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'nother wii / Flash game site. looks cool. i'll fire up the ol' Wii this evening and check it out.

http://wiicade.com/Home.aspx

and for the developers out there, this place also provides APIs for accessing all the buttons on the Wiimotes...

http://wiicade.com/api.aspx

No, no, I insist you use this condensed milk instead of soy for this latte

The Really Big Guide To Secret Menu Items - Consumerist:

"Starbucks: Starbucks will make you absolutely anything you want no matter how insane it is, according to our tipster.
'Baristas might try and tell their customers that no, we can't do that with the blenders. This is a lie. Starbucks corporate policy is that the customer is ALWAYS right (even when the request is stupid). If you really insist that you want your iced soy latte blended, the baristas HAVE to do it. If they continue to refuse, ask to speak to a manager and either they'll realize they're about to get in trouble and will fill your request, or the manager will come out and politely tell the barista to make the customer happy.

Absolutely any concoction that you can think of (involving any type of milk, syrup, coffee, etc.) will be made for you. The limits to Starbucks 'secret menu' are merely the limits of your imagination. You can even bring supplements from home and ask the barista to please include that in your drink.' "

read more hidden menu items!
http://consumerist.com/consumer/secret-menu-items/the-really-big-guide-to-secret-menu-items-239708.php

Micro Persuasion: Turn Gmail Into Your Personal Nerve Center

Sweet! Life hacks with gmail...

Micro Persuasion: Turn Gmail Into Your Personal Nerve Center: "This series has several parts...
How to turn Gmail into a massive personal database (Gmail + the Google Toolbar)
How to get real-time news updates in Gmail (Gmail+ Google Talk + Twitter)
How to automatically store your bookmarks in Gmail (Gmail + del.icio.us + Yahoo Alerts)
How to manage Calendar and To-Dos in Gmail (Gmail + Backpack + GCal + GTalk + iMified)
How to blog from Gmail (Gmail + Wordpress/TypePad/Blogger + IMified)"

where did i leave that number...let me check my bacteria

this is friggin' insane!

"A research team said this week it had developed a technology for storing digital data in the DNA of bacteria, which unlike most living organisms can survive for millennia in the right conditions.Each hay bacillus bacterium can store two megabits — the equivalent of 1.6 million Roman letters. The scientists can take out the microscopic implants in a laboratory and read them so they appear as ordinary text."

I suddenly imagine a bunch of people no longer showering to increase their hard drive space. HII-OH!

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=data+bacteria

miniajax.com

miniajax.com, originally uploaded by ku5h.

A showroom of nice looking simple downloadable DHTML and AJAX scripts - friggin' cool

www.miniajax.com

Clusty for Wii

Clusty for Wii, originally uploaded by ku5h.

This site is designed for use with the Nintendo Wii web browser and will only work properly with modern web browsers. You can either use our regular site, Clusty.com, or upgrade your browser to any of the following Windows browsers:

Opera 9.0
Firefox 2.0
Internet Explorer 7.0

http://wii.clusty.com/

about Clusty:
"Clusty is a whole new way to search the web.

Clusty queries several top search engines, combines the results, and generates an ordered list based on comparative ranking. This "metasearch" approach helps raise the best results to the top and push search engine spam to the bottom.

But what really makes Clusty unique is what happens after you search. Instead of delivering millions of search results in one long list, our search engine groups similar results together into clusters. Clusters help you see your search results by topic so you can hone in on exactly what you’re looking for or discover unexpected relationships between items. When was the last time you went to the third or fourth page of the search results? Rather than scrolling through page after page, the clusters help you find results you may have missed or that were buried deep in the ranked list.

And with a name like Clusty, it’s gotta be good!"

JDiskReport

JDiskReport, originally uploaded by ku5h.

If I add SpaceMonger, I need to also add JDiskReport. It's more involved and provides more details, but what's really nice about it is that it's written in Java and will work with OS X and Windows (not sure about 'leeeenix')

"JDiskReport enables you to understand how much space the files and directories consume on your disk drives, and it helps you find obsolete files and folders.
The tool analyses your disk drives and collects several statistics which you can view as overview charts and details tables.

This is ad-free uncrippled no-charge binary multi-platform software that never expires."

SpaceMonger!

SpaceMonger!, originally uploaded by ku5h.

SpaceMonger is a tool for keeping track of the free space on your computer. Each file or folder on a given drive is displayed in a box in the main window whose size is a relative comparison to all the other files in your system. So, for example, if the "Windows" box takes up 90% of the screen, the "C:\Windows" folder and all its sub-folders and files are taking up 90% of your "C:" drive.

http://www.sixty-five.cc/sm/v1x.php

Sun's "datacenter in a box" coming to Des Moines!

Sun's going to be stopping by Des Moines to demo their "datacenter in a box" - Looks interesting. Here's their write-up on it:

"Code-named Project Blackbox, this Sun innovation is the first virtualized datacenter, optimized for extreme energy, space, and performance efficiency. Project Blackbox enables instant-on expansion and rapid deployment while maximizing savings and providing operational flexibility to address two of today's most critical IT issues — soaring energy prices and space constraints. "

(pictures...http://www.sun.com/events/st/photos.jsp)

Registration Info:
Iowa
Des MoinesThe Science Center of Iowa 401 Martin Luther King Jr ParkwayMarch 30, 2007 Register now »

oh man, this is better than the time Loise let me ride the washing machine!

Ruby the Parrot

Ruby the Parrot, originally uploaded by ku5h.

This is a picture of the parrot that Kelly tried to birdnap from her owner while on our trip down to Key Largo.

GET A ROOM!!!

GET A ROOM!!!, originally uploaded by ku5h.

Kelly gettin' "fresh" with Eduardo the dolphin. ...ok, so his name is not "Eduardo" but I thought it sounded funny.

waddup!

hi everyone, we've been super busy so we haven't been able to post any new pictures/vids, but we have a couple hundred more pictures to add to Flickr and several more movies to upload into YouTube.

Today is our last day with Bernie and Tom. We said goodbye to Tom a few minutes ago (some people have to go back to work :-)) Bernie, Kelly, and I are heading off to breakfast in a little bit. We'll be saying "so long" to all the kitties and horses at Worrell Wind Acres and heading out to pick up our rental car this afternoon and driving straight up to Universal Resorts. We decided to skip Disney. We got a much better deal with a 2-day, 2-park, unlimited CityWalk access through Universal.

...ok...i feel hurried 'cause we're leaving soon for bfast - hopefully my post made *some* sense. :-) I hope everyone is well.

Pete & Kelly

Bernie plays the bones

Bernie treated us to some "bones" playing - truly amazing!!

Tom sings, "in the jungle"

Karaoke at the Worrell's! Tom sings, "In the Jungle"!

Florida gators

Florida gators, originally uploaded by ku5h.

weeeee - a gator! this 8ft'er swam up to the airboat while on our wild Everglade airboat adventure.

catch the rest of the pictures at http://flickr.com/photos/ku5h/

our airboat ride in the everglades

Kelly's aunt and uncle treated us to an awesome airboat ride out in the Everglades.

heeryee (hear yea!)

i wonder why my friends haven't nagged me to stopping sending them daily emails about techie rants and web toys. please know, heeryee is dedicated to you.