Magic Wand Remote Control

This looks like such *fun*!!  Looks like it was stolen from 'Harry Potter'  himself, but it's actually a spiffy remote control!  One that will let you (with the appropriate swish or wiggle) change channels, adjust the volume, etc. on TVs, cable boxes, stereos - up to 13 items at a time!  Can you imagine the awe if you used this around a small child who still believes in wizards?  Not to mention the gazzillions of Potter fans out there that just must have anything & everything wizardy. We found The Magic Wand Remote at Firebox.com (where it is currently sold-out) but assume it must be out there elsewhere on the net as well.

The price tag of nearly $70 USD is the only reason we don't have one yet... but we would, if you people would click a few ads on this page! ::hint::  We can think of at least three people who would enjoy this, even with no kids to amaze.  The Wand is on our wish list!! 

Justin (shitmydadsays) on Twitter

We took a month off for Christmas, you got a problem with that?  Take it up with Santa!  So we are back and have discovered Twitter!  Surely you've heard about this new phenomenon?  People broadcast to the whole world their current thoughts.... in 140 characters or less!  Ok, it's not all that new but if you've never read Justin's tweets, you are missing out.

Justin(shitmydadsays) tweets are *hysterical*.  He simply adds tweets as his father goes about his day, spinning wisdom and shouting odd obscenities about Justin, the world and stupid people in general.  His father is old school cool, peeps, and you will adore what the man has to say, I promise.  You don't even have to login to Twitter to read them, so bookmark this site even if you are a twit prone to tweeting. There are, of course, lots of other people on Twitter, famous ones even... but so far, we luv Justin's Dad best!

Internet Archive Wayback Machine

The Internet Archive was founded back in 1996 to build an internet 'library' of digital media. There are over 150 billion web pages archived from 1996 to a few months ago.  What this means is, you go on over to their site Internet Archive: Wayback Machine, you type in a net address (such as http://www.blogger.com), hit the 'take me back' button and you get a list of all the previous pages stored at the internet archive, by date, by month, by year! 

You can see what pages looked like when the first started and the progessive changes, year to year, for any site (exclusions apply; see the faqs for details). One of the faqs suggest checking out 1999 pages and all the Y2K hype that was out there then.  It's really rather amazing! 

Web crawlers make this page possible.  Isn't technology grand?