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Play Flash Arcade - Epsilon

2008-06-01T14:33:00.000-07:00

Play Flash Arcade - Epsilon: "Portal-like game which is very challenging, and features a professional level of polish."

Great Run and Gun Flash Game - Thing-Thing 4

2008-05-18T09:00:00.000-07:00

Great Run and Gun Flash Game - Thing-Thing 4

5MB Hard Disk in 1956

2006-12-28T16:14:00.000-08:00

5MB Hard Disk in 1956
Its a hard disk in 1956.... The Volume and Size of 5MB memory storage in 1956. In September 1956 IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the first computer with a hard disk drive (HDD). The HDD weighed over a ton and stored 5MB of data. Let us start appreciating your 4 GB jump drive!

5MB Hard Disk in 1956 - Its a hard disk in 1956.... The Volume and Size of 5MB memory storage in 1956. In September 1956 IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the first computer with a hard disk drive (HDD). The HDD weighed over a ton and stored 5MB of data. Let us start appreciating your 4 GB jump drive!

Top 10 Dumbest Online Business Ideas That Made It Big Time.

2006-12-28T11:48:00.000-08:00

Top 10 Dumbest Online Business Ideas That Made It Big Time.

1. Million Dollar Homepage

1000000 pixels, charge a dollar per pixel – that’s perhaps the dumbest idea for online business anyone could have possible come up with. Still, Alex Tew, a 21-year-old who came up with the idea, is now a millionaire.

2. SantaMail

Ok, how’s that for a brilliant idea. Get a postal address at North Pole, Alaska, pretend you are Santa Claus and charge parents 10 bucks for every letter you send to their kids? Well, Byron Reese sent over 200000 letters since the start of the business in 2001, which makes him a couple million dollars richer.

3. Doggles

Create goggles for dogs and sell them online? Boy, this IS the dumbest idea for a business. How in the world did they manage to become millionaires and have shops all over the world with that one? Beyond me.

4. LaserMonks

LaserMonks.com is a for-profit subsidiary of the Cistercian Abbey of Our Lady of Spring Bank, an eight-monk monastery in the hills of Monroe County, 90 miles northwest of Madison. Yeah, real monks refilling your cartridges. Hallelujah! Their 2005 sales were $2.5 million! Praise the Lord.

5. AntennaBalls

You can’t sell antenna ball online. There is no way. And surely it wouldn’t make you rich. But this is exactly what Jason Wall did, and now he is now a millionaire.

6. FitDeck

Create a deck of cards featuring exercise routines, and sell it online for $18.95. Sounds like a disaster idea to me. But former Navy SEAL and fitness instructor Phil Black reported last year sales of $4.7 million. Surely beats what military pays.

7. PositivesDating.Com

How would you like to go on a date with an HIV positive person? Paul Graves and Brandon Koechlin thought that someone would, so they created a dating site for HIV positive folks last year. Projected 2006 sales are $110,000, and the two hope to have 50,000 members by their two-year mark.

8. Designer Diaper Bags

Christie Rein was tired of carrying diapers around in a freezer bag. The 34-year-old mother of three found herself constantly stuffing diapers for her infant son into freezer bags to keep them from getting scrunched up in her purse. Rein wanted something that was compact, sleek and stylish, so in November 2004, she sat down with her husband, Marcus, who helped her design a custom diaper bag that's big enough to hold a travel pack of wipes and two to four diapers. With more than $180,000 in sales for 2005, Christie's company, Diapees & Wipees, has bags in 22 different styles, available online and in 120 boutiques across the globe for $14.99.

9. TruGamerz

Faux-suede padded covers for game controllers and gel thumb pads for analog joysticks? No one will buy that. Forget it. The product proved to be so popular, it got picked up by Target.com and Walmart.com and annual sales new exceed half a million dollars.

10. Lucky Wishbone Co.

Fake wishbones. Now, this stupid idea is just destined to flop. Who in the world needs FAKE PLASTIC wishbones? A lot of people, it turns out. Now producing 30,000 wishbones daily (they retail for 3 bucks a pop) Ken Ahroni, the company founder, expects 2006 sales to reach $1 million.

