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Wikipedia has this list of Latin phrases. (What don’t they have?)

It lists direct English translations of common phrases, such as “veni vidi vici” and “et cetera”. There’s also many that I’ve never heard… so if you’re looking to fill your brain with some potentially useless knowledge - here’s another good resource!

(link, to lifehacker)

Google can reorder search and news results from the last day, week, a few months, or entire year by adding a small string to the end of the search URL. Just add this string—

&as_qdr=d

—to the address bar and hit enter. You’ll get a custom drop-down box that lets you re-order results based on date.

Finally, a *Passively* Multiplayer Online Game!

PMOG transforms our web surfing into ongoing social play. With a Firefox plug-in, players can bomb each other, wage war over web sites, and lead other users on web missions.

There’s so much more, check it out.

I thought of something like this once, and I’m beating myself up for not implementing it.

Cool video of some awesome hand-drawn lettering. I haven’t looked into who did this or exactly what it’s about, but it was too neat to wait before posting …

Link to video.

I came across this in my world travel for the best tea.  This has got to be one of the weirdest flavors I have ever seen. Who drinks this?

Here is the website to the company who sells it.

Here is a website that has some cool DIY stuff for the Wiimote. It shows you how to connect the Wiimote up to the PC with bluetooth and then turn your pc/laptop into a touchscreen. You can also create a whiteboard by connecting up a projector, but most important, Johnny Lee shows you how you can have a full 3D experience when playing a FPS game. Totally cool!!

Here is a cool flickr page where they have taken art and added a side of Geek:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulthewineguy/sets/72157603619920398/

 Here is one of the best ones:

Here is a cool cubicle design. I would love to have one of these for my cube. Click on the link to see a video.

This is pretty cool. This laptop uses touchscreen holographic technology for its display (or the closest thing we have to it). The screen is totally transparent until power is turned on.

I ordered a laptop from TIGER DIRECT (tigerdirect.com) on Dec. 22nd and purchased 2nd Day Air through UPS. This was the biggest mistake of my life. The package did not arrive until Dec. 28th at 1:30pm. That is almost a week. I contacted the CFO of SYSTEMAX (Tiger Direct’s parent company), but he said that he was out of the country and would have to forward me on to someone else. No one from corporate contacted me. I filled out three online forms for help and used their online chat tool, but got no where. Then I sent an email to the SVP/COO at UPS. He was a little bit nicer, because he actually had someone contact me from their corporate office (Maureen). I have been dealing with Maureen for the past four days but have not gotten any closer to solving the issue. Both companies’ continue to point fingers at the other company. Maureen explained that they only pickup at certain times and have an agreement with Tiger Direct to pickup in some sort of locked trailer. Apparently, according to her, Tiger Direct did not have the package in the trailer.  Tiger Direct explained that it’s the shippers fault because they only pickup on Monday-Friday. The problem is that I paid for a service that I did not get, which is a breach of contract. The reason I do not believe all the smoke and mirrors, is that I have the emails to prove that I ordered it on 12/22/07 and that Tiger Direct said that they would be shipping it out on 12/23/07. I am not asking for something that I was not promised. UPS even had it posted for delivery on 12/27/07 at the latest, even though Tiger Direct said 12/26/07. Then UPS rescheduled the package for delivery. Sounds fishy to me. I believe that UPS did pickup the package, it got lost in their system and now they don’t want to pony up a refund. I even used UPS’s own online shipping calculator, and it said that it should arrive on 12/27/07.  In conclusion, I would recommend not ordering anything from Tiger Direct or ordering from any online retailers that use UPS. They have both been very unhelpful and have a terrible customer service department. If you need computer supplies use NEWEGG.com. They are fast and friendly. I have never had any issues with them.