Good news, everyone!  As well all know, the internet is a dirty, filthy place, and has been since it was first invented by Al Gore a few years ago.  Thank heavens Chinese President Hu Jintao recently announced his government’s plan to clean up the “unhealthy” content online, and to make it a hub page for the posting of wise Communist ...

If there’s one piece of truly good news coming out of the pending merger between XM and Sirius satellite radio, it’s the spreading of Howard Stern’s wise word.  The official King of Shock Jock radio – known for his stripper interviews and “smallest wiener” contests – is now asking U.S. pop TV fans to help throw American Idol.  ...

Back in the late 1980s and early 90s, U.S. state and federal governments tried just about everything to keep kids from dropping out.  The most popular method seemed to involve paying off millionaire celebrities, like Michael Jordan, to don posters and even t-shirts with the “Stay in School” message.  Now, there’s a new initiative to ...

This poll shows how important blogging has become as a form of media. GizmoCafe’s own Gizmo blogger, Wayde Robson is almost as popular as Pirate star, Johnny Depp and has already beaten out Ashton Kutcher, Justin Timberlake and 50 Cent. While this popularity contest is not exactly as scientific as a well planned survey, it does show that blogging ...

All right, so this big “5 things you don’t know about me” blog phenomenon is seriously peaking. Otherwise, I certainly wouldn’t be interested, but since I’m willing to try anything once – and that means aaaanything – I’ll go ahead and let you in on five stupid details most people don’t know about Brando. 1) For one, I once, but no longer, ...

Posts to the Gizmo Cafe blog have been a little thin lately because I’ve attended a two day seminar on the topics of website development and Web2.0 principals. The shindig was thrown by an SEO guru and all around usability expert named Rand, aka Randfish from SEOMoz. If you’d like to benefit from the wisdom of SEOMoz, its blog is literally giving ...

The moral bankruptcy of the video game industry is back in the spotlight! Games are under fire again with the recent shooting spree in Montreal Quebec, Canada. On Wednesday of this week, a 25-year-old named Kimveer Gill walked into a Montreal college and opened fire, killing one student and injuring 19 others. Inspiration for the ...

I’ve crawled back from my canoe trip through the Park. Expect the blog articles to flow from my fingertips like manna from a raging spellcaster in that MMORPG you try to pretend you don’t know anything about (I really don’t). Or if you prefer, articles will pile into this blog like pickup trucks on free beer night at the Rawhide Saloon. Yes, ...

 The Gizmo Cafe blog is pleased to announce that we now have Stan Eisenberg as a contributor. Stan offers authority in just about every aspect of audio / video engineering. He contributes to us from his electronics laboratory powered by the static charge of his Tesla Coil array located in a remote corner of Michigan State University in East ...