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Remember when we showed you the USB Pole Dancer that was notable because it got ass-canned from Marks & Spencer? It’s actually available now online from Boys Stuff over in the UK.
You can order the 8-inch gyrating sex-machine with an expected delivery date of 12/20, which is just in time for wrapping to give to old grandma for Christmas.
Popularity: 27% [?]
According to these stats across over 4,000 websites, one in four web users browses with Firefox.
These statistics aggregated across all active websites tracked by W3Counter. It was last generated on December 17, 2006 based on an analysis of 6,974,802 distinct visits across 4,018 websites.
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Our keyboard is a gross pile of chips, cat hair and coffee spills topped by a neatly organized layer of buttons. We could use the Sucky Ducky.
Plug him into your USB and a simple on/off switch toggles moderate suction power. The naturally slim bill shape makes for an easy fit between the keys, as if God intended ducks to one day suck crap out of your keyboard. About $12 if you can translate your way through the site.
Product Page [via tokyomango]
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Everybody knows the beloved sand timer that has been with mankind for quite some time now, but the digital age has caught up with it at last. From being a “Please Wait” icon in the Windows operating system, it is now a full-fledged corporeal home appliance that comes in handy as a 100 minute countdown timer. In addition, it doubles up as a 24-hour clock when the timer function is not activated. Instead of using fine sand from the best beaches around the world, the Digital Sand Timer represents the flow of time with a whole bunch of pixels. This AAA battery-powered device can be picked up from Brookstone for $17.95.
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REVIEW After watching Apple and its ubiquitous iPod dominate the digital music industry largely from the sidelines, Microsoft has decide to tackle the market leader head on with the introduction of the Zune. And the Zune player takes a lot of cues from the iPod.
Microsoft learned the hard way that the top-down symbiotic relationship between the iTunes and iPod and its benefits are what made Apple so successful. Additionally, it understood the simplicity of the device itself and its user interface were of critical importance.
[Via BetaNews | Carry on reading]
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TwinMOS Technologies have developed a device that will take Flash Drives to a whole new dimension.
The U3 Smart Drive not only acts as a normal Flash Storage Device but also doubles as a Mobile Profile Device.
Essentially, this means that aside from storing your normal day-to-day data, it also allows you to transport your desktop, profile and OS settings as well. An added feature is the ability to carry software around with you as well.
So, you install your software, set up your desktop, make your OS configurations/settings/preferences and off you go. Every machine that you connect the device to will automatically adjust itself accordingly and the software you’ve installed will be accessible from anywhere, even those machines that haven’t had it installed on.
Unfortunately, the current maximum size is 1Gb, which is laughable if you’re planning on installing software as well, but TwinMOS advise that they are hoping to multiply that number by 100 by the end of the year.
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An 18-year-old North Carolina man, suspected of stealing two PlayStation 3 consoles, was shot dead by police executing a search warrant at his residence.
Peyton Strickland was gunned down in his house by deputies as he answered the door, the Wilmington Star News reports.
He was unarmed, according to witnesses. University of North Carolina police had investigated the alleged robbery, and asked the Hanover County Sheriff’s Department to assist in serving the warrant. It was a sheriff’s deputy, not a university officer, who killed the young man. The trigger-happy deputy also shot dead Strickland’s dog for good measure.
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With this new service being launched, it just increases our ever-mounting dislike of MySpace. With Fakeyourspace you basicly buy friends who will comment on your profile every now and again. For only $.99 a month, you basicly get two comments a week from your new friend.
All of the available friends are semi-hot people with very little clothing. It is also quite evident that most of these “friends” are obvious fakes with very fake pictures. So all in all, this is just silly - although we’ll take nothing away from the creators as this could yet prove to be very profitable for them. The bottomline is that all the MySpace kiddies want to be popular and this is an easy and affordable way of doing it.
But, to us, this is also where MySpace absolutely fails in its mission (or is some’s viewpoints, where it thrives like hell). To me, the original idea of MySpace was to create personal profiles to use for interacting with real friends. If MySpace has become all about popularity, then certainly the interaction between friends has been lost? Maybe I’m being a silly little boy without my own MySpace, but this is just stupid.
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Jon Waraas, the director of Developer Hut Inc, took some time out of his busy schedule to drop the BasementGuru 20 Questions… Below he shares his knowledge on a variety of webmaster related topics and talks about the websites in his network.
Q: Can you give us a short introduction to yourself?
My name is Jon Waraas. I am nineteen years of age and currently work for myself as a dot com entrepreneur. I have been in the online scene for about five years now. I own and run Developer Hut, Inc; which is a online network/ad network.
Q: When did you create your first website and what was it - What interested you in online media?
I got into the online world on accident. I am not a computer geek at all. I actually started developing websites when I was 15 years old. I owned a skateboarding company that manufactured skateboarding rails for people. I wanted to sell on ebay and such so I tried making a website for my stupid little skateboard rails
My very first website was customskateboarding.com, and it was originally hosted on tripod.com, haha. I got addicted to working on that website! I didn’t have a computer back then, so I had to work on it at the library, so I would go to the library 6 days a week for like 5 hours a day.
I wasn’t rich back then, I could barley afford the $6 a month hosting. But working on websites was the funniest thing ever for me to do. I had that website for a few years. After I put adsense on that site and started making some money off of it, I realized that this is what I wanted to do for my career.
Q: Do you have a network of websites? Tell us more about the websites in the network.
Yes. I own Developer Hut, Inc. My network consists of about 30 websites. Most websites are based on MySpace.Com, but I also have some blogs, some forums, some webmaster websites, etc.
Popularity: 7% [?]
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