If you haven't been reading, here's a list of our posts from the last 7 days:
Maybe You Can Buy Friends
Apparently Ticketmaster is giving away 5 free iTunes songs if you'll be it's friend on Facebook. I think one of the villagers with a) more free time than me and b) a Facebook account should do this and tell me if it works. And send me their voucher for free music. I think Ticketmaster is…
Panhandle for Reparations
Living in one of the last hippie bastions in the US, a place where a small minority thinks that the occupation of Alaska needs to end, always makes for entertaining news. On the front page of the metro section today was this. I guess this whole idea started on some artist's blog. I'm not…
Blue eyes run the White House?
I've started reading the Freakonomics blog , by the same guys who wrote the popular book . If you haven't read the book, I highly recommend it. The authors make correlations and causations between things and events that people normally wouldn't think of. For example, lower crime rates…
Ed Hochuli is my hero!
Although a USA Today is thrown at my various hotel room doors every morning, I always leave it in the hallway. But, not yesterday. Yesterday, my hero was on the front page (of course he would have a Wikipedia entry). The USA Today article starts out talking about how Mr. Ed "the weights in his…
Texas Tech bans 'Vick Em' shirts
An entrepreneurial Texas Tech student and Theta Chi member has been banned from selling t-shirts with a front logo reading "Vick 'em" ...a reference to the Aggies slogan "Get 'em"....for the Texas Tech v. Texas AM rivalry this weekend. The student was attempting to raise…
Gmail Countdown Game
I'm not sure about any of you unloyal readers out there, but I know my fellow VwWers use Gmail. As a user, I am fascinated by the gmail storage countdown/count-up. I propose we start a game to see who can guess to see when the storage limit will equal 3000MB. Yes, there are already other people…
WebRunner can help you focus your web browsing...
WebRunner is Mozilla (Firefox, Thunderbird, etc.) software based on the concept of Site Specific Browsers (SSB). SSB is "an application with an embedded browser designed to work exclusively with a single web application." Just a browser window, one website, no toolbars, nothing fancy. It…
Silicon Alley's take on the Google acquisition of Jaiku...
For those of you still hating on Twitter (ACOM) and thinking that the mini-blogging "Status" space hasn't gone mainstream, please read this article at Silicon Alley: LINK Here are the four main points, without the commentary from the article: 1) "Status" space has now gone…
Why Al-Jazeera is good for America
I'll start off with this: I couldn't care less if Google, YouTube, News Corp, GE, or Zamboni Inc. shared profit with Al-Jazeera. No matter what you've been told by any of the talking heads, politicians, or your next door neighbor, think again about what everyone says about Al-Jazeera. I…
$500 for Me, $25 for (Each of) Thou
Handsome devil that I am, it is difficult to understand why my list of acquaintances is limited to family and ex-frat guys. Neither group is renowned for fiscal or technical savvy. Thus, my referral bonuses for ING Direct Savings and ING Electric Orange checking remain (mostly) unclaimed. Whether…
Free Credit Cards (kind of)
So I was reading my Economist the other day and I came across this interesting article about math and credit card validation. I found it very intriguing and even mentioned to the other Villagers that I was going to do a post on it. I won't go into why it took me so long to finally post, suffice…
Google bought Jaiku...
LINK TO BLOG POST ABOUT ACQUISITION Why is this important? This may change my opinion on mini-blogging sites. I haven't done a comparison of the major mini-blogging sites in this blog ( Twitter , Pownce , Tumbler , Jaiku ), but I am signed up for all four of them and have been trying them out.…
Office supplies in jello...
Anyone who watches US version of The Office has seen the classic stapler or calculator in jello prank. Personally, I don't know many people who still use a real calculator (as opposed to Excel or the calculator program in Windows), but I guess it would be even funnier because of their rarity in…
Every bathroom should have one of these....
...Electronic Vagrant's favorite bathroom item. Stall doors? Maybe. Shower? Sorta gross. Soap? Not totally necessary. Scale in the corner by the door? CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT . It is always good to come to the Nashville office because, in EV's honor, I can weigh myself before and after bathroom…
Securities Law "Roe v. Wade"
An interesting case is being heard tomorrow before the Supreme Court. The issue at hand is whether investor lawsuits can reach beyond the defendant company and target third party vendors. This is seen as a precursor to the lawsuits currently in motion with the whole Enron meltdown. The specifics…
Google shares revenue with Al Jazeera...
Ok, so my title is slightly misleading, but it is true. According to TechCrunch , last week, YouTube signed an agreement with Al Jazeera to share advertising revenue from the Al Jazeera YouTube channel . Interestingly enough, other than YouTube or obscure satellite TV , there are only two other ways…
Things NOT to do with duct tape....
One of the feeds I read, Do-It-Yourself Life , posted a DON'T do it yourself article. Do NOT duct tape a child to a wall or any vertical surface. Well, you could, but people might question your parenting skills. Even if this picture was taken on a white floor and made to look like it was a wall,…
This week's rental car....(October 8th)
This week, Avis gave me a Hyundai Santa Fe . So far, it seems like a decent vehicle. Yesterday, I looked up Sirius channels, but it ends up the Santa Fe has built in XM . I think I like XM better. I'm not a huge Howard Stern fan...or... Martha Stewart ....
Organization I didn't accomplish this weekend...
I have all of my electronics concentrated in the corner of my living room, below my TV. The TV is mounted on the wall, which provides cable clutter in itself since I'm not cool enough to have the wires running inside the wall. But, something I wanted to try this past weekend was to organize my…
Big Ern's "My Proctologist Said 'That's one Eerie Canal!'" Locks of the Week
Just when you thought it couldn't get any more contrived... This week's picks: Detroit +4 over WASHINGTON NEW ENGLAND -17 over Cleveland DENVER +1 over San Diego Last week 2-1 This season 6-5
How taking the bus to work relates to marathons...
So, my future wife, Meredith, is running the Marine Corp Marathon at the end of the month. The other morning while training, she was disgusted with the amount of people who drive to work and the ensuing exhaust that she was inhaling. As someone who either takes the bus/metro and/or the train to…
