Let’s say you’re at the dentist’s office, but you have to wait a few minutes and have the jitters? Well, if you’re using Google’s RSS Reader to host your feeds then you can use your device to easily while away the time.

Here’s the deal. GOOG’s reader URL for your desktop is http://www.google.com/reader. But you can retrieve a ‘mobilized’ version of your feeds from: http://www.google.com/reader/m

Note the ‘m’ appended to the URL. Each of the feeds are rendered for a mobile device as well.

I found an interesting argument on behalf of creating a standard for the diverse sets of widgets/gadgets proliferating throughout the web, desktop and mobiles today.

Opera has recently joined the fray by proposing a widget standard to the W3C Forum.

“We don’t need 10 different widget standards,” said von Tetzchner, CEO of Opera. “Ours is very open. It’s not tied to the operating system or anything else. It will run across devices and across operating systems from day one.”

Here’s the full article on EETimes.com written by Junko Yoshida.

Shift to the left, shift to the right!
Pop up, push down, byte, byte, byte!

Here is an interesting story about Aaron Stanton from Idaho. Aaron has an idea about ‘the next big thing’ and thinks it’s right up GOOG’s alley. So what happens? Well, let me explain it this way, you know this is going to be interesting from the first post:

On February 11th, 2007 I’m getting on a plane to fly to Mountain View, California, headquarters of Google, Inc. Once there, I’m going to try to pitch an idea to them that I think fits right in with the Google spirit and business model; catch is, I don’t have an appointment, they don’t know I’m coming, and I’m literally going to be showing up at their door and hoping they give me a meeting.

Aaron’s site is cangooglehearme.com, contains a running blog of the process while he attempts to get the company’s attention. Tip of the hat to Aaron, he’s got guts.

[Found via The Stupid Shall Be Punished]

Once in a while non-geeks take a pity on us geeks and will actually marry us. For those rare opportunities, if you’re willing to push your luck even further, you can ask your significant other for one of these Binary wedding bands.

Each ring contains 5 tracks of binary notation and will handle up to 20 chars for a personal message, can be cast in either gold or platinum.

See greenCarat for details.

[Found through Diamondvues]