Over on my candy site, I managed to get over $1200 worth of candy to giveaway. Drop by, sign up and you might win some free candy (and Tshirts, hats, etc). Be sure and try out the Candy Scavenger Hunt which everyone is saying is lots of fun.
[tags]candy, sweets, free, freebie, freebies, contest, giveaway, scavenger hunt[/tags]
Today is International Talk Like A Pirate Day so “shiver me timbers”, “swab the deck”, and “avast ye mateys”! (I don’t know much pirate talk).
[tags]geek, pirate, pirates[/tags]
A friend and I have started a new site called Rdiculous. It’s a site that catalogs the numerous companies/websites that have names like Flickr (missing a letter before the final R). Our term for these sites is “rdiculous”. The site aims to poke a bit of fun at the sites while attempting to catalog them all (and there are a BUNCH). Take a look.
[tags]geek, web2.0, web 2.0, website, websites, domain names, ajax, social[/tags]
According to the NPR website, A European spacecraft will end its mission Saturday night with a crash landing on the moon. The little spacecraft, called SMART-1, was launched in 2003. And it made it all the way to the moon on solar power and an ion drive.
SMART-1, which has been orbiting lower and lower around the moon, will soon crash onto the surface of the moon. Time of impact should be around about 10:40 p.m. Saturday, Pacific time. The flash of the collision may be visible from some parts of the United States.
(summarized from this article at NPR.org NPR)
How cool is that?
[tags]geek, space, astronomy, moon, spaceship, crash[/tags]
UPDATE: I received an email from Popgadget and a linkback has been added to their post.
It really irks me when this happens. I’ve had a few people link to my post about Beer-flavored gummies and they were kind enough to link back to my site. For that, I thank those sites.
Now, Popgadget has blatantly ripped me off. They used the same image (I found that image on ebay – notice the logo in the botton right), the image is the exact same size, they linked to the same site I did, and they essentially just rewrote what I wrote. All of this with no link back to me.
You be the judge:
My original post on 7/19/2006
Popgadget’s post today, 9/1/2006
Am I crazy or is that a blatant rip? You would think that a site as big as Popgadget (ranked 620 on Technorati) would have some ethics. Guess not. I even left a comment asking about this and of course it was moderated.
[tags]geek, theft, popgadget, blog, blogs, blogging[/tags]