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Woot Happy Hour: No, You Can’t Run A Tab
We’d love to have a drink with all of our Twitter followers after work, but we still haven’t found a bar big enough for 1.6 million people. So we’re showing the love the only way we know how: by selling even more cheap stuff. Introducing Woot Happy Hour. Every so often, after a particularly rough day on the job, we’ll whisk you away at 4 p.m. Central to a mini-Woot-Off that will last exactly one hour before it turns into a virtual pumpkin. But when, exactly?
There’s only one way to find out: follow @woot on Twitter. We’ll be announcing Happy Hour there and only there. Yes, we’ve finally discovered a compelling reason to join Twitter. Turn up your nose at your peril. While you’re sitting in splendid isolation on Superiority Island, the more pragmatic of your fellow wooters will be feasting on deals the likes of which you can scarcely imagine.
(Unless, of course, you can imagine a condensed Woot-Off without the Woot-Off killers.)
To further encourage the Twittification of America, Happy Hour sales will not be accompanied by the usual discussion forums. If you want to shoot your mouth off about a deal, tweet about it using the #woot hashtag. You can dive right into the flow of comments yourself, or wait for our forum moderators to scour these tweets for the best and most insightful. We’ll feature those on the front page of the sale a la our Quality Posts. But shorter. And faster. And with an extra helping of Web 2.0.
Woot Happy Hour is better than your regular old happy hour in one important way: it’s much less likely to lead to an awkward, regrettable make-out session with one of your co-workers. Wait, maybe that means it’s worse than your regular old happy hour.
Whatever the case, we hope to see you following our Twitter feed (@woot, remember?) and getting happy with us once or twice a week. Just do us a favor: if we get a little carried away, take away our car keys and call us a cab.
No One Likes a Bragger.
Sure, you've got a Facebook with a status bar you can use to update the world on your feelings about current events and your virtual farm. You've even got a Twitter account so you can let everyone know you just ran out of Funyuns and your roommate Wayne peed on the seat again. And that comes in handy when you're not checking in on Foursquare as the rightful-if-begrudging mayor of your local unemployment office. But where do you go to let everyone around you know that you just got lucky?
Why, I Just Made Love, of course!
The "Test her Skills for Free" banner ad is unrelated, but hilarious nonetheless.
I Just Made Love is a site combining two things people can't get enough of: Google Maps and voyeuristic exhibitionism. You simply enter the location of the dirty deeds done and use the handy icons to indicate your and your partner's gender (sorry, but I Just Made Love By Myself's servers crashed tragically just seconds after launch) and where it took place. So far the options are a little sparse: couch, boat, or outside? Is bed that antiquated an option? You can then type a little blurb about how "totally friggin' sweet, bro" your experience was.
You can also checkmark if it was your first time and whether or not you practiced safe sex. You can even add your email address so you can be updated with any comments you might receive and, presumably, so people can add your email address to their "Do not talk to" list when they see you didn't check the safe sex box. Forget enjoying a cigarette: the new Hollywood cliche will be rolling over to tap away feverishly on an iPhone.
Of course if you really wanted to get devious, you could do something evil and post a marker in the parking lot of your building with a note thanking a specific co-worker you wanted to embarrass.
We'll leave all the details like orientation and number of boats included up to you.
Look Out, Kid, You're No Longer Flashing Red
Geekologie has turned us on to something cool. Something that we feel should have existed a long, long time ago.
That's right, they're NES Cartridge Harmonicas. Finally, there's something classy for when you want to accompany yourself while playing Guitar Hero!
Apparently you can only buy these beauties on eBay and they're just over twenty bucks, which seems pretty reasonable for such a cool harmonica. But what we'd like to know this: if we took one on stage during some 8 Bit Music Festival, would Pete Seeger get mad and try to plug it in?
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An Acceptable Use Of Any Public Servant's Time
Like any Federal building stuffed full of elected officials, the Utah State Capitol is a place where many, many, many stupid decisions are made. The latest and most spectacular bad decision involved our monkeys, and a balcony, and an echo, and lots and lots of marble. Oh, and there was a video camera too. Take a look...
Assuming that no one got fired for this, we find it incredibly cool that our happy little mascots got to fly in the Utah State Senate. We also like the frog, even though we have no idea where he even came from. Communist infiltrator or third party hero? You be the judge.
Thanks to dogbreath2 for playing the part of Deep Throat and releasing this dark, governmental secret.
Sanyo Xacti High Definition SDHC Camcorder with 30X Optical Zoom and Bonus Pack - $139.99
Daddy, how was I born?
Well, “born” isn’t quite the right word, Clonathon. You were grown from various strands of DNA in a nutrient tank in a secret laboratory far below the Nevada desert.
You were one of among tens of thousands of other clones being created for an army of super soldiers to be loosed upon the world by the Shadow Government in its plans to bring us all under its control. But there was something special about you. Something so special, in fact, that your mother, who isn’t really your “mother”, but the female scientist that was assigned to you, and I decided to hatch a scheme to steal you away from that place and raise you as our very own child. After carefully sabotaging the Shadow Government’s plan and escaping in a truly heroic fashion involving guard dogs, cyborg ninjas, and many, MANY explosions, we found our way to this quaint Midwestern town where we all live in hiding under assumed names to keep under their radar should they ever want revenge.
