Carl “Rabbitt” Corliss has finally launched a blog. Take a moment to check out “Outside the Rabbitt Hole“. Rabbitt is currently in India doing volunteer tech support for a tsunami relief organization. That’s the kind of bunny he is.
Incidentally, Rabbitt joins Dracos, Drew, Gregor and I as former Xaraya founders that have made the leap to WordPress or Moveable Type. Guess all is not peachy in X-land after all. 
Long-time friends of Carl Corliss (Rabbitt) got some great news this last few days. After five years, investigators have found the murderer of Carl’s dear friend, Kristin Laurite. While the news is bittersweet and certain to open old wounds, in the end it will bring some closure to Kristin’s friends and family.
So, take a moment to offer some prayers of comfort for Carl and the rest of Kristin’s family and friends. Then, raise a glass to toast her memory and the tireless efforts of law enforcement which have brought her killer to justice.
Holy TechTV Batman. The ScreenSavers live on. More on that in a minute, but first … a small rant.
When G4 bought TechTV, I thought they might dumb down the channel. They did not disappoint. They killed The ScreenSavers (TSS); the best tech show around. TSS made TechTV and they flushed it down the crapper. It’s replacement is Attack Of The Show. It is sort of sexy, sort of tech … but not tech enough.
Now, G4TechTV is basically MTV for the gamer and street racing crowd. Every now and then, my TIVO grabs something useful from that channel, but that is the rare exception. In short, G4TechTV bites ass cheek. Hard.
Today, Marty hooked me up with this WEEK in TECH (TWIT). This is a new podcast featuring Leo LaPorte, Patrick Norton, Kevin Rose and most of the rest of the hard-core tech mavens from TSS. You can subscribe to it for free and pull it into your iPod. Or, listen to it over the web. Good stuff so far. Very geeky. Very tech. Very good.
Go there. Now! And, if you want to grab the old TechTV episodes online, visit the Long Live TechTV Yahoo Newsgroup.
Do you love rebates? I freaking hate them. At one point, I purchased rebatesblow.com with the intent of waging a consumer war on the concept of rebates. Later, I realized that nothing I do will make them go away. So, the best course of action for me was to simply ignore them.
That said, someone over at pcquide.com clearly agrees with me and wrote a great little article on the subject. It outlines everything one should consider before making a rebate-involved purchase.
Enjoy!
The photo above is the Optimus keyboard. I am not sure if this is in production yet, or just a prototype. In either case, it is an interesting application of OLED technology. Not sure what you are seeing? Well, the icons on the keyboard are actually tiny video displays right on the keys.
I’ve been telling everyone I know that OLED is the next “plastic”. This stuff is going to revolutionize display technologies the way adding sound to films did. All of the tripped out video dispalys (on cereal boxes and sheets of glass) we saw in Minority Report will be made possible by OLED or it’s derivative.
Welcome to the future. And, thanks to Marty for the link!
MILTON, MA – Tragedy was narrowly averted in the Bourke household Monday, when Harry, the family’s pet hamster, was violently thrown from the 4″ by 4″ payload of a toy Ford F-350 monster truck. The site of the accident that nearly claimed the life of Bourke family pet Harry (inset).
According to reports, the toy vehicle was racing through a living-room obstacle course … which included a coffee-table slalom, a cardboard ramp, and a Dixie-cup pyramid … when it swerved out of control and crashed into a Lincoln Log structure, sending the hamster flying through the monster truck’s driver-side window and knocking over three nearby Fisher-Price Little People.
The scene quickly devolved into pandemonium, with the launched hamster tumbling humorously in mid-air several times before landing at the foot of the sofa and fleeing in shock. A frantic, living-room-wide search for Harry ensued and, after extensive search efforts behind the sofa, under the recliner, and behind the bookcase, the hamster was found between the vertical blinds and the sliding glass door, shaken but alive.
It is crack reporting like this that makes me LOVE The Onion.