http://www.geeksugar.com Geek is chic en http://www.geeksugar.com/1589517 <a href="http://www.geeksugar.com/1589517"><img width=160 height=114 src='http://media.onsugar.com/files/upl1/1/15111/18_2008/jason chace_1.large.jpg'></div></a><p><span class="inline left"></span></p> <ul> <li>At the Mario Kart Wii launch at the Nintendo World store in New York this week, Jason Priestley and Chace Crawford took part in some <a href="http://kotaku.com/384802/mario-kart-wii-launch-starring-jason-priestley" target="_blank">Mario Karting action</a>! - <b>Kotaku</b></li> <li>Here's another wasteful company to add to the list. Canon used a ginormous box to ship a <a href="http://consumerist.com/385245/canon-uses-comically-oversized-box-to-send-you-something-they-could-have-taped-to-a-postcard" target="_blank">tiny computer part to a customer</a>. Next time, try saving money, packaging, and the earth! - <b>Consumerist</b></li> <li>Yahoo! is hoping to cash in on the popularity of social networks by making its <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/services/2008-04-25-yahoo-redesign_N.htm?csp=34" target="_blank">website into a social hub</a> where users can customize their own web pages. - <b>USA Today</b></li> <li>Due to overwhelming traffic from Miley Cyrus' seminude photos, <b>Vanity Fair</b> had to <a href="http://www.shinyshiny.tv/2008/04/naked_miley_cyr.html" target="_blank">temporarily shut down their website</a>. - <b>Shiny Shiny</b></li> <li>Rumors are circling that Tony Hawk will be teaming up with Sidekick to launch a <a href="http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2008/04/29/tony-hawk-sidekick-lx-coming-soon/" target="_blank">special-edition Tony Hawk Sidekick LX</a>. - <b>The Boy Genius Report</b></li> <li>More and more people are ditching their landline telephones and turning to <a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/04/28/cellphones-now-treated-as-commodity-one-third-of-people-ditch-landlines/" target="_blank">cell phones as their primary phone</a>. - <b>CrunchGear</b></li> </ul> http://www.geeksugar.com/1589517#comment Daily Tech Mario Kart Wii chace crawford Jason Priestley Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:00:47 -0700 GeekSugar http://www.geeksugar.com/1589517 http://www.geeksugar.com/1573083 <a href="http://www.geeksugar.com/1573083"><img width=160 height=99 src='http://media.onsugar.com/files/upl1/1/15111/17_2008/tell me_1.large.jpg'></div></a><p><span class="inline left"></span></p> <ul> <li>With Tellme, a new utility for BlackBerry users, can get <a href="http://www.rimarkable.com/microsoft-launches-tellme-voice-based-search-for-blackberry" target="_blank">directions, movie times, and business info by saying the name of the item in their phones</a>! - <b>RIMarkable</b></li> <li>If you happen to be in New York this weekend, you can test drive Mario Kart Wii at the <a href="http://kotaku.com/382974/mario-kart-wii-with-jason-priestley-in-nyc" target="_blank">Nintendo World Store with Jason Priestley</a>. - <b>Kotaku</b></li> <li>At the Fortune Green conference, Dell showed off their new <a href="http://www.gadgetell.com/tech/comment/dell-intros-super-small-eco-friendly-bamboo-green-desktop-pc/" target="_blank">environmentally-friendly mini PC</a>.- <b>Gadgetell</b></li> <li>Are you a big Amazon shopper? Check out Lifehackers list of <a href="http://lifehacker.com/382714/top-10-amazon-power-shopper-tools" target="_blank">10 amazing Amazon power shopper tools</a>. - <b>Lifehacker</b></li> <li>Shiny Shiny reviews <a href="http://www.shinyshiny.tv/2008/04/shiny_30_second.html" target="_blank">Facebook's new chat feature</a>. - <b>Shiny Shiny</b></li> </ul> http://www.geeksugar.com/1573083#comment Daily Tech tell me Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:35:08 -0700 GeekSugar http://www.geeksugar.com/1573083