A Swedish couple hunting on a remote mountain in Sweden’s far northern region of Jaemtland this week found 70 pairs of shoes, all filled with butter. It’s not going to be pretty when the butter starts to rot and the authorities have to wait for the snow so they can get up there with a snowmobile
Kelly creates lamps from stiffened women’s undergarments. She’ll even make you a lamp from underwear supplied by the client — scary
The Bass Station is an old-school boom-box case modded to include a built in a WiFi access-point, along with: a 120GB hard drive, and an MP3 decoder, and that is controlled using a web browser. Besides being able to play MP3s, it can also stream audio to other devices in its local area network, double as a file-server for file-sharing
Three Britons are appearing in court on drug smuggling charges after a large quantity of cocaine was found concealed inside two live Labradors. The drugs had been surgically concealed inside the dogs and were surgically removed. One of the dogs died and the other was recovering
The P2P networking approach that threatens to make the recording industry obsolete could also bring about a more reliable Internet
Web developers want to light a fire under Microsoft to get better standards support in the company’s Internet Explorer browser, but they can’t seem to spark a flame
Rob has created a site where you enter in your Giant grocery-chain ‘loyalty card‘ number and the site responds by serving you a printable barcode for someone else’s loyalty card number. Paste the barcode over your own and help poison the Giant database. Nothing like monkey wrenching the system
The Straight Dope explains all the weird keys that come with standard PC keyboards
Sony has crammed a raft of new features into its next generation PlayStation games machine, but Australian players will have to wait until at least the second half of next year to buy one
New UK regulations that will implement a European directive on copyright could mean up to two years in jail for file-swappers
Telstra admitted that up to 720,000 Australian telephone services, or 10% of the lines it monitors, fail every year
Cooligy is applying an idea from Victorian engineering to solving a key stumbling block in the development of high-performance chips — how to cool them down
A new battery — lauded as the smallest implantable battery in the world — may soon be powering tiny bionic neurons, devices that emit electrical micropulses to stimulate damaged nerves and muscles
A Dutch consumer watchdog demanded Nokia conduct an in-depth investigation after two Nokia mobile phones exploded, injuring their owners, in the Netherlands within a few months
Jerry Sadowitz explains how moron-in-a-box David Blaine — affectionately called a megalomaniacal, attention-seeking, time-wasting, Jesus-fixated American tit — rigged the system to sneak away at night, presumably to a nice warm hotel room with a comfy bed, bathroom facilities and a fully stocked mini-bar
A Princeton University student has published instructions for disabling the new anticopying measures being tested on CDs by BMG — and they’re as simple as holding down a computer’s Shift key
LookSmart, one of the dodgier search engines, has been hit hard by news its biggest customer, Microsoft’s MSN, would not renew an agreement which accounts for most of LookSmart’s revenue
Coles Myer has followed Telstra’s lead and begun flirting with open-source software, such as Linux, as the retailer rationalises its IT operations. Even Microsoft is toying with a licensing scheme similar to an open-source arrangement for one of its code libraries
ACME is a worldwide leader of many manufactured goods. From its humble beginnings providing corks and flypaper to bug collectors to its heyday in the American Southwest supplying a certain coyote, from Ultimatum Dispatchers to Batman outfits, ACME has set the standard for excellence.
Also of note is the lawsuit of Wile E Coyote v ACME.
Tom Baker, the fourth Dr Who, told BBC Radio Five Live that comedian Eddie Izzard had landed the part. But BBC says no final decision has been made on who will star in the TV show when it returns in 2005. I’d like Richard Grant for the role, but am quite taken by the suggestion of Jonathan Pryce
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