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One Does Not Simply Fly into Mordor

One must watch the safety video first! Those of you who have traveled by plane have had the experience of watching a flight attendant give a safety demonstration. He or she pointed out the exits, gave instructions on how to use a seatbelt, and talked about the oxygen masks. People tend to tune this out, especially if they are a

Pumpktris Combines Tetris and Pumpkin Carving

Here is the most awesome pumpkin that I have seen this Halloween! Nathan at the HaHaBird blog has created Pumpktris.The result is a pumpkin that you can actually play a modified version of the classic video game Tetris on. It involves LED lights that are connected on a matrix, some soldering, lots of wire cutting, drilling holes for the LED

GameStop Kids Holiday Stores are Popping Up

This November, there could be a GameStop Kids store popping up in a mall near you! GameStop is going to be opening around 80 of these stores, all across the United States, for a limited time. This isn't too different from what Microsoft is doing this holiday season. Both companies are opening temporary stores for the holiday season that will

The i-MiEV ES 2012 is 100% Electric

Last week, my husband and I got to see one of these cute little cars in person. The Farmers' Market, in downtown San Luis Obispo, California, set aside one of the side streets for the purpose of displaying electric vehicles. This area gathered quite a large crowd of people, many of whom were asking questions about the vehicles to the

Apogee Solves the Shaky Video Problem for You

No one wants to watch a video that is shaky. A camera that was unstable while recording can turn a video with the most amazing content ever into little more than a difficult to watch distraction. Suddenly, the viewer is trying to discern what the camera was supposed to be pointed at instead of the event that was recorded. This

Facebook is Phasing Out Questions

It appears that Facebook is starting to phase out its Facebook Questions feature. You may have used the feature to answer a question in a poll that one of your Facebook friends put together. The Facebook Questions feature was something that everyone on Facebook could use in order to get a “crowd sourced” answer to a specific question. It could

Google’s Disavow Links Tool is Not for Everyone

Google has released a new tool called Disavow Links. The primary purpose is to help bloggers who have been notified by Google about “unnatural links” that have been pointing to their website. As you may know, Google uses something called PageRank to determine how reputable and important a particular website is. Part of what they use to make that decision