JBot Mania

My step dad’s machine was doing the most annoying thing - any time you opened a second IE window, either by clicking on a link or even using the Quick Launch shortcut, it would close your other open IE window. Ungodly annoying. How many of us DON’T multitask in IE with multiple windows.

Well, the culprit seems to be Yahoo! Toolbar. Check out this post. Once we uninstalled that, all was well in the world of basic IE browsing.

http://bink.nu/forums/p/5555/10271.aspx

Below is the latest musical collaboration from my workplace - holiday tunes. The winner for Most Obscure (and most painful): Christmas Conga by Cyndi Lauper.

A while back I asked people at work for their Top Three songs. “Top Three” being either their top three favorites or the top three most played on their iPod. Sora did this back at an old job and it was alot of fun.

I ending up offering to pick a winner and give them a $10 Starbucks card in order to encourage submissions. The idea caught on and in the end I made CDs for anyone who wanted them. I took my own creative license with the play order.

Here’s what we ended up with: Read the rest of this entry »

I received a comment from Max Weismann on another post and I think it bears focusing on in its own post:

We have recently made an exciting discovery–three years after writing the wonderfully expanded third edition of How to Read a Book, Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren made a series of thirteen 14-minute videos on the art of reading. The videos were produced by Encyclopaedia Britannica. For reasons unknown, sometime after their original publication, these videos were lost.

When we discovered them and how intrinsically edifying they are, we negotiated an agreement with Encyclopaedia Britannica to be the exclusive worldwide agent to make them available.

For those of you who teach, this is great for the classroom.

I cannot over exaggerate how instructive these programs are–we are so sure that you will agree, if you are not completely satisfied, we will refund your donation.

Please go here to see a clip and learn more:

http://www.thegreatideas.org/HowToReadABook.htm

Coolest Unboxing of a Phone Ever - Video

http://www.maniacworld.com/coolest-unboxing-of-a-phone-ever.html

A list of 40 of the most unique can be found here:
http://www.offbeatearth.com/dont-like-reading-other-uses-for-books/

Amazing use of books…

See more…
http://www.offbeatearth.com/dont-like-reading-other-uses-for-books/

If you’ve been on  the Apple site at all exploring the new iPods, you’ve heard about the Genius playlist. If you’ve updated your iTunes recently you would have seen it too. I decided to try it out.

After a weekend that went from frustration to exasperation to anguish to desperation to something strangely like elation, it was time, yet again, for music to comfort me. I decided that my jumping off point for Genius would be “Madly” by Tristan Prettyman. I thought that the song was relatively upbeat - not all that telling of my mood. Needless to say, I was wrong. Read the rest of this entry »