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Mar 30, 2005
Miscellaneous

Oh, sweet jesus…

Nintendo is running a truly bizarre contest right now. If you sign up for a nintendo.com account and then go to http://www.touchingisgood.com/ you can order a severed mannequin hand. What, you may ask, is a severed mannequin hand good for…outside ...

Mar 29, 2005
iRooster

The Deep Humor of Babelfish

There was a thread on Italiamac earlier this month about iRooster. Since it was entirely in Italian, and the amount of Italian I know at this point is barely enough to purchase a cappucino, I turned to the always reliable Babelfish. There is some...

Mar 29, 2005
iRooster

Chimp Tunes: Flipping the Switch

Visiting www.chimptunes.com will now take you to the Chimp Tunes website on sixDollarChimp. Also, I have now added an RSS feed for each of the four Chimp Tunes categories that have been defined. I’ve been using them for a while now in my aggregat...

Mar 27, 2005
iRooster

It' only a matter of time

It’s only a matter of time before this particular guy is ready for primetime… And by primetime I mean the market that happens to be 33 times larger than the one that I’m serving currently. It almost boggles the mind in a way: 33 times more peop...

Mar 26, 2005
Technology

Ax Shims

You probably don’t want to know…

Mar 22, 2005
iRooster

World+Dog - Redux

There’s been lots of chatter in print and on blogs over the past week about iRooster. Jonathan on the RAD blog likes iRooster. So does Amber from TechTV. Joe likes my new icon for iRooster. Brian digs iRooster too, and reminds me that I nee...

Mar 22, 2005
Personal Life

Stef' Silly Survey

My friend Stef filled out this silly collection of information about herself on her LiveJournal and I’m going to do the same. Name: Aaron Brethorst Age: 22 Gender: Male Birthday: July 4 Zodiac: Cancer, duh. Height: 6 feet, thanks. hai...

Mar 21, 2005
Technology

Windows Media Center Edition 2005: Code 13 and 33 Errors

I just wanted to take a minute to blog this so that anyone else who gets stuck by it doesn’t need to go through all of the rigamarole I did to solve it. If you run into issues with synchronizing your TV program guide in Windows Media Center 2005,...

Mar 20, 2005
Miscellaneous

YT and Chevette

I just found a fascinating personal account of being a bike messenger over on Kuro5hin. Well worth the read. It’s also good to know that there are certain things that would be undeniably cool to do, but for which I will never have the chops.