul steed! r u goin 2 catch doz banditz? picture: dunno source, via our lolcat builder. lol caption: CrookedPenguin » Recaption ThisShared by Andrew Boardman (331) Candy Lee (191) Chad (429) darkeye11547 (915) Eric (44) fern (125) Hannibal (201) jadielady (211) Jeanne (117) John Prieto (111) karabatov (17) Sean (121) Stingray (400) Tom Hanna (412) Trav1sty (96) Tree (86) Yada (267)Contribute comment
