For me, the best consumer electronic gadget I’ve purchased in a long time is Turtle Beach’s Audiotron unit. It’s a stereo component that serves as a network client, can read Windows-compatible file shares via Ethernet or HPNA (home telephone wire networks), play Internet radio feeds and plugs directly into my stereo.I plan to write [...]

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I want this car.Of course, I’d feel like an asshole driving it, and I’d never pay more than $20K for a new car, and there are even more limiting factors—like the fact that I’d look like a man in the throes of a wickedly painful midlife crisis and that I don’t really like to buy [...]

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As Elliott pointed out in an earlier entry, Enron was suspected by many to have had anything but legitimate plans during the California energy crisis. Well, it turns out that Enron may have manipulated power prices for Californians suffering from the energy crunch.So the company that lied to its (stupid for having all of [...]

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The other day, I was tuned into Georgia Tech’s excellent WREK when I heard a great cover of “This Charming Man” by a band called Stars. I headed straight for the Napster (well, the modern day version of it, I think Napster should become a verb like xerox) and downloaded it. Then I [...]

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Verisign Nate of at web-graphics.com tipped me to this.

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I love reading the queries people use on search engines and somehow end up at halfass.com. To date, this is the funniest one:atlanta freaks with big assesWhich was typed in today by somebody who definitely has specific ideas as to what they want to see on the Internet. I hope we didn’t disappoint.

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Three murders discovered in Buckhead in one night! For those of you not in Atlanta, a little background: Buckhead is considered by many to be the “nice” part of Atlanta. It certainly has a lot of fancy stores, expensive restaurants and, in portions, really nice, old homes. Real estate values in the [...]

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Crowsenberg’s Half and Half is featured in the Portland Mercury for their recent art exhibition: Dolly Parton Album Covers.For those of you who don’t know, the Crowsenberg’s Half and Half is a cafe/convenience store owned one of my friends Robin and her buddy Keith. It is located near Powell’s City of Books in beautiful [...]

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My sister in L.A. passed this on to me.This guy is a riot! Apparently he doesn’t speak any English, travels with a companion/translator named “Urara”, which translated from the Japanese is “Ooh-La-La”, and he runs in the same circles as Shag. I’m sensing a pattern there with the dark-skinned girls with Faucett-Majors hair. These [...]

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On her site,Jen Frickell, the ever-acerbic but eternally funny sysadmin, links to a site that I find quite interesting. It’s a how-to site with instructions on how to make your own 1 atmosphere plasmoid!

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I have some geek overload for y’all: I am writing this from my newly-installed Sun Ultra 5 workstation during the WebStart install.Now, I have to say, WebStart is probably the worst option for installing Solaris 8—it’s slow and only allows a minimum of customization. However, I must say that the “web” portion is the [...]

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