Digimarc, then CueCat

Didn’t Wired Magazine try the idiotic Digimarc MediaBridge before the tried the idiotic CueCat?

Natural History of the @ Sign

Over at Natural History of the @ Sign you’ll find that Italians call @ “chiocciola” (the snail), and in Thailand, although it’s not official, some people call it ” ‘ai tua yiukyiu” (the wiggling worm-like character). The Dutch have several names including “apeklootje” (little monkey’s testicle).

LEGO Bulk Ordering

Don’t you just hate it when you run out of a critical piece while building something? Well, just head over to LEGO Bulk Ordering!

Priceless Mail

While cleaning my office, I ran across the best piece of mail I have ever received. The brochure for How to Legally Fire Employees with Attitude Problems is priceless!! I just wish I had attended to received the course materials and certificate. Second place goes to the completely shredded letter that the Post Office delivered […]

More Bandwidth Test Pages

While I’m at it, here are two more bandwidth test pages at Computing Central and CNET. If you have a cable modem or DSL you really need to take a look at

Bandwidth Test

Here’s a bandwidth test that checks up download and upload speed, as well as allowing you to search for other people’s results from your zip code for comparison.

George Karn

The illustrator who created the Trix rabbit, Lucky Charms leprechaun, and Count Chocula for General Mills, George Karn, died with his pen in his hand on Sunday while drawing a caricature of himself.

WebTV Viewer

Download the WebTV Viewer and see how bad your web page looks to all of the WebTV owners out there.

Big Blue Screen of Death

Big Blue Screen of Death captures large screens prominently displaying crashed versions of Windows. I remember seeing Vertical Reality stopping at GameWorks in Seattle when the controlling Windows NT systems crashed.

Graphical User Interface Gallery

The Graphical User Interface Gallery has a great collection of screenshots of Microsoft Windows Windows 1.01, MacOS 1.1, GEM and lots more (hey, I remember having GEM on my old IBM XT!!!).

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