My editor tells me that cell phones are of intense interest to our readers, so I couldn’t resist the challenege to find you the newest technology for our little buddies.  Of current development, is a great new business locator program that is currently in beta called “Tellme“. 

 

Find any business in America by talking or typing.
Thumbs tired of typing? Now you can use the power of your voice to find a business.
Just say what you’re looking for and get the address, map, and directions. And it’s all free.

Now don’t count your ringtones before they go off….there is a catch.  Since the program is in beta, there are a limited amount of cell phones it will function on, AND it is availble only on the Sprint and Cingular networks.  I’d like to test this myself, but currently Verizon Wireless is sucking the life out of my bank account.  Fear not though, they do have a form you can fill out with your info to inform you when their service is available to you.

[Found via Neatorama]

A friend sent me this link today, and by god, I tell you that they hit the nail on the head.  Check this place out, and discover just what kind of rave dancer you are!  Personally, I’m more like #8, the fridge guy.  If you think they left any out, let us know here in the comments section!

I think they left out the “shocked with 10,000 volts of electricity” dancer :)  Party on!

 

 

All geeks love music - whether its the atonal rhythmic booming of some indie band, or the soothing flow of instrumental jazz.  Whatever your tastes, if you’re like me, you’re always searching for more of the same kind of your favorite music.  Search no further my friends - the folks over at the Music Genome Project created Pandora, an intelligent web-based free service that take your minimal input about your favorite music,  then builds and plays a comprehensive list of songs it thinks you’ll like.

Pandora is a music discovery service designed to help you find and enjoy music that you’ll love. It’s powered by the Music Genome Project, the most comprehensive analysis of music ever undertaken. Just tell us one of your favorite songs or artists and we’ll launch a streaming station to explore that part of the music universe.

We take your input (artists, songs) and feedback (”I like this”, “I don’t like this”) and use the Music Genome Project to create stations that play songs that are musically similar to what you’ve told us. That’s it; only the music counts. We don’t care how popular the artist is, who’s backing them, and we don’t care which genre bin they usually belong in. Only the music matters.

This is the real deal, my friends.  I input several different genres of music/artists/titles, and I wasn’t disappointed yet.  A definate plus is that their music database is quite vast, as I haven’t been played the same song twice…EVER.  I’m definately keeping this earmarked for regular use, as an alternative to iTunes Radio or Live365.

Al “Scarface” Capone was an American gangster who rose to power during the Prohibition era  when the United States banned the production and sale of alcohol. His vicious career demonstrated the power and influence of organized crime in the United States.  Despite popular beliefs, Capone did not bring Italian strongarming over to the US; during his rise in the streets of Brooklyn, he stylized his own code of ethics, using criminal activities to achive his own widespread success.

Eventually due to tax evasion, treasury agents took him into custody and he was duly sentenced to ten years hard labor in a prison at Atlanta, Georgia, and ended in Alcatraz Island in San Francisco.  After release, he lived out the rest of his days in his estate on Palm Island, Florida, where he eventually died on January 27, 1947.