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Some of you may have read my previous post about Coke’s Vault energy drink. Many Surge drinkers have (myself included) have suggested that Vault is simply a repackaged Surge.
Well, the other day I was leaving a quickie-mart and noticed the new Vault – Red Blitz. Over the last couple of months I’ve kinda lost my [...]

Want to know something cool and scary at the same time?You can read through hundreds of thousands of Enron employee and executive emails for free…A company called Inboxer, Inc. has set up a website (enronemail.com) to demostrate their software to help companies manage their email. They refer to it as an: “Outbound Content Compliance appliance, [...]

Quick, check your refrigerator and look for the following ingredients: “carmine” or “cochineal”. If you see those listed, you’ve got crushed bugs in your food.
It seems that those are the two names the FDA asks manufacturers put on their labels when including bugs in their products. But apparently they aren’t required to do so.
You might [...]

Okay, so I’m puttering around with Google’s new 3D globe software trying to find the new Disneyland in Hong Kong, and I notice some weird blue splotches on the map just outside of Beijing.

Click for larger versionSo I zoom in for a closer look:

Click for larger versionDid I mention how cool Google’s new 3D globe [...]

Deadprogrammer.com has an interesting look at the origins of the Starbucks logo and how it started out as a whorish Melusine.
It’s an interesting read and I have one question to the original owners of Starbucks. Why a Melusine?

So I stopped off to get some gas today and noticed a new drink at the quickie-mart: Coca-Cola’s Vault. According to Coke’s website, it’s being tested in certain markets.The label says: “Drinks like a soda, kicks like an energy drink™” and it has a sharp citrus flavor to it. It definitely “kicks”.Well, I took my [...]

Things to watch out for when freelancing and scoping jobs.
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You remember a few years back when the US Government lost a whole bunch of laptops filled with Top Secret information? Well it looks like in the UK, they just give the laptops away. Check out this article from The Register about a guy in the UK who found/was given a laptop with 70 Still [...]

Visit the Discovery Channel & vote
Okay, I don’t know if you heard about this or not, but the Discovery Channel is running this “contest” to see who their viewers consider the 100 greatest Americans. They’ve made a list of 100 Americans and are asking the visitors to their site to rank them. I was looking [...]