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Tuesday, July 11, 2006

July 2006

7/31/06

Your Monday Photo Shoot: On Your Porch/Patio

7/31/06

Your August Weekend Assignments

7/31/06

The Best Basketball Scam Ever

7/31/06

7/31/06

Monday Morning Links

7/30/06

Reverse Memory... Uh, What Was I Saying?

7/30/06

Building a Body Farm

7/29/06

Here's Where the Story Ends

7/29/06

7/28/06

7/28/06

Your Friday Music: Wolfmother

7/28/06

Every Day I Write The Link

7/28/06

7/28/06

One Stop Shopping For Online Museums

7/27/06

Journal Alerts Down

7/27/06

Weekend Assignment #122: Suggest a Weekend Assignment!

7/27/06

Yawning and Stretching

7/27/06

A Laptop in the Sun

7/27/06

Me and You and a Link Named Boo

7/27/06

The Digital Analogue

7/26/06

The Point at Which My Untoward Love of Bacon Abandons Me

7/26/06

Your Wednesday Author Interview: Ellen Kushner

7/26/06

Another AOL Journals Update on the Way

7/26/06

Finally, A Good Use For Spam

7/26/06

The Incredible, Edible Link

7/25/06

A Jittery Question

7/25/06

People Still Not Getting That Whole "Blog" Thing, No. 5,475

7/25/06

What The World Needs Now Are Links, Sweet Links

7/25/06

Turning Fat Into Muscle -- The Scientific Way

7/25/06

It's Legal, But You Don't Want to Smoke It

7/24/06

Your Monday Photo Shoot: Yawn!

7/24/06

7/24/06

The Crazy Mixed-Up Links of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

7/24/06

7/24/06

7/23/06

Drive Yourself Batty

7/23/06

A Small Observation

7/22/06

7/22/06

An Instructional Picture for Potential Akita Owners

7/21/06

Your Friday Music: Dashboard Confessional

7/21/06

I've Got the World On a String

7/21/06

Adding to My "People Who Need to Be Beaten" List

7/21/06

A Moment of Inside Blase-ness

7/21/06

A Shoutout to All The Simpsons Obsessives

7/20/06

Weekend Assignment #121: This One Goes To Eleven!

7/20/06

A Negative Vibe

7/20/06

7/20/06

7/20/06

It Is a Large Online Repository of Questions Asked on "Jeopardy!"

7/19/06

Write Your Own Tombstone

7/19/06

Yet Another Music List to Argue About

7/19/06

Zapping Your Way to Looking Good

7/19/06

Science Picks You Up By the Lapels and Smacks You Around

7/19/06

When Geekdoms Collide!

7/18/06

So, How Bad is the Storm?

7/18/06

Even More Random Linkery

7/18/06

Testing for Telepathy

7/18/06

Getting the Geekery Over With Early on a Tuesday Morning

7/18/06

A Moment of Silence

7/17/06

Your Monday Photo Shoot: Life in Negative

7/17/06

This is Your Pet. This is Your Pet on Google.

7/17/06

Vote! Win Money!

7/17/06

7/17/06

Linky Linky Linky

7/16/06

This is Your Brain on Politics

7/16/06

You Thought Your Teenage Years Were Tough

7/15/06

The Cat Came Back!

7/15/06

Geeks Got There First

7/14/06

Your Friday Music: Muse

7/14/06

Rainbows Vs. Lightning!

7/14/06

The Rise of City States?

7/14/06

7/14/06

The Stars of Skies Past

7/13/06

7/13/06

Weekend Assignment #120: Searching for Pets

7/13/06

7/13/06

Because I Feel That You Need a Truly Random Collection of Links

7/13/06

I'll Drink to That

7/13/06

Join the CarnivAOL

7/12/06

Your Wednesday Author Interview: Alan DeNiro

7/12/06

Gas Station Secrets

7/12/06

White House Salaries

7/12/06

The Case of the Unspeakably Stinky Dog

7/12/06

Why I Like This Job

7/11/06

Finally, an Entry Today Not Related to Tech Geekery

7/11/06

Bad Tech! Bad!

7/11/06

The Phishers Keep Getting Phishier

7/11/06

7/11/06

Behold the Power of the Blog!

7/10/06

Your Monday Photo Shoot: The Life Aquatic

7/10/06

7/10/06

Because How Can You Not Like the Word "Uvulopalatopharyngoplasty"

7/10/06

Trip Pictures, Not My Own

7/10/06

The Journey is NOT the Destination

7/9/06

A Question of Intense Metaphysical Import

7/9/06

Boys on the Side

7/8/06

Christopher Walken IS Han Solo

7/8/06

7/7/06

Does He Have His Own Theme Song?

7/7/06

Here in Boston; Not a Disembodied Floating Head

7/6/06

Weekend Assignment #119: Boston!

7/6/06

bugsbugsbugs bugsbugsbugs bugsbugsbugs bugsbugsbugs bugsbugsbugs

7/6/06

When Scientists Blog!

7/6/06

7/5/06

Dirty Man Secrets!

7/5/06

When the Cat Falls Off the Wagon (And Into the Toilet)

7/5/06

And Now, a Rare Sports-Related Entry

7/5/06

7/5/06

Everyone Still Have Their Fingers?

7/4/06

Speaking of Fireworks

7/4/06

7/3/06

Your Monday Photo Shoot: A Bug's Eye View

7/3/06

July 4 Memories

7/3/06

Old Time Music, Today

7/2/06

A Plug for a Plug-In

7/2/06

Canada Day Sunset

7/1/06

Happy Canada Day!

7/1/06

« July 2006 Archive

Tuesday, July 11, 2006
12:49:00 PM EDT
Hearing All She Wants to Do is Dance -- Don Henley

Bad Tech! Bad!

CNet loves the tech, and loves to snark, so when it has a chance to combine the two, look out! For example, this collection of The 10 Worst Technologies of Q2 2006 (that would be from about April through the end of June), in which CNet excoriates the Nintendo Wii, an "intelligent" remote that isn't, and, of course, Segway Polo:

Hmm, if only there were a way to combine the dorkiness of riding a Segway with the snobbery of a polo match.

Indeed. That one comes with video, incidentally. Anyway, the whole list is fun; makes us look forward to the Q3 list, some time in October.

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#1 Comment from monponsett
7/12/06 8:44 AM | Permalink

I like where they were self-conscious enough to point out that certain tech gadgets (tiny cell phones, etc...) are likely to get you beaten up by real men (bikers, truckers, longshoremen).