randomness

HD-DVD Night

This is a grey topic, but also close to a comedy bit. Basically what happened is a group uncovered the magic HD-DVD number, that unlocks all HD-DVDs. That in itself isn't groundbreaking news, but the blogging and web community lighting up on digg for temporarily...

Not normally one to groan, but…

I am not normally one to groan about things, but a couple of things have been on my mind. First up is sites that split articles across multiple pages just to get more ad impressions. Generally if I notice this I just stop reading the article....

Unbox is Not Supported

After the release of Apple TV I have been looking around at different video services. One of those was Amazon's "Unbox" which installs a player that connects to Amazon and downloads the movies for you to enjoy. I figured since Amazon has some other great...

LogoMaid steals logo from SimpleBits

LogoMaid.com is at it again. This assembly line for cheap, non-original logos appears to have taken the new logo from SImpleBits, modified the shape slightly, and tried to pawn it off as their own. A pretty long discussion takes place on this Flickr page between...

Putty seen on Prison Break

My favorite SSH application for Windows was spotted on the hit Fox show Prison Break. Michael Scofield, Sara Tancredy and Lincoln Burrows were huddled around a PC laptop listening to an audio recording and when the program was closed I noticed the putty icon sitting...

Sirius and XM to merge

Earlier today I read that Sirius and XM are to in an "all-stock merger of equals" merge. Not a whole lot of details and the market not being open today means no real "effect" will be seen until tomorrow. Either way it will be intersting...