The Rigged-Up Net

Everything you ever wanted to know about Bluetooth and your PocketPC…

Ted’s Bluetooth Guide for Pocket PC Devices

Curious how people read through a web page?

The eyes most often fixated first in the upper left of the page, then hovered in that area before going left to right. Only after perusing the top portion of the page for some time did their eyes explore further down the page.

The Best of Eyetrack III: What We Saw When We Looked Through Their Eyes

San Antonio-based Rackspace Managed Hosting has been named the fifth fastest growing technology company in Texas by Deloitte & Touche USA LLP.

Rackspace among the fasting growing tech companies in Texas

A couple of years ago I wanted to do something like this, I’m glad someone did…

What is Flickr? Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world.

http://flickr.com/

Although many women watch the numbers on their scales very closely, that isn’t the best way to determine the risk of cardiovascular disease, a new study suggests. Findings published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association indicate that a woman’s level of physical activity is a better predictor of future heart health than weight alone is.

Physical Activity Better Predictor of Heart Disease Risk Than Obesity Is

Being good may not always be good enough–especially for companies in the fast-moving world of technology.

Five tech firms at a crossroads

Two proteins may halt Parkinson’s disease, experiments with rats have shown, and work towards a potential human therapy has already begun.

Proteins slow the progress of Parkinson’s disease

Austin commuters spent 49 extra hours idling in traffic in 2002, keeping the city in the No. 1 spot for traffic congestion among midsize U.S. cities, according to an annual study from the Texas Transportation Institute at Texas A&M University.

Bumper to bumper: Austin’s traffic congestion remains (un)stable

A sheet of LSD blotter paper printed with this approprately psychedelic optical illusion is up for auction on eBay. Click the image for the full effect. Presumably, the paper has not been dipped.

Trippy blotter art

Long the most common way to store letters, homework and other computer files, the floppy disk is going the way of the horse upon the arrival of the car: it’ll hang around but never hold the same relevance in everyday life.

Floppy Disk Becoming Relic of the Past

A steady diet of sex-saturated television might encourage teens to start sex earlier, a national survey of 1,762 kids suggests today.

TV might rush teens into sex

Wireless PCs and wireless laptops are being increasingly used in both business and the home. The reason for this marked trend is that wireless computers are easy to deploy, cheap and are usually simpler to manage than standard wired connections.

Are You Indulging In Unprotected Wireless?

Alarmist and polarized rhetoric is distorting important new findings about the risks and benefits of children’s use of the Internet.

The Myths Of Growing Up Online

The redesigned 2005 Ford Mustang appears to be a hit before it hits the street. Mustang, an icon among muscle-car lovers, has drawn more traffic to Ford Motor’s Web site than any other vehicle ever, with more than 200,000 people supplying personal information to get brochures.

Mustang sales off like a bullet

San Antonio-based Rackspace Managed Hosting has been chosen as the Best Hosting Service Provider of 2004 by the readers of Penton Media’s SQL Server Magazine.

SQL Server magazine awards Rackspace reader’s choice award

Milwaukee-based Miller Brewing Co. has selected Rackspace Managed Hosting to manage and support all of the Web infrastructure for the world’s second largest brewer.

Rackspace lands Miller Brewing as client

In Dante’s Inferno, the inner circle of hell was reserved for betrayers like Judas and Brutus. But new research indicates that punishing those who break social norms is not merely the province of poets. Scientists have uncovered evidence for an innate satisfaction in human beings for giving people their comeuppance.

Brain Scans Reveal That Revenge Is Sweet

Overdue debtors beware: You may not be able to rely on Caller ID to screen out those annoying bill collectors much longer. A California entrepreneur has a plan to bring the hacker technique of Caller ID spoofing to the business world, beginning with collection agencies and private investigators.

US website offers Caller ID falsification service

Rackspace Managed Hosting uses MOM 2005 and other components of DSI, including the Auto-mated Deployment Services add-on to Windows Server 2003 and Systems Management Server 2003. Although these are the early days for DSI, Rackspace Senior Systems Developer Paul Wimmer is excited about it.

