Category Archives: Original Duenos

Posts by the original Duenos.net crew.

Mushrooms in Space!

http://www.velutipes.com/ offers the ultimate in fungus photography against a starry night sky, and it does it all in 4 languages. You're probably most interested in the "English page":http://www.velutipes.com/english.htm but maybe you might like to see what a Black Morel, pictured above, is called in "Swedish":http://www.velutipes.com/swedish.htm to impress your favorite "Indie-pop Band":http://duenos.net/article/26/billie-the-vision-and-the-dancers. It's called 'Toppmurkla' by the way. Previously featured on Duenos: "Nutrition Data at Your Fingertips":http://duenos.net/article/65/nutrition-data-at-your-finger-tips, an easy way to find out what you're eating, even what's inside mushrooms.

Your secret is out Monty Python

http://www.blabberize.com/. The website itself is well worth a visit to be insulted by a sarcastic Alpaca, but it's fun (and relatively easy) to create your own blabbering picture. Or so they tell you. I've been trying to get through to do it myself but their website is apparently under attack from "TechCrunch":http://www.techcrunch.com/ readers who want to do the same thing I do. If anyone has any luck, let me know how it turns out.

Millionaire Mate.com

http://www.nerve.com/login/LaunchPad.asp, so do the yuppies and gold diggers. Their slightly tamer version of "Adult Friend Finder":http://adultfriendfinder.com/p/page.cgi?who=UmFuZG9tSVai63IdZ8GIIEGMvNnPL8wPnO5Fk0Gb0Kb32qk/p386HfvX6rJWzuHIsNOL44Fu5ZLHAA/bubhUKMlb6VqbTAOQhQnLvXqknn__KPUVVjjEeQzLr3n6lWCOVU64hoSEFHfDNbhAoNEcYOLp9qon_HDLNsNDk1vvdEzKxWn5XHMVqAb9rOt_ZBhvVIeI3BHQbEUYZfZmPT/wAnWYOzFW_SXBdWk_BbqXkdQ-&site=ffadult is called "MillionaireMate.com":http://millionairemate.com/p/page.cgi and pledges to appeal to those who just have too much class for the 'other dating sites.' Here are just some of the perks to listing with Millionaire Mate, taken straight from the site: * Save time searching for beautiful, sophisticated women who appreciate a man of substance. * Receive the attention you deserve as our men get many more email and invitations to meet than at other dating sites. * Meet talented and successful men who’ve achieved wealth and status and are eager to share the benefits of a fabulous lifestyle with you. * Date with confidence – our wealth verification system helps you find the right man. That last one is my personal favorite. This website filters for you, only rich guys here. Sounds tempting, but for me, I think I'll stick with Nerve. This entry was posted in Original Duenos and tagged , on by .

Pimp your G-Box

http://creativebits.org/user/ivan from "creative bits":http://creativebits.org/ has just "educated":http://creativebits.org/buy_more_space_for_your_google_account me on Google's new option to buy more space for your Google Mailbox. I've never needed that much space for my e-mail because no one really writes to me, but I could see this being really helpful for people out there who would use it. In fact, you could always pair a "mailbox upgrade":https://www.google.com/accounts/ManageStorage with "Gspace":http://www.getgspace.com/ and use your account as an off-site server. Just think, you could never lose a porn file again...

Honey Dolls Sex Dolls

There are some strange things out there in the world–furries, aibo robot dog pets–but this is almost too much. “Honey Dolls”:http://www.honeydolls.jp/en/main.html sex dolls have taken the inflatable gag gift and turned it into a highly lifelike, modern sex platform. It’s the male answer to the Rascally Rabbit and from my perspective, wtf? Aren’t there better uses for this engineering talent?
Most people would probably not actually follow link I told you to after a post like this so I’ve decided to reproduce a small portion of the “about section”:http://www.honeydolls.jp/en/about.html here.
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Sleeping in Airports

If you are a regular reader of this blog you may have noticed a pretty drastic drop-off in posts this past couple of months. That, at least for my part, has been because I’ve been doing a lot of traveling. I have lots of things to say about the experience but for now, I’d just like to share this amusing website.
http://www.sleepinginairports.net/ is a site dedicated to the practice, of, well... isn't it obvious? In the last 6 months I've slept in "Venice - Marco Polo":http://www.sleepinginairports.net/europe/venice.htm and "London Stansted":http://www.sleepinginairports.net/europe/londonluton.htm but I definitely plan on doing more of it. Most of all I want to visit all 20 of the "best and worst":http://www.sleepinginairports.net/bestof.htm airports. One thing I did learn that is not included in the "sleeping tips section":http://www.sleepinginairports.net/tips.htm is to put a sign around your neck asking fellow passengers to wake you for a flight. That saved me a couple of years ago in DC. A final tip: avoid the three receivers of the "Poopy Bathroom Awards":http://www.sleepinginairports.net/results.htm, Cairo, Addis Ababa, and Wichita, Kansas.

Killer Apps for Mac – iStumbler

http://www.istumbler.net/. Previously featured _Killer Apps for Mac._ * "Adium":http://duenos.net/article/129/killer-apps-for-mac-adium - an alternative chat client * "App Zapper":http://duenos.net/article/231/ - tracks down all the caches and libraries for deleted applications and deletes them * "Darwiin Remote":http://duenos.net/article/193/KillerAppsforMacDarwiinRemote - an application that allows the use of the Wii-remote as an input * "Disk Inventory X":http://duenos.net/article/163/KillerAppsforMacDiskInventoryX - visualizes the hard disk * "img2icns":http://duenos.net/article/274/KillerAppsforMacimg2icns - A conversion tool for making any image into a .icns icon file * "Mac Pilot":http://duenos.net/article/174/KillerAppsforMacMacPilot - an interface to control more options on the Mac * "Sidenote":http://duenos.net/article/111/killer-apps-for-mac-sidenote - a VERY helpful note-taking program * "SizzlingKeys":http://duenos.net/article/119/killer-apps-for-mac-sizzlingkeys - allows universal control of iTunes through simple hotkeys * "Tangerine":http://duenos.net/article/150/KillerAppsforMacTangerine - analyzes and organizes the iTunes library by beat characteristics * "TV Shows":http://duenos.net/article/232/ - automatically downloads torrent files of TV shows * "UnRarX":http://duenos.net/article/234/KillerAppsforMacUnRarX - very good at decompressing .rar files * "Vienna Reader":http://duenos.net/article/204/KillerAppsforMacViennaReader - an OS X-integrated RSS reader with an internal browser * "VLC Player":http://duenos.net/article/228/ - the best media player in existence, it plays anything

The silver lining is sweaty

This is a fun story coming out of Iraq. According to “this NYT article”:http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/05/us/05race.html?ex=1341288000&en=1a84e3d445c85239&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss the Atlanta-based Peachtree road race didn’t just take place in Atlanta this year. Deployed soldiers in Iraq, Afghanistan and Kuwait were permitted to enter the 10k footrace, laying out their own courses and keeping their own times. You know, it sounds like a lot of fuss for nothing but I bet this was fun. After all, I really like the idea of running 10 kilometers in a place where the temperature is 95 degrees farenheit at 6 in the morning.