So many people love South Park and now so many people can watch every episode online, legally!

You have South Park Studios to thank for that. They seem to be going in the right direction and certainly know what is going to get them attention.

The clips and episodes aren’t embeddable….yet. Thats not a big deal at the moment since everyone is going to be happy enough just to watch every episode for free.

There is a lot more stuff at the site than just the clips and episodes though. So if you’re a big South Park fan, you’ll want to check it out.

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A little while back Blogged.com launched and I really like what they have so far. There are tons of places to find new blogs and highly rated blogs. I’m still really fresh to the whole blogging world though and as a newbie, I really like Blogged.com

One thing I really like about Blogged is that each blog has a rating. People can review blogs in addition to the editor’s review of the blog. You can take your rating and put it on your blog to show off how special you are.

It’s easy to find new blogs related to your interests and blogs related to blogs you are looking at. When you view a blog profile you see the blog title, description, category, tags, important links to the blog, a screen shot, the blog rating, recent posts and blog reviews. It’s all the important information you’re looking for.

Blogged also adds a touch of social networking to the service. You can add your friends and share reviews. You can add your own blog to be reviewed and get it more attention in the blogosphere. I even added my blog stupidsucks.com

So if you’re looking for some new blogs to read, you just want to explore more of the blogosphere, or get your own blog reviewed go check them out.

While you’re at it you could write a review of my blog! Wouldn’t that be so nice of you! Be nice though

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Summer is on the way and I’m watching those gas prices start rising bit by bit. It won’t be long before it reaches, and probably passes, $4/gallon. Now I’m not driving right now (thank God) because of an accident awhile back and I just walk to work. It won’t be long though before I am back to driving, that means paying a heck of a lot more for gas that I’d like to.

My mom actually forwarded an email to me about getting your money’s worth at the gas station. I googled some more tips and thought I would share it with everyone else.

Tip #1: The best time to get gas is early in the morning. The gas station’s gas tanks are buried underground to keep them cool. Early in the morning they are nice and cool which means the gasoline is cool. When gasoline is cooled it gets more dense so you get more gas for your hard earned cash. When it gets warm the gasoline expands, meaning you won’t get as much per gallon.

Tip #2: When you fill up the tank don’t rush it! There are three speed settings for the nozzle. Use the lowest one so that the gas isn’t going super fast causing vapors. The pumps at gas stations have a vapor return so when you set it at the highest, the rushing gasoline hitting your gas tank makes lots of vapors which go through the vapor return. The vapor return sends the vapors back into the underground storage tank. Thats gasoline YOU paid for that YOU aren’t getting!

Tip #3: Fill up your tank when it is half empty (or half full ). When you keep your tank filled with gas, you prevent the gas turning into vapors in the empty part of the tank. Most gas tanks have a floating roof to help minimize the gas evaporation but it still happens.

Tip #4: If you see a gasoline truck filling up the storage tanks at the gas station DO NOT GET GAS THERE! When they are filling up the storage tanks the gasoline is getting stirred up. So when you get gas there is a chance you could get the impurities and dirt that normall settles on the bottom of the storage tank.

Tip #5: Gas stations you should buy gas from are the ones that don’t import their gasoline from the Saudies. The Saudis are boycotting American goods so don’t buy their gas. Here are companies that import oil from the Middle East:

• Shell - 205,742,000 barrels
• Chevron/Texaco - 144,332,000 barrels
• Exxon /Mobil - 130,082,000 barrels
• Marathon/Speedway - 117,740,000 barrels
• Amoco - 62,231,000 barrels

Citgo gas is from South America, from a Dictator who hates Americans. If you do the math at $30/barrel, these imports amount to over $18 BILLION! (oil is now $90 - $100 a barrel) Here are some large companies that do not import Middle Eastern oil:

• Sunoco - 0 barrels
• Conoco - 0 barrels
• Sinclair - 0 barrels
• BP/Phillips - 0 barrels
• Hess - 0 barrels
• ARCO - 0 barrels

If you go to Sunoco.com, you will get a list of the station locations near you. All of this information is available from the Department of Energy and each is required to state where they get their oil and how much they areimporting. But to have an impact, we need to reach literally millions of gas buyers. It’s really simple to do.

