My friend Christian just tweeted this completely hilarious chart that explains Dungeons & Dragons alignments in terms of characters from The Muppet Show. It’s awesome! Of course I want to know which Muppet alignment you identify with. I think I’ll go with Fozzie’s neutral good. Et vous?
I highly recommend updating to version 10 of the Google Chrome web browser. In addition to JavaScript performance that’s up too 66 percent faster, Google has extended Chrome’s outstanding sandboxing feature to Flash. Prior to this release, each Chrome tab was an independent process, except for Flash. With version 10, the sandboxing extends to Chrome’s integrated Flash player. This makes browsing Flash heavy sites more secure and stable. It’s just great, great stuff.
Once you’ve downloaded Google Chrome 10, kindly share your thoughts on its performance and features.
So I’m getting an iPad 2 for work purposes. I should head to one of the two local Apple Stores and buy it so that I can quickly take video, do some benchmarks, and set it up. However, I don’t want to deal with any lines (it won’t be that bad, will it?) and I like to get my Apple products engraved. I think it’s cool that Apple let’s you add custom messages to its products.
What do you think? Is engraving cool or lame? Is it worth waiting an extra couple of days for a more personal touch? Kindly take today’s poll and discuss!
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Happy birthday to Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who turned 56-years old today. Jobs is one of the most fascinating people that has existed in my lifetime. His approach to technology is unique and nobody gets people more passionate about silicon…
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Happy birthday to Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who turned 56-years old today. Jobs is one of the most fascinating people that has existed in my lifetime. His approach to technology is unique and nobody gets people more passionate about silicon than he does. In addition to his incredible work at Apple, Jobs bought Lucasfilm’s Graphics Group and turned it into the hugely successful Pixar Animation Studios. It’s crazy that he helped kick off two companies that are tremendously successful from a financial standpoint and made a huge cultural impact.
To me, he’s just so interesting and different from his peers. I guess that’s something a lot of my heroes have in common. My dream dinner for four would be with Muhammad Ali, John Lennon, and Steve Jobs. How awesome would that be?!?
Anyway, let’s honor Steve Jobs today and share some stories. What’s your favorite thing about Jobs? Is it a specific product he announced? The time he asked John Sculley if he wanted to stop selling sugar water at Pepsi and join him at Apple to change the world? What’s your favorite Jobs catchphrase?
In a surprise move that has the media world buzzing, AOL has agreed to buy The Huffington Post for $315 million. For those of you that follow Arianna Huffington in the media, AOL now owns a site run by one of America’s most outspoken liberals. The move also has implications for tech enthusiasts. Here’s a clip from CNN Money:
The companies said Arianna Huffington, The Huffington Post’s co-founder and editor-in-chief, will be named president and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post Media Group, which will include all Huffington Post and AOL content.
Tech enthusiast sites like Engadget and TechCrunch fall under Huffington’s jurisdiction. That’s just…weird. In my head I see a sitcom where Huffington alternates between blasting her annoyingly shrilly voice at and showing an inappropriate amount of leg to TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington and Engadget’s Joshua Topolsky.
On a more serious note, it’s interesting that AOL has gone from Internet giant to Internet afterthought to Internet content king. I’m curious to see how it all plays out.
Microsoft has introduced a new way to create and manage throwaway email addresses in its Hotmail product. More than ever, people are using multiple email accounts, with different email addresses for personal use, business use, e-shopping, news, etc. According to CNet, the new Hotmail feature will help make managing it all a bit easier:
Hotmail is getting a new feature aimed at “e-mail enthusiasts,” which lets anyone create multiple e-mail accounts that can be read, replied to, and managed from their everyday e-mail inbox. These additional e-mail addresses can be had in the same manner as signing up for new accounts, but they require no extra log-ins or upkeep.
The idea is to give users a safe way to provide third parties with an e-mail address, without giving up the address they’ve provided to family and friends, which, if compromised, can end the usefulness of that particular account.
