Pipes Network Clog Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

NetVibes

I stumbled across a web portal yesterday that is almost exactly what I've been looking for. The site is www.netvibes.com, and its pretty frickin' cool.

For starters, it will show you your weather, preview your email (if you use gmail like you should) and any news clipping you want via RSS, XML or ATOM feeds. Not only that, it marks the feeds you've Read as "read" so you know you've looked at it. No more reading duplicate stories. Best of all, you can check this from anywhere, provided you have an internet connection. So if you like to check the news at work on your lunch, and want to continue at home, you can pick up where you left off on the news articles. You can even import AND export your feeds via OPML! So if you already have them setup in your newsreader, export to OPML and import it into netvibes. You're ready to go.

Another really cool feature is the bookmarks. You can import all of your bookmarks from your browser and have them all on this page. This is something I've been wanting, because now I can access any of my bookmarks from anywhere.

The site is pretty quick too (especially when compared to google personal home page). You can move around all of your news sites and content thanks to the AJAX interface, and even show/hide the stories so only the site name and the number of unread article is visible. This is especially useful if you have alot of sites you check.

While this site is missing a couple things (such as a stock ticker), what is there is very solid, and much better than any of the other similar offerings I've tried. Check it out!

Wakin' with Bacon

This is what I need:

When Sallin first woke up to his Wake n' Bacon alarm clock -- constructed from a gutted Wal-Mart alarm clock, a PIC microcontroller, and two 100-watt halogen lamps -- everything came back to him again. "My first thought was 'Mom's in the kitchen,'

Read about it here.