Etrema, an innovative technology firm based in Iowa, sells chrome discs for US$1,500 a pair. Called Whispering Windows, they can turn any wall, window, drab conference table or even your head into a speaker
Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News Channel threatened to sue the makers of the Simpsons over a spoof news ticker. The show’s creator Matt Groening said Fox News raised the unlikely prospect of suing a show broadcast by its sister channel, Fox Entertainment, because it wanted to stop the Simpsons parodying its famously anti-Democratic party agenda
Tom Coates has been discussing technical tricks for coping with message-board trolls on his Everything in Moderation blog, and, surpisingly, an avowed Slashdot troll has shown up to explain why he undertakes extreme technical measures to disrupt Slashdot’s message boards
The British Library is a government-owned library that legally has to hold a copy of every book, pamphlet, map, journal, newspaper and piece of sheet music published in the UK. That law has changed and now the Library will be able to collect non-paper resources, such as web sites, electronic journals, CD-ROMs and microfilms. Obviously, the library won’t be archiving everything in these categories, but will be keeping resources of national, historical or academic interest
The TokyoFlash watch site is full of bizarre, amusing and beautiful Japanese watches.
Trip the Light Fantastic by Pimp is an LED display with a unique method of displaying the time. And the all the little coloured lights are pretty to look at.
The Matrix Binary is the perfect gift for the geek in your life. Or a great way of combating that annoying co-worker who asks you the time every five minutes, with one of these babies asking them to see for themselves just once would be worth it.
The part of me that is attracted to glowing blue lights wants a Fishbone LED.
The Pagan Prattle found an auction for a vampire-killing kit complete with a wooden stake and ten silver bullets that recently sold for US$12,000. The kit, a walnut box that also contained a crucifix, a pistol, a rosary and vessels for garlic powder and various serums, was bought by an anonymous phone bidder.
Proving that there’s an online store for everyone:
Some brains are just naturally better, juicier, and formerly smarter than others, and we’ve got them at Brains4Zombies.com. We sell only the highest quality fresh brains, delivered straight to your door. We do the dirty deed so you can spend more time… well… doing whatever the hell it is you zombies do when you’re not ripping open people’s heads.
Next time you’re stuck at some boring gathering, rather than gnawing your arm off to escape, taste a stab at some paper plate origami.Next time you’re stuck at some boring gathering, rather than gnawing your arm off to escape, taste a stab at some paper plate origami. And if you really want to get into the plate folding groove, there’s a couple of books; The Geometry of Wholemovement for the adults and The Hands-On Marvelous Ball Book for the sprogs.
Everyone is going hi-tech these days, so why not take advantage and book a visit from the Stool Fairy.
While not actually selling anything, an enterprising Russian has assembled a massive list of screen shots from video games featuring toilets — from Alien vs Predator to X-Com 3.
I was making ice cream recently which only needs the egg yolks and wondering what the hell I could do with a bunch of leftover egg whites, when it hit me — meringues!
The stuff you need:
4 egg whites
Pinch of salt
1 cup of castor sugar
Food colouring
What to do with your gathered ingredients:
- Pre-heat oven to 120°C and place baking paper on two oven trays
- Beat egg whites with salt until stiff
- Add sugar gradually and continue beating until thick
- Add food colouring and stir through well. If you want to make meringues of different colours, move part of the mixture to a smaller bowl and add colour to the different batches
- Bake at 120°C for 1 1/2 hours, until dry
Makes around 30 to 40 medium sized meringues
Microsoft — desperate to capture a slice of the popular and ad-generating search business — approached Google within the last two months to discuss options, including the possibility of a takeover. Nothing much came out of that overture, but Microsoft may consider it again in the future. Dan Gillmor suspects Google stopped this talk for the obvious reason: a Google that was part of Microsoft would forfeit the search and advertising company’s most vital asset — the relatively high level of trust it’s earned with the Internet community
A super-fast computing processor that uses light, not electrons, to perform calculations has gone on sale for the first time. The device is called Enlight and can perform 8000 billion arithmetic operations per second, about 1000 times faster than a standard processor. Lenslet, the Israeli company that developed the processor, say its light speed calculations deliver the power of a supercomputer in a single device
A federal judge in Houston has thrown out the 20-year-old arms smuggling conviction of a former CIA agent, outlining in scathing terms how federal officials knowingly used a false affidavit at his trial and concealed the act through years of appeals
Bruce Hubbard, an Auckland peace activist, sent an email to the US Embassy objecting to the war on Iraq and got charged with misuse of a telephone for his troubles
Epson has introduced the Stylus Photo R800, geared toward the high-end photographer and advanced amateur photographer. With an estimated price of US$399, it supports resolutions of up to 5760 x 1440 dpi. It’s a six-colour photo dye ink system with all the colours in individual ink cartridges and can print a 5 x 7 colour photo in 45 seconds. It includes both Photo Black and Matte Black ink cartridges for printing on any media without changing the black ink cartridge.
Featuring an eight-channel print heat system that includes blue and red inks, the system also includes a ‘Gloss Optimiser’ which provides a clear coating (but no ink) for uniform glossy prints.
Built-in CD/DVD printing capabilities for printing directly onto inkjet printable CDs or DVDs using the printer’s straight-through paper path are a nifty addition.
FrogPad hopes to single-handedly revolutionize the two-handed keyboard with its one-handed fully functional keyboard.
With only 20 keys, the US$189 USB FrogPad keyboard is only a fraction the size of a normal Qwerty keyboard and emulates all of its functions. I want one.
The Australian National Office for the Information Economy said it wouldn’t endorse use of Microsoft’s controversial document security technology, Information Rights Management in Commonwealth agencies
The US Library of Congress has created four exemptions under which it is legal to crack digital copyright protections — lists of sites blocked by commercial Internet filtering software, but not spam-fighting lists; computer programs protected by hardware dongles that are broken or obsolete; computer programs or video games that use obsolete formats or hardware; e-books that prevent read-aloud or other handicapped access formats from functioning
US scientists have deliberately genetically engineered an extremely deadly form of mousepox. The new virus kills 100% of mice, even if they have been vaccinated and are treated with antiviral drugs
Individuals have been warned about the threat of identity theft for years. Now it’s the turn of businesses. A warning that coincided nicely with the arrival of four new dodgy ANZ spoofs in the e-mail
The torrent of spam that is flowing into electronic mailboxes comes not only from outlaws and hucksters but also from the office towers of the biggest and best-known corporations
Individuals and small-business owners should be able to buy domain names without being required to divulge their mailing address, phone number and e-mail address, an international coalition planned to say in a letter
Did you read the article? If not basically this guy got sacked by Microsoft because of this blog entry entitled Even Microsoft wants G5s. The article contains a happy snap of some G5s being unloaded from a truck. That’s right, just some computer boxes in a truck, no people, no MS references in sight, accompanied by some text about someone getting new toys at Microsoft. Microsoft didn’t like this, or the offer to remove the post and gave him the boot.
I think this quote says it all really:
Good. That means that as it’s your site on your own server, you have the right to say anything you want. Unfortunately, Microsoft has the right to decide that because of what you said, you’re no longer welcome on the Microsoft campus.
Yes indeed, bloggers beware especially if you work for Microsoft or Macrosuck.
No, really! Have a read.
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