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Entries from July 2007

Simpsonize Yourself

by Matthew Smith · July 20th, 2007 · 2 Comments

One for the random bucket: in a promotion for the new Simpson’s movie, a new website, Simsonize Me, has appeared.
Upload your photo and become a Simpson’s character!
You might have to be patient – the site seems to be a little slow at the moment…

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Categories: Advertising

MySpace, eHarmony among Worst Websites

by Michael Chappell · July 19th, 2007 · No Comments

Time online has generated a short list (very short) of the worst sites infiltrating our beloved Interweb. I would have to greatly agree with the evaluation of these journalists as most of these sites just plain annoy me. The list is as follows:
eHarmony.com – After completing your 426 question survey and paying your [...]

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Categories: General

Facebook’s Social Graph + WordPress Blogs = World Domination?

by Matthew Smith · July 19th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Last night as I was showering, a brilliant idea dawned on me: What if I could combine Facebook’s social graph with my WordPress blog? Integrated commenting, latests posts showing up on my feed, etc etc etc. I was all set to write this spiffy post outlining some new ideas and proposing a new plugin [...]

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Categories: Wordpress

The Dumbest Song of the Day (Download it Here!)

by Matthew Smith · July 19th, 2007 · No Comments

I was browsing through a certain collection of songs that I recently “received” and after listening to all of them, I must say: the most retarded song of the day is A Bay Bay by Hurricane Chris.
Yes, you read that right. Not a misspelling. Despite the rather retarded name, it just so happens to be [...]

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Categories: Music · Reviews

Microsoft is the Devil. No, Really.

by Matthew Smith · July 19th, 2007 · No Comments

You may might have missed the commotion, but a few days ago our good friends in Redmond filed away this little patent, titled “Advertising services architecture.” This patent outlines a mechanism by which “targeted advertising” can be delivered using deep integration into the OS. The targeted part comes from analyzing your documents (basically anything on [...]

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Categories: Advertising · Technology

We Want to Link to You

by Matthew Smith · July 18th, 2007 · 1 Comment

I love “networking” with my friends and I love reading their thoughts, ideas, and adventures. Therefore, in the spirit of networking and the internet, I want to read more of your blogs – my reading list is full of tech news and other interesting things but seriously lacking in the “people I know” department. Thus, [...]

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Categories: Musings

New Georgia Traffic Fines? Nope.

by Matthew Smith · July 18th, 2007 · 2 Comments

I was visiting some friends in Columbus last night when this little tidbit crossed within earsight (not an exact quote):
“I heard that they just passed this new law that gives you a like $200 ticket for talking on your cellphone without a hands free device and that they will pull you over if you are [...]

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Categories: Garage · General

The Web Radio Debacle

by Matthew Smith · July 18th, 2007 · 2 Comments

The record industry is dying. We all know it – Rolling Stone wrote an article and Fake Steve even chimed in (amongst others) – but the Record Industry is determined to go to the grave kicking, screaming, and suing dead people). Artists don’t see much of the money that the RIAA collects (and apparently piracy [...]

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Categories: General