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  • We Don’t Need No Stinking Office

    A cool story on wired about Delicious Monster, a software company that just sits in a coffee shop all day rather than getting a real office. Sounds like a cool idea, but I don’t think I’d get anything done. I’d go broke on mochas long before I ever turned a profit. Delicious Monster’s main product…

  • Chicken Riggies Capital of the World

    Utica, New York, my home town recently proclaimed itself the birth place of chicken riggies, according to this article.  Strangely, I have chicken riggies before, but never in Utica.  Chicken riggies for the uneducated is just rigatoni pasta with chicken in a hot pepper tomato sauce. Pretty good stuff, but a little too hot for…

  • Miniaturization At Apple

    Apple has been hard at work at some new projects: Is the iPod MINI not quite small enough for you? How about the iPod Shuffle?  Its a flash based Mp3 player that’s even smaller than the MINI; basically its the size of USB key drive. Note there’s a little extra Apple brand humor on the…

  • Cool FireFox Hint of the Day

    Did you know that you can add search types to the FireFox search gadget? I never noticed the add engines item at the bottom of the search list. There are a ton of other handy searches available. I added amazon.com, cddb.org and m-w.org to my list. Very Handy!

  • Those crazy PC modders.

    What’s the latest craze in custom made PC cases? How about Legos? Here’s a gallery of PC cases made out of Legos. Hmm, maybe I’ll take a trip over to my Mom’s house and see if can find my old bag of Legos. Link courtesy of Slashdot.

  • Whoa, that’s a biggin’!

    I was in CompUsa the other day and spotted a new 30″ Apple Cinema Display. Running at a staggering 2560×1600 resolution, it seems to provide acres of desktop real estate. Man, I would love to have one. But, at $3,000 I don’t see it ever happening. Hmm, $3,000 is more than all of the PC…