Tax break for offshoring tech jobs

It seems George Bush has given a major tax cut (from 35% to 5.25%) for those tech companies who are using offshoring for "research and development." uh huh...

"Bush Signs Tech Tax Break" on internetnews.com

Blogshares?

I accidentally discovered this game called BlogShares. It basically puts values on various blogs and people buy and sell the blogs like stocks. I was googling someone and the #1 hit was a link to his blog from BlogShares. I just happened to search for my blog, and sure enough:

zhunzi.blogspot.com

In fact, several of my friends blogs were listed!

New Vodaphone V602 sees through clothes :)

The new Vodaphone V602 has been having problems in Japan. It seems it can be adapted with a ~US$180 night vision device and be used to see through clothing. Finally tech has caught up with every guy's fantasy....

Article on The Times Online
Article on Podgadget
Article on Engadget

Key chain TV remote control

For some reason, I can see the amount of tape on the front of public TVs increasing...

CNN Link: Key chain remote control turns off TVs

This guy has invented a keychain that will turn on or off about any TV. Perfect for wrecking havoc in your favorite sports bar.

Canadian Tech Hero

I discovered this article about a Canadian guy named Andrew Greig who has a sweet home setup. He's running VoIP that travels with him on his PDA, MythTV with tons of recorded shows. And best of all, he shares all of this and internet bandwith with his neighbors. They all use VoIP thru his VoIP PBX, and are able to watch both live and recorded shows through his MythTV server setup. It's a must read for any geek.

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20040930.html

Thank you Mr. Cheney

Thank you for pointing me to 2 great websites:

Factcheck.com (aka www.GeorgeSoros.com)

Factcheck.org

Pitcairn Island

I am always curious about islands that nobody has heard of. Sometimes I will look at my world map, and just find an island, and then do some research on it to try and figure out if anyone lives there and if they do, what is their life like.

Today I was reading CNN and there was a big scandal brewing on the little Pitcairn Island. I became very curiuos about this island, and the people who lived there. I decided to check on CIA World Factbook first (one of my favorite places to read actually). It peaked my interest even more, so I decided to Google it.

In any case, I encourage everyone to read a little about it. Seems like a very interesting lifestyle choice that these people make to live here. It's definitely a life much simplier than the busy stress inducing world of big city life.