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How to Sound Proof walls in a Room

17 04 2008

Ran across a neat tutorial on how to turn any room in your house into a sound proof practice room for you and your band.

Go check it out over at wired. It’s not as complex as you may think =P



Looking for DDR Song Packs for Stepmania? Got em.

17 04 2008

Quick post…

I wasted a bunch of time looking for these song packs so I figure I’d help out some fellow Googlers out there.

StepMania DDR Songs (and others) may be found at this REALLY pro site that has pretty much all of the DDR songs and more:

http://zenius-i-vanisher.com/v4/simfiles.php
[Others] http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/sims/

I’ll keep this list updated as I find more.. And if I can find the SM packs, I’ll post about it. The one I used to use appearently is no longer available. If you have other links post them below!
Have fun



Funny and Talented contestors in Bertolli’s Romantic Video Contest

11 04 2008

So appearantly the gormet frozen food company Bertolli has a video contest going on and are now voting for the top winners in their competition. A couple of them are very humorous while the other two feature a very talented singer (Bravissimo Bertolli) and a romantic night as a 25 year strong couple (1300 Dinner & Counting VID). My personal favorite was Sidney & Phoebe and their hilarious take on their “people’s” romantic life.

However my vote went off to Bravissimo Bertolli’s performance. She has an incredible voice that the video just did not give justice to.

YOU go ahead and vote and you’ll have the opportunity to have a nice trip up to NYC to premere:

  • Airfare to and from New York City
  • Transportation to and From the Airport
  • Luxury Hotel accommodations for a 2-night stay
  • The chance to meet celebrity chef Rocco DiSpirito
  • Two invitations to the premiere and party where you’ll meet the winners

Hey, it’s free and you’ve handed out your address and phone number to countless web forms in the past, why not give it to a legitimate food company too? =P



The PS3 Laptop!

11 04 2008

Ringing in at only 16 lbs. comes the PS3 laptop, complete with… You guessed it! A PS3!

This creative reconception of the PS3 is just another one of Ben Heck’s last console recreations.

Just thought I’d share.

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Microsoft cries over Yahoo… again.

11 04 2008

Appearantly Microsoft had this to say after Yahoo decided to test Adsense along side their search results:

“Any definitive agreement between Yahoo! and Google would consolidate over 90% of the search advertising market in Google’s hands. This would make the market far less competitive, in sharp contrast to our own proposal to acquire Yahoo! We will assess closely all of our options.”

Hold up… Microsoft is saying that a definitive agreement would consolidate over 90% of Search Advertising… making it far less competitive? And this is coming from a company that has had a monopoly of Operating systems and the Internet Browser Market for how long?

Appearantly Microsoft had this to say after Yahoo decided to test Adsense along side their search results:

“Any definitive agreement between Yahoo! and Google would consolidate over 90% of the search advertising market in Google’s hands. This would make the market far less competitive, in sharp contrast to our own proposal to acquire Yahoo! We will assess closely all of our options.”

Hold up… Microsoft is saying that a definitive agreement would consolidate over 90% of Search Advertising… making it far less competitive? And this is coming from a company that has had a monopoly of Operating systems and the Internet Browser Market for how long?

Greedy, greedy, greedy..



You know your dorm network sucks when…

11 04 2008

the owner of a large website and VPN hosting company personally contacted me after repeated attempts to best the Cisco URT client with this:

What’s up with that Dorm anyways? It has to be the most restrictive network I have seen, even worse than China.

I give up on this network. It’s pretty bad having a network admin with a total lockdown policy on UDP and P2P connections, MOV & MP3 download throttling to <1kb/s… and makes moderation of my most prized site VERY difficult…

I want to hear about how your dorm network! What college you’re at, if restricts traffic, for certain extensions, etc.. Afterall, if you’re going to be paying for the housing costs, you have THE RIGHT to know!

Auburn University Montgomery is not the place to go if you are even a casual gamer, use Skype, download MP3s, are a bittorrent fan, P2P network user or like to surf the web during peak hours.