Month: July 2010
Random News Stories From Around The Web With Commentary (7/15/2010)
18th Century Ship Exhumed at World Trade Center Site – So workers found an 18th century ship buried underground? Let me get this straight. Why didn’t they find this in the early 1970s when they dug the foundation on the World Trade Center?
Google Spent $100 Million Defending YouTube Against Viacom – Fuck Viacom and anyone who wants to sue for intellectual property damage these days. First off, Goolgle fully complies with takedown requests, so what the hell is the issue. Half the time I go to watch a Youtube video, it’s pulled down for Christ’s sake. Secondly, Viacom employees probably uploaded copyrighted videos on purpose to plant false evidence. Scumbag company. Wait a sec… $100 million on a lawsuit just to get it dismissed? Jeez! Must be nice when you turn a $3.6 billion profit in 3 months.
I Want this Fucking Thermostat – Is this thing badass, or am I just a geek? Basically you put solar panels on your roof and this thing controls everything, plus you can manage your thermostat and see power usage/ how much power your solar cells generated from anywhere on the internets. My house is facing south and bakes in the sun nonstop from 9am to 5PM, so I roast balls all day if the AC isn’t on. Really, tell the government to pay for me to install this system (they spend money out of control anyway on useless shit, so I might as well get free handouts). I’m green, bitches.
I was going to post more links but then I stopped caring.
Android App Of The Week: City Caller ID
Yes, I know it’s Thursday and I should be doing this Wednesdays. I wrote this at work so I couldn’t get a screenshot off my phone, then I came home and fell asleep. Anyway…
Today’s Android app of the week: City Caller ID. An oldie, but goodie. It’s relatively simple. City Caller ID places the city and state on your incoming call screen sothat you can recognize where a call is originating from.
Not only does it look up area codes, it also looks up the next three digits to narrow it down to a town. This may not be accurate for cell phones, but you get the general idea.
So what stinks about this app? The database isn’t stored on the SD card, so it uses about 3MB even though the app is 100kb or so. I contacted the developer and he said he was going to try to implement it, but got shut down. Still worth the download and install.
This is no longer available on the Android Market because some moron with a software patent threatened legal action against the developer. But I’m awesome and have the APK file for you, so grab it here. (You’ll have to put that on your SD card, go to settings–>applications and check unknown sources, then browse to the file using something like AndroZip or APK Installer and install. Little tricky for the newbies, leave me a comment if you’re confused.
Saturday’s Song of the Week: Stu’s Song
July 17, 2010
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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nH9u_kf-Vc
Yes, I am dead serious. This song has been stuck in my head all week long. As you all know, The Hangover is the shit. I’ve been learning the shit out of it and anyone who lives with me is sick of hearing it. Here, have the sheet music (guitar tabs are included there, if you like guitar better).
P.S – There were numerous occasions last school year where I expected to find a tiger when I woke up the next mor… afternoon. It was my running joke of the year: “where’s the tiger?”
Then you’re shit out of luck.
Song of the week