I call on the world to stop this celebrity look-alike madness. We get it, your eye/nose/mouth ratio matches a celebrity. You are not Jessica Alba

I just hacked my Xbox last night and got XBMC on there, and I gotta say, “OMG! THAT’S F**KING AWESOME!”

More blogging to come, but check out some of the reasons I love it so

I heard about Tiki Bar TV on the latest TWIT podcast. It’s basically a couple of (Canadian *pride*) guys and a pretty cute chick that mix drinks and get into ridiculous situations that happen at the Tiki Bar. If that isn’t the recipe for a good podcast, I dunno what is….Except….wait….I know a [...]

Plants are hardy. Soup is hearty. ‘Nuff said

P.S. Did you know that it’s “sherbet”, not sherbert? Will fun with words never end?

I’ve been looking for an easy way to add uploading to WhyYouShould for a while now. My main problem is that I built the site completely in ASP.NET, and without buying some expensive Control (or spending months writing it myself ;)), it’s hard to do uploading with a progress bar. Also, it seemed [...]

Here’s another ridiculous list of reasons why you should hate Microsoft. See also, why you should hate Apple. We’re equal opportunity offenders around here

I ran across a little note about this phone service, jaxtr, in Wired this month. Basically, you set-up an account with them (as long as live in one of 29 countries) and they give you a widget (like the following) that lets people call you for free from their own phones.

It works just like [...]

I was planning to refactor part of my backend to support different types of media, but I was too lazy to boot up Parallels so I could run SQL Server Management Studio to make the backend changes. So instead, I just threw some regular expressions into the code to convert YouTube urls into embedded [...]

A while back I posted my manifesto for a “dynamic web-browser”, a custom operating-system application for web-applications. Apparently Adobe heard me (or rather, they already had this under development years ago) because today they launched an alpha of their new Apollo runtime. They even promoed an Ebay application that works very much like [...]

Watching people twitter all over the planet in real-time is insanely captivating

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(Thanks Andre)