Teleflip ~ email while surfing

Teleflip is a service that allows you to forward your email to an ordinary mobile phone with text messaging capabilities.  All you pay for is the text message charge from your carrier.
The simple explanation of this service alone is good enough to convince those who need it to use, but the company is now pushing [...]

Forces of Nature ~ Volcanoes: The Exploding Earth

Today I received in the mail a DVD/booklet for the Discovery Channel and IMP DVD subscription series Forces of Nature.  This particular DVD is called "Volcanoes."  This blog writes itself.

Why wouldn’t volcanoes be the most enticing "force of nature" to lure people into buying your whole series?  Volcanoes make us feel like hell is lurking [...]

Professor Murder ~ On A Desert Island

If you’re willing to look beyond (forward to?) the breast-like coconuts on the palm tree of the On A Desert Island album artwork of Professor Murder, you might like the bright but technical islandish (but not outlandish) sound of this group from Brookadelphia.  Their song "Civilization Three" was the featured download at RCRD LBL at [...]

LapDome? Get off your computer and enjoy your freaking vacation instead

Product ads with paradise settings come along every day. Often times, I’m left wondering if the image is a statement about where the product or service can take you or if the people doing the advertising are hoping that your purchasing the product or service will afford them the lifestyle they depict. The [...]

WSJ: Second Life banks in a little bit of turmoil

According to Robin Sidel at The Wall Street Journal, there were 187,000 Second Life avatars in December from the US alone, with roughly that same number coming from the major European countries.  But life is not all rosy for the virtual island paradises given the banking issues that some people are experiencing there according to [...]

Windows Seven ~ beach ready in 2009?

According to APC, the rumor is out that this is a screenshot of the upcoming WIndows 7, which may be released as early as next year (larger size available at their site):

If you are going to let an image of your upcoming product leak out onto the web, or if you even think that one [...]

Keith Ledger shocker! But who the hell is Keith Ledger?

People are so distraught about the death of their beloved Keith Ledger that they have pushed his name to the number two spot on Google Trends with a full “Volcanic” rating of hotness:

He comes in just under the slightly more famous Heath Ledger who also just died in what appears to be a tragic overdose [...]

Fed cuts rates ~ sustain your unsustainable backyard paradise

Mortgage deal makers have wasted no time latching on to the largest interest rate cut since the mid-80s.  Here’s an ad from low.com that plays on your desire to save your precious little backyard paradise.

Nothing about this image says avoid foreclosure.  Instead it seems to say, "Hey! Credit is even cheaper than it was before. [...]

The world’s largest swimming pool ~ or half of it

Stories of the world’s largest swimming pool in Algarrobo, Chile have been floating around the Internet for months now, but the Daily Mail has published an article with several enlarged pictures that are worth a look.  To give you a preview of just how large it is, well, here’s a picture from Reuters:

This is literally [...]

Volcanic eruption in Antarctica ~ 2,200 years ago

Richard Black with the BBC has an article discussing evidence that scientists have found that there was an eruption that broke through the ice of Antarctica about 2,200 years ago.  Here’s the article.

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