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www.palmopensource.com - The PalmOS Open Source Portal - In case ya hadn’t seen it before - a rather extensive repository of open source PalmOS projects.

Confederate Motorcycles When I make my 3rd million (Note - I’m 2.999998 million short), this is the bike I’ll buy.

Just a few quickies…

Jalapeno Margaritas

4 jalapenos, halved 1 pt. Tequila 1 oz Triple Sec 3 oz fresh/bottled lime juice

Put peppers in bottle of tequila and let steep minimum 3 days. 4 Margaritas = 5 oz Tequila 1 oz Triple Sec 3 oz lime juice

Stir and strain into glasses or over ice cubes.

JALAPENO MARGARITA (Chile Pepper Magazine)

1 1/4 ounces El Patron tequila or your favorite 3/4 ounce Triple Sec 2 ounces hot and sour mix* Dash of jalapeno Tabasco sauce Lime slice and whole jalapeno for garnish

*Hot and Sour Mix: to one quart of sour mix add 4 large jalapenos, stem and seeds removed, diced and let steep for at least 24 hours.

Place all the ingredients, except the lime slice and whole jalapeno, in a blender; blend to mix. Pour over ice and garnish with the lime slice and whole jalapeno. If a frozen margarita is preferred, add one cup ice to the blender with the other ingredients. Serves 1.

Music Thing: The THX Sound - Engadget - www.engadget.com. The (short) story behind the THX sound.

Wapedia - Homepage Wapedia is a portal site that interpolates Wikipedia pages into WAP or PDA-screen formats.

OldVersion.com A great resource for finding older versions of software (like before RealAudio made you turn over your firstborn to play their content).

Llamasoft Visualiser Built Into XBox 360 - Digital-Lifestyles.info Awesome! Jeff Minter’s gift for crafting visually groovy stuff goes back to the way early days. I’ve frequently lamented the lack of a decent visualization engine for the PS2/XBox 1, looks like I might have to get one of them Xbox 360 thingies afterall.

FireTune:

Speedup, tweak, optimize and tune Firefox easily - faster browsing, faster surfing - faster connection for Mozilla Firefox

According to your specific computer speed and internet connection speed, FireTune will optimize several internal settings of Firefox for better performance.

Beauty and the Geek - TV Series - TV Tome So apparently, Ashton Kutcher’s got a new TV gig - A show called Beauty and the Geek, where they get a group pretty airheads to teach geeks about sex while the geeks teach the airheads about rocket science.

Now first of all, geeks know a lot about sex (the internet is a wonderful thing). They just need to learn self confidence. And social skills. And grooming. Of course, no self-respecting geek’s going to turn this gig down.

And secondly, what the heck does Ashton Kutcher know about rocket science? I’m guessing he’s on the Pretty Airhead team…

THE TOFU HUT From Boing Boing, a huge directory of audioblogs.

Wired News: Game, Set, Film Now this does sound like fun - Jin Woo Joo founded an event called Cinemasports, where filmmaking teams are given a minimal set of ingredients and a day to make a 3 1/5 minute short film.

EVDB - The Events & Venues Database File this one under “I hope it takes off” as well. EVDB is a smart online event application - it has a user-built database of events that you can search. Searches can be turned into dynamic calendars that can be grabbed as iCal or RSS feeds.

Nivi : Greasemonkey will blow up business models (as well as your mind) One of the comments summed it up, Greasemonkey is one of the steps to the Web 2.0. In a nutshell, it allows you to embed your own dhtml/scripts to any web page - one of the more key examples is a competetive price apps that (for instance) inserts competetive prices right in your Amazon page. This is one tech that I really hope takes off.

super OS X menubar items I’d been looking for this site for a while and finally located it - a collection of tiny apps that run in the OS-X MenuBar. My particular iBook favorites are MenuMeters (to tell when the drive’s being accessed) and SlimBatteryMonitor (top-notch battery meter). Enjoy!

newzbot! public USENET resources for the masses NewzBot is a good resource for finding public NNTP servers that carry specific newsgroups - they list message retention, user ratings, average download speed, and other goodness. Found it very handy when looking for a good public source for comp.mail.sendmail.

Flickr: Photos tagged with comiclife So there’s this wicked cool app for the Mac called Comic Life that lets you munge iPhoto images with text bubbles and create groovy comic-book style layouts. In great meme tradition, folks have created a Flickr group for their creations. Some suck, some are amazing, all are entertaining on some level.

Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger : Page 1 John Siracusa has posted a lengthy and informative review of Apple’s Tiger. A worthwhile read for those of use who’ll install it but not touch the help/manual.

MacDevCenter.com: Everything You Need to Know to Install Tiger A rather exhaustive article on what you should know/do before installing Tiger.