Archive for August, 2006
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Monday, August 21st, 2006A reminder to all you Business Unusual readers about the 100Bloggers, Heat of Summer Contest (see here for rules and prizes). If you’ve missed out on the fun, never fret, there is another week to submit nominees for all three categories. Each category is hosted at a different website (listed below) and the nominations go [...]
Challenge Takes ‘The Economist’ by ‘Steorn’
Sunday, August 20th, 2006
Sometimes a story comes along that everyone wants to believe, and this is such a time. Steorn claims to have developed a system of magnitism that delivers a “perpetual motion” machine. They have thrown down the gauntlet and await all challengers to prove or disprove their claim.
Is the technology real? Only time will tell, [...]
Muni WiFi Still Doesn’t Work
Sunday, August 20th, 2006Steve Titch suffers from the same ailment I suffer from when we talk about Muni WiFi. Now the evidence is in on the ONE project heralded as the poster child for Muni WiFi for some time. It seems that the smoke and mirrors have dropped and the picture is clearing up, and it’s not as [...]
Lifehacker, the Productivity and Software Guide
Thursday, August 17th, 2006Great news from Google that I caught at Lifehacker this evening. I tried to get into the program some time back, but it had already closed for sign-ups.
I registered for notification when it opened up, so now, I will wait. My curiosity over how long that will take is greater than the need to access [...]
Google’s Gift: Free WiFi in Mountain View
Thursday, August 17th, 2006Free WiFi from Google is up and running in Mountain View, CA. With speeds up to 1Mbs, this will provide a great service for visitors and residents as well. If you go through Mountain View, let us know how it works. Fun stuff!
MercuryNews.com | 08/14/2006 | Google’s gift
Google is about to give its hometown a [...]
It’s Cooling Down!
Thursday, August 17th, 2006At Business Unusual, it’s cooling down from this hot summer and the nominations are starting to come in here, also, and a chill (bbrrr) is spreading throughout the neighborhood. In the “Best Use of Colorful Adjectives” the really cool category we have three, so far, with more on the horizon.
At Business Unusual, we’ll even go [...]
links for 2006-08-17
Thursday, August 17th, 2006
Your new solar system: 12 planets, maybe even 24
new planets proposed in our solar system. something new for school kids to learn is always fun.
(tags: space science)
Google Says It Has No Plans for National Wi-Fi Service
no plans … isn’t that what they said about several other ‘betas’ they are running?
(tags: google technology wifi)
AOL looking for [...]
links for 2006-08-13
Sunday, August 13th, 2006
Texan flushed with pride over toilet seat collection
bigger and better in texas, and we’re proud of it!
(tags: funny)
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links for 2006-08-12
Saturday, August 12th, 2006
Polite Demotion Planned for Planet Pluto
polite demotion? well, as long as it’s not getting fired!
(tags: space planets)
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Heat of Summer Blog Carnival Contest
Friday, August 11th, 2006Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Come One Come All
It’s time to visit the Summer Carnival!
With so much heat baking most of the northern hemisphere, Phil, Pet, and I decided to cool things down a bit . Blog Carnivals are a wonderful treat here on 100Bloggers, and this one will be no different, even [...]