http://www.geekazine.com For the Geek in all of us. Sat, 04 Jul 2009 21:22:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Were gonna be short on Ramblings since it's another fun filled weekend. Happy Independence Day I am writing this on July 4th, so I shall say it. If you are not in the US, shoot off some fireworks anyway. It's fun - unless you are in a country that doesn't make it ... Reuters reports that a real estate agent who had registered the domain name, thejaylenoshow dot com, violated comedian Jay Leno's "common law" right to his own name, according to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a United Nations agency. The story is here. The agent used the domain ... Scientific Blogging speculates on the role of "dark matter" in the formation of the Milky Way here. It's fascinating. I won't even try to excerpt it. Reuters, citing the Wall Street Journal, reports that Dell is developing a pocket-sized internet device. Read the story here. Here's an excerpt: The gadget would run on Google Inc's Android software, the people told the paper. According to the paper, two people who saw early prototypes described the device as ... And, after the hoop-la dies down, things will just settle back down. Story here. Bing, launched on June 3 but available to some users a few days earlier, took 8.23 percent of U.S. Web searches in June, up from 7.81 percent for Microsoft search just prior to its rollout and ... Summer of Geekazine contest comes to a close - Summer of Podcasts starts right up. New Video intros being made - Wanna help? Where is my Staple Gun - the new studio. Take the Geekazine Podcast Survey Try GoToAssist free for 30 days - No CC needed: GoToAssist.com/techpodcasts. Put ... You might remember the products. You might remember the hype. Then, you are tooling down highway 41 years later and all of a sudden you think to yourself - "Hey, whatever happened to..." Failed ideas. Maybe it was a great idea, but wasn't made right, or design errors brought it down. ... Geekazine is proud to announce a new sponsor on Geekazine and TVazine. Eastbay and Footlocker. We have worked hard in the video area and these guys have stepped up to help us out. Best part though is that YOU get to save on this. We have some special codes you can ... Brought to you by GotoAssist Express - Get a 30 day free trial July 4th, 2008 - The company that used to be called "Ask Jeeves", but is now Ask.com officially announced they acquired the Lexico Publishing Group. The LPG is a company that built a series of reference websites. Most ... Bloomberg reports that Amazon is cutting ties to associates in states that are moving to up the sales tax ante. The story is a little murky, but it appears to involve blog and web ads on third party sites. I think this is what is going on: Say I have a ... Then I fixed it. The new laptop arrived Friday afternoon. I spend Friday afternoon and evening doing basic configuration and Saturday fine-tuning it. It came with Ubuntu 8.10. I made sure it worked; the wireless, the webcam, and everything else worked flawlessly. It did not come with a restoration disk, though ...