While I totally see how useful this feature is, I also see how it can be used for naughty activity. Hotmail users can make a “temporary” email addresses for pr0n, leaving nasty blog comments, ordering Viagra online, and more. Spammers will also be able to manage multiple spam email addresses from one account. The whole thing has me wondering if this is the Internet equivalent of a burner cell phone.
Did you guys and gals catch Jesse Eisenberg’s monologue from Saturday Night Live? Well here it is! The Social Network star is interrupted by SNL’s Andy Samberg playing Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg. Meanwhile, the real Mark Zuckerberg is backstage and eventually makes his way on stage to join the two men that portray him. It’s cute and geeky. Check it out!
Sure, he made a cool video about Twitter, but I was still surprised that The Black Eyed Peas’ will.i.am was named Intel’s director of creative innovation (video above). I’m really not sure what he has to offer Intel, but both parties seem thrilled about the partnership. In a press release, will.i.am said:
Nearly everything I do involves processors and computers, and when I see an Intel chip I think of all the creative minds involved that help to amplify my own creativity. Teaming up with the scientists, researchers and computer programmers at Intel to collaborate and co-develop new ways to communicate, create, inform and entertain is going to be amazing.
You know what would be really amazing? It would be absolutely phenomenal and beneficial to everyone on Earth if will.i.am and Intel teamed up to eradicate auto-tune. That would be an excellent use of celebrity and technology. Get on it guys!
A California woman has started a class-action lawsuit against Yum Brands due to Taco Bell’s beef not having much…well, beef. While most reasonable people expect fast-food meat to have a certain amount of fillers, this woman believes that 65 percent of the ingredients in beef not being beef is a problem. Here are the details from The LA Times:
The class-action suit, which does not ask for money, objects to Taco Bell calling its products “seasoned ground beef or seasoned beef, when in fact a substantial amount of the filling contains substances other than beef.”
It says Taco Bell’s ground beef is made of such components as water, isolated oat product, wheat oats, soy lecithin, maltodextrin, anti-dusting agent, autolyzed yeast extract, modified corn starch and sodium phosphate, as well as some beef and seasonings.
Just 35 percent of the taco filling was a solid, and just 15 percent overall was protein, said attorney W. Daniel “Dee” Miles III of the Montgomery, Ala., law firm Beasley Allen, which filed the suit.
Hmmmm, it’s lunch time. I’m hungry. This lawsuit makes me want to go to Taco Bell for some of its fake beef.
Are any of you surprised that Taco Bell’s seasoned beef is comprised mostly of non-beef products?
After years of solid use, my Logitech Wave is on its last legs. I wanted to see what keyboards you guys and dolls like. Do you have a preferred keyboard? Or do just use the one that came with your PC?
Welcome to Coffee Talk! Let’s start off the day by discussing whatever is on your (nerd chic) mind. Every morning I’ll kick off a discussion and I’m counting on you to participate in it. If you’re not feelin’ my topic, feel free to start a chat with your fellow readers and see where it takes you. Whether you’re talking about videogames, Rafael Nadal hopefully breaking his leg so he doesn’t win the Aussie Open, Verizon confirming $30 unlimited data for iPhone, or your favorite gourmet soda, Coffee Talk is the place to do it.
After years of solid use, my Logitech Wave is on its last legs. I wanted to see what keyboards you guys and dolls like. Do you have a preferred keyboard? Or do just use the one that came with your PC?
Although the Wave has served me well, I miss typing on a mechanical keyboard. Most models are membrane or scissor-switch these days. I’m pretty sure that my next keyboard will be a mechanical, partially because I miss the crisp feel of those keyboards and mostly because I want to see if I can type loud enough to annoy my neighbors. Razer is supposed to send me a BlackWidow Ultimate for review and I’m hoping that it’s everything I want in a keyboard.
Now let me know about your keyboard preferences (please!).
