Oceanside, Nevada

Remember the super bad-ass green laser pointer I mentioned the other day? Well, apparently the actions of a few morons and the overexposure by the media of lasers being fired into airliner cockpits have caused Lasershoppe to pull this super cool toy from the market. Link to BoingBoing post. Link to Lasershoppe’s explanation. It’s a [...]

Yesterday I noted that Microsoft had made no mention of tsunami relief on their home page, as opposed to Apple. Today this appeared in a related post on BoingBoing: Following up on a previous BoingBoing post, an anonymous Microsoft employee says: Responding to this: “Reader J. Hahn says, ”I am particularly impressed with Amazon.com’s Red [...]

Apple’s front page has not one single ad or product link today. Instead Apple is helping by providing links to relief organizations so that visitors can quickly and easily donate money to the relief efforts. Microsoft’s front page, in contrast, has not one mention of the fact that there was a tsunami. At least it [...]

Kevin Sites is a freelance reporter who, until recently, was covering events in Iraq for NBC. He’s been in Thailand covering the aftermath of Sunday’s tsunami. He’s written some of his impressions on his blog and they’re just heartbreaking. Kevin writes: One-hundred and fifty-nine pine coffins have been stacked in the garage — many of [...]

Because they’ve surely pissed themselves laughing over this one. I figure: Wal-Mart has a secret wish to hasten their own demise and thus bring on the retail Apocalypse or They don’t really see a threat here. Unfortunately, I would have to guess #2, but hey, you never know.

This guy plans to jump out of an airplane without a parachute just to, you know, see if he can. What else can you say about that?