11. To see other businesses that have not made the top 10 list but came pretty close, visit Uncommon Business Blog

P.S. You might want to read these books about unusual business ideas as well

Startups That Work: Surprising Research on What Makes or Breaks a New Company

Start Your Own Business for $1,000 or Less

The 100 Best Businesses to Start When You Don't Want to Work Hard Anymore

The Toy and Game Inventor's Handbook

Getting Rich in Your Underwear: How to Start and Run a Profitable Home-Based Business

External Source: http://weirdtechnewshub.blogspot.com/

Xbox Live Servers Down

2006-12-27T22:21:00.000-08:00

Here are the details known so far.

This outage is affecting ALL XBox Live subscribers, on both consoles
It affects ALL games
You can still connect and download from the market place, but no gaming.
It is WORLD WIDE.
Members of the support team and XBox Live Dev team have supposedly gotten the call to get to work, because they have a BIG problem.
THE XBOX LIVE SUPPORT TEAM IS AWARE OF THE PROBLEM. THEY DO NOT WANT YOUR CALL, THEY KNOW ALREADY!!!

Some rumors I have heard so far are:

A Virus has affected the servers
A major power outage has affected the servers

We hope to have more information about this soon. We will let you know what we know.

taken from www.xbox.com FORUMS

Twisted Sister Video - Oh Come All Ye Faithful

2006-12-27T19:33:00.000-08:00

A video from the new Twisted Sister CD, Oh Come All Ye Faithful.

Watch the Entire Victoria's Secret Fashion Show

2006-12-27T19:24:00.000-08:00

If you missed the angels strutting their stuff on the runway, you don't have to wait until next year to see the action again. Watch all the angels and Justin Timberlake at the VICTORIA'S SECRET FASHION SHOW.

External Link: Victoria's Secret Model Show

Watch hundreds of FREE Movies and TV Shows

2006-12-27T19:04:00.000-08:00

On a site called yourtvlinks you can now watch hundreds of tv shows, anime, and hundreds of movies free and easily. At yourtvlinks the site may look sloppy but it includes a lot of content.
Rush on over to it now.

External Source: http://yourtvlinks.com/

All bets off as casino refuses to pay jackpot

2006-12-27T18:54:00.001-08:00

Two men from Manitoba have hired a lawyer and are threatening legal action after a Winnipeg casino refused to pay out more than $209,000 in slot-machine winnings.

The men were playing a computerized version of Keno last week when they matched all five numbers on the screen.

The machine said the win was worth a jackpot of $209,716.40. The casino said it was a software error.

"It's our position that it's not a mistake that my clients should be paying for, if it was a mistake," lawyer Josh Weinstein told CBC Radio on Tuesday. "We don't have results of independent testing."

The two men, who have asked not to be identified, were playing a nickel machine that requires matching a small set of numbers with another group of numbers randomly generated by the machine's software.

Weinstein says messages on the machine indicated that matching all five numbers would pay out the equivalent of more than four million nickels.

But the Manitoba Lotteries Corp. says that in some cases, a machine's software can make serious errors. It says nickel machines normally don't pay out more than $3,000.

"This type of malfunction is very rare and it's unfortunate that the machine was being played and it malfunctioned like it did," said Susan Olynik, a vice-president with the corporation.

Olynik said American experts are investigating to see whether there are software errors. The machine involved has been in service for three years and had its software updated last year, officials said. It receives regular maintenance every three to four months.

Corporation in negotiations with men

Weinstein says the screen his clients were playing on showed no warning about a maximum payout.

"My clients saw what the payout was. As they were playing, they saw what five numbers would have gotten someone. It's not disputed that it was on the screen."

But Olynik said the slot machines have a sticker on them advising players that a "malfunction" voids all winnings.

"Discussions with the customer and Manitoba Lotteries are private at this point, but we are meeting with the customer and we are taking a review of the situation," Olynik said. She would not say if they have been offered a lesser prize.

There have been similar cases.

In 2005, a man from Virginia won more than $11 million US at a slot machine on a reserve in Oklahoma, but was told it was a software error, says the Canadian Press.

He settled for a $1,199 US payout.

External Source: http://www.cbc.ca

Great Firefox ad

2006-12-27T18:45:00.002-08:00

WOW, this is a cool FF ad, no?