Category: Interesting

Dell Buys Alienware

Alienware, a computer maker who was one of the first folks who catered to the hardcore gamers and performance freaks and is now starting to spread to the business market, is getting bought by Dell, who is entrenched in the business market and are one of the last folks to build hard core gaming systems (though latest Quad SLI config is both companies offer a Quad SLI configuration now, though I’d probably take Alienware’s as I’m sure Dell uses proprietary parts on theirs and Alienware’s setup uses AMD processors, which perform better for the most part).

More from PC Mag and from Michael J. Miller.

March 23, 2006

Guarantee Yourself a Winning NCAA bracket

If you really wanted to win UtterlyBoring.com’s tournament pick ’em, all you have to do is fill out 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 brackets. So keep in mind for next year.

March 22, 2006

Round One Is Over

And as it stands right now, after the first full round of the tournament (round two starts tomorrow), I’m have a small lead in our tournament pick ’em (some of my picks barely won their games today, so I was VERY lucky). As of right now, and things could get messy tomrrow, I have 25 points, but Chris and Scott are just two points behind at 23, and there are 3 others at 22 and then seven more at 21. More points are given for each correct pick in later rounds, so things will start to separate a bit starting tomorrow.

If you’re a member of the group, you can keep an eye on the stats on the group’s page.

March 17, 2006

KTVZ Quoting Local Blogger

It’s actually a good thing that Barney quoted a blogger in this story about Bend’s real estate, as if he just interviewed Real Estate guys around here, they’d say the study was crap as they obviously have an vested interest in keeping prices high. So at least we have a counterpoint here, but I do find it interesting that a blogger (an anonymous one at that) is getting quoted in local media.

March 15, 2006

How Much Is Your Blog Worth?

I remember seeing this making the rounds a long time ago, but was reminded that I’d never posted an entry about it until somebody made a comment about it. But as of this writing, this blog is worth $63,228.48 How much is yours worth?

March 13, 2006

The World May Be Out Of Natural Blondes in 200 Years

Apparently, the last truly natural blonde might be born in Finland in roughly 2202.

Update: Thanks to Mrs H. for pointing out that this little fact mentioned in the article is a hoax (and I did put “blondes” into Snopes’ search engine I just couldn’t find it). That being said, the main point of the article was about how Caveman-era humans were the first natural blondes, and this little fact just was buried in it. The article is still worth a read.

March 9, 2006

Who Needs Petroleum?

There will never be an oil crisis if we start making fuel from cow crap.

March 8, 2006

Victoria Didn’t Have Many Secrets in The 70s, Either

Just check out these scans of Victoria’s Secret catalogs from 1977 and while they’re a bit more conservative (I still wouldn’t argue with seeing my wife in anything they sold back then), things haven’t changed much (at least with their clothes — the models wearing them certainly have). Link via kottke.

March 8, 2006

Who Are These Folks?

Has anybody ever heard of The Bend Weekly? Simone came across a job posting for them on Craigslist, and it looks like they’re looking for a graphics guy, too (though I don’t know how comfortable I’d be applying if you’re like me and have a family to feed — I don’t know about the longevity or pay). The thing is, despite their claim of “approximate readership is 31,200”, I’ve never once seen their weekly printed edition.

Anybody know anything about this?

February 23, 2006

Google Introduces Web Page Creator

And, naturally, accounts are closed on the new service so I don’t know much about the service other than what other folks say. But it looks like it might be poised as a MySpace knockoff, but I can’t really tell. Anybody actually played with the thing?

February 23, 2006