Goodbye Howard Stern

Well, today will be the last day of Howard Stern on terrestrial radio. I say “will be” and not “is” because I haven’t listened to the show yet. The show starts at 6am in New York, so right now (almost 8pm in Vancouver) it’s close to over. Yahoo is covering it well though, and as […]

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Crazy Climbing Russian Guy

Not as cute as the previously posted kitten, this video of a Russian climbing is nuts. The guy is ripped, strong, agile like Jackie Chan, and pretty nuts. Urban bouldering at it’s best. Most impressive. Via Darren Barefoot. This is actually called Parkour, which is basically the art of running and jumping over and around

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Kong Koming Kuickly

So King Kong opens this week, actually technically at midnight tonight, and people seem to love it. Whos with me for an outing friday? Any of the gang up for a trek to some theatre to gorge on popcorn and watch Peter Jackson’s latest flick?

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Yahoo! Does Konfabulator

A few months ago, Yahoo! aquired Konfabulator, software that creates little mini applets on your desktop. For several months, nothing happened. Then a new version arrives. It has a bunch of changes and improvements to the various widgets, along with the expected integration of various Yahoo! functionality into the calendar/mail/weather widget. All fine so far.

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Microsoft Does Maps

Well, microsoft released Local.live.com which is a competitor for google maps. I took a quick look and the birds eye view (of selected areas) is nice, except that the areas that are shown are very small and you can’t really scroll that far. Oh well, takes lots of time to get that low level photos

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Dana Releases New Firewall Tool

Gotta give props to my buddy Dana, who recently release Scorpion Software’s latest tool, a Firewall Dashboard system that runs under windows, and takes firewall data from either the windows firewall or anything that logs to the WELF format. He’s even had a very nice review over at TiGra Networks (though the thumbnail images are

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Narnia Offensive?

My $ex-boss gilgamesh has a good thought or three on an article about how offensive the movie Narnia – The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe is to non-christians, and how they will need a ‘sickbag’ handy at the religious undertones. First of all I believe that this woman, Polly Toynbee has written this article

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Thoughts on the New Microsoft “Restart Manager” and Reboot-less Updates

So Microsoft has announced that a new feature in Vista will be something called the Vista Restart Manager (/. discussion). Describing what this is in the article: “If a part of an application, or the operating system itself, needs to updated, the Installer will call the Restart Manager, which looks to see if it can

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