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Monthly Archives: May 2008

MSFT: the flat decade

Microsoft’s stock performance has been relatively flat for the past 8 years (check out the chart). Does that mean that they’ve penetrated the OS market as much as they can? That doesn’t seem right for two reasons: the world population is expanding computers are becoming cheaper meaning more people can afford computers Given that, how [...]

Dude, Where’s My McGuffin?

A brief list of movies which feature McGuffins in their titles where said McGuffins are replaced with “McGuffin”: Lord of the McGuffins Raiders of the Lost McGuffin The Maltese McGuffin Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s McGuffin Monty Python’s Quest for the Holy McGuffin Too Wong Foo Thanks for the McGuffin, McGuffin McGuffin McGuffin McGuffin McGuffin [...]

Crazy Exciting

Text to Speech with OSX Leopard

There’s a new text-to-speech voice with Leopard that is really good: open the control panel open “speech” select “alex” as the voice Now, this doesn’t work with Firefox, but it does with Safari. to use it: go to a webpage you want spoken (news pages work well). select the text you want read. go to [...]

Rap song! Rap song!

I’ve watched this skit three times now. Granted, Hulu doesn’t have full SNL episodes, but the skits they’ve been releasing are pretty good. Perhaps a new era for the show? And let’s not forget the gardening tips from a man who is scared of plants:

Iron Man trailer to be expanded into movie?

The Memresistor

Wired has a piece on a newly created electrical component: The memresistor. Originally conjectured in the 70′s, HP has finally created one and this component will join the transistor, the capacitor and the resistor as a basic component of electronics. As the memresistor remembers how much charge has gone through it, it can be used [...]


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