Someecards has to have some of the best ecards ever.   Perfect little slogans for the social deviant in all of us.

When your tired of sending the same lame ecards, give Someecards a try.

Some of the better greetings:

• Sorry I picked a fight just for the makeup sex
• I’d so much rather be alone with you than a bottle of moisturizer
• You’re someone I really feel like I can sleep with sober
• I can’t tell if you are hot from those myspace pictures

http://www.someecards.com/

Back in 2005, there was a little bug in the online game World of Warcraft.   In a higher level battle in the Zul’Gurub dungeon instance, the boss Hakkar casted a “Corrupted Blood” spell.  The spell dealt substantial damage over time, intended for higher level characters in battle.

Due to a glitch in Blizzard’s code, “Corrupted Blood” was carried outside of the dungeon, through players’ pets.  If these pets were infected and in one of World of Warcraft’s major cities, anyone in a close proximity became infected.  It was pretty much an “instant-kill” with lower level characters. 

A group of infectious disease researchers have researched this in-game pandemic, and will be publishing a study in the Lancet Infectious Disease Journal in September.  They studied how Blizzard tried to quarantine the bug, the players that acted as “disease” carriers, and the “stupid” factor – the curious that had see what was going on.  

Information gathered from this WOW bug, will be used to further study the impact of real world infectious diseases. 

Fox News has the full story:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,293920,00.html

http://www.wowwiki.com/Corrupted_Blood  

This would be great while traveling. I have forgotten my camera charger number of times.

Two AA batteries are about $16.00 and AAA batteries available soon.

http://www.usbcell.com/

Tags: batteries, usb, charge

Try this flash “brain tease” game. Eight people have to get across the river. A family, a cop and and a convict. Two people can cross at a time, but there are a few rules about who can go where. Took me a while (a long while) to figure it out.

Try your intelligence:

http://www.robmathiowetz.com/

If you do a little bit of research, most programs support some type of keyboard shortcut. Whether it is the basic copy and paste or printing, most things that you can do with a mouse you can do from your keyboard.

• Mac OSX
  • http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75459
• Windows XP
  • http://support.microsoft.com/kb/301583
• Windows Vista
  • http://windowshelp.microsoft.com
• Ubuntu
  • http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=50794
• Microsoft Office
  • Outlook
    • http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HP012303961033.aspx
  • Word
    • http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HP101476261033.aspx
  • Excel
    • http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel/HP052037811033.aspx
• Internet Explorer 7
  • http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/ie/quickref.mspx
• FireFox
  • http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/keyboard
• Gmail
  • http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=6594

With Meebo, no matter which instant messenger you want to use, you can have them working together. Meebo works though a web browser, connecting to AIM, Google Talk, Yahoo, and MSN. No additional software to install.

You can have multiple chat windows open within one web browser. Great webapp, especially when you don’t want to install multiple clients.

http://www.meebo.com/

In an attempt to create buzz for Dell’s first tablet, the XT, Dell is has a little video. Dell takes an innocent little Toshiba tablet and saws it in half!

See the video after the jump:

When I heard about Bally’s new slot machine, I got a case of Atari nostalgia. Bally Pong is a slot machine where the ‘bonus game’ is a game of Pong. Yes, Pong. The game where two sticks hit the square ball back and forth. Since you are playing in a casino, if you win against the slot computer, you can increase the payout. Those of you who know there way around an Atari, you might be able to make a little extra cash. The downside, you have a 1-in-70 chance of triggering the ‘bonus game’, so if your luck is like mine, you’ll run out of money before that little square ball ever graces the slot machine screen.

Pong is just the beginning, Bally’s is also working on a breakout style game.

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/07/26/ap3958158.html

I’ve seen ChoreWars on the internet for a while now… but feared writing about it. I wouldn’t want this game starting an epidemic around here.

ChoreWars is a role playing game that tracks and scores your household cleaning. Create a character and go on quests. For every quest completed, like washing the dishes, XP and Gold is gained. Every 200 XP gained levels your character.

Get your family and friends to join and start a party. See who levels the quickest.

ChoreWars could be the next World of Warcraft… if it wasn’t for the whole cleaning aspect.

http://www.chorewars.com/index.php