Need to work out your frustrations and don’t have any bubble wrap handy? There is a Flash version available. I highly recommend manic mode
If you’re not a fan of Ikea stores and can’t escape being dragged around them by family members, maybe you’d enjoy it more if you treated it like a video game:
You start this world armed only with a UNIVERSAL FURNITURE-ASSEMBLY ALLEN WRENCH. This is the weakest weapon in IKEA: You will have to hit a person 16 times with it to kill them. So your primary goal in this level is to find more lethal means of dispatching your enemies.
As you enter the SHOWROOM, perform a rolling dodge to the left. Grab a free PAPER TAPE MEASURE and a handful of IKEA EMBLAZONED GOLF PENCILS from the kiosk near the entryway. The PENCILS serve quite well as ranged weapons, but it will take some time to master their use. Before venturing further in the world, stand at the kiosk and practice hurling GOLF PENCILS at patrons as they enter the SHOWROOM. Remember: Hitting the eyes does triple damage.
And if the idea of leaving the warm glow of your monitor is too much, Dolphin Dash is a seizure inducingly fast Japanese style Flash game. You will need vast amounts of caffeine in your system before attempting to play with the dolphins.
Google has quietly released its own version of Friendster, called Orkut. About three months ago, Google entered into talks to acquire Friendster, but was turned down. Named after one of its engineers, Orkut Buyukkokten, the new social network looks even tougher to get into than Friendster. An initial 12,000 invitations were sent out, and new users can only join through an existing user, which is all well and good, but you can’t give it a write up if you can’t get invited first
The latest phishing scam uses a homeland security hook to try and reel in personal and financial information from victims, according to the US bank insurance body, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp
Republicans on the Senate judiciary committee have spied on confidential Democratic files for a year, studying their strategies and passing on the juicy bits to the media
Telstra has established a branded IT hub in the Indian city of Bangalore — part of its move to cut its $1.5 billion information technology budget in half
AOL is testing an antispam filter intended to accurately trace the origin of e-mail messages, a move that could bring new accountability to the net
That is the sigh of relief when I finally got my favourite RSS aggregator back online.
I live for e-mail, so I’d been happily using nntp//rss to suck RSS feeds into my e-mail program as newsgroups. It suddenly stopped working just over a week back and sent me into RSS withdrawal.
Finally got my finger out and left a query on the forum. Jason, the guy who wrote the program, got back to me quickly. Turns out that nntp//rss had a heap of corrupt gibberish in one of its files, thanks to a Windows crash killing the application. Culled 400k of crap from the file, fired the program up again and I’m back in RSS heaven.
The one niggle I have with nntp//rss is that it currently has no way of importing or exporting OPML files that I’ve managed to find, which is a little annoying. Jason has helpfully pointed out my domestic blindness problem, you can import OPML — under the System Configuration settings — and while it doesn’t export OPML, the XML file it does export is easily converted to OPML manually. The next version will export OPML. Yay!
On other RSS news, Dave Winer has created Share Your OPML, allowing you to share your list of RSS feeds with others and to see what they’re reading. Cool stuff.
The guys at 2CoolTek handed a case over to frustrated PC user for some extreme case ventilation that involved a mattock and a shotgun
Start-up PolyFuel has commercially released a membrane for creating fuel cells for laptops and mobile phones, a milestone in the budding fuel cell industry
Telstra’s decision to spend up to $100 million overhauling its troubled BigPond e-mail platform has been delayed by company infighting
Telstra subsidiary Sensis has snapped up a range of assets from embattled search company LookSmart and its wholly-owned Australian subsidiary, LookSmart International
www.booble.com was launched today.
Yes, Booble is a fucking funny play on Google. Google is the webs kick arse search engine. Booble will be the webs kick arse adult content search engine. Illegal and extremely hard-core material have been filtered out.
You have got to see the logo, fucking funny.
Check out this article, Booble takes a poke at Google for some background info and a chortle.
Booble! – tee hee
Mike Rowe is a 17-year-old Canadian who started a web design company called mikerowesoft.com. His cheekiness got him a lengthy legal letter from the other, slightly larger, Microsoft, who were less than amused at his idea of humour via Darren Barefoot
The next release of the Linux kernel will be named after an Australian animal following a frenzied bidding war at Linux.conf.au 2004 in Adelaide
Virus writers are going beyond click to infect
programs by merging a trio of techniques to bypass security and compromise computers with malicious code
More than three years after launching consumer-grade ADSL, Telstra will extend the reach of the broadband service from 3.5 to more than four kilometres from enabled telephone exchanges. The move will extend ADSL coverage to an additional 400,000 homes, increasing from about 75% to 90% of households
Gee it’s certainly taken me some time to blog about the whole Apple licensing their iPod hardware to HP thing. I could crap on about how this is a good thing for Mac users, PC users, HP, Apple and every one who wants an iPod, but Mr. Gruber says it far more eloquently than I so here: The H-Bomb. Todd Dominey also says it betterer than I: The HP / Apple Dance.
Like Gruber, I think the fact that the HP iPod will not support/play WMA files is a complete non issue. I also find this article Hewlett-Packard: No WMA for IPod, just some more indirect Apple bashing. Oooooo! You can’t play WMA files! Why the fuck would you when mp3 and AAC are both superior and platform independant? Maybe I just think this as I don’t buy music from the iTunes store or other such stores. If I like something I buy the cd and let iTunes turn it into a cd quality mp3 or AAC playlist and whack it on my iPod. Just a thought, why don’t Napster and other such people offer mp3’s as well or instead of WMA? Why are these people jumping on the proprietry band wagon? Maybe I’m just out of the loop…
Any way, you can checkout the HP branded iPod in HP grey in this video on Cnet.
WMA – HA!
More than five million aerial photographs of World War II are to be made publicly available on the internet at Evidence in Camera. The pictures will go online on Monday. Taken by the RAF, they were used by Allied commanders to help devise their strategy during the six-year conflict
Oracle is ready to extend its Linux Everywhere
campaign to client systems. At next week’s LinuxWorld in New York, Oracle will announce that it will enable the Mozilla browser to run Oracle applications in the coming year
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