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Portable Director Cell Phone Jammer.

The CX 200 Portable Director II Cell Phone Jammer. Take a good look, because you may see a lot more of these little babies arriving here in the West once laws get changed, and people reach the end of tethers with loud mouths. The strange translation from Japanese says something like – ‘secretly switch on – so it’s clearly covert. Uh-huh. Anyhoo, two modes, one gives 70 seconds jamming (i.e. peace) around you, the other fades out the call ‘with natural atmosphere’ presumably to help you end calls you’d rather not continue. Around $71.00.

* Effective area: Approximately 3 m * Correspondence: NTT_DOCOMO (800MHz), FOMA (2gHz), VodaFone (1. 5gHz), au (Cdmaone) * Use power source: Single 4 alkaline ×2 books * Electric battery life: With timer mode approximately 150 times, approximately with continual ON 4 hour

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NES, GameBoy, Genesis, Master System, Game Gear, Colecovision, PC Engine are all here! Playable straight in your browser without any install!

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*Constantly* updated list of most powerful extensions for Firefox. All of them grouped into categories: Firefox Tabs, Website Links, File Downloads, Web-page Behavior & Navigation, Privacy / Security, Web Searches, Your Music / Video, Your Email, Your Bookmarks, Other Popular Services.

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Interested in the geek-out at the end of episode 52?

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BBC's Inside Nintendo: A Nintendo documentary

Nintendo fans who missed last year's BBC3 documentary about the company will be pleased to hear that it's now available for watching over the Internet.

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New Intel Slogan

I mentioned a couple of shows ago that Intel would be dropping their venerable slogan "Intel Inside".  It's now come out that their new slogan will be "Leap Ahead".  Yay for marketing idiots.  Not that anyone cares about this, but I thought it was interesting.

INTEL'S DROPPING the beloved Intel Inside logo, slogan, marketing campaign and lawsuit bait, but that is old news.

What isn't all that widely know is that they are replacing it with the really cool, HACK, slogan of, COUGH, 'Leap Ahead'. RASP.

This much more something slogan will invoke feelings of something, and make people warm and fuzzy about that nebulous thing, just like a colour.

My excitement knows no bounds and scales like a Pentium 4 on crack. Picture me sitting down trying to keep from falling asleep with excitement, slowly twirling one finger half-heartedly above my head.

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Listen to Frankwit over your Tivo!

I signed up for, and received the new version of Tivo's software earlier this week.  I'm not sure, but I think it's still in beta.  Either way, it's fantastic.  New functionality includes: Games, Yahoo! Photo Slideshows, Yahoo! Weather, Yahoo! Traffic, local movie theater showtimes and ticket purchasing through Fandango, streaming ANY internet radio station, and streaming ANY PODCAST.  I tested out listening to the Richard Pryor memorial cast, and everything came through great.  If you're like me, and have your Tivo going through your stereo as well, this is a huge bonus.

To add the Frankwit podcast to your Tivo, you'll need to add the RSS URL which is currently http://frankwit.libsyn.com/rss.

Here is the link to Tivo's website where you may add your unit to the priority download list... you'll probably receive the update in a couple of days.  Link

I guess Andy's finally going to have to get a Tivo.  Especially since the base model's going for $20 at Amazon.