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Friday, January 13, 2006 Some blogger's list of top 10 websites you should know about. I'm kinda iffy about this list. Another social bookmarker? At the very least pandora, lastfm, and clusty are handy. As neat as Clusty is it sounds too much like something Homer Simpson would name. This is also why I find Chicago's Mr Beef unintentionally funny. @ 06:16 AM CST [Link] Some people bind books in human skin, but Modernist architects bind strictly in dog.
@ 03:39 AM CST [Link] iPod firmware updated. Why does a firmware measured in kilobytes have to be a friggin 45 meg download? And it wants to do a reboot on XP after installation. Apple claims bugfixes for most ipods, yet doesn't seem to list what was fixed anywhere. Sometimes I think Apple purposely pisses off PC users. @ 03:16 AM CST [Link] Thursday, January 12, 2006 What a Cochlear implant sounds like. How the implant works flash here. @ 05:14 PM CST [Link] Thunderbird 1.5 is out. With inline spellchecking and a scam detector. Ding, we have a winner. That's not from ebay.
@ 05:04 PM CST [Link] Wednesday, January 11, 2006 Vintage Magazine Gallery. Then and now:
More photos over at Trek aerospace. I haven't been paying much attention to these guys, but it looks like they've dropped the solotrek and moved on to a newer model called the Springtail. They're also working on an enclosed drone that can be either manned or unmanned. Looks like they're developing soley for the US military now, but who knows where this tech might lead to. Yeah, you'll have you're damn jet pack, hipster. @ 03:16 AM CST [Link] Cat and Girl on death. Also, PBF on the difficulties of science. One and two. @ 02:55 AM CST [Link] H00TT App le on Appl3 Act10n!
Seriously though, how much longer until Microsoft releases Windows XP for Gaming to run on these intel based macs. Fire up XP for Battlefield2 or whatever on your iMac or the slightly regrettably named MacBook Pro and watch most of the gamers stop complaining. But will it play Barbie Horse Adventures? I also heard that Jobs claimed Apple sold 14 million iPods in the last quarter. 14 MILLION. Out of 42 million sold historically. Looks like he finally got his own little monopoly while Gates still owns the OS/Office Suite market. @ 02:41 AM CST [Link] Monday, January 9, 2006 Swimming in syrup. Edward Cussler is an interesting guy. When he isn't trying to figure out if its faster to swim in syrup than in water, he's experimenting on himself with an artificial gill. Gotta love his Yogi Berra-esque quote, "I felt fine until I passed out." The swimming in syrup experiment won him an Ig Nobel award in 2005. In 2024 his gill experiment will be the basis for the 'Aquaman Envy' theory of abnormal psychiatry. Doesn't 'Swimming in Syrup' sound like some love-story vehicle for some famous actress? Starring Olympia Dukakis, Burt Reynolds, Shirley Maclaine, and Jon Lovitz. And Julianne Moore as the marriage counselor. @ 12:09 PM CST [Link] EphPod. I've started using this as my iTunes replacement and it has quite a few features. Right now the Winamp plug-in for my iPod is causing corruption or the ipod is dying. Also, Apple please drop the i prefix, seriously. EphPod actually fixed my messed up iPod after both iTunes and Winamp couldn't read it. How cool is that? @ 10:56 AM CST [Link] [Archives] Search entries: |
