The Rigged-Up Net

This is really kinda gross – but kinda funny, only because its a cat doing it… which in itself is also weird. The wanker cat

For consumers, diminished capacity could mean higher average fares, fewer choices, fuller flights and fruitless searches for mileage upgrades and award travel. For communities, it could mean deteriorating or disappearing air service. For the airlines themselves, it could mean a fighting chance to regain profitability. Airlines cram more fliers into fewer seats, flights

Le Reve is my favorite restaurant… its one of the things I miss about San Antonio. I make a point to visit it or its sister, Sandbar, whenever I’m there as well. Le Rêve is a spectacular case in point. Who in his right mind would expect to find a fairly formal French restaurant — […]

Wow – these are some expensive tires! Racy-looking — and pricey — performance tires showing up on many new cars are proving to be the salvation of the tire industry Sporty tires jazz up cars, but cost burns hole in wallets

Last night I managed to make it down to Buddha Lounge for this month’s Refresh Houston meeting… What’s that? Refresh Houston is a community of designers and developers working to refresh the creative, technical and professional culture of new media and Web endeavors in the Houston area.

So much for the skeptics. 😉 The nation’s top climate scientists are giving “An Inconvenient Truth,” Al Gore’s documentary on global warming, five stars for accuracy. Scientists OK Gore’s movie for accuracy

Nearly 11 million households are the wealthiest 10% of all U.S. households in net worth with: Minimum net worth of $750,000 Average net worth of $2.7 million Average income of $270,000 Earn nearly 40% of the total income of all Americans Own 65% of the personal assets of all U.S. households Richest gift shoppers rein […]

This could be a reasonable replacement for rsync on Windows… Good Sync is FREE file and folder synchronization software for Windows. This software uses an innovative synchronization algorithm to synchronize your data between desktop PCs, laptops, USB drives and more. Good Sync combines bulletproof reliability with an extremely easy-to-use interface. Good Sync

All of a sudden a huge batch of global warming related articles popped up…. The Earth is running a slight fever from greenhouse gases, after enjoying relatively stable temperatures for 2,000 years. The National Academy of Sciences, after reconstructing global average surface temperatures for the past two millennia, said Thursday the data are “additional supporting […]

This is HUGE! WRT54G v5 and V6 can now be flashed to linux without JTAG!!!

Its back baby! Oh ya! Comedy Central is going back to the Futurama. Three years after the show last aired on prime time, the cable net has signed a deal to resurrect the former Fox animated series for a minimum 13-episode run. “Futurama” Pulls a “Family Guy”

BumpTop aims to enrich the desktop metaphor with expressive, lightweight techniques found in the real world.

Sometimes, you need stories like this to put things into perspective 🙂 The owner of a Los Angeles car dealership is suing Mercedes-Benz, its parent company DaimlerChrysler and other affiliates, alleging that a $1.7 million car purchased in 2004 wouldn’t run for more than 10 blocks without problems. World’s most expensive lemon?

What is a Halo car? Solstice is, in auto-industry speak, a “halo car.” It’s one of those rare models that can draw a halo around a brand, bringing into showrooms potential buyers who, ultimately, may drive off in a totally different vehicle from the same nameplate. Halo cars are hot and sexy. They generate buzz […]

Are the home-price corrections coming? If you haven’t bought a house yet, some good deals might be coming… In 2003, Anita Britten refinanced her two-story brick cottage in Lithonia, Ga. using a hybrid adjustable rate mortgage, or ARM. Her lender reassured her that she could refinance out of the riskier loan into a traditional one […]

Save Screech’s House! http://www.getdshirts.com/ More than a bell is needed to save Dustin Diamond this time around. Diamond, best known as geeky Screech Powers on the 1989-1993 teen comedy series “Saved by the Bell,” is selling T-shirts with his photo on them to try to raise $250,000 so he doesn’t lose his gray two-story house […]

Cracks me up…. 😀

I’m a bit torn about Volvo’s new collision warning system. On one hand, its a really great idea… and I actually believe it will probably benefit a lot of drivers – particularly those yapping away on their cell phones. But on the other hand, I feel like such automatic systems freak people out… and occasionally […]

I’ve had the priviledge of hearing Al Gore speak about the global warming issue ealier this year… then, I had the priviledge of actually sitting down with him one-on-one about the topic some more about a month later. I could ramble on about what we discussed, or you could simpy just watch his new movie […]

Looks like I got snapped while at BarCamp Houston: Lots of great conversations, smart people, and plenty of energy at this camp. If you’re reading this, and its still going on, I highly recommend stopping by… good stuff going on here. 🙂 Meanwhile, here’s the Flickr Pool.

Wow – times are changing… there was a time when nobody would dare own a Hyundai – now its almost silly to drive anything else! Porsche and Hyundai leapfroggeda to the top of the influential J.D. Power Initial Quality Study, potentially boosting sales at both automakers as consumers continue to focus on quality as a […]

This guy looks suspiciously like Mike (the guy who cuts everyone’s hair in San Antonio) 😀

Its just like the Bellagio fountains! 😀

Ok, this is awesome… anyone who has a mac should have this running… SmackBook Pro

Love it! 😀 Days after pressure from parent groups forced Hasbro Inc. to pull a line of dolls based on the sexy girl group Pussycat Dolls from the shelves of toy stores, the Rhode Island-based company is being forced to reconsider several other “inappropriate” figures marketed toward children. Among them are the “Jessica Alba My […]