Razer Destructor review I’ve been slacking a bit this year but I finally got a new review online. The Razer Destructor is a $40 mousepad that ships in a very neat carrying case. Currently I’m working on a review of the Spire Edge laptop sleeve and a review of the OCZ Vendetta 2 is also […]
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I just read an article over at CNN that this year’s Tax Freedom Day in the U.S. is April 23rd. Tax Freedom Day is a purely theoretical date that helps you to visualise how much the government steals from the income of an average American. It depends a lot on the state you’re living in […]
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Posted in The Internet on Mar 27th, 2008
I just read at Reuters that CNET is going to fire 120 workers, that’s about 10% of its staff. CNETÂ is the owner of various popular sites like news.com, download.com, GameSpot, GameFAQs, MP3.com, TechRepublic, ZDNet, … CNET expected pre-tax restructuring charges from the job cuts to run between $3.5 million and $4 million, most of which […]
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Posted in Funny and weird stuff on Mar 19th, 2008
This video was shot about a month ago in Denmark. The braking mechanism of this turbine was malfunctioning and a storm caused the blades to spin so fast that that the turbine exploded. Fortunately no one got hurt. Now I know why I don’t want a wind mill in my back yard .
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Posted in The Internet on Mar 18th, 2008
While browsing around a bit I read a pretty nasty hoax is going around in Germany that tries to trick webmasters into banning search engines from their website. The e-mail claims millions of web servers are being attacked by viruses and that you can protect yourself by creating a robots.txt with a couple of lines […]
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