How To Make Plasma In Your Microwave...(video)

The video warns you not to try this but damned if I don't want to....be right back..

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Starbucks takes back it's free coffee offer

The free coupon was real, but Starbucks is taking it back because it was too widely distributed. Lame!

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Perspective: How not to name your company - CNET News.com

CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos riffs on one craze that the Internet bubble unfortunately could not kill.

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Push n Pop Bottle Opener from Eps. #63 of Diggnation

Here is the place where you can find the "Be Open" push and pop bottle opener that Alex and Kevin was talking about in episode #63 of Diggnation.

The Sentol version that Alex referred to is the promotion version made for the Japanese Sentol beer.

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The Man Who Literally Saved the World

Today is an important anniversary for Russian hero Stanislav Petrov, the Soviet missile commander who saved the world from nuclear destruction in 1983. Sadly there are plenty of other examples of this kind of thing. How long will we keep getting lucky?

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The Engadget Commercials

There were over 100 submissions but one emerged the winner, Brad Hodson.

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Everything Old Is New Again... Again -- LaLa

LaLa's business model (not THAT LaLa...the music sharing site LaLa.com) gets dissected on TechDirt. Time will tell if they've found another way to discover, acquire and discard music.

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5 Corporate Podcasts Mistakes to Avoid Like the Plague

To podcast effectively is not an easy thing to do. To podcast ineffectively is incredibly easy, costly and time-consuming. If your company is planning to podcast, avoiding these common mistakes can mean the difference between huge success and utter disaster.

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Seth Godin: All marketers are liars. Especially cat food marketers.

Godin did a presentation at Google where he ran through his usual fare. To his credit, he demonstrates a decent dose of humility. Perhaps more insightful are Valleywag's summary comments.

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Business 2.0: The Next Net 25

Take a look at the 25 companies that might become the next Google or Yahoo! Yes, digg.com is one of the contenders!

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Web 2.0 uselessness checklist

Written from a bitter-cranky hope-crushing perspective, this site does link to a pretty useful and exhaustive list of sites pushing the envelope.

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Google Interview Questions

I had a phone interview with Google today. I took notes; some of the questions they asked were interesting. We were allowed to ask questions. The interviewer didn't ask many questions in response to my answers, except to occasionally say "interesting".

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Emotional robots on their way

Human/machine interaction work has uncovered some interesting stuff in the area of emotion. Emotions we find more desirable are those that match our mood. We'd rather talk to a sad robot when we're sad too. They've also found that we'd rather have them present more like pets than mimicking humans. There's a NYT article about it today.

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Emotional robots on their way

Human/machine interaction work has uncovered some interesting stuff in the area of emotion. Emotions we find more desirable are those that match our mood. We'd rather talk to a sad robot when we're sad too. They've also found that we'd rather have them present more like pets than mimicking humans. There's a NYT article about it today.

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Amazing Transformer Video--Can't Decide If It's Real Or Not

Pretty cool any damn way. If it does do that I want one, sweet boneless Christ!

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What if Microsoft developed the iPod?

This video shows exactly what the iPod box would have looked like if Microsoft would have designed it. The funny thing is, its so true.

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You: 1 Mouse: 0

A simple, smart and humane way to catch a mouse with simple stuff you have lying around. It sounds fun enough that it almost makes me want to have a mouse in the first place so I can try it.

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Note to self: Skip plan to test out the mace

Some genius thought he should "test" his wife's taser. At least he had the sense of humor to write about it. A cautionary tale.

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Watch as Diggnation's Alex Albrecht ditches on AOL.

The video is a funny parody of an AOL commercial. Warning video uses strong language.

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2014 looks a lot like 2007

About a year ago some guys took it upon themselves to do this future news story (that plays a bit cheezy a la Hollywood trying to portray tech in "The Net" or something). It's fun enough to watch, though significantly more fun if you take a drink every time they coin an awkward new web name. Short version: Microsoft vs. Google death-match.

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Apple conquers living room. It might be a month before someone notices.

Apple just made the first practical production living room computer that actually bridges the PC/CE divide. How long you think it will be before the industry notices that Apple's pulled another iPod?

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Why?

Why not?

I can think of several reasons:

1. No one will notice or care what I write here.
2. The people who do notice will be nuts.
3. The nuts will comment.
4. It will aggrevate me.
5. I'll lose sleep.

So back to why... I guess its just more invigorating to participate than to simply observe. I like observing, mind you. It's just more fun to do. I'm sure there are other reasons. With any luck I'll discover them in the process of doing this. On that note I'll end this first posting and you can be the judge of what you see here.