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Monterey Bay Aquarium: Jellyfish, originally uploaded by GeoffMyers.net.

This is my submission to the yMinds photography competition this week. Hopefully, I will win!

I’ve made a few changes over at my company website, www.simdex.org. I’m not done yet, but please go and check it out. Feedback would be great!

Just watch this. You may not believe it, but you can obviously see that it’s true! Geez, I hate these kind of politicians…

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I hadn’t updated my GeoffMyers.net website in awhile, so I finally decided to go through and change quite a few things:

• Updated global template
• Updated homepage
• Updated photography page
• Updated audio & video page (consolidated the movies & music pages)
• Added Snap Shots (preview links before clicking them)
• Validated CSS markup (web standards = good!)
• Added Google Custom Search (on every page – find what you want, fast!)
• Did some other tweaks, quick fixes, etc.

I hope the changes that were made benefit the user’s experience. That means YOU! I tested the time that it takes to load each page, and I think they all do so reasonably quickly (~2-3 seconds for me). Let me know if anything takes too long to load or if there are any errors that you experience. I love constructive criticism! Please give me feedback.

“I’m pleased to announce Mint.com is officially launching today at TechCrunch 40 in San Francisco. We are now open to everyone! The free, automatic, online way to manage your money is here!” Truly awesome free service.

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“I couldnt get to my camera in time to record his entrance, but this guy basically comes running in with 4 or 5 cops in tow and says he has been running around trying to get in to ask a question and the cops are going to arrest him for it. they almost do it then but Sen. Kerry says he will answer it. he then answers a previous question someone else”

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With all the iPhone drama and unlocking drama. I felt this picture truly sums up the comedy in all this.

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This is a really funny YouTube video! I discovered it on Digg today. Enjoy!

There is a tightness in my chest, and I am crying right now. I have just suffered a catastrophic data loss for the second time in my life. Fool me once, shame on, shame on, fool me can’t get fooled again, or something like that.

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i’m tired of losing time and money hacking my 100% standard code to work in a half-assed browser. digg this if you want to help get a massive shift away from IE compliance and if you won’t tolerate their lack of standards anymore, IE 5, 6 AND 7 are to blame.

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“Comcast’s filtering/throttling of torrent traffic involves forging TCP reset packets, pretending to be from one end of the torrent session. This is the same technique used by the Great Firewall of China, and a pretty clear violation of various states’ criminal impersonation statues. Could Comcast face legal action?”I have Comcast High-Speed Internet, and I download torrents, so I’m REALLY pissed off. Filtering internet traffic?! That’s the worst thing that could happen to the Internet! I’m really hoping they get busted for this.

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Downtown, Minneapolis Sunset, originally uploaded by GeoffMyers.net.

I recently won the yMinds weekly competition, a photography contest for teenagers, with my photo titled “Minneapolis Sunset.”

Link: http://www.flickr.com/groups/yminds/discuss/72157594261983021/

Today, whos.amung.us, a real time traffic widget that we covered back in March, released a Flash based map widget that also shows the physical location of website visitors. See it at maps.amung.us. With maps.amung.us you get to see exactly where your site visitors are from – live! Our maps update themselves on your site without having to reload.

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Here’s a quick little hack on how to create an administrator account on Mac OS X Tiger without knowing the current administrator password and do not have the installation disks.

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This episode of “TV Funhouse” aired only once on Saturday Night Live before NBC pulled it off the air… I wonder why?!

This funny short clip is from an episode of Seinfeld. I’m going to try this next time a telemarketer calls me!

The release of Google Sky has been all over the news. But there’s more! A flight simulator was also launched in the latest release, although as a hidden feature. Install the latest version, hit Crtl+Alt+A (Mac OS X: Command+Option+A) and start flying! See article for screenshots.read more | digg story