| 5:37 PM EngadgetHerd of oversized concrete computer mice seen rushing for the shore -- do they know something we don't? -
As a perfect complement to Shenzhen's scattered keyboard keys we spotted the other day, tipster Riley G. spotted this charging herd of giant mice statues in Xiamen, China. Two whole tactile, usa... 5:37 PM from Engadget by Paul Miller Add starShareShare with noteEmailKeep unreadEdit tags: 5:34 PM SlashdotNew Material For Fast-Change Sunglasses, Data Storage - sciencehabit writes "'Researchers have developed a material that almost instantaneously (30 ms) changes from clear to dark blue when exposed to ultraviolet light, and it just as quickly reverts to ... 4:14 PM TechCrunchOklahoma City Teabagger Arrested for Threatening Bloodbath On Twitter - An Oklahoma City man named Daniel Knight Hayden, 52, posted threats against the government on Twitter under the name CitizenQuasar including the suggestion that he would kill police if they approac... 3:52 PM Boing BoingNebula Award winners for 2008 announced - The 2008 Nebula Awards were announced last night in LA:
Best Novel: Powers by Ursula K. Le Guin
Best Novella: "The Spacetime Pool" by Catherine Asaro
Best Novelette: "Pride and Prometheus" by ... 3:52 PM Boing BoingThe Pirate Google: making the point that Google's as guilty of linking to torrents as The Pirate Bay -
When The Pirate Bay was ordered shut down by the Swedish courts because it linked to infringing torrents on the Internet, many people pointed out that Google links to whole mountains' -- whole p... 3:41 PM TechCrunchWorld of Warcraft Comes to iPhone - Well, we had a good run. The Renaissance, going to the Moon, inventing the Snuggie... but all that's done now. World of Warcraft is no longer restricted to home and laptop use. Its grip on humanity... 3:10 PM Digg / TechnologyTop 10 Ubuntu Downloads - The reviews are in, and the just-released Ubuntu 9.04, i.e. "Jaunty Jackalope," rates as a slick, fully-formed Linux desktop. Looking to get started or upgrade your system? We're recommending 10 do... 3:10 PM Digg / TechnologyEven when not explicit, ISP data caps still haunt users - Time Warner Cable's data cap plan might be history (for now), but unpublished data caps live on thanks to the "acceptable use policy." ISPs that continue to rely on ambiguous metrics for abuse had ... 2:31 PM SlashdotBringing Up Bill - theodp writes "Over at the WSJ, Bill Gates Sr. describes what it took to turn an unruly 12-year-old into Microsoft's founder and the world's richest man. This included throwing a glass of cold wate... 2:26 PM EngadgetSkytone's Android-powered netbook to cost around $250 -
Guangzhou Skytone Transmission Technologies Company, which we will absolutely never call by its full name again, has just dropped a juicy nugget about its forthcoming netbook. If you'll recall, ... 1:20 PM TechCrunchGoogle Earth Helps Solve A Plane Crash Mystery - The idea behind Google Earth has always been a powerful one: It allows users to explore places that they either can’t or won’t go. But with its vast amount of maps and topographical data, it also i... 1:09 PM Digg / Technology$62,000 movie download a result of poor travel planning - $62,000 to download a movie? That's what happened to a caller named Alberto, who told his data roaming tale of woe on the air to HLN "money expert" Clark Howard on CNN. Alberto made the grave mista... 1:09 PM Digg / Technology30 Examples of Watercolor Effects in Web Design - There are many creative ways to use watercolor effects and brush strokes in a web design to make it really stand out. In this showcase, you’ll see 30 examples of watercolor effects and brush stroke... 12:47 PM Digg / TechnologyThe BBC Rehashes MPAA Propaganda - As a government owned corporation the BBC has a duty to educate, and be evenhanded in its dealings with subjects. Yet in a recent segment on their long-running ‘Film’ program, currently hosted by J... 12:47 PM Digg / TechnologyConficker Virus Begins To Attack Computers - Conficker, also known as Downadup or Kido, was expected to wreak havoc on April 1 when it was due to be activated, but it failed to cause many problems. Internet virus experts, however, claim it is... 12:42 PM Mashable!The Social Media Stories You Might Have Missed - Social media has had an eventful week - from Geocities shutting down to the astounding numbers behind an unprecedented YouTube success, there hasn’t been a lack of news and insight. So after an up... 12:36 PM TechCrunchEQ Network Converts Videos To Mobile-Friendly Formats While Inserting Ads - The web is filled with video content, but there are different formats that don’t always play nicely with all players. The most obvious example of this is the hugely popular Flash format, which does... 11:42 AM EngadgetBoeing's Airborne Laser begins flight tests, future uncertain -
Boeing was pretty bullish about its aircraft-mounted laser system only a few short months ago, but it looks the program's future is now considerably more uncertain, even as the sole aircraft to b... 11:30 AM Mashable!Hey iPhone Users, Android Isn’t Dead Yet! - It’s tough not to be caught up in the hype of the iPhone, the device that captured the attention and imagination of consumers and developers alike. This week, the iPhone reached 1 billion applicat... 11:15 AM SlashdotMusic Copyright In EU Extended To 70 Years - rastos1 writes "The European Parliament extended the copyright in the EU for the performers of musical works from 50 to 70 years. The legislation will be reviewed in 3 years. The European Commissio... 10:21 AM TechCrunchSteve Jobs On The Value Of Stock Options -
On March 18, 2008, Steve Jobs was deposed by the SEC during its investigation of Apple’s stock option backdating scandal. The deposition was never made public until Forbes published it on Friday... 10:17 AM Akihabara NewsLet’s Visit Tokyo - Daikan-Yama -
It seems that you really like last week video of Kuhonbutsu temple, and today we are heading in direction of Shibuya area, and stopped at Daikan-Yama.
