Strange Buildings
This site has a nice list of a few of the stranger buildings in the world – oddly enough, it doesn’t have the Rotterdam cubes though…
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Mac OS X on PCs
Since Apple moved to intel chips, it wasn’t a surprise that someone was going to hack OS X and try to run it on a run of the mill PC. Apparently Apple put a poem in their OS asking people please to not hack OS X. But the hackers have apparently prevailed and allthough there Read more about Mac OS X on PCs[…]
Gorgonz Exhale Gloves
These gloves are supposed to be for in extreme cold – and using some clever system they warm up as you blow into them acting like handwarmers with no batteries! For $39,99 that’s a bit of a steal! Of course, Gorgonz claims also to have created a t-shirt that makes the current t-shirts obsolete…
Freak out your friends
With the Head spa massager – look like you’re going to take over the world whilst alien invaders are burrowing into your brain It’s like thousands of tiny fingers simultaneously massaging your scalp
Name Ringtones
Go on – buy one! These guys deserve the money! And whilst we’re on the subject, the Reg was running an article about the Pheretones. These are supposed to turn on members of the opposite sex. Get the pheretones here and find out the official explanation on the website here Come back and tell me Read more about Name Ringtones[…]
Lighting from 20 metres away
Some guy photographed this awesome shot in a thunderstorm
RIAA – those whacky guys
Apparently now they want to make creating a copy of a legally bought CD or even copying music from it to your IPod illegal. Despite having stated before that it is legal.
Windows System Tools
This site has a large list of programmes to manage your windows processes, memory, cpu etc etc etc. This is the list of programmes I thought might be usefull: Sysinternals Process Explorer shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded Informer shows the time, processor load, amount of processes and Read more about Windows System Tools[…]
WashDryIron
The name of the machine says it all: you hang clothes on a peg, and the one machine washes, then dries, then irons your clothes. And it’s developed by a student who can’t yet find a company to help manufacture it! I neeeeed one!
Howto build a home descaler
Engadget is running a nice article on how to scale your video input to show better on a HD TV or projector by scaling the video feed.
Palm OS no more
Acces who bought Palm OS have decided they will Garnet (Palm OS 5) and Cobalt (Palm OS 6 – which has never shipped on any device) and decided to revamp it all as the Access Linux Platform (ALP) which will look nothing like Linux but run Garnet apps as well as GTK apps. Expected on Read more about Palm OS no more[…]
smart armour
These suits are flexible but harden up on impact.
The 10 best scifi films that never existed
This review is about what could have been, what should have been but what wasn’t. It also tells us why it wasn’t. Very good piece.
Slime Controlled Robot
They’ve grown a slime on a chip and forced it to grow in the shape of the bot thus encasing it entirely and finding some way of translating it’s movements to the movements of the robot. This makes it a ‘living’ robot. Currently it’s a bit boring as it moves away from light and moves Read more about Slime Controlled Robot[…]
Google Desktop 3 Spyware
Or at least the EFF says it is. Why? Because default settings allow you to ‘search across computers’ – and people will probably not be aware of this. Basically Google stores everything it finds on your desktop on its own servers for some period in text form. Which means they have everything on your PC!
More Spying
Now it’s the Chinese spying on the Americans – and sending F-16 and Black Hawk engines as well as missles back home to China!
Chavez wants Britain de ‘give back’ Falklands
… to the Argies… Hugo Chavez is doing a really good job making friends isn’t he?! Oh well, at least he called them the Falklands!
VMWare Server for Free!
Yup, become a virtual machine for free! Download and VMWare product comparison here Don’t forget to pack a few extra Gigs of RAM!
US Drinking laws
That make perfect sense. Not.
Superbowl XL commercials
Well, the advertising extravaganza of the year was supposed to be available on the NFL site, but blowed if I can find them there – so then I had a look for them elsewhere but that turned out to be difficult too. Finally I got them at Devlib.org, and they’re friendly enough to provide an Read more about Superbowl XL commercials[…]
An oblique attack on DRM
In an interesting new vector, now it’s the libraries that are attacking DRM – on the grounds that as libraries they are exempted from these DRM laws as it’s their job to provide anyone who wants it with content. Also, as copyright expires legally, so does the legality of the DRM – but will the Read more about An oblique attack on DRM[…]
DOJ vs Judge
Well, Blackberry has infringed patents and stuff and it’s illegal and stuff, but we can’t shut down Blackberry service in the US and stuff, because – it’s a hazard to national security, and there are 200,000 government users who absolutely NEED Blackberry or they’ll, like, die and stuff! How is this clash between the US Read more about DOJ vs Judge[…]
The Cartoon Dispute
Wow, this thing has seriously blown up! A Norwegian newspaper published a few cartoons showing arabs in a satirical light. That’s SATIRE as in COMEDY. Much like we have Garfield and Gary Larson. Anyway, the Muslims went completely wild, so much so that other newspapers have taken some of the comics and published them, with Read more about The Cartoon Dispute[…]
HMS Daring launched
The newest Royal Navy destroyer has been launched and is now having its final touches applied. Super high tech, roomy, liberal and of course dangerous – it has Ipod charging stations, 14 decks, weighs in at 7350 tonnes, 150m long, is the first of 6 projected type 45 destroyers and cost GBP 605 million. Oh Read more about HMS Daring launched[…]
What does her lingerie mean?
According to the Sun and Tracey Cox, what she’s wearing indicates how she wants it – slow ‘n sexy, romantic, down ‘n dirty, energetic or quick.