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Jeff Hoy, American

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Dear Amazon

[Update: Nevermind, I don't want your crap, I'd rather have a Nook. Why don't you do the truly ballsy thing and cut off all sales to Colorado to protest having to collect sales tax instead of just cutting off your affiliates like a stupid bully? ]
*Ahem*, just thought I’d tell ya that I’ve been a [...]


Andrew Wakefield lied, children died… – Part 3

12 years later and some real progress is finally being made on this stupid crap.
A prominent British medical journal on Tuesday retracted a 1998 research paper that set off a sharp decline in vaccinations in Britain after the paper’s lead author suggested that vaccines could cause autism.
Why did he do it? Possibly to make himself [...]


Andrew Wakefield lied, children died… – Part 2

Researcher Who Sparked the Vaccine/Autism Scare “Acted Unethically”
The MMR/autism hypothesis took off in 1998 with the publication of a study of 12 autistic children by Canadian gastroenterologist Andrew Wakefield.  Wakefield’s study found traces of the measles virus in the guts of children he tested.  He concluded that the virus derived from the MMR vaccination, and [...]


For EE wannabes and PC gaming nerds out there…

[H]ard|OCP has a great editorial on NVIDIA’s newest graphics chipset, the GF100, also known as Fermi.  This new design is a major departure from and rethinking of the way graphics are rendered on computer video cards.  I’ll bet Valve Software’s Gabe Newell is rolling over in his corpulent body.  You see, cause he hates new computer [...]


Zune track sorting failure

The Zune software allows you to assign disc numbers to your individual tracks.  This is useful if a particular track came from a multi-disc release.  In these examples I’m using Dethklok’s “The Dethalbum” Deluxe Edition which came on two discs.  You can see this feature in these first two screen shots.  Click them to embiggify for [...]


What? No video?!

How could these guys release this information without providing a video of the mice floating around?  Come on guys!  Make with the video pronto!  I want to see the dizzy mouse kicking the air and spinning around.
The researchers first levitated a young mouse, just three-week-old and weighing 10 grams. It appeared agitated and disoriented, seemingly [...]


RiffTrax Encore…

Update:  The RiffTrax Encore is scheduled for October 8th.
If you missed the RiffTrax Live event, then go get your tickets for the RiffTrax Encore event.  It’s a rerun of the live show.
rifftrax Just got off the phone with @FathomEvents – an encore broadcast of #rifftraxLive is on its way! Details coming soon!


Hi, Bob Executive, which way is business?

[ Be sure to get your Bob Executive t-shirts here ]
I just got back from the RiffTrax Live: Plan 9 From Outer Space event.
It was the best thing I’ve seen in a movie theater in a long, long, oh so very long, time.
Let me say that again… bigger.
It was the best thing I’ve seen in [...]


Credit when due…

I’ve been using Go Daddy hosting for about four years.  In that time they have added new features, increased disk storage, and upped the bandwidth limit on my account.  All of that free of charge, there have been no fee increases.  I haven’t had any downtime and no loss of data.  Go Daddy runs a [...]


More iPhone/RC hybridization…

Previously some crazy foreigners controlled their r/c trucks with a WiiMote and iPhone.  Now some crazy American decided to control his r/c helicopter with his iPhone.  Seems to be an effective method for basic controls.  I’d hate to try and do some crazy 3D stuff with that though.
Check the video:

h/t: Zero RC


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