Sorry, but it’s a done deal. Madison Avenue (the worldwide ”Madison Avenue”) has scored big by introducing billboard domain name extensions. It’s coming to the Internet very soon from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Some 300-500 such applications are expected to be received by ICANN in the first quarter of next year. Companies will be able to use their own name in place of domain extensions such as .com, .org, or .net next year.

In the future when I google basketball shoes, will I get hundreds and hundreds of hits per one company? Take this particular example, all for the same sneaker company, and say it’s the Nodvik company. It might look this for the Nodvik Company.

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Snipped from Newsweek.com.

“Peek-a-boo … you see me?” may have just become, “Now I see you and hear you 24/7/365?” As a young tot, playing Peek-a-Boo with your big brother was probably a great thrill.

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Snipped from MacHeist.com.

Okay, this has been one of the most fun, legal ways to get free apps! MacHeist creates these extremely challenging puzzles, games and investigative adventures, and if you solve them, they reward you with awesome free software.

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Snipped from ArsTechnica.com.

I think I may have discovered the secret behind the NOW President Barack Obama’s success! I believe it could due to his love of apples, and when I say apples, I mean Apples. It seems as though Obama’s political team utilized the Apple Macintosh as their computing platform, and they loved it! Unfortunately, now that they are moving into the White House, they are faced with one of the biggest fears known to man — outdated Windows PC’s.

Ah, the horror! [Shudder]

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Snipped from NewScientist.com.

Now this is pretty cool. There is a company here in the States that can convert plastic bags, “rubber” insulation, pretty much anything originally made from oil back into oil and combustible gas. All they need is a really big microwave unit that uses 1200 different microwave frequencies.

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My New Robot, Herm!

William’s Diary Entries

–William’s Diary Entry for Tuesday 23 June 2020
Grandma died last month and today Dad bought our first worker robot. The cost for the worker robot was Big Wow Bucks. For the down payment it took my Grandmother’s inheritance, loans from Aunt Gayte (Mom’s sister) and from our local bank, and, of course, all of my parents’ savings. Dad had me write a robot resume to find it a good paying job via the Internet. This first worker robot would now be my family’s breadwinner.

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