December 2008
Orb Audio Home Theater System | Wired.com Product... →
“Awesome clarity for both music and hi def movies. Easy to assemble. Surprisingly solid craftsmanship. Hardly any distortion at high volumes. “
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Fast Scrolling in Tweetie with UITableView →
Freezing cold, no internet, boring: it's a French... →
The most important, the most beautiful, the most... →
Windows Mobile Users Get Better Skype, Skype Lite... →
Just read over on CNET (which of late has been very much a news junkies dream site) that Skype updated their Windows Mobile client. I have a Windows Mobile phone on Verizon and actually have used…
Historians Piece Together Genealogy Of Wu-Tang... →
While the Clan is generally associated with tales of conquest, slaughter, and ‘bringing da motherfuckin’ ruckus,’ it must also be noted that its members were prolific lovers who expanded the empire…
So True [Pic] →
Sine-wave speech →
Sine-wave speech — artificially degraded speech that sounds like old Doctor Who sound effects — can be difficult to understand but becomes clear once the listener knows what to listen for. …
UK ISPs censoring Wikipedia →
The content being filtered is apparently that deemed to meet the Internet Watch Foundation’s critera for child pornography – in one case, this involves a 1970s LP cover art which, although…
INCASE iPhone Power Slider (NOTCOT) →
Deicide →
An old one about “The Golden Compass” (film version of Phillip Pullman’s “Northern Lights”).
I will most definitely boycott this film. Even if you take out the religious themes, to advocate the…
Getting it wrong →
Another article that isn’t specifically about the Sun, but, well, it’s the only paper mentioned so… The Guardian: Buried away on today’s [05/12/08] Guardian letters page is one of those…
17 Pushbutton Configurations that Didn’t Make the... →
“Ever wonder who came up with the order of numbers on a telephone? Ever wonder why it isnât the same as those on a calculator, or a keyboard, ascending from lowest to highest?”
Belkin Drops Out of Macworld Expo →
This follows the news from earlier this week that Adobe dropped out. In trade show terms, dropping out now is dropping out at the last minute. Big companies like Adobe and Belkin surely had most,…
www.glennz.com Tee Designs on the Behance Network →
Readers React to David Pogue’s Review of the... →
I’ve always thought that that vocal sub-population of Mac fans make up the world’s most watchful, most hostile grass-roots lobbying arm. But now I see that I was wrong. There’s an even nastier one:…
Advertising - Why Time Stands Still for... →
How to Build an Igloo by Douglas Wilkinson, ... →
At 10:10, a watch smiles →
Ten minutes past ten o’clock, which forms a smiley face on a clock and “frames the brand” nicely, is the go-to time for watches in advertising. Timex sets their watches to precisely 10:09:36 while…
● How to Build an Igloo video →
A fascinating companion to the recently posted book on how to build snow shelters is this 10-minute film produced by The National Film Board of Canada, How to Build an Igloo. This is…
● The first mall →
A photo from Life Magazine of Southdale Shopping Center in Edina, Minnesota after its opening in 1956. Southdale was the first mall ever built and still stands today (I visited many…
Dog Trapped In A Force Field →
Redneck Smoke Detector [PIC] →
How One Guy’s Flickr Photo Wound Up in the Iron... →
Of all the amateur photographers out there, who among us hasn’t dreamed of seeing our photos plastered onscreen during the runtime of a multi-million dollar studio tentpole release/major comic book…
Touchscreen Stencils →
Kogan launches Agora, the first Aussie Google... →
A SMALL electronics company has beaten the big mobile manufacturers to launch the first Google Android phone in Australia â but it won’t ship until 2009.
Google Calendar now supports Apple iCal →
By David Besbris, Engineering Director The Google Calendar team is proud to announce the public release of our support for the CalDAV protocol. You can now use Apple iCal with your Google…
BBC Shamed Again →
Thanks to DoppelFrog for pointing me at a Daily Mail article about another “BBC scandal”. I ignore most Daily Mail submissions but this one is quite special for a couple of reasons.
Firstly, the…
PlayStation Home successfully recreates the experience of walking round an abandoned shopping mall surrounded by lost children with ADD.
Hot + Saucy Dinner Date (PIC) →
Sunday league footballer dies after match attack →
Police arrested a 19-year-old and another man in his 40s following the game in west London on Sunday. The man who died was 43 and had turned out for amateur side Old Greenfordians. The dead man’s…
The 8 Best Recurring Arrested Development Jokes →
Now that the Arrested Development movie has been confirmed as a sure thing (knock on wood), I felt it was the time to take a look back at the series’ best running jokes. The show failed because 90%…
Nokia Announces N97 Superphone, Won’t Sell It for... →
More than two years after Apple launched the iPhone, and months after its rivals launched their versions of touchscreen phones, Nokia today started selling a touchscreen phone (5800…
Nokia! won't! buy! Yahoo! →
Doesn’t need the aggro
Nokia has enough on its hands without acquiring a basket-case internet company. CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo ruled out a purchase of Yahoo! here in Barcelona today, saying Nokia…
Hilton Employee Witnesses Orgy, Tells, Gets Fired,... →
“A Coon Rapids woman is suing the Hilton Hotels chain for harassment-by-orgy after she walked in on drunken upper management group sex in one the hotel’s banquet halls, according to On Point. How…
Muji Award 2008 results →
Results of the 2008 Muji Award design competition. Winning entries include a drinking straw made from straw, a garbage bag that stands up by itself (no can needed), and a stapler that gets that…
Spotted at Waterloo earlier: that Lee bloke from the Joseph stage production. Notably, his coat was devoid of any colour.