Daikan-Yama is a... 9:45 AM Digg / TechnologyUbuntu Studio 9.04 Released! - "Ubuntu Studio is a multimedia editing/creation flavor of Ubuntu, built for the GNU/Linux audio, video, and graphics enthusiast or professional" 9:45 AM Digg / TechnologyStumbleUpon Toolbar Storing 500 Cued Pages Now? - At first I thought it must be a mistake, so I decided to click the Stumble button and see what would happen. Instead of jumping back down to 98 as I expected it would, it went down to 499 and then ... 9:20 AM SlashdotAnalyzing (All of) Star Trek With Face Recognition - An anonymous reader writes "Accurate face recognition is coming. Pittsburgh Pattern Recognition, a face recognition start-up spun out from Carnegie Mellon University, has posted a tech demo showing... 8:57 AM EngadgetKeepin' it real fake, part CCII: meticulous G1 clone forgets the keyboard, a reason for being -
We were already scratching our heads over the SciPhone Dream G2+, which went to all the trouble of ripping off Android for little apparent reason -- most of the OS is free for the taking. Well, ... 8:54 AM TechCrunchFormer AOL Exec Mike Jones May Become No. 2 At MySpace - One thing MySpace has is a lot of holes in the executive ranks. Founding CEO Chris DeWolfe has been hurriedly replaced by Owen Van Natta (our thoughts on that are well known). Cofounder and Preside... 8:52 AM Mashable!Susan Boyle on South Park (Video) - South Park is apparently calling for the end of the world’s Susan Boyle obsession: in the latest episode of the irreverent cartoon, Ike is said to have run away from home to escape the never-ending... 8:20 AM LifehackerThis Week's Top Downloads [Download Roundup] - XBMC Babylon Beta 1 Available for Download (Windows/Mac/Linux/Etc.) XBMC has just released the first beta of XBMC 9.04 (codename Babylon), packed with several impressive new features and fixes. Ubu... 8:14 AM Digg / Technology28 Online Photo Editing Websites To have Fun With - A Collection of all the best free photo editing services, which will keep You busy for quite a while and You will receive amazing results - maybe funny, maybe silly - but You’ll get original photos... 8:14 AM Digg / TechnologyFacebook Vs. MySpace - A graphical representation. 7:50 AM Engadget3 UK promises free mobile Skype calls until the end of time -
While most carriers are having quite a tift about Skype intruding on their territory, UK-based 3 is letting customers use unlimited Skype-to-Skype calls and messages without any extra fees. The n... 7:33 AM TechCrunchOwen Van Natta’s Infamous Tenure At Project Playlist - One of the many unsavory aspects of the hiring of Owen Van Natta as the new CEO of MySpace: the rewriting of recent history around Van Natta’s involvement in Project Playlist. The communications gr... 7:31 AM SlashdotBlackwell Launches Print-On-Demand Trial In the UK - krou writes "In Dec. 2006, we discussed the Espresso Book Machine. Well, on April 27 the bookseller Blackwell will launch a three-month trial of the machine in its Charing Cross Road branch in Lond... 7:16 AM LifehackerBeat Your MP3 Tags Into Shape with These MediaMonkey Scripts [Media Monkey] - Inconsistently tagged MP3s can be a real pain. Avoid hours spent digging through your music aligning bands and album tags with these hard-working Media Monkey scripts. Over at tips and tricks blog... 6:19 AM LifehackerRecycle a Wine Crate into a Cat Perch [Pets] - Looking to tempt your cat away from lounging on your keyboard? You can take the tack of one Modern Cat reader and turn a wine crate into a sturdy kitty perch. Sonia had two cats that couldn't get ... 5:45 AM EngadgetNew Snow Leopard beta build includes screen recording capabilities, a certain je ne sais quoi -
If you're keeping track of Snow Leopard's progress, you'll be pleased to know that a new build (10A335) has been released into the hands of devs (and consequently, the world). Most interestingly,... 5:36 AM SlashdotFuture of Financial Mathematics? - An anonymous reader writes "Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a famous 'Quant,' has long been a strong critic of the use of mathematics and statistics in the financial markets. He has been very vocal in his b... 5:23 AM LifehackerAppetizer is a Customizable Open Source Application Launcher [Downloads] - Windows only: If you're looking for a portable application menu and launcher, Appetizer is a free, polished, and highly customizable open source candidate. Appetizer can be installed or run as a p... 5:16 AM Mashable!HOW TO: Track Swine Flu Online - There are few things in this world that cannot be easily replaced, repaired, or regained. Our health and the health of the ones we love falls into this category. The best thing we can do to prote... |
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