But even though we no longer work for those villains, we still consider the experiment to be on-going. That’s why we take time every day to record videos of your progress with our Sayno 720p HD Camcorder. You remember when we had you lift that tractor over your head? Well, it was important for our research that we capture that moment in high definition 1280×720 30fps video and H.264/MPEG-4 AVC format. With several white balance, light measuring, and exposure controls, every video we take of your runs through the laser obstacle course in the basement is perfectly lit and rendered for our needs. And not only that, but it came with a fetching travel case, a 1GB SD Card, and 2 Li-ion batteries, so that we never miss a moment, even when you use your psychic powers to steal toaster pastries from the pantry, you little scamp.
Oh, look at the clock. It’s getting close to your bedtime, young man. You know the rules. Let’s get you in your jammies and practice using your setting things on fire with the power of your mind before sleepy ni-ni time.
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Warranty: 90 Day Sanyo
Features:
- Captures high definition 1280×720 30fps video in H.264/MPEG-4 AVC format
- Record directly to SD/SDHC memory cards (1GB SD card included, accepts up to 32GB SDHC)
- Dual Camera allows you to shoot video and still shots at the same time, so you are sure to get the exact shot you want
- Features a 30x Optical zoom, 50x digital zoom
- Shoot 2-megapixel still images (effective pixel rate is 1.1 megapixels)
- Digital Image Stabilizer automatically compensates for distracting up-and-down or side-to-side camera movement, keeping your subject steady and easy to follow
- Face Detection recognizes up to 12 faces for videos and still pictures and optimizes focus and aperture settings to ensure all subjects are in focus
- Face chaser detects the subjects face and adjusts the brightness and focus in a way that produces a clear and bright photo
- Enjoy in-camera editing on the large 3" TFT LCD screen
- Eight scene modes help you get the perfect shot
- Mini HDMI connects to an HDTV for playback
- Continuous/Sequential Shooting ensures you won't miss a shot or any "can't-miss" photos
- Sepia, Standard, Monochrome and Cosmetic digital filters change the look of your pictures easily for an artistic touch
- Built-in stereo speaker, microphone and wind noise reduction feature
- Focus system includes 9-point AF plus spot and continuous area AF
- Battery Life (In use) stills: approx 470 images, video: up to 3 hrs and 20 mins; Playback: approx 9.5 hrs
Additional Photos:
- Sanyo VPC-ZH1R Red 720p HD Camcorder
- Sanyo VPC-ZH1R LCD Extended
- Sanyo VPC-ZH1R LCD Extended and Flipped Around
- Sanyo VPC-ZH1R On/Off, USB/AV Port, HDMI Port, and SDHC Card Slot
- Sanyo VPC-ZH1R Rear Controls
- Sanyo VPC-ZH1R Zoom Control
- Sanyo VPC-ZH1R Microphone and Flash
- Sanyo VPC-ZH1R Box
- Sanyo VPC-ZH1R with Memory Card Inserted
- Sanyo VPC-ZH1R Bottom View
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Specifications:
- Image sensor: 1/6-inch CMOS sensor
- White balance: Full-auto TTL, manual setting possible
- Red-eye reduction
- Exposure control type: Programmable AE/Shutter speed priority AE/Aperture priority AE/Manual exposure control
- Light-measuring mode: multi-section measuring, center-weighted measuring, spot measuring
- Digital zoom: 1x to approx. 50x (for shooting), 1x to 25x (for playback, varies with resolution)
- Sensitivity: Up to ISO 1600 in still image shooting, up to ISO 800 in video recording
- Flash modes: auto, forced, off
- Self-timer: approx. 2-second delay, 10-second delay
- Multi-language user interface with talking navigation guide
- Unit Dimensions (H x W x D, approximate): 2.25×2.25×4.0-inches
Image format:
- Still images: JPEG (DCF, DPOF, Exif 2.2 compliant)
- Video: Conforms to ISO-standard MPEG-4 AVC/H.264
- Audio: MPEG-4 audio (AAC compression), 48 kHz sampling rate, 16-bit stereo format
Data Storage:
- Internal memory: 43MB
- SD or SDHC Memory Card (accepts up to 32GB SDHC card)
- Record about 2 hours on an 8GB SDHC memory card
Lens:
- Focal length: f = 2.5 mm to 75.0 mm, optical 30x zoom
- Open: F = 1.8 (wide) to 4.3 (tele)
Range:
- Normal mode: 50 cm (19.69 in.) to infinity
- Super macro mode: 1 cm (0.39 in.) to 1 m (3.28 ft) (wide end only)
Shutter speed:
- Still image shooting mode: 1/2 to 1/500 sec.
- Sequential shots mode: 1/15 to 1/500 sec. (no flash)
- Video recording mode: 1/30 to 1/10,000 sec.
Still image resolution:
- 1600×1200 (2 MP)
- 1184×888 (1.1 MP)
- 1280×720 (0.9 MP)
- 640×480 (0.3 MP)
Video resolution:
- 1280×720 (HD mode - 30 fps/9Mbps)
- 640×480 @ 60 fps, 30 fps
I/O Ports:
- HDMI
- USB/AV
- SD/SDHC card slot
- DC in
System Requirements:
- Windows XP SP2, Vista, 7
- CPU: Core 2 Duo 1.8GHz, Pentium 4 3.6GHz, Athlon X2 3600+
- RAM: 512MB
- Video RAM: 128MB
In the box:
- Sanyo VPC-ZH1R Red 720p HD Camcorder
- 1GB SD Memory Card
- 2 Li-ion batteries
- Mini HDMI Cable
- Soft Case with Strap
- USB Cable
- AC Adapter
- Grip Belt
- AV Interface Cable
- Lens Cap
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