Yes, hear Simon, Theodore and Alvin at their true speed, sounding respectively like an accountant, a hot-dog vendor, and a lunatic. Put it on repeat and you’ll drift gradually into madness — it’s like an acid flashback to foetal languor, the surreal sounds that filtered through the uterine wall.
Don’t blame me if you need to poke your eardrums out with sharpened sticks after listening to it — via said the gramophone
He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named has been named. Ralph Fiennes, who played memorable evil guys in Red Dragon
and Schindler’s List
, has signed on to portray the wicked warlock Voldemort in the next Harry Potter
movie
MySQL has created a version of its popular open-source database software for Linux on IBM’s Power processors
Sony have announced that the PlayStation 3 will use Blu-Ray technology, a next-generation optical disc format which can hold 25GB on a single layer and 50GB on the dual-layer discs
, as many people have been speculating. What Sony hasn’t said for sure is whether the PS3 will be backwards compatible with DVD movies and PS2 games
British citizens who want a new passport are told to look straight at the camera and keep their mouths shut
Yep, U2’s new album Vertigo
, due out in November, was stolen at a photo shoot. The guys are gonna release it to the iTunes music stores if it turns up online elsewhere, like on file-sharing networks. And I’m guessing if they can find it online too. Hmm…
Apple has taken the G4 powermacs off the web store. Yeah you can still check out their specs and whathave you, but click on the buy now
graphic. I defy you to purchase one on this site, you just can’t. This means that work will now be purchasing me a G5 instead! (insert numerous sarcastic damnings of all sorts).
Next week will go down in history as the only one where I actually want to go to work. This one was the one I least wanted to go back to work as I spent the previous week doing life drawing and painting classes at The Rocks.
And finally, checkout how mac fans are showing their love ‘n’ support for Steve Jobs.
How many other CEOs of other huge techy companies spark such a public response?
The BBC’s Dr Who revival has been saved: the Beeb has reached an agreement with the estate of Terry Nation, the creator of the Daleks, who will be making an appearance in the new Who episodes after all — via BoingBoing
321 Studios, the maker of software that enabled users to copy DVDs and computer games, folded Tuesday under the mounting weight of lawsuits by deep-pocketed movie studios and video game producers
A Mowgli-like wild boy who appears to have been raised by a dog since he was three months old has been discovered living in a remote part of Siberia seven years after he was abandoned by his parents
From Newsweek, a great Bruce Schneier interview.
You can imagine living in a community where the landlord keeps hornets’ nests, and he keeps whacking the nests. And then he keeps telling you, you need to buy protective clothing. He’s right, but I wish he’d stop whacking the nest. In a sense that’s what we are doing.
Simple queries using Google can turn up a handful of sites that have posted credit card information to the web
mozilla.org today released minor upgrades to three of its major products. Firefox 0.9.3, Thunderbird 0.7.3 and Mozilla 1.7.2 are all now available. These three new releases were created to correct four possible security vulnerabilities in past versions of each product
A British man was being treated for shock on Wednesday after he fell from a ladder while pruning trees, accidentally killing his wife with his chainsaw
Markus Miller, an Oklahoma ice cream man, opened fire on a customer after a summer ice cream sale degenerated into a heated argument. It is not a normal or legal thing, anywhere in the country to carry a handgun without a permit while selling ice cream,
said Sgt Eric Holtzclaw, a spokesman with the Enid Police Department — via Die Puny Humans
Telstra ‘Paint a Payphone’ Art Competition
Telstra are running a competition, the winner will get their artwork displayed on selected Telstra payphones across Australia, and at the Museum of Contemporary Art.
Prizes are very encouraging, with an iBook pack for 17s and under, and 10,000 bucks for 18s and older.
I wonder if this is one of those things that crap graffiti taggers* shun because it’s legitimate? I can see it now, the sensitive graffiti artist in the crap tagger posse enters comp with a gorgeous design, wins and gets thrown out of said posse for doing something other than write a bad alias illegibly.
* I am aware that graffiti art is not all people essentially lifting their leg and marking their territory. This stuff, I think, is crap. There is plenty of fantastic graffiti out there, including tags that are meticulously executed, with more attention to typography than a lot of designed stuff.
Anyone who has copied songs from a CD onto an iPod or computer hard drive has fallen foul of Australian copyright laws, which critics argue are failing to keep pace with technological change. Copying music for personal use is generally okay in the US and Europe. But not in Australia — via BoingBoing
Though iTunes and Linux have been pursuing solo careers, CodeWeavers hopes to get them to make music together. I wish it better luck than the appalling Windows version of iTunes, just try getting that piece of shit off your PC without a crash
A string of high-profile flaws in browser software prompted the Mozilla Foundation to announce that it would offer a US$500 bounty for every serious bug found by security researchers
Australian newspaper The Age has an interesting story on squeezing coal before burning it in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The process, discovered by Victorian scientists, is expected to make brown coal (lignite) burn 30% cleaner. Good news, as Australia is the world’s number one exporter of coal.
My cat has the power of Mr Miyagi or some other karate dude who can break thick planks of wood with their head. On sunday evening Jasper was running about in super-hyper-kitty-mode. Mum was opening a cupboard door made of 1/2 inch thick tasmanian oak or something, and Jasper just ran straight through it splitting the wood in twain!
I could totally understand if he broke it off its hinges, but no, he actually split the wood. Jasper is a little over a year old so he’s still a littlish cat, but clearly there is martial artistry in his blood.
I might change his name to Grasshopper.
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