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January 31, 2006

Billionaires need budgets too!

by @ 10:57 pm. Filed under Money

Larry Ellison's yacht
Who would have thought that a multi-billionaire needs to watch his $1.35B credit limit?
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Heatsinks on your computer processor

by @ 9:43 am. Filed under Computers, Fun Stuff, Hardware

Heatsink
Ever wondered why your computer's CPU has that gigantic heatsink contraption on it?
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January 29, 2006

Disney World monorail pusher photos

by @ 10:01 am. Filed under Disney World

Monorail pusher
Here are a few pics of the gas-powered emergency monorail car at Disney World I took in 2004.
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January 28, 2006

A few more ideas for office pranks

by @ 10:57 pm. Filed under Fun Stuff

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Looking to add a bit of fun to your boring cubical farm at work?
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January 26, 2006

The life and business of an Everquest gold farmer

by @ 11:38 am. Filed under Computer Games, Money

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Ever wondered how the life of a professional gold farmer worked and just how much money they made? Read-on for this well-written account of one person's Everquest farming business and commentary about the sad state of affairs in Everquest even today, long after its peak.

My tax return for that year which has salary from 2 months of my job which I quit to make this my full time business, showed $150,623.78 after expenses. By this time I had made another character on another server and bought myself another computer and was playing on two. I killed guards in everfrost and sold the weapons to vendors and then bought items from players, or sold the platinum. That's the entirety of what I did to make that income.

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January 25, 2006

Wanna play a little Atari 2600 style Combat?

by @ 11:33 am. Filed under Fun Stuff, Retro Computing

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Get your Combat on!
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January 22, 2006

Visualization of the Orion Nebula

by @ 3:58 pm. Filed under Technology

Orion Nebula
Fly through a model of Orion Nebula done by the NSF for the Hayden Planetarium.
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January 20, 2006

It’s a Geo Metro, but thinks it’s a truck or a rice-racer

by @ 7:45 pm. Filed under Weird Stuff

Odd Metro 2
I've never seen a Metro quite like this...
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Old school relay computer

by @ 12:38 pm. Filed under Electronics

Harry Porter built a functional computer out of relays -- including memory, ALU, registers, and all.
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January 19, 2006

Cop computers interfere with Dunkin’ Donuts computers

by @ 8:20 pm. Filed under Weird Stuff

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Oh the irony... When going through the drive-through of a Dunkin' Donuts, the New Hampshire police have to disable the radio modems on their mobile computers to avoid interfering with the store's sytem.
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