tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16076897901293907532011-10-01T05:08:06.422-07:00A good collection of fun facts and not-so-fact ramblings of someone who is interested in anything shiny. I offer my findings from various web forums, blogs, magazine, and personal contacts.<br> In short, I will try not to bore you to death...Codyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13256058071386892873noreply@blogger.comBlogger401100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1607689790129390753.post-30447342403518938712011-01-03T15:06:00.000-08:002011-01-03T15:09:18.803-08:00

Yep, it's that time again. This is where I attempt a go at blogging. I will start by saying that I'm moving to WordPress. I hope to outline the basic steps in a clear manor. This is simply my record of what I experience. So, without further adieu...

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Holy crap... It has been a spell, and I have much to tell.Till then,Enjoy some art from XKCD...http://xkcd.com/

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Happy Saturday....

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Can this be true...Oh yes... It is true... The wonderful people at Number One Novels are giving away The Killing Tree by Rachel Keener.I don't think this is the slash'em up, explosion, kill everyone but the good guy book that I normally read, but you might know someone who would like it...Just visit NON and read how to enter.Best of luck to you!! -cheers

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The TBS Humor Study web site has tickled my funny bone...“Get your mind, out the gutter”It is a well made FLASH site that has won multiple awards.I spent some time pocking around and had a blast answering questions, creating movies and future sitcoms. I love the Sean Connery voice for the sitcoms... Mine was Pirates with amnesia living in L.A.I even made a laugh track using The Table of Periodic

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I could not contain my enthusiasm when I saw this gem at Life Hacker.Create your own comic strips with Strip Generator!! With a few people, objects, and text styles, Strip Generator gives you the basics, it's up to you for creativity... It is so simple to use. Try it out HERE... Below is a screen shot of my first strip...(you can see the strip HERE)You don't have to sign up to make one, but I

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So, recently I completed a project that required a microprocessor and some sort of mechanical action. What better project than Automated Window Blinds. I have seen quite a few examples of automation and power, but few were... well... elegant. Take this one for example, HACKADAYIt is huge...My goal was to incorporate a micro servo and use the guts of the blind assembly to rotate the bar on the

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It is remarkable how many cat pictures there are on the Internet...Just a thought...

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Recently I have been getting ideas about furniture from a super cool blog called IkeaHacker. What is this about... Hacking Ikea products to fit your own uses... The term “hack” is to say, I have made it my own and possibly reused an old product for a new purpose.. That is cool in my book.So, checkout Ikeahacker and see if you have what it takes to become a hacker...Some of my favorite hacks: Knob

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I have a friend named Nasson who is trying out for The Best Job In The World...I believe Nasson would make a great island representative. You can help by CASTING YOUR VOTE for Nasson. He is an awesome guy and all around nice person. The website talks a little about the position...Tourism Queensland is seeking applicants for the best job in the world! The role of IslandCaretaker is a six-month

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This week, Number One Novels featured a sultry Donna Russo Morin...NO!! Uhmm.. it featured Donna's new book The Courtier's Secret. I read the interview, and I can't get past one thing... When I read it, I hear Donna's voice reading it to me... in a strong, slow, and sexy English accent... I have no idea how she talks.. but, in my mind, it's soo, sooo, and soooooo English... I can't help it...The

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I'm a big fan of homemade arts... Some of the timeless classics include the Hand Turkey, and Macaroni Necklaces... As most of you in the web world know, Etsy is an awesome place to sell and buy homemade stuff. Well folks, I have found a gem of a Valentines Day gift for you to give to your loved one this, oh so special day... Fungus Amungus has a few other sweet nothings for your loved one at

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The folks at TheColor have a simple point and click coloring program. Once you decide on a theme, you can pick a design and color color color color !! I have done some amazing work today… Checkout my “flaming pumpkin”… That’s all I have to say about that.There is a darker side to TheColor… A seedy underground known as the theme “Halloween”. I found this little gem and went with it…. Scary No? Yes

