http://www.modstomp.com Fri, 13 Jun 2008 03:13:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I was shopping on ThinkGeek the other day, and had some points to have this thrown in with my order.  Either that, or it was cheap enough that I thought I'd throw it in the cart.  Me no remember so good none.  Anyhoo, everyone hates those crazy ... http://www.modstomp.com/the-irony-of-the-open-x-package-opener/ It's not a great picture, but I got a phone snap of a Google Street View car on the freeway the other day.  Nothing special, just thought I'd share. http://www.modstomp.com/i-see-you/ A clever blogger for diylife.com has posted a really nice how-to for adding analog gauges to your PC, including the needed USB hardware and some great advice for finding old gauges to work with.  If that's something of interest to you, check out the full post for all the details. ... http://www.modstomp.com/analog-usb-gauges-how-to/ Today's article comes from Autoblog.  Here's the line that prompted a post: The economy appears to be swooning, and before we land softly (or crash hard), company's have begun to circle their wagons and reduce unnecessary spending. Leaving aside the questionable sentence ... http://www.modstomp.com/grammar-for-bloggers-possessive-or-plural/ Welcome to a snarky new series.  A beautiful thing about the advent of blogging is the availability of so many sources for getting news and information.  The trouble is, many of our friends in the blogosphere have some difficulty with the written language.  This can be a barrier to adoption ... http://www.modstomp.com/grammar-for-bloggers-line-up-vs-lineup/ A company that limits access to driver downloads is a company that doesn't appreciate its customers.  Today, I was trying to find a simple driver for a little USB 801.11b network card to patch a hole in my network.  Couldn't find it anywhere.  I finally had to go to Uniden's ... http://www.modstomp.com/uniden-pcw100-driver/ In an effort to keep all us little monkeys up-to-date, we were all just upgraded to Office 2007 here at work and the first thing I noticed was the nasty default "toothpaste" color scheme. Don't get me wrong... blue is one of my favorite colors, but that shade ... http://www.modstomp.com/office-2007-color-schemes-themes/ I don't speak Dutch so I have no idea what they're saying in the video below, but I do know that the game footage excites me. I can honestly say that the original Ghostbusters movie was one of my favorites growing up (along with Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure ... http://www.modstomp.com/peter-venkman-is-the-man/ Someday I'll have the time (but never the creativity) to build something like this. I'm not sure what it is that draws me to these steampunk creations, but they touch a special place in my nerdy little heart. Anyway... check out the entire Gizmodo gallery here. http://www.modstomp.com/more-steampunk-goodness/ I admire the Japanese for many things... their technological prowess, their ability to produce most of the worlds electronics and of course, their ninjas. But sometimes they do things that we Americans just have to shake our heads at. Heaven knows I wouldn't ever want to be ... http://www.modstomp.com/those-silly-japanese/