2006 May Archive at Grant Gochnauer - Blog : Technology : Foundation

Monthly Archive for May, 2006

Memorial Day YouTube Roundup

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on May 28, 2006

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You’ve all heard of casual Fridays right? This gives Fridays a new casual meaning!

Car flips over on the freeway while being chased by cop

This is PRICELESS. President Bush talking about cracking down on illegal immigrants as illegals are jumping the fence in the background

This guy is AWESOME. It’s the evolution of dance

Gay guy climbs Mt. Everest, I mean blind. News reporter really screws this one up

Real life video game - parody of Final Fantasy. These guys are REAL nerds

OK, this gives a new meaning to nerd dorm room at MIT but damn, it’s SO COOL

Ever seen an Ashton Marton fly because it’s going so fast? Now you can

Saturday Distractions

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on May 27, 2006

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New Motorola Q phone is rated: Excellent

Firefox 2.0 Alpha 3 released, reviewed

Interactive Flash Human history timeline
This is DAMN cool. I highly suggest everyone take a look at this.

Virtual Sphere Computer Interface
You get inside a large sphere and walk around inside of it as you appear to be walking in the actual computer simulation. Very neat!

Friday Roundup

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on May 26, 2006

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Open Source Databases are taking on Oracle

Cloaking device is in the works.. For real!

Sweet Domino effect with the game Oblivion

Why the NSA phone spying is bad — A former analyst looks at the agency’s current controversyVideo guided tour of Vista beta 2 by Vista programmers — Get a look at more detail

Conroe @ 2.93Ghz Core Duo 2 Extreme — This one SWEET lookin CPU

Thursday News

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on May 25, 2006

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Post an article on your blog about your school, get expelled. Crazy
"The district is going to take away the student's education for exercising his freedom of speech," said attorney Carl Buck.

NVIDIA to release fastest single card solution: 7950GX2
the card contains two 7900 GTX GPUs each clocked at 500MHz. There's 1GB of GDDR 3 SDRAM - 512MB per core, presumably - on board clocked to 600MHz (1.2GHz effective). MORE DETAILS HERE
NVIDIA x86 and x64 drivers for Vista beta 2 and nforce drivers

No loyalty for teens for the sites they visit

Smackbook and MacSaber — uses for your Mac motion sensor
Make your own Smackbook with these instructions

Highlight: Reverse AJAX with DWR

Adium getting voice and video chat (thanks to Google summer of Code)

Adobe offers a sneak peak into InDesign CS3 and here

NASA develops cool invisibile infrared light detector

Microsoft to make their own JPG competitor — WMP (Windows Media Photo)

Lizzy visits Botanical Gardens

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on May 22, 2006

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Two of my best friends, Charles and Tammy Navarro, came up with their 6 month old baby girl this weekend. We took lizzy on a stroll through the botanical gardens and got a few good pictures. Check out the album!

Here are just a few samples:

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