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In the Uber Cool Blog Physorg, we find that our jobs are being replaced... by what you ask? Ham sandwiches??? No, it's robots... The article states:"Robots will take on the role of receptionist, guards, office cleaners, etc and replace humans. For example, in the role of a receptionist, they will greet visitors, attend to them and show them to their destination."Well by gosh, I'm not going to

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So, far as I can tell… Mr. Crash is a DJ… Not that kind of DJ… I mean the WKRP, disk jockey, actor, comic, all around BadA** kind of DJ. He mentioned the post about Technibble’s new tool kit. Super cool…Checkout Mr. Crash at his Blog HERE: His Website HERE: his IMDB site HERE. –cheers

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So, I found this little gem while following posts on several other topics. I love a show called Ace Of Cakes to dream about eating cake, and I looooove watching cops to see people make stupid mistakes.So, what better than people who made stupid mistakes on cakes!!! I pick this article because it resonates with me... It's all about Spidey... or, some cake decorator's nightmare about Spidey. Check

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Pedigree dog foods has done an amazing job helping pets find homes with their new adopt a rhino campaign. One features a lady named Helen who has a rhino of her very own... This video cracks me up. Well done Pedigree!!!

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So, my special lady friend has, for some time now, experienced eye fatigue from staring at my amazing seven minute abs.... Oh stop.. It is from the computer screen. Everyone, I believe, should have regular eye breaks from computing.... Your doing it now.. BLINK!! BLINK!!! Okay... As I was saying, we all need a reminder to take eye breaks. Well, the folks at LifeHacker have found a little program

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America's answer to origami... The Cubeecraft paper dolls. Yes, by gosh, the most amazingly cute wondertastic awesomeness all goodness oh golly... I want to make them all. You can find many awesocutenesses at cubeecraft.com and a nice article at LifeHacker. They have Grover folks...GROVER!!!! OMG!! Mulder & Scully, Darth Vader, The Tick, Dwight, Kermit, Pee-Wee... The list goes on and on... My

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Weight Watchers has produced an awesome character called the Hungry Monster. He is sooooo cute. I have a new, oh what do you call it, desire, to become a puppeteer. We watched a show called Ace of Cakes, and they made a cake for an adult puppet theater group called Avenue Q. The puppets made me smile. I love to make silly voices and talk with my hands... Weird, I know, but I love it. So, my new

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I have been a big fan of Technibble for some time now, and it never ceases to amaze me how much help they are. This week Mr. Whitty gives us a fabulous computer repair software tool kit...You will find:Repair ToolsRecoveryFile ManagementInformationNetwork ToolsVirus and Malware Removal ToolsMiscellaneousTweaksScriptsI highly recommend visiting Technibble if you are a seasoned computer repair tech

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Oh, I sooo want..Check out the article on these medals for console gaming brought to us by Loopy Rocket, my new fav... I like Loopy.. they have some zany stuff.. yea I said zany. The products can be found for purchase, hint hint, at supermandolini.com, but I urge you to visit Loopy Rocket for some strange and humorous articles on most any subject. One of my favorite posts is about guerilla

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A new way of showing your true nerdness... Badges!Oh yea... It's on! I can see my local nerd herd having patch battles at the tables in the school cafeteria. globalnerdy.com has posted a fine idea of nerdom, and they are selling these for only $4.plus some shipping.Perhaps a hierarchy of value to assist what badges can trump and what badges are just fluff... Will there be the hard to find

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Hack A Day has gone and done it again. The hack a road sign to say what you want article is unlawful and mischievous, but I love it... You can see the original post at i-hacked.com.

