If you live on the East Coast and always wanted to go to the Macworld Expo, but can’t. Please sign my petition so Macworld can once again return to the East Coast.
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Archive for March 12th, 2006
This has got to be one of the coolest sites EVER!!!!! The Wayback Machine is a site that keeps archives of pages on the Internet that go as far back as 1996! For more information, check out my MacUser post on the subject, or just read it below:
Have you ever wanted to see the page for the original OS X? What about the iPod? Well, now you can with the Wayback Machine. The Wayback Machine, which is run by Internet Archive, a site dedicated to making a digital library of all the pages and media on the Web, allows you to visit archived pages that have long since vanished. Simply put in the URL of the site you want to see an archive of, click “Take Me Back,” and you will see a list of dates that the site you requested has been archived on. For example, I can see archives of the the Apple.com homepage that go as far back as October 1996! And I can even click on links on the archived pages and go to their archived pages! Awesome! The Wayback Machine is a great research tool, but you can also have a lot of fun. Now you can finally relive the glory days of System 7.
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On Friday night, we had one of my dad’s friends and her son over for dinner. We talked about politics, technology, and "stuff." Somehow, I ended up telling a story about how in Zitomars, a clothing/make-up store and pharmacy in the Upper East Side, I was bored and found myself looking at the dog food aisle. Don’t ask me why, but when I looked at the ingrediants for some dog biscuits, I noticed that they contained some very healthy ingrediants including all-natural and organic chicken, beef, begatables, and fish. That got me thinking on how it would be cool if they made biscuits like that for people. I mean, think about it. You’ve got all of these healthy, nutritious ingrediants all in one little, tasty package. Yum! And they could also be good for children in poverty who can’t afford whole chickens, steaks, fish, etc., but they can instead get all of these foods from a biscuits. Wow, I gues great ideas really can come from strange places.
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If you’ve seen my previous Daily Show posts, you know that I got screwed there because we came too late and weren’t far enough up in the line to get in. But what I didn’t tell you was that you need to be at least 18 to get in, which I’m not. We now have VIP tickets to a Daily Show taping, which guarantees us entry, but they’ll turn us down if they catch me as being 14. So, after a tip from a friend, my dad and I headed downtown to near NYU to pick up an item that college students love dearly, the fake ID.
We arrived at the tattoo shop that we were instructed to go to. It fit the description perfectly: small, scuzzy, and it had a back room that employees were constantly going in and out of. We walked in to the shop waited on line with several other people. While we were waiting, I obsrved my surroundings, which consisted of jewlrey, some fetish, and a man playing a game on his Treo while waiting to be tatooed, and most likely infected based on the look and feel of the store. After a minute or two, a man came to the counter and started taking orders for tatoos. When he asked my dad, he answered, loudly enough so that the whole store could here (which, to be fair, isn’t too hard) that he needed a fake ID for me his 14 year old son. The man started repeating things such as "ID, ID, what’s an ID? I don’t understand." After my dad clarified, the man insisted that he didn’t sell anythiing of the sort. After my dad giving the man a look, we left the store.
At first I was a bit puzzled at why they didn’t tell us they sold IDs, which they obviously did. But then it hit me: they thought my dad was a cop. My dad, a cop, NYPD, undercover, a narc. Just the thought made me bend over with laughter. I mean, come on, when my sister heard this whole story even she blurted out "Daddy’s too old to be an undercover cop!" True, but apparently the tattoo store guy didn’t want to take any chances.
Anyway, after that we went to another tattoo store across the street, and a couple down Christopher Street, yet to no avail. This closest we ever got to a confession to the existence of the fake IDs was at a store on Christopher Street when the man there, after saying "You know, that’s [buying fake IDs] illegal," told us that you could try the East Village, which was far too long a trek from Christopher Street right next to the Hudson River.
So, alas, the day ended with no fake IDs. Hopefully The Daily Show won’t catch us, but just in case my dad’s bringing $100 of bribery money.
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Aaron Freedman is a 16 year old who's very passionate and knowledgeable about technology and journalism. He enjoys working on his two main projects, 
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