Additional tips at gasbuddy.com

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Happy Easter everyone! Of course Easter wouldn’t be the same without an easter egg hunt! There are several sites around the web doing just that. I always remember going to my grandmother’s house every Easter and running around her yard to find tons of cool hidden prizes. Now that I’m older, I get more excited about cool things hidden in software or something than candy (except maybe donuts ).

Here are some cool easter eggs and the like (lots from Google):

• Lifehacker - they have a top 10 list of software easter eggs
• Google - egg catching bunny
• Google - in Klingon
• Google - in Pig Latin
• Google - looking at it in a mirror
• Google - Elmer Fudd
• Google - Hackers
• Google - Linux
• Google - BSD
• Google - Gothic
• Google - Answer to life, the universe and everything.
• Google - Find Chuck Norris
• Eeggs - Archives of Software Easter Eggs

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While researching some other web technology today I kept running across mentions of Drop.io Now, I actually came across Drop.io about a month ago. I took a peek at it and set it aside for later. ….and then I forgot about it.

Well, now that I’ve come across it again I thought i’d take some extra time to really see what can be done with it and what they have to offer. I have to say that thus far I’m really impressed. It’s simple, it’s easy, and it works…really well.

The first thing you’re going to notice (since it’s the entire point of drop.io) is the file storage/sharing capabilities. It’s simple, name your drop, upload your files, pick your settings (super simple) …and drop it!

They don’t ask for an email, you don’t have to go through any sign-up, and it’s fast. Once you choose your drop name and drop it, you go right into the drop (account). As the front page will tell you, you’ll see in your drop that you can do so much more than upload and download files.

Drop.io sets you up with an email address that you can send notes and files to, a voice mail number, the capability to setup a conference call and faxing. So here’s a breakdown:

• Email Address: You can send text for a note or attachments to upload files
• Voicemail: Simple, call your voice mail number, punch in the extension, and leave yourself a message. It will save the message as an mp3 in your drop that you can listen to, share, etc.
• Conference Call: I haven’t tried this one but you have a number setup as your conference call line.
• Receive a fax: You can have people send you faxes, which show up in your drop. They have to print out a cover letter with a special section at the bottom but thats a minor inconvenience.
• Send a fax: I really like this feature. You can easily just send a fax from a .pdf or .doc to anyone in the US.

So thats the gist of the list of features. There are a couple other minor ones like adding links, notes, etc. The last two things I want to mention are premium and widget.

You only get 100MB for free. I know that is not nearly enough for getting some of the files I handle moved around but thankfully you can upgrade the service to 1GB for $10. That also upgrades the drop life to last 1 year. The point of Drop.io isn’t long term storage or large storage, it’s a quick “drop” space but I have a feeling it will turn into much more than that. One thing they don’t mention anywhere except on the “Custom” page is you can purchase more space.

Now about the widget! I don’t like having to go to the drop site every time I want to upload a file. I don’t like having to tell person after person the drop address either. Thats where the widget comes in. Just get the code snipet for your widget and put it in your site.

You can even customize the widget a little bit (assuming you know a little html and css) which is easy. The image above is an example (the View Drop button was added). You can also have the look customized by Drop.io

So there ya have it! Quite a useful site, even for those old faxing goobers out there. This is definitely something aiding the fight against stupid!

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The auction for “C” block wireless airwaves (used by TV broadcasters) in the 700-megahertz spectrum is finally over. Verizon Wireless is guessed to have won the auction but the winners are still being kept secret.

Lots of people don’t like Verizon but I’ve had cellular service with them since high school and they’ve always been great for me. I know have 4 phone lines and “unlimited” broadband with them. They’ve always done well and taken care of me so I hope if they did win the auction that they come up with some really good services and make them cheap! lol, like Verizon is going to do that.

The auction apparently ended at $19.59 billion!

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