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Super hotshot spy photographer Chris Doane has taken the first spy photos of the rumored 2009 Super Corvette. The spy photos show what appears to a normal Corvette Z06, but upon closer inspection, you see a large bulge on the hood that is rumored to be concealing a supercharged 6.2-Liter V8 that puts out 650HP. [...]

Yes, it is true. Microsoft has bought out FireFox! The new award-winning browser from Microsoft is now faster, more secure, and quicker than anything else on the market. Why use anything else?
MS Firefox 2007 delivers a dramatic boost in the download speeds of online pornography. By utilizing a proprietary dynamic algorithm – anything that [...]

Just saw over at Tech Crunch that Condé Nast, owner of Wired and other magazines/websites, has acquired Boston-based Reddit earlier this morning.
Reddit is the “other Digg site.” It was founded by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian. The site’s main investor, Paul Graham of YCombinator seeded Reddit with $88,000 to get it off the ground. [...]

OK, I am pretty sure this is no the commercial Nintendo is going to use when the Wii hits the market. The video is a play on the PC vs. Mac commercial. Only this one takes it a lot closer to the edge. View the video here.

DuggMirror is a service that takes copies of Dugg pages that were taken down because of the Digg Effect. It allows Diggers to view the page without waiting for the downed site to come back to life. The problem is Dugg Mirror can be used even when the site hasn’t gone down. If your server [...]

Times Online has posted an interview with Steve Wozniak. He’s the other founder of Apple Computers. He’s not with the company anymore because, well, he’s having too much fun doing other stuff. The interview contains some really great quotes. Steve offered up some very unique answers to the interviewer’s questions.

On Money
“I’ve got about $20,000 [...]

For those who missed it, here are the previous updates to my making money with a blog series: Week 3, Week 2, and Week 1.
From October 22 to 28, the blog made $129.74 from Google AdSense. This is well off the pace set by the previous weeks. The number one performing ad unit, accounting [...]

The T.R.A.F.F.I.C East 2006/Moniker.com Live Domain Auction is over and the results are in. $4.7 million changed hands as 314 of the Internet’s most wanted domain names went on the auction block. The big winner was Cameras.com, which sold for $1.5 million to Sig at Parked/Directnic. As previously reported, Hell.com didn’t sell. Here is the [...]