General Protection Fault

For those of us with a slight aversion to digging deep into the innards of a pumpkin and dealing with the clean-up, here is a fairly easy to do online variant that even completes your creation with a nice candle. The image will take you to your own pumpkin, ready for your delicate carving attentions!

Bejeweled Twist has been released:

Play the world’s #1 puzzle game like never before!
Get set for a vivid sensory rush as you spin and match explosive gems for shockwaves of fun. Rotate jewels freely to set up electrifying combos, outwit obstacles, and blast high-voltage gems. Rev up with a strategic challenge or just relax in [...]

Crap. Just when I got good at posting. Now I have to use Twitter and FaceBook to be ‘heard’…double crap.

Fantastic article written by Scott Brown on Wired.com about the ‘friend’ phenomenon in social networking. My favorite excerpt:
But the more Friends you have, the less they’re worth—and, more to the point, the less human they are. People become mere collectibles, like Garbage Pail Kids. And call me a buzz kill, but I don’t want to [...]

http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE4980NU20081009?pageNumber=2&virtualBrandChannel=0
Story discussed on KSUA Talkshow, KSUA 91.5 FM.
Apparently it’s adult week here on GPF.

http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE49EAEO20081016
Story discussed on KSUA Talkshow, KSUA 91.5 FM.

http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE49EAGL20081016
Story discussed on KSUA Talkshow, KSUA 91.5 FM.

http://www.robocommunity.com/forum/thread/14258/Elmo-Live-Dissected/
Story discussed on KSUA Talkshow, KSUA 91.5 FM.
This picture says it all:

One of our ‘retroviews’ from 2001. What with Google’s release of the original Google! search engine (circa 2001) for a limited time, I felt the urge to capture some of the history and actually archive it here, with 2001 era links no less. I’ve added quite a few to the archive portions of gpfault.org, but [...]