Rich is both a case modder and Lego fan, so it should come as no surprise that he combined his two loves to build Lego case mods. These are not just a Lego shell around a case, he’s used the Lego to support everything
eBay is spearheading a major recycling initiative involving manufacturers, government agencies and environmental groups to reduce the amount of computer equipment in the waste stream
CD sales rose by 2.3% in the US in the year 2004 despite the growing popularity of legal digital music downloads through services such as iTunes. On the other hand, a report from last July noted that pirated CD sales have hit a record high. Sounds like the RIAA should be going after the real pirates, not little Susie or Grandma
Scientists from The Institute for Genomic Research have said that Dehalococcoides ethenogenes Strain 195, a pollution-eating bacteria first found in sewage sludge, may have evolved its talents in response to human contamination of the environment
Brad Fitzpatrick, creator of LiveJournal, has confirmed that Six Apart has purchased Danga. This means that they’re moving to San Francisco, LiveJournal users are finally getting the trackback feature, but the project will stay open source, and little else will change for the end user
Four Sydney high school students have been arrested for their part in an Internet banking scam that has generated millions of dollars — via GeneWeb.info
Various companies are currently trying to perfect the technology behind a new type of flat-panel display that will rely on diamonds or carbon nanotubes — two forms of pure carbon — to produce images. Theoretically, these field effect displays
, or FEDs, will consume less energy than plasma or liquid crystal display TVs, deliver a better picture and even cost less
Google is searching for an executive director for their charitable Google Foundation group, which will have 1% of the search giant’s equity and profits to distribute
A brave BitTorrent server operator has decided to pick a fight with the MPAA and is asking for donations to help it mount a legal defense against the movie studios. LokiTorrent is one of the numerous BitTorrent hubs being sued by the MPAA for pointing users to copyrighted films. A number of other popular BitTorrent sites shut down their operations after being sent cease and desist letters from the MPAA, but LokiTorrent has vowed to press on and face the studios in court
A web site purporting to be collecting donations towards the tsunami appeal is under investigation by the Red Cross and Tasmania Police. A Red Cross spokesman said the site, www.incybernet.com, had asked for donations on the basis they were going to the world wide charity organisation. The web site features Red Cross logo used for their Asia Quake and Tsunamis Appeal. A Red Cross spokesman said they had never heard of Incybernet and were investigating
Merry New Year to you!
Semi-Permanent 05 is boasting Ashley Wood as one of it’s speakers.
iStories you can download to your pod to read on train or what have you. I have only taken a quick scroll, but there is certainly some weird stuff there. You use ’em with this app. I dare say Pod2Go looks slightly more informative.
Tetris on your iPod not sure whether I’m gonna attempt to install Linux on the pod. I have limited geek-literacy. But I love tetris. Now I’m torn!
I like Illustration Friday. It’s a simple and nifty little idea to help you get scribbling.
There is a shift in attitude by consumers and major companies towards micropayments [BugMeNot], fueled by continuing advances in information technology and a relentless search for new consumers, the trend is likely to continue
SETI has some glossy new instruments coming on-line. At Harvard University, a survey telescope designed to sweep massive swaths of the sky in a hunt for extraterrestrial laser flashes is becoming a reality. In Puerto Rico, the famed Arecibo telescope is getting a new feed that will speed up searches by seven times. And in California, the SETI Institute and Berkeley’s Radio Astronomy Lab will soon be scanning the star-clotted realms of the inner Milky Way with the first-stage implementation of the Allen Telescope Array and will eventually boast 350 antennas, each 20 feet in diameter. This impressive antenna farm will be spread over about a half square-mile of terrain
Thirty years from now, we’ll use bionic eyes giving us zoom vision
for faster reactions. Nanobots injected in our bloodstream will complement our immune system. Artificial muscles built with electroactive polymers will help us to be stronger and faster. So you think it’s science fiction? Not at all. You’ll see that some people are so convinced that this kind of human enhancements will happen that they predict than in a few decades, all sporting events will be split up to accommodate enhanced and unenhanced athletes
California is introducing new laws to help eradicate spyware. The bill bans the installation of software that can be used to take over another computer and allows customers to seek $1000 in damages if they’ve fallen victim to this kind of malicious software. Can this really help cut down spyware or will it just be another fatally flawed piece of legislation?
New navigation systems in Japan can quickly tell drivers which roads have traffic jams. A computerised FM radio broadcast system that collects and sends information from more than 28,000 infrared and radio-wave beacons installed along roads, they can also calculate how many seconds it would take to drive through virtually every block of the nation’s cities and then find the fastest routes
Microsoft is abandoning one of its most controversial attempts to dominate the internet after rival companies banded together to oppose it and consumers failed to embrace it. It has announced that it would stop trying to persuade web sites to use its Passport service, which stores consumers’ credit-card and other information as Internet users surf from place to place
Netcraft has released an Anti-Phishing Toolbar that provides detailed information about the web site you are visiting (sites’ hosting location, country, longevity and popularity) at all times to help users to validate fraudulent URLs
eBay has announced that its users no longer will be able to sign in to its Web sites using Passport, Microsoft’s identity-management technology. Earlier this year, online job site Monster.com dropped Passport. The defections raise doubts about the technology’s future
Russia has announced that it will no longer ferry US astronauts to space for free as it has been doing for two years. From 2006 the US will be expected to pay
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