The beasties at my friends’ place in Inverell.
Pepe is distracted by one of the other cats while preening
CNN obtained a temporary restraining order late Friday to prevent government agencies from restricting news coverage as victims are recovered in New Orleans and other areas hit by Hurricane Katrina. A hearing has been scheduled for today to determine if the order should be made permanent — via BoingBoing
In a move that could mark a big strategy shift for the online auction company, eBay is in talks to acquire Skype for between $2 billion and $3 billion
The comment spammers have a new trick.
I checked out trackback spam on The Pagan Prattle before killing it off and found a clean looking, well designed site that appeared to be about the cars it claimed to be in the ping. I didn’t get a chance to see if the links were real because the cursed thing launched a trojan at me. Fortunately, NOD32 caught it.
Beware bait sites bearing trojans
Federal Emergency Management Agency — whose three top jobs went to the retarded monkey boy‘s political cronies with no apparent experience coping with catastrophes — has been spending its time blocking relief efforts instead of helping the people of New Orleans
Infecting allergy sufferers with the humble hookworm could be used to treat asthma — providing more support for the idea too much hygiene is responsible for rising rates of the disease. The idea is the parasitic bugs that suck blood from people’s guts will prime their immune systems so they no longer react to grass pollen, cat dander and dust mites
The beasties at my friends’ place in Inverell.
Kaja smiled nicely for the camera
The beasties at my friends’ place in Inverell.
Solomon does not like to be photographed
iPod nano killed the iPod mini-star. It’s smaller, has a colour screen and comes in black! Finally! I can only hope that this means a black iPod is on the way so us black lovin’ folk don’t have to resort to buying the U2 iPod for that reason*. Robot Johnny wishes for black pods too: iPod, uPod, we all pod for iPod
Potter Pod. This is kinda cute, I’m sure some hard core fans can get their pods in the colours of their fav Hogwarts house somewhere.
All those years of mac rumour sites speculating about an Apple phone got a step closer with iTunes mobile. No special Apple branded hardware, it’s a Motorola thing with an iTunes interface.
I also like The iTunes 5 Announcement From the Perspective of an Anthropomorphized Brushed Metal User Interface Theme
*I like U2, but I’d like more storage and black for money.
The theme for Illustration Friday this week was roots. I figured this was the quickest thing I could do.
View image
A group of scientists are about to present their breakthrough in hydrogen storage. In contrast to previous storage mechanisms, this method binds hydrogen to a pellet which is completely safe to handle at room temperature. While bound in this medium no hydrogen loss occurs, enabling hydrogen to be stored cheaply for indefinite periods. When needed, the extraction of hydrogen is relatively simple. The pellets exceed all criteria set by the US Department of Energy for 2015, enabling a car to drive more than 500km on a 50L tank
An offer of aid from the Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez, which included two mobile hospital units, 120 rescue and first aid experts and 50 tonnes of food, has been rejected, according to the civil rights leader, Jesse Jackson
When Carl the labrador chased a squirrel into the woods, his owners’ only concern was for his quarry. But they should have worried about their dog. Because seconds later Carl re-emerged with the grey squirrel firmly clamped to his neck. The squirrel launched itself at the dog and sank its teeth and claws into his neck. The attack continued until a passer-by intervened. Carl, who is two, was taken to a vet and needed surgery to stitch up his wounds — via Warren Ellis
A pale yellow grevillea in a neighbour’s garden
An orange grevillea in a neighbour’s garden
Apple have released the iPod nano, which is an iPod photo-esque replacement for the iPod mini. It comes in 2GB and 4GB flavours, is half the thickness of the mini and is available in black or white. A new iTunes was released as well, which has some dull cosmetic changes and seems even slower than its predecessor
The US government agency leading the rescue efforts after Hurricane Katrina said it does not want the news media to take photographs of the dead as they are recovered from the flooded New Orleans area. The Federal Emergency Management Agency, heavily criticised for its slow response to the devastation caused by the hurricane, rejected requests from journalists to accompany rescue boats as they went out to search for storm victims
Yahoo has been accused of supplying information to China which led to the jailing of a journalist for divulging state secrets
. Reporters Without Borders said Yahoo’s Hong Kong arm helped China link Shi Tao’s e-mail account and computer to a message containing the information. The media watchdog accused Yahoo of becoming a police informant
in order to further its business ambitions — via Warren Ellis
RSS – Posts