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iPhone Chinese Clone

This is simply amazing. Popular Science reports that cloning operations in China have already created a fake copy of the Apple iPhone. “The country’s ability to produce indistinguishable replicas of any moment’s must-have item is legendary: Manufacturers have serviced knockoff air conditioners as if they were their own; stores have refunded bootleg purses without batting…Continue Reading…

BSoD during Albatross18

I was on the third hole of Albatross18’s White Wiz course. Albatross18, for those unfamiliar, is an online multiplayer golf game. It’s a fun game to play with my sisters. I pressed the spacebar to begin my shot. Suddenly, I got the much-dreaded blue screen of death. This is not a common occurence. I use…Continue Reading…

Jeopardy College Championship at USC

I just got back from the JEOPARDY! 2007 College Championship here at the University of Southern California’s new Galen Center. Here’s an awesome little towel they gave us.. I taped my free admission ticket to it and hung it up in my dorm room in Marks Hall.

Kids are film critics

A short audio clip (about one minute) from This Week in Media episode 46. I thought it was amusing :) [mp3]http://www.intelliot.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/twim46cut.mp3[/mp3] “My daughter looks at it a couple times. At the time, she’s like 10 years old. ‘I think it’s pretty good, but there’s this black fringing around the edge of it…’ We went to…Continue Reading…

Lewis in Meet the Robinsons (in 3-D)

Tonight I went to a midnight showing of Disney’s latest computer animated movie, Meet the Robinsons (G). It was a 3-D showing– with 3-D glasses, dual projectors, etc. I was very impressed, and not just because of the superb presentation. It’s also a compelling storyline, and it’s told in a very entertaining way. Academic types…Continue Reading…

The Story of GeniusMaestro.com, a Dilbert Forum

On April 12, 2003, I read this comic in my Daily Dilbert email. This was back in the days when I still used gengar56 as my handle, instead of present-day intelliot. This was also back in the golden age of GizmoBytes. My, how things have changed :) Being the geek I am, I went and…Continue Reading…