New MOM to ease Microsoft management

Yes, this works. It was published in this month’s Wired Magazine. Evidentally this marketing company gets a bounty for every sign-up, so they split the money with you by buying you an iPod. Since pop-up ads aren’t working anymore, they needed to find some other way to get your attention. Well, they got mine. 😉

Make sure you follow the directions carefully, it seems that lots of people don’t get their ipods becuase they forget a step or two.

Using IE (You must use IE due to all the cookies and tracking they’re doing), go to this site with this link and sign up. Since you have to complete at least one promo, it seems that the least painful of the promos to complete is the GM card, which gives you instant feedback on whether or not you’re accepted.

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Microsoft’s lack of multicultural savvy cost the Redmond behemoth millions of dollars, according to a company executive.

How eight pixels cost Microsoft millions

hootenanny: An informal performance by folk singers, typically with participation by the audience

Evidentally, it also means “widget”.

It’s been written off by the experts. But thanks to a Silicon Valley software legend, the company that invented digital video recording says it’s about to change the way we watch TV — again.

Saving TiVo

A hand-held device that measures the contraction of the pupils of accident victims in response to bright light will help to ensure they get the correct treatment.

Crash victims’ head injuries spotted by ‘pupilometer’

Remember 411? Vonage users have it for free… but its 311.

Vonage: Dial 311 for Local Info

Yu Zhenhuan waits for an interview beside his hospital bed in Shanghai August 13, 2004. Yu, who is China’s hairiest man, has 96 percent of his body covered with hair. The current Guinness record holders — a pair of Mexican brothers — have a record of 98 percent hair cover. Yu underwent ear surgery in Shanghai last week to remove hair that caused him to lose part of his hearing. The hirsute 26-year-old Yu, who uses the name ‘woolboy’ for his email, has hair all over his body, save the palms of his hands and the soles of his feet. He has an average of 41 hairs per 1 sq cm (.16 sq inch), a condition doctors term ‘atavism’.

Photo here: Yu Zhenhuan, China’s Hairiest Man

Austin has been chosen as one of 10 “steroid cities” in a new book from Forbes publisher Rich Karlgaard.

Austin pumps it up, according to new book

Female blue tits put in more parental effort if the father of their chicks is attractive, shows a new study.

Sexy males make bird mothers better

For the first time, broadband connections are reaching more than half (51 percent) of the American online population at home, according to measurement taken in July by Nielsen/NetRatings, an Internet audience measurement and research company. A year earlier, broadband was being tapped by just 38 percent of users.

Broadband used by 51 percent of online population

It’s not even that investors aren’t bidding the proposed price of between $108 and $135, but that Google isn’t getting enough bids at all, according to the banker, who asked not to be identified.

Google IPO Under Threat Due to Shortage of Bids

A new pollen-blocking cream applied to the inside of the nose may alleviate hayfever without the side-effects of other remedies, suggests a new study.

Pollen-blocking cream cuts hayfever

Can genetic engineering defeat diseases spread by insects?

Don’t Let the Bugs Bite

More than one-fifth of U.S. science and engineering workers have less than a bachelor’s degree, according to a new report from the National Science Foundation. .

Many engineers lack even a four-year degree

Ok, this is weird… make sure you have the volume up so you can hear the background sounds…

Ghost in car commercial?

The IPO lexicon has a myriad of colorful words, such as “green shoe,” “blue sky,” “flipping” and “red herring.” There is a new word we can add: GOOG-plosion.

Google this: disaster

I’ve seen this a year ago, but its worth revisiting… its pretty cool:

Horn Man

Whether people find you “hot or not” could depend on the sound of your name, suggests a new study.

Pleasing names make faces sexier

The University of Texas is becoming more popular. The school has been named the hottest state university in the 2005 Kaplan/Newsweek “How to Get into College Guide.”

UT named ‘hottest’ state school

Internet usage has soared in South Korea–unless you’re an older woman living in the countryside.

South Koreans face digital divide

Who knew all the pretty people lived in just a handful of cities? Apparently, they do. AOL Travel and Travel + Leisure magazine teamed up to find out America’s Favorite Cities and in the process they found out the cities with the best-looking people.

The Cities With the Best-Looking People