Wal-mart Wiki

Wal-mart's ongoing PR saga continues with their push to control the Wikipedia entry about their company.  While the person or entity that the entry is written about should have some input concerning the content, they should not be able to control the entry as they will always have a tendency to portray his/herself in a positive light.  Wikipedia is meant to keep NPOV (Neutral Point-of-view) and to gather the collective thoughts and facts from everyone - not from a single controlling entity.

This is a new type of hybrid (moto and car) that looks promising for reducing our oil consumption. Check out the video on the bottom of the page.

All I have to say is freakin' sweet! This article may be the tip of the iceberg of a cool, new, ultranerd website. I love it!

http://www.omninerd.com/2006/04/21/articles/50

We have a new Phineas Gage - well, sort of. This guy attempted suicide and managed to lodge 12 nails into his head without any lasting affect. Unlike Phineas, this was intentional and his behaviour didn't change as a result of the incident. I'm not sure how Darwin's "Survival of the Fittest" is at work here.

One step closer to Skynet - The automatic assembling chair.

This article is just downright scary. Our nation is becoming less and less competitive in the global market. Don't let your kids grow up ignorant of the new world life skills. Try your best to prevent other youth from the same fate.

Article on Teen Finance Knowledge.

How much do you pay per month for different services? How much for communication based stuff such as cable/satellite, telephone, cell, IP? On a scale from 1 (low) - 10 (high), how much value do you get out of these services? Probably not 9 or 10.

There's a recent trend in innovation to help consumers extract more value out of these services. Considering that you may pay up to $62/mo for an high-speed internet connection, it seems reasonable to expect good value from these services.

Here are some technologies that help you do just this:

1. Cell/Wifi phones Seemless cutover in hotspots, saves you money.
2. Orb Make Tivo recordings, pictures, and movies available to you anywhere on the internet for free! Even from your PDA Phone!

I haven't been writing much lately, partly because there hasn't been anything too interesting to write about. Enter a new computer/human authentication system - KittenAuth. I'm sure many of you have seen the cryptic "Please enter the word that is shown in the picture" systems when registering for an account or getting tickets. While spambots are getting smarter at recognizing the words, this new system depends on more advanced human skills of recognizing a picture's contents.