“As a tribute to one of our favorite TV personalities, the unofficial Billy Mays Caps Lock 1.0 utility has been released. It lets you turn your caps lock key into something far more useful: a Billy Mays key. So, every time you hit Caps Lock, you hear one of Billy Mays' famous phrases.”
- Evan Brown
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This is a lengthy but highly interesting article about the history of video formats on the web and the current disagreement surrounding HTML 5 and the new video tag.
- Evan Brown
“In an address at an 1837 Independence Day celebration at Newburyport, Mass., 6th President John Quincy Adams, son of Pres. John Adams (who helped draft the Declaration), linked the birth of Jesus Christ to that of our country.”
- Evan Brown
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Spent my day off cleaning out a spare room, napping, playing chess with my son, and watching the “Battle of the Andys” Wimbledon semi-final.
The leading cause of death in the U.S. strikes again. Mays’s sudden death is a cautionary tale for all of us to be vigilant about our health.
- Evan Brown
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“Inside you'll find Qualcomm’s MSM7200A proc running Android at 528MHz, 512MB/288MB ROM/RAM, 3.2-inch TFT-LCD with 320 x 480 pixel rez, 900/2100MHz HSPA and Quad-band GSM, trackball, GPS, 802.11b/g WiFi, 3.5mm audio jack, G-sensor, compass, and 5 megapixel auto-focus cam with microSD expansion.” And it supports Flash “out of the box.”
- Evan Brown
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The ability to collaborate on genealogy with other family who may live far away is one of the things I really like about Geni. But there are some careless members of my tree who are constantly messing things up by adding duplicate people or merging profiles with similar names who are not the same person.
- Evan Brown