Archive for June, 2009

  • Brain Performance Exercise Games Make You Smarter... Kinda Brain Performance Exercise Games Make You Smarter… Kinda

    As we get older... and we are getting older, there are certain brain functions that could benefit from a brain sharpening exercise game. What? Now I have to have an exercise routine for my brain? It doesn't involve heavy lifting don't worry. Thanks to brain improvement sites you can play fun game...

  • Local Post Offices Are Closing. Is Yours on the List? Local Post Offices Are Closing. Is Yours on the List?

    As the United States Postal Service, weighed down by a crippling multibillion-dollar deficit, shrinks its operations, post offices across the country are on the chopping block. Each year, hundreds of postal operations shutter, but this coming fall could be the single biggest consolidation in Postal ...

  • What is the Healthiest Tea to Drink? What is the Healthiest Tea to Drink?

    As early as 4,000 years ago, archaeological evidence shows that tea was already being cultivated and drank in China because of its health benefits. These benefits are being rediscovered today. Tea is getting its popularity back, especially in the Western world. Black tea, green teas, and organic tea...

  • Windows Loves RSS Windows Loves RSS

    Earlier today, I went to downtown Seattle to Gnomedex 5.0, and stood up in front of 300 tech influentials, enthusiasts and leaders to talk about some really exciting things that we’ve been working on for the past several months. The main thing I talked about is the deep platform support fo...

  • DIY home stereo ideas. DIY home stereo ideas.

    I was thinking of redoing the basement and building a multimedia wall and office together. One side my desk and chair with the computers I needed. The other side the TV, stereo, DVR and stuff. Just gotta get rid of all that damn water!! The TV I like: Sony's new KD-34XS955 34” FD Trinitron...

  • Cool Your PC With Parts From Home Depot Cool Your PC With Parts From Home Depot

    So the other day I'm sitting in my home office and the GPU fan in my PC decides to start doing the dry-bearing death rattle. Just great, more noise. With the bad GPU fan, the inefficient CPU fan, PSU fan and two case fans the thing sounds like a garbage disposal ingesting a hand full of TTL logic ch...

  • Employees Calling In Sick With Seasonal Absence Syndrome SAS Employees Calling In Sick With Seasonal Absence Syndrome SAS

    Since when did wanting a nice, sunny afternoon to work in the garden become a Seasonal Absence Syndrome? With the arrival of summer, 30% of employees may call in sick this summer to enjoy a day off. Sunny skies and warmer temperatures also brings Seasonal Absence Syndrome (SAS), which will plague...

  • Review of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith Review of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith

    The final chapter of the Star Wars series hits the theatres this month but just to give fans a sneak peak of what to expect George Lucas has released the novel of Revenge of the Sith two weeks before the movie. Based on the screenplay of the movie, written by Lucas, Matthew Stover pens Episode II...

  • Are Games Like WOW Making Kids Violent? Are Games Like WOW Making Kids Violent?

    An 11-year-old Mississippi boy accidentally killed his 9-year-old brother with a shotgun blast Tuesday as the two struggled over the gun after arguing about a video game, authorities said. We've seen this before a kid dies playing WOW video game. This time it's against a family member. A-Darrious...

  • Massachusetts Beaches Now Have to Deal with Jellyfish Massachusetts Beaches Now Have to Deal with Jellyfish

    Jellyfish attack Boston area beaches! Poisonous Portuguese men-of-war, in an unusually large invasion, stung at least 14 people in Massachusetts during the last week, prompting periodic swimming bans on Cape and Islands beaches during one of the summer's busiest holiday weeks. Local and state ...

  • Visit anyplace in the world in 3D. FREE! Visit anyplace in the world in 3D. FREE!

    Want to visit anyplace in the world from 3D satelite images right from you computer. Want to do it for free? Download World Wind from NASA. World Wind lets you zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth. Leveraging Landsat satellite imagery and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data, Wor...

  • Cheap Cool stuff

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