Folks. I have a confession to make. I’ve been secretly cheating on all of you for some time now. Oh, and to make matters worse, I’m proud of it.

Yes, you already know that a few months ago I joined Layered Technologies as the Chief Marketing Officer… but I’ve got another on the side. And she’s called Woopra. I’ve been secretly working with Elie Khoury and Jad Younan on this project, and we just unveiled it yesterday at WordCamp, making Beta accounts available for the first time for all participants.

What can I tell you about Woopra? She’s hot, smooth, smart, and sexy. But don’t take my word for it… Here is what Cali from GeekBrief had to say after just a few minutes with Woopra.
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• Inside Neverland Ranch
• 50 Reasons Why Young Women Should Date Older Men
• Neckband Detects User Thoughts And Translates to Speech [Neural Interface]
• The Newspaper Clipping Generator
• Third Date Sex Rule Not Always the Charm
• FAA levels record $10.2M fine against Southwest

I’ve got quite a smorgasborg of random links for you guys today. Hope you enjoy!

• I don’t even know how to describe this. Just check out the Hema “product” page.
• Have a dog or cat? Get a Peticure to trim their nails.
• MoreWords.com helps solve crossword puzzles, word games, and generates domain name ideas.
• Clone photos on Flickr are cool. They are photos with the same person in multiple poses.
• Obama leads Clinton 1,611 to 1,480 in total delegate count.
• Barack Obama: On Net Neutrality, which I’ve long advocated!
• Prostitution: A User’s Manual from The Huffington Post
• The universe explained in 4 minutes or less.

It’s been a little while since I’ve dished out my weekly links. Let’s see if I can get back in the habit from here on out…

• Threadless Wall Graphics Shop - Very cool! And Cheap!
• Spade High School’s Last Graduation
• Cool Cars We Miss - #1 My NSX!
• TripIt is a travel assistant that automatically organizes travel plans.
• Bubble Guru is totally cool. But way, way too expensive. Where is the free version?

My favorite two things to watch on TV are Human Weapon, staring Bill Duff and Jason Chambers, and Ultimate Fighting Championship. Human Weapon is a show where Jason and Bill travel around the world studying all of the various martial arts for a week at a time, and then create a one hour documentary covering the history, techniques and science behind the various styles.

Bill is a former pro football player and wrestler, and Jason is a former Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighter. They each have their own strengths and weaknesses. Bill for example is huge. At 6′4″ and 280 lbs when he travels around he’s normally the biggest human in the building. It’s especially challenging for the Asian countries to match his size. However, he’s not as quick as a smaller fighter. Jason is very fast, and technically more proficient. At 170lbs and 5′11″ he’s very close to my size. (After the Marines I weighted in at 176 and 6′.)

Jason and Bill have traveled all over the world and studied everything from Muay Thai to Pankration, to Silat - plus about 13 other styles that you may or may not have ever heard of. The show is just plain bad ass, and luckily you can watch a lot of the clips over on the History Channel site.
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Yet another funny one from Colby Jones. How does he come up with this stuff?!?

I’ve previously written about how to access your PC from anywhere for free, and my favorite tool for this purpose is LogMeIn.com. The only problem with LogMeIn is, you need to have previously installed, and have running, the LogMeIn application in order to access the machine remotely.

But what if your buddy / relative / coworker calls you out of the blue wanting you to diagnose some computer issue and you know it would be 100 times easier if you could just remote control the computer? Well, no problem! CrossLoop is the fastest, easiest method of accomplishing this.
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News that shouldn’t be missed:

• Miniature Earth (Must see!)
• Crack Users Do More Time Than People Convicted of Manslaughter
• Five Years in Jail for Porn Spammers
• It’s Now Illegal to Feed the Homeless
• Scientists Invent 30 Year Continuous Power Laptop Battery

Have a great weekend!

Entertain me!

• ‘In Economic Terms, You Are a Depreciating Asset’
• Tequila Vision!
• Traffic Signals Video - Not kid safe!
• All Linkin Park Songs LOOK The Same
• Driving like a Video Game

This weeks theme… Art!

• Ron Mueck: Hyper-Realist Sculptor
• Adam Burn: Burn Comics (Contains nudes. You have been warned.)
• Matt Bilfield (make sure and look around the site, not just at this one piece)
• Bob Staake Illustrations
• The Beauty of MS Paint
• Peter Callesen Paper Art
• Paintalicious

Here are this week’s links… otherwise known as things that I would have blogged about, if I had time to do so…

• Beleaguered bear in bridge rescue (in Pictures)
• UK can now demand data decryption on penalty of jail time
• Burmese monks ‘to be sent away’
• 20 Most Amazing Coincidences
• 10 Reasons To Eat More Chocolate

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Greg, this one’s for you!

Ok, so months ago I was talking to my buddy Greg about wireless routers, and I mentioned that you can get this upgraded firmware which will drastically improve your range and add features. Then, I totally forgot to send that information to him. But don’t worry, it’s not the only thing he’s waiting on. I still haven’t delivered a piece of art he ordered like a year ago! (Sorry Kim!)

Anyway, now that I’m done admitting my inadequacies, it’s time to redeem myself - at least partially. So, if you are the owner of a Linksys WRT54G series router (only like THE most popular router ever sold), then follow along to change it into something almost unrecognizably better than what you currently have!
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