In an age of tech-mad multitasking, some big thinkers are asking questions about an emerging culture of distraction, interruption and inattention
A German high-school student has confessed to creating the Sasser worm and several varients of Netsky
after apparently being reported by acquaintances seeking a reward from Microsoft
Have you ever wanted your very own jet engine? Build one at home in your own garage. The guys over at Garage Jet have done just that. Their jet engine is made from an automotive turbo, spark plugs, and some scrap metal
A microscopic biped with legs just 10 nanometres long and fashioned from fragments of DNA has taken its first steps. The nanowalker is being hailed as a major breakthrough by nanotechnologists. The biped’s inventors, chemists Nadrian Seeman and William Sherman of New York University, say that while many scientists have been trying to build nanoscale devices capable of bipedal motion, theirs is the first to succeed — via GeneWeb
Pizza Party is a free, text based CLI for ordering Domino’s pizza via Quikorder, or for throwing pizza parties. It is distributed under the GNU General Public License, runs under most *nix shells, and can order pizza with only a few keystrokes. Includes video of actual ordering
US court rulings have pulled the most popular software for copying DVD movies off the market, but a new program is trying to get around these rulings and still let users duplicate copy-protected discs
In a sign that demand is growing for alternatives to Microsoft Windows software, Red Hat will release a version of the Linux operating system and other programs tailored for desktop computers. Red Hat Desktop, announced in London, will be targeted at organisations that are looking to upgrade their PCs but don’t want or need all the features that ship with the latest version of Windows
If you have ever seen the cult ’60s British television program The Prisoner, in which captured Cold War spies live on an island under constant surveillance, you can imagine what life may soon be like on Ayers Island
McMurder, a parody web site that offers statistics that show a correlation between murder rates and the number of McDonalds in cities, has been nastygrammed by McLawyers. The site has until May 10 to remove all McTrademarks
Businesses in certain US states are required by law to collect, among other privacy invasive information, the thumbprints of customers who want to sell their used video games, CDs, and books
Breaking all the rules of nature, the Hypersonic Sound Beam allows audio messages to literally travel through space in the shape of a flashlight beam. The sound remains invisible and silent, until the beam makes impact with the surface or person it has been meant to impact. At that precise point of impact, the sound waves disperse and the audio portion of the message magically becomes audible at that particular point. Amazingly, visitors who enter or cross the invisible sound envelopes created by the Sound Beam will experience your message inside their head; as if they were wearing headphones — via Die Puny Humans
Go forth ye non-believing graphic designers and worship The Six Patron Saints of Graphic Design.
You have been blessed my prodical designers.
BTW, this site has got to be THE best use of parchment pattern on the web I’ve ever seen.
The FTC said last Monday that Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates will have to pay a US$800,000 fine to settle charges that he violated financial reporting laws in conjunction with his investment portfolio. And they think that amount of money will make him change his ways, try cranking the fine up into the billions and you might make a point
One of the weirdest computer mods, the Heavy Metal PC takes modding to maybe not a new but different dimension. Computing on wheels, and we’re not talking a car computer here. Have a look for yourself, 2×3.2 GHz on wheels, it’s sure worth seeing if you’re interested in mods
Will Apple own up to manufacturing problems with 15″ Powerbooks?
Apple Discussions — Uneven illumination
Hmm… some disturbing links indeed, especially as this is one of the contenders for my next/new mac. Looks like it’s 17″ PoweBook or G5 for me.
So, will this problem still occur in the new 15″, 1.5Ghz models? We shall see.
The US Government is taking legal action against an Australian company for sending 400,000 spam e-mails promoting eternal youth. The FTC filed a civil action against Global Web Promotions, whose spam, it said, promoted diet patches and the products called HGH and Natural HGH, which allegedly contained human growth hormone — all products were bogus — via GeneWeb.info
Study of the use of green tea extracts for polishing the magnetic heads in hard-disk drives has yielded a compound that works three to four times faster than conventional compounds. If the findings can be reproduced in an industrial setting, the compound could reduce the cost and environmental impact of hard-drive manufacturing
Telstra is to increase rental fees for household phones by as much as $3.45 a month and hike the cost of some calls by two cents
Google files documents with regulators that provide an insight into its business, as it prepares to sell shares to the public
Public transport systems of the future will feature high-tech vehicles supported, behind the scenes, by revolutionary control and scheduling systems that will make timetables redundant say CSIRO scientists. CSIRO has developed software that simulates the movement of passengers and vehicles around track-based public transport networks that are designed to carry large numbers of people
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