April 2006

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All Seeing Screen

I read in a Slashdot article yesterday that Apple has patented the concept of a display that is capable of taking pictures as well as displaying them. The clever idea is to insert thousands of microscopic image sensors in-between the liquid crystal display cells in the screen. Each sensor captures its own small image, but […]

Matrimonial Moneysaving

Weddings are seriously expensive. You could always go to Vegas, but even that involves airfare. Besides I always thought that was kind of cheating. Here are some ways you could save money:

What are the hep cats spoutin’?

A thread over at Ask MetaFilter is enlightening folks on current slang. As a Gen-Xer, I usually find myself pseudo-ironically using “rad” or “awesome” whenever I think something is totally killer. When a friend asked what word college students use now-a-days, I had to admit that I’m officially an out of touch old fogey. I […]

Farmer John

In the break room at work yesterday someone had laid out some movie coupons. Good for three days only, the coupons could be used to see a movie at any Marcus theater for only $3.00. This is an interesting marketing technique by theaters to get movie patrons to come back – as long as they […]