This Week on the Internet

The next must have item from apple… the ipad

b0w1e — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:57:51 +0000

iPad: Most advanced technology in a magical and revolutionary device!
The best way to experience the web, email, photos, and video. Hands down.

Imagine being able to page through websites, write an email, flick through photos, or watch a movie. All on a big, beautiful, Multi-Touch screen. With just the touch of a finger.

It’s hard to believe we could fit so many great ideas into something so thin.

iPad has a 9.7-inch, LED-backlit, IPS display, with a remarkably precise Multi-Touch screen. And yet, at just 1.5 lbs, and 0.5 inches thin, it’s easy to carry and use anywhere.

140,000 apps at your fingertips.
From day one.

Right now, iPad can run almost 140,000 of the apps on the App Store. It can even run the apps you’ve already downloaded for your iPhone or iPod touch.
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After Dark Flying Toasters Screen Saver

b0w1e — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:49:02 +0000

Berkeley Systems released After Dark a screensaver modules included, the most famous is the iconic Flying Toasters which featured 1940s-style chrome toasters sporting bird-like wings, flying across the screen with pieces of toast. A slider enabled users to adjust the toast’s darkness and an updated Flying Toasters Pro module added a choice of music: Richard Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyries or a flying toaster anthem with optional karaoke lyrics. Yet another version called Flying Toasters! added bagels and pastries, baby toasters, and more elaborate toaster animation. A 3D version of the toasters featuring swarms of toasters with plane wings, rather than bird wings.
1989 screen savers!

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J-E-T-S: Just End The Season

b0w1e — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:36:37 +0000

Scott Paparcuri Live:
How Does This Affect Me?
J-E-T-S: Just End The Season. : Just End The Season.
Why do J-E-T-S fans spell the word JETS. To prove that he can. Typical
Jet fan: A 34 year old volunteer fireman lives with his parents. He
works at a deli while he is waiting for the results of the police
test. He drinks! ALOT! Drinking helps him cope with being him. And he
LOVES his J-E-T-S!

I give the Jet fan credit. He certainly is not a front runner. He is
loyal. He is passionate. He is also usually overweight, drunk and
angry. “Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life son” – Dean Wormer. But now the J-E-T-S are in the AFC Championship game. Uncharted territory. An incredible run. I give that team credit. But they must lose this week. And they will lose this week. Why? Because that’s what the J-E-T-S do. They lose. And no team is better at it. How does this affect me? Drunken J-E-T-S fans are everywhere. They are loud, sloppy, disruptive and a little scary. A few tips:
1) STAY INSIDE: The J-E-T-S fans are dangerous people to be around right now. They live to drink, co*cblock and fight proudly wearing their uncomfortably tight, autographed Wayne Chrebet jerseys. This week the J-E-T-S fan will be drinking Jack Daniels from his father’s liquor cabinet instead of his usual pint of Georgi. DANGER!
2) DRIVE SAFE: Right now there is a J-E-T-S fan driving drunk without a license in his mother’s car. Be careful out on the roads. Drunk driving arrests have quadrupled in Long Island over the past 3 weeks since the J-E-T-S began their improbable journey.
3) DISCOURAGE ELABORATE PLANS: The J-E-T-S fan is talking about flying to San Diego for the Super Bowl. In this economy? Who needs that kind of financial stress on a roofer’s salary?
4) PARK NEXT TO A SHOPPING CART: Many J-E-T-S fans are calling in sick to work this week.When the J-E-T-S fan doesn’t show up for work, it affects all of us. I have to walk 50 feet to get a shopping cart because “Sully” isn’t there to retrieve them.
5) WATCH YOUR HUSBAND: People who normally chill with the fam on a Sunday are now gathering together to watch the J-E-T-S. All it takes is one drunken J-E-T-S fan in the room and your husband is engulfing funnels of Meister Brau like “Frank the Tank” in Old School. Never Good! Domestic violence calls have risen 1000% in the Tri-State Area
over the past 22 days. J-E-T-S Just End The Season. PLEASE! If for no other reason than to shorten the lines for those of us who buy cold cuts at Stop and Shop.
Scott Paparcuri

Letterhead from the famous

b0w1e — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:44:11 +0000

Letterheady, “an online homage to offline correspondence” that focuses on the design of the letterhead, not content. We’ve rounded up some of their most high-profile letterheads after the jump, including those belonging to The Rolling Stones, Harry Houdini, and Albert Einstein.

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The Sunday Comics on US Postage Stamps

b0w1e — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:19:35 +0000

The United States Postal Service recently announced its stamps of 2010, including one particular set that I think will be of interest to you all: The Sunday Funnies Collection! Based on popular newspaper comic strips, the series will include stamps involving Archie, Garfield, Dennis the Menace, the cast of “Beetle Bailey,” and Calvin and Hobbes!
The stamps go on sale in July.
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Wild Lego art creations

b0w1e — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:36:54 +0000

Lego creations from regular lego sets.

Simpsons intro Lego style.

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Happy New Year 2010! Dick Clarks Rockin’ Eve

b0w1e — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:05:53 +0000

“Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2010″ will air on ABC at 10 p.m. (ET). Clark has traditionally hosted this televised event from New York City’s (NYC) Times Square, but now makes brief appearances due to his health. Seacrest has taken on the role as host the past few years, and this year will be joined by Melissa Rycroft (of “The Bachelor” and “Dancing with the Stars” fame). Fergie, of the Black Eyed Peas, will also host from Las Vegas. Performances include the Black Eyed Peas, Jennifer Lopez, Daughtry, Selena Gomez, Justin Bieber, and Robin Thicke.

New Years Eve in New York City -
Times Square, Roseland Ballroom or on Mars. Check out some great places – go out – have fun – celebrate and have a Happy New Year!
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Festivus,The Holiday For The Rest Of Us!

b0w1e — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:36:52 +0000

In addition to Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa, there are other celebrations that are honored during the holiday season.The Winter Solstice occurs on December 21 each year in the Northern Hemisphere. First observed in many cultures as a pagan ritual in many cultures, this date has its auspicious roots in commemorating the longest night of the year, and the return of the sun caused by the revolution of the earth’s tilted axis.

But there is no holiday celebration that quite rivals Festivus, which originated and forgotten in Roman times until revived by a Seinfeld TV episode in 1997.

Passed down throughout the ages, from raising hell on the streets of Rome 1000s of years ago, to the cantankerous Costanza household in New York City, this quirky holiday has been popularized once again.

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How to split an apple with one finger

b0w1e — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:13:32 +0000

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Attack on Pearl Harbor: 68 years‎ ago today

b0w1e — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:57:03 +0000

As Americans ponder President Barack Obama’s strategy in sending up to another 35000 troops to Afghanistan, we should pause to remember Pearl Harbor.

The surprise was complete. The attacking planes came in two waves; the first hit its target at 7:53 AM, the second at 8:55. By 9:55 it was all over. By 1:00 PM the carriers that launched the planes from 274 miles off the coast of Oahu were heading back to Japan.

Behind them they left chaos, 2,403 dead, 188 destroyed planes and a crippled Pacific Fleet that included 8 damaged or destroyed battleships

The late President Franklin Delano Roosevelt captured the American sentiment after Pearl Harbor in his famous declaration of war speech in which he called Dec. 7, 1941: “A date that will live in infamy.”

Poster commemorating
the attack, 1942

Pearl Harbor