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Woz Prepping for South Pole Trip

Woz Prepping for South Pole Trip

by , 12:55 PM EDT, August 1st, 2006

Apple co-founder, Steve Wozniak, will be ditching his Segway temporarily to drive a hydrogen fuel cell-powered Hummer to the South Pole with Buzz Aldrin. Woz dropped the news in passing while speaking at the AlwaysOn conference at Stanford, according to Barrons. James Cameron plans to film the expedition in 3D.

Woz will be part of a group that is driving several Hummers from McMurdo Station to the South Pole in December of 2007. In true Woz style, his co-pilot is one of the first humans to walk on the moon.

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Close Name:geoduck Posts: 1922 Joined: 30 Dec 2003
Tue Aug 01, 2006 1:26 pm Subject:

OK let me be the second to say I REALLY dislike those double underlined links to pop-up ads. Hydrogen, South Pole, and moon, at least on my machine with Safari are the offenders. Oddly enough IE doesn't show them while FireFox on a Win machine does.

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Close Name:Mikuro Posts: 457 Joined: 15 Jun 2002
Tue Aug 01, 2006 1:39 pm Subject: Balloon ads

Oh crap, does TMO use those ads, too? I hadn't noticed myself, since I filtered them immediately when I saw them on MacUpdate a week or two ago. PithHelmet, oh how I love thee. Just filter items that contain "KonaLibInline.js". Peace.

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Close Name:theKiwi Posts: 7 Joined: 21 Jul 2005
Tue Aug 01, 2006 1:54 pm Subject: The Links

And as someone who has worked in Antarctica I kinda thought that a link to an article about the actual programme and trip might have been hiding under one of those links, but no such luck - what a stupid idea - both for whoever thought up those links and the pop up, and for me thinking they might lead somewhere useful.

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Close Name:Ibn Rushd Posts: 51 Joined: 16 May 2006
Tue Aug 01, 2006 2:11 pm Subject: I am kind of mixed

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geoduck wrote:
OK let me be the second to say I REALLY dislike those double underlined links to pop-up ads. Hydrogen, South Pole, and moon, at least on my machine with Safari are the offenders. Oddly enough IE doesn't show them while FireFox on a Win machine does.

I understand the need to have ads pay for free-to-visit web sites, but I hate the pop-up and pop-unders, as well as the ones that strobe twice a second (which can make me leave a site). At least these ads don't pop-up automatically, but the double underlines do distract a bit from the body copy.

Mikuro, thanks for the tip on PithHelmet.

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Close Name:Biff Posts: 1479 Joined: 08 Apr 2004
Tue Aug 01, 2006 2:50 pm Subject:

This is the weirdest story I have seen in quite some time.

"Filmmaking God to Videotape Fat, Old Geek and Retired Moon Walker Driving Hummer in Snow."

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Close Name:computerbandgeek Posts: 52 Joined: 09 Jun 2006
Tue Aug 01, 2006 8:29 pm Subject:

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geoduck wrote:
OK let me be the second to say I REALLY dislike those double underlined links to pop-up ads. Hydrogen, South Pole, and moon, at least on my machine with Safari are the offenders. Oddly enough IE doesn't show them while FireFox on a Win machine does.

Oh the wonders of the firefox extension "adblock" and the "filterset.g updater". I didn't even know about this new advertising form until it was mentioned above.

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Close Name:Steve W Posts: 482 Joined: 22 Nov 2002
Wed Aug 02, 2006 11:14 am Subject:

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computerbandgeek wrote:
Oh the wonders of the firefox extension "adblock" and the "filterset.g updater". I didn't even know about this new advertising form until it was mentioned above.

Don't you realize you're stealing TMO by doing this? [/sarcasm]

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Close Name:Rainy Day Posts: 607 Joined: 07 Jun 2005
Thu Aug 03, 2006 1:45 pm Subject: SafariBlock

SafariBlock is free. I never knew about those ads until i read the comments. Ha ha!

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