Hey everybody, did you hear it was Cyber Monday? Let's all switch on our acoustic-coupler modemtrons and dial Comp-U-Serve to visit some E-Tailers, before the year two-thousand apocalypse wipes us all out ( Read more... )

Nope, world didn't end. We're good till at least 2012.

While looking for a description of an interesting dessert wine I found recently in the wine country of industrial downtown Los Angeles, I noticed a similarity in the two top hits:

Almondoro on FineWineHouse.com
Almondoro on Liquorama.netClearly both point to exactly the same webapp, right down to the template broken by someone wrongly sticking ( Read more... )

Tonight, while visiting a friend at some local company's headquarters, I finally got to try a Choco Taco, which was decent if not slightly disappointing for all the anticipation. However, it was notable for coming out of such an unintentionally overwrought Rube Goldbergian vending machine. While I didn't shoot this video, it could very easily be ( Read more... )

twigmouse is visiting, and our situation exemplifies life in 2007. We're both on my couch, on our laptops connected to teh intarweb, taking turns feeding tunes to my stereo wirelessly, having an IM chat with each other and a few other folks each. He's also got a Skype connection going on with a friend thousands of miles away whom we can both see via his ( Read more... )

This Daylight Saving Time change has required virtually every computer in the country that relies on time -- i.e. pretty much every computer in the country -- to be patched and rebooted. It's a whole new Y2K, only entirely fabricated, and with a few months' rather than a few years' notice. A Very Bad Idea, and a massive pain in the bum for many ( Read more... )