If you’ve taken your wee ones (or girlfriend) to the Build-a-bear store in the mall recently, you should check out Build-A-Bearville.com, the online equivalent. There are some cute bear games, and an animated Build-A-Bear workshop. But the best part is: With BuildABear, you enter a unique ID number off the birth certificate, and you get…
Monthly Archives: January 2008
Too Many Apps? Declutter Your Facebook
I hate Facebook apps. I don’t want to be a pirate or a Yankees fan or see the daily Full House quote or watch your plants grow. Unfortunately for me, I’m in the minority and my Facebook friends have lots of useless crap applications on their pages. According the Facebook blog, I’m not the only…
YouTube Clones In Trouble In China
YouTube has been blocked, and back up, and blocked again in Beijing more times than I remember. Now the Great Firewall turns it’s wrath on smaller video sites, as well. It’s well known that China goes to tremendous lengths to censor and block certain types of content online through a combination of tens of thousands…
Solar Bags
Mental Floss lists a new gadget for 2008 that I REALLY want… a solar-power bag. One side of the bag is a weatherproof flexible solar panel, which fully charges in 6-8 hours in the sun, or somewhat more on a cloudy day. Just set your bag in a window while you’re at work. The internal…