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  • Been there, done that, now you can get the t-shirt!

    As a new member of the Red Ring of Death club, I found this to be amusing. A company called Split Reason has gone and slapped that bad boy on a t-shirt and paired it with a quote from the computer in 2001. Of course, I’m twisted enough that my first thought was that I should buy one and give it to my wife.

    And you’ve gotta love the explanation they give for the Red Ring of Death: “If you’re not careful, your 360 may jettison you out an air-lock. The red ring of death is just the first sign that something has gone terribly wrong and not only will you not be playing any games, your 360 may rebel and simply kill you.”

  • Dear iPod

    Dear iPod,

    Why you got to be hatin’? Ours has been such a torrid affair, and while I understand that you make a living being all closed format and crap, I need more, seriously, I just want to rock my Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) encoded songs… maybe a little Ogg Vorbis on the side. Where’s the love, iPod? Where is the love?!

    I hate to do this do you, but I have have to install a third party boot loader on you. I just can’t live like this anymore. You see, Rockbox lets me play all sorts of codecs, even that accursed WMA, which I stupidly encoded so much of my music in when I was younger. Plus, I can even play Doom! Now that’s what I’m talking about. It actually gives me control over how I listen to my music, and with countless plug-ins I can do anything from install a Game Boy emulator to play some Pong.

    It’s over iPod. Your firmware is dead to me, Rockbox is the one for me now.
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  • Thygeson’s Punctate Keratitis

    Impressive sounding, isn’t it? And I have it. Have had it rather…it’s a chronic problem I’ve been dealing with for the past few years. Thygeson’s keratitis amounts to small scratches on the cornea of my eye. I found a few other definitions that sound far more impressive though. Such as:

    Thygeson’s disease is an eye condition named after Phillips Thygeson, an American physician born in 1903. It is now more commonly known as punctate epithelial keratitis or superficial punctate keratitis. It is a type of inflammation of the cornea.

    Epithelial?! I am going to make it my mission to use that word in a sentence this week… right after I find out what it means. Oh, but there’s more!

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  • That hurts…

    As of the time I’m writing this, 46.24% of visitors who happen upon Hijinks Inc. don’t ever come back. That’s right. Good old Google Analytics had that bit of happy news waiting for me when I logged in today.

    Those of you who actually came back, what brought you back? Those of you were are considering leaving at this very moment, what types of posts would bring you back on a regular basis?

  • Facebook could be the biggest IPO since Google

    Facebook LogoRemember when Blackstone (NYSE: BX) was touted as “the biggest IPO since Google” and it’s been falling every since it’s debut, and VMWare (NYSE: VMW) turned out to be a the hot item instead? Good times those were. And now we can’t go a day without hearing some rumor of Facebook going public, or being bought out (which isn’t likely). Now there is an IPO I would cash in on, I missed out a Google being broke at the time, but that will not (hopefully) be the case if Facebook goes public.

    Facebook is currently well on it’s way to 60 million users by the end of this year and has also recently received bona fide status as a social phenomenon in the form of a lawsuit by two of Mark Zuckerburg’s former classmates, claiming he stole their idea. They are suing him for fraud, copyright infringement and misappropriation of trade secrets… brilliant! Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss the twin brothers behind the lawsuit are the founders of the lesser known social networking site ConnectU.

    Lawsuit aside, Facebook is paving the way for potentially amazing performance if/when it goes public. Another rival of Facebook, Classmates.com is readying for its own IPO which may be the push other social networking sites need to get them to go public.