The Linkielist – Page 438 – Linking ideas with the world

Return of the Suckage

March 23, 2005

George Lucas is describing the forthcoming finale to his Star Wars series as “Titanic in space.”

Oh boy..

Obviously, fans would love to see a movie about Darth Vader running around killing people. I’m not telling that story, and I’m not interested in that. That’s not what the movie is.

What an asshat. The one thing everyone was hoping for and he deliberately doesn’t do it. Seriously, after the horrible suckfest of Ep I & II you’d think the man would have the decency to provide us with some action packed Jedi carnage, but noooo Mr Midichlorians has to make a point by giving us 2 hours of rendered steaming dogshit.

I’m still going to see it, though.

http://movies.monstersandcritics.com/news/article_5343.php/Tears_and_Darkness_in_Revenge_of_the_Sith

Also, the marketing madness is about to start again.
Addidas Intelligent Trainer review

March 23, 2005

At engadget – unfortunately they don’t tell you how much these things weigh.
Human area network

March 23, 2005

Forget cables and bluetooth – 2MBps using your skin!
New way to detect planets

March 23, 2005

Well, they were doing it by looking at how light bends and stuff before, because large mass objects (such as planets) have a gravitational pull (allthough that theory is in doubt considering the flight path of the discovery spacecraft). Anyhow, now they can detect planets and maybe the wind conditions on them by using infrared light glows.
Neural computer interfaces

March 22, 2005

Well, I knew this could be done using electrodes, but Braingate drills into your skull and connects the wire directly to your brain!
Very curious how long you have to train to be able to use this…
Massive aircraft carrying supersubs

March 22, 2005

They found a Japanese one from WWII – and who said it wasn’t possible to fly bombers from submarines?
Meet People With Herpes (dot net)

March 21, 2005

I’m not really sure what to say about this.

http://www.mpwh.net/
If you do things at speed for long distances

March 21, 2005

Then a slide rule watch isn’t a bad idea. But Breiltling Old Nav still looks better with the same functionality. But a waaaay higher price!
RFID jammer

March 21, 2005

Out now
Build your own teleprompter

March 21, 2005

Out of a bunch of CD cases and a laptop
Week 35

March 20, 2005

Good morning and welcome to week 35. As you can see, we are cruising at a rate of one day per 24 hours, and a spin rate of 365 days per year. Please fasten your seatbelt when you see the light come on. This week we are predicting 5 days of work and 2 days of free time, with some periods of leisure, most likely starting at around 1800 daily.

The stewardesses will now show you how to start your alarm, and demonstrate a proper wake up action and tea making procedure in the event of an emergency.

This was your captain speaking, on behalf of the cabin crew and the company, we would like to wish you a pleasant week.
Squooshy Pineapple Photos

March 20, 2005

Alternative captions.

http://www.fezgod.com/sq/
Every language flamewar ever

March 20, 2005

Moore’s Law! Mooooooore’s Laaaaaaw!

http://www.deftcode.com/archives/every_language_war_ever.html
Yahoo Buzz Game

March 19, 2005

Google isn’t the only player to experiment – Yahoo has its own public research page.

The Tech Buzz Game is a very interesting fantasy prediction market for high-tech products, concepts, and trends.

In the Web Application Frameworks market, I’m betting on Rails.
Human extinction

March 18, 2005

What’s it going to be? Asteroid impact, World War III, Global Warming, Global Dimming, Biowarfare or is it just a minor die off post Global Peak Oil?

Consider Voluntary Human Extinction as a more humane alternative.
Evil Overlord list

March 18, 2005

A top 100 list of things to do once you become an Evil Overlord.

http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html
Blackholes ‘n fireballs, my favorite combo

March 18, 2005

The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) in New York apparently creates fireballs (whee!) that have the characteristics of a Black Hole, with particles disappearing into the fireball’s core and reappearing as thermal radiation.

Funky. I’ll take two to go.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4357613.stm
BarbieOS

March 17, 2005

“If Barbie were a career-focused woman working in the IT industry in 2003, she would support open standards,” he says. “She would be seeking out free and open-source alternatives to current proprietary solutions, saving her company tens of thousands of dollars on management headaches associated with tracking software licenses and preparing for BSA audits. She would be looking at deploying Linux clients on the desktop and Linux servers in the back office. She wouldn’t be willing to sacrifice power for features, and she would demand a system that is stable, secure, and easily configurable.”

“Barbie would also be tired of Microsoft’s licensing bullshit,” he added.

http://www.divisiontwo.com/articles/barbieOS.htm
Big Fuggin’ Radio Gun

March 16, 2005

Not sure how I’d feel if someone pointed one of these at me. It looks marginally less threatening than last year’s Schmoo Sniper Yagi.

(Bluetooth + WiFi remote access)
BluejackQ

March 14, 2005

There’s a page dedicated to hijacking your mobile phone via Bluetooth. Appropriately enough, it’s called BluejackQ.

Linkie:
http://www.bluejackq.com/index.shtml
What The Hack

March 11, 2005

What The Hack finally has information on the webpage.

What The Hack is an outdoor hacker conference/event taking place on a large event-campground in the south of The Netherlands from 28 until 31 July 2005.

I’m there, you’re there, anyone not there is just t3h suxx0r.
Spectacular bankruptcy

March 11, 2005

I wonder if all the people who voted for Dubya are still going to like him when they’re back to tilling the soil in 2010..

THE NUMBERS are staggering — a US$43-trillion hole in America’s public finances that’s getting worse every day. And the stakes are almost inconceivable for a generation of politicians and voters raised in relative prosperity, who’ve never known severe economic hardship

Full story:
http://www.macleans.ca/topstories/world/article.jsp?content=20050307_101541_101541

See you all in superland…
Rat brains flying combat jets

March 11, 2005

Is this the future of warfare?
Finding The A-Team on Stuffo

March 11, 2005

This is excellent fun stuff:
Phase 1: recruiting
Phase 2: The questionnaire
Flying Telescopes

March 11, 2005

NASA giant converted 747s