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Number One Novels has produced two interviews by newly published authors, and I truly like the last one. The book is called The Warded Man by Peter Brett, and it sounds like a good read. It follows the stories of three people living in a world that is run amuck by demons after sundown. My kind of book. Check it out Mr. Brett's article on blogger at Number One Novels... Who knows, you just might

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The folks at LifeHacker have found a gem about reusing old calendars. “As a result of the rotation of months and days in a calendar year, you can use calendars from past years. Spice up your wall with a little vintage fun.” -lifehacker.com. This sounds so cool. They even include a table of dates that will work with 2009 and a link to the original article. Check it out at lifehacker.com and the

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Apple has outdone it's self with the introduction of the Mac Wheel...I can't wait to get my hands on this item. Just kidding...The Onion has done a wonderful job of mocking how Mac users flock to any new product Apple puts out. I love the sentences it produces for the “auto sentence filler”. My favorite is “The attractive peanut farmer graded the term paper”. Well done Onion! Pay close attention

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Tom's Hardware dishes up a grate article on 6 motherboards under $100. In my opinion, the Asus P5QL is the best bang for the money. I have used an Asus board for a few years now, and I must say, I love it. Never had a hardware issue, never suffered any BIOS nightmares. I love this company! and, for a low cost board you can't go wrong. Tom's has this to say "A few positive features that help the

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School starts in 10 hours! I'm so pumped... One thing, I need to drop a class that I thought would be an easy A..Hells bells They want a lot of work for Recreation Management. Where is the recreation folks!I will report late tomorrow on how things go. -cheers

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I want an elephant of my own some day. Thanks to Ummm for the post.

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LifeHacker has published a cool article on Top 10 Ways to Reuse Your Old iPod. Topics include making it a Flash Card player, a portable drink/recipe/Wikipedia reference, a bootable XP Computer (I like that one), and turning it into the ultimate go-anywhere tool. Check out the article at Top 10 Ways. Visit LifeHacker.com for hundreds of ideas on hundreds of topics. -cheers

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I have found a list of Free Windows Software from Microsoft that includes applications, utilities, support and troubleshooting, security, and anti-spyware/ anti-virus, multimedia, GAMES!!, and some screensavers and themes... Take a look at LiveSpaces for the complete list and downloads.. Enjoy!

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A handy new product offered on Photojojo makes it easy to set your white balance on your camera without the gray card or any other funky equipment. “Simply flip your camera into custom White Balance mode, snap a photo with your White Balance Lens Cap on, and your camera creates a perfect profile of the actual lighting in front of you.”-photojojo.comI have used white/gray cards before working as a

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The author of Technibble, Mr. Bryce Whitty, recently posted about a cool method to map out your goals. It's called Mind Mapping. The software FreeMind uses an easy display to assemble your goals in order of importance. This is a program that you download to your computer and use locally. You can watch Mr. Whitty do it via his video pod cast by following this link FREEMIND. After you fall in love

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Recently, I have stumbled across a blog about making money from home. The author, Penelope Smith, has taken the mask off some of the most notorious web traffic scams and is constantly trying out new traffic tools to benefit us, the bloger/web marketer, so we don't have to. She signs up for various programs and then give us the low down on how they pay, how they market your material, and how you

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There is this super keen site called Instructables that delivers a plethora of knowledge on various subjects. I urge you to check them out. One post that I took a liking to is on the subject of tools, mainly , when is a Phillips not a Phillips. The article is indepth and provides us with the most useful of screw information. As we know... I like my screws. So enjoy the teaser and visit the

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Beef up on your vocabulary and enjoy learning new words with the help of VerbaLearn.com. Our friends at Lifehacker.com have introduced us to a new site that helps the verbally challenged, like me, to learn new words on the fly... You start by taking a word test that assembles a list of words that you need help with; You then have the option to study them online with sentence completion, or you

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We have all been there...You walk out of the store and your car is missing...This phenomena is present in every parking lot in America.Conspiracy???

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Oh... I'm nervous, what do I say...Uhmm.. ladies and gentlemen... No, no.. too stuffy...Hi,yea... that's a start.Hello there, you have entered my brain. Do not feed the animals for they are on a strict diet. I would like to welcome you all to the fantastical wonderment that is Cody and all the he shall deem note worthy.To start, I think I will talk about a new author that I feel is good for a

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