Here is a collection of useful and not so useful miscellaneous stuff that showed up in my inbox this week. Enjoy. Or not…
Can a cellphone pop corn? Hmmmm… You be the judge ;o) –
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V94shlqPlSI
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ProQuo.com is a free stop junk snail mail site that you might want to check out. I’m a big fan of GreenDimes, but it isn’t a freebie service like ProQuo.
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I think Facebook is an overrated waste of time, but if you’re a fan, you might want to check out The Life Changing Box. It is a promotional Facebook App. There are 20 prizes with values ranging from $400 to $14,000, including 52″ super-big flat screen TVs, home theaters, tickets to exclusive baseball games, some amazing domestic and international trips, and much more.
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You’ve no doubt heard of SMS and MMS messaging, well now there’s RMS (Rich Messaging Service). Palringo announced its North American market debut of Rich Messaging Service—the first messaging service to extend all the powerful functionality of PC-based services to most modern mobile phones and PDAs, regardless of operating system, network or mobile operator.
For the first time, mobile users can easily exchange text, voice chat-style messages and pictures with friends, family and colleagues across all popular PC-based IM services, such as AOL AIM and Google Talk, whether sitting at a computer or on the move using a mobile phone or PDA.
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I thought it took quite a bit of energy to pop corn, so I looked around:
http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/06/cellphones-cant.html
The first video is amusing:
http://www.snopes.com/science/cookegg.asp
I would hate to think someone took a microwave oven apart to do this stunt (unshielded RF). Probably was a hidden hot plate.