Yes. It Blends.
Tuesday July 10, 2007 at 6:42 pm | Filed under Gadgetry, On the Web
A blender manufacturer called Blendtec has a great idea on their hands… blend stuff that you wouldn’t normally stick in a blender to demonstrate the power of its product. Their latest victim? The iPhone. Poor thing. Let’s hope it was the 4GB version!
Conspiracy Theory Generator
Saturday July 7, 2007 at 6:43 pm | Filed under Me, On the Web
Are you one of those folks who fear big brother and make every effort to keep your personal info out of the hands of those who could learn more about you and market to, plot against,track, lojack, pretend to be you, etc? I can identify with some of that, fo sho. I had someone else’s name (and their bad credit) on my credit report years ago and it took some manual letter-writing to get it straightened out. And there’s a girl at work who just had her identity stolen. It’s a big scare these days with personal information changing hands so often on this here internet. I stumbled on a fun, and somewhat related toy online: a personal barcode generator. He’s mine…
This barcode contains some personal information (nothing too specific) about me. This could be the way we’re all tracked when those conspiracy theories come out to be true! Weee! Go barcode yourself.
How Many Bars Do You Have In Your Hood?
Wednesday July 4, 2007 at 10:05 pm | Filed under Gadgetry, On the Web, mobile
Tonight I found a cool site that let’s you explore neighborhoods to get the feel of what kind of mobile signal strength you’ll get. Check out SignalMap to see where the good signals or the dead spots are. You can even contribute if you know where your cell strength goes hot or cold. This site is great when shopping for a new phone — you can see the differences in the big wireless companies’ coverage, and the differences between phones on the same network in the same neck of the woods.
Of course, I’m not buying another cell phone for a long time.
