Bryan Berg - CardStacker

Bryan Berg broke the Guinness World Record for card structures in 1992 at the age of seventeen with a tower fourteen feet, six inches tall. His latest record-holding structure is more than twenty-five feet tall.

The year according to eBay

For the second year in a row, USA TODAY asked eBay to slice and dice its database of transactions, looking for trends and oddities that helped define 2004.

Hot to fix Mom's computer

For future reference, here's a laundry list of steps I took to get Mom's computer working and secured from evil software.

Apple.com Home Page Change

Apple replaced its home page with a message to Tsunami victims.

http://www.Apple.com/

Ikea builds on furnishings success

In the next 10 years, Ikea will open five stores annually in the USA, the company's second-biggest market behind Germany.

Digital Camera Tips for New Owners

This is a collection of digital camera tips that should get new digital camera owners off to a good start with their new toys. via BlogCritics.

Top Global Consumer Trends

"Men are becoming more like women, children want to be teenagers, and we are all spending more time in our homes - these are three of the ten 'mega-trends' that are shaping the future of our consumer society."

New Battery Lasts Nearly Twice As Long

AA and AAA Oxyride batteries will cost about 10 percent more than regular, alkaline batteries, Matsushita officials said.

Rhapsody cache of 1Gb size

Was looking to free up some drive space and found a radfile.rcf of over 1Gb in size. Link reveals HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Listen\Rhapsody\General\CacheSize as a means to reduce it.

The Best-ever 46 Freeware Utilities

From Tech Support Alert. Some of these are new to me, but I'll be trying them soon.

Will Google buy Flickr?

Musings on Google's imaging future. Picking up Flickr, with fun attitude, small and smart team, open API, "not-evil" history, and considerably large user base (150,000 users and 1.8 million images, according to Fast Company) would be a great asset to Google, and repair the fact that none of its community products (Blogger, Groups, Orkut) work very well.

Back to "The Apprentice" Drawing Board

In the upcoming season, Trump said, viewers will find "we chose candidates who are more relatable--along the lines of Sam, Troy and Amy."

Watch the sky!

NORAD's 50th season tracking Santa.

Positive eBay ratings prove useful

I may be bankrupt, divorced and outcast... but I'm somebody!

Cash for Kiddies

Somewhere in China, frantic factory workers cannot make enough toy automatic teller machines for clamoring American children.

Remembering Martha

When one is incarcerated with 1,200 other inmates, it is hard to be selfish at Christmas.

E-Mail Doesn't Take a Holiday

However tough it is to return from vacation, it's tougher still to return to an e-mail in-box filled with hundreds, or even thousands, of messages that have piled up in your absence.

Broadband Use Surpasses Dial-Up in U.S.

When Mark Suhre built his five-bedroom, three-story home in Maryland near the Chesapeake Bay, Suhre made sure each room had its own high-speed network jack. Wireless access points extended the Internet's reach to the swimming pool.

King William's College General Knowledge Paper

King William's College Quiz 2004-2005 (PDF) has the reputation for being the hardest quiz in the world. It's also the hundredth edition, and they've made it extra hard this year! For what it's worth, here's last years Questions and Answers. via Mefi.

Imitation States Chicken

Like Kentucky Fried Chicken, but not. via kottke.org