Wednesday, February 28th, 2007 12:05 am GMT +8

YouTube – Peter Tosh – Don�t look back from SNL:

Apparently, its from December 1978, with Elliot Gould introducing Peter Tosh at the beginning.

From Steve Rubel – Turn Gmail Into Your Personal Nerve Center:
This series has several parts…

Rumshot is an application for Windows similar to SnapShooter (Mac OS X) developed by Andrew Powell. Rumshot is designed to create a beautifully framed preview in a few seconds, as well as taking screenshots of your desktop.

Rumshot isn’t just your average screenshot untility. Rumshot uses themes to generate stylish screenshot previews, in addition to saving your screenshot in a number of formats with several options.

More reports via crash.net regarding the possibility of a MotoGp roudn at the famous Indianapolis 500 brickyard. According to a “Motorcycle USA” report the Indianapolis Motor Speedway is to modify its existing road course layout in order to get a round of the world championship MotoGP in August 2008, and the new layout has already been approved by the FIM.

There’s currently a particular banked corner that forms part of the oval – currently used for just three events each year, the Indy 500 (Indianapolis Racing League), the Brickyard 400 (NASCAR) and the U.S. Grand Prix (Formula 1) – which has been the scene of some prett yferocious accidents.

What this means for California’s Laguna Seca raceway, which currently hosts the US round of the MotoGP World Championship, is open to speculation, but note that both Italy and Spain already have multiple GP events each season, and Speedway officials have stated they aren’t trying to take the USGP away from California.

Robert Heinlein once said that the committee was the only life form in the universe with three or more bellies and no brain. MSNBC reports that his statement may have some statistical truth to it. Researchers are finding that meetings are actually bad places to be creative. You’re not actually ‘dumber’ when you’re in the meeting, just more likely to lose your creative edge. Studies have now shown that, as collaborative primates, the more often a possibility is mentioned the more likely the group is to go along with it. Individuals placed by themselves were more likely to come up with imaginative alternatives to products, for example.

via Download Squad:
If you are constantly changing networks, say between work and home, and / or one of your frequently accessed networks requires you to use a specific IP address rather than a dynamically allocated one, it’s not easy to switch them when you change locations. Well, it’s not hard, but it’s a pain.

A freeware app called Net Profiles could be your answer. NetProfiles will do a number of things at the click of a mouse to reconfigure your computer to a different environment:

• Save your network settings as profiles.
• Automatically activate wireless profiles when specified wireless connections are detected.
• Change IP Address, Subnet Mask, Default Gateway, Primary and Secondary DNS Servers, WINS Server, and DHCP settings with the click of a button.
• Specify different mapped drives for each profile.
• Change your default printer based on which profile you’re currently using.
• Automatically change your profile via program shortcuts created with Net Profiles.
• Change the default homepage for Internet Explorer and Firefox.
• Proxy settings for Internet Explorer and Firefox.
• Run a user-defined list of programs when a profile is activated.
• Maintain seperate desktop wallpaper for each profile.
• Change screen resolutions and color quality when profiles are activated.

fromGoogle Operating System:
If you want to monitor the latest news about global warming, Google or your favorite basketball team, there’s a newsbar gadget for the Personalized Homepage that shows the headlines at the top of the page and news snippets in the gadget container.
Also find out how to include SOME Google Gadgets Into Any Page.

Hackszine.com: Choose Your Own Product Placement

Josh Paul, author of Digital Video Hacks, has created a pretty amazing product placement experiment:

While viewing, pay attention to the table; there will be a box of cereal on it (or not). The box of cereal can be changed by using the links below. After changing a placement, simply restart the video from the beginning.

The video is also clickable, so when a product is on screen, clicking on it leads to an appropriate web site.

From Declutter Your Desk: