January 2008
47 posts
Hotel vs Cars →
The hotel won.
Cat vs Pigeons →
● Hell Yeah The Plane Takes Off shirts →
As requested in the airplane on a conveyor belt thread, a t-shirt commemorating this great event: Now available at CafePress in men’s plain white ($18), women’s plain white ($18), fitted white ($20), and organic cotton white ($21).
★ Apple Reports First Quarter 2008 Results →
Apple’s just-announced Q1 2008 results made for the best quarter in company history: The Company posted revenue of $9.6 billion and net quarterly profit of $1.58 billion, or $1.76 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $7.1 billion and net quarterly profit of $1 billion, or $1.14 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. […] Apple shipped 2,319,000 Macintosh computers,...
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Shorter Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: If Microsoft greatly improves every single aspect of Windows — including performance, the UI, the driver model — and also adds some cool new features, then Windows 7 will be the best version of Windows ever.
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Wallace and Gromit Come to iTunes →
A selection of short films created by Oscar-winning animation studio Aardman are now available from the iTunes Store, with two of the best-loved comic characters of all-time Nick Parks Wallace and Gromit leading the way. Popular shorts A Grand Day Out, The Wrong Trousers, A Close Shave and Cracking Contraptions can be purchased for £1.89 each, with more material from the Aardman...
Further Details on the Eee touchscreen →
Reading further into the Digitimes story on Asus adding touchpanel screens into the Eee, PocketLint suggests that the panels will be the four-wire type adding just US$15 to the BOM.
“The 9-inch touch panel-equipped Eee PCs will adopt “four-wire resistive touch screen technology” adding just $15 to the manufacturing cost of the new tablet-esque gadget.”
While less precise than the five-wire...
Congress moving forward with plan to tie college... →
The Electronic Frontier Foundation warns us that H.R. 4137, the College Opportunity and Affordability Act of 2007, is still steaming ahead with its “Campus-based Digital Theft Prevention” that ties college funding to universities’ purchase of DRM-based industry-sanctioned download services and deployment of network snoopware that spies on and disconnects college kids if they...
Canadian Privacy Commissioner rejects DRM: don't... →
Jennifer Stoddart, the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, has published an open letter to Industry Minister Jim Prentice, who has been working behind the scenes to resurrect his disaster of a copyright bill, which will import the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act to Canada. The DMCA has been a total failure, resulting in nearly 30,000 lawsuits against music fans, massive anti-competitive effects,...
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Yahoo! accounts becomes valid OpenIDs →
Yahoo! is jumping on the OpenID wagon and is making it possible to use your Yahoo! account as a valid OpenID. That’s another quarter of a billion OpenIDs out there! Put that together with the fact that AOL made their AIM logins work as OpenIDs as well and most everyone in the US at least will already have an OpenID. At 37signals, we love OpenID. We support it in Basecamp, Highrise, and Backpack...
January 16, 2008 →
iTunes HD rentals: price discrimination against... →
Filed under: Macworld, Humor, Apple TV
So what is it with the “guy tax” that Apple has added to its Apple TV rentals? You know what I mean. Rentals are $3.99 for women, $4.99 for men. See? Look at the picture. Because few women (other than our Christina) are going to look at that pricing structure and say “Oh wow, honey. Let’s pay a dollar more so that we can enjoy the...
January 14, 2008 →
Bang bang, you're egg! →
Over at Laughing Squid, Scott Beale has a neat post up about these fried-egg molds from Urban Trend that allow you to cook your sunny side ups in the shape of a gun. There’s a lethal cholesterol joke in here somewhere, but my arteries are too clogged to think it up. Link.
Bang bang, you're egg! →
Over at Laughing Squid, Scott Beale has a neat post up about these fried-egg molds from Urban Trend that allow you to cook your sunny side ups in the shape of a gun. There’s a lethal cholesterol joke in here somewhere, but my arteries are too clogged to think it up. Link.
How could I have known that murder could sometimes... →
“But, it’s a post on film noir!” I told her. She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me. I knew that caving into my desires meant I might lose her. But I didn’t care. I went out to the kitchen to make coffee — yards of coffee. Rich, strong, bitter, boiling hot, ruthless, depraved. I knew she’d be back....
Miro 1.1: faster torrenting for better net TV →
Miro — the free and open Internet TV program that lets everyone participate in making and watching video — has just posted a fantastic update. Version 1.1 includes a new BitTorrent engine that delivers dramatic improvements in download speeds.
Miro combines BitTorrent (a downloading system that gets faster as more people download the same file) with the open VLC video player (which...
Bugatti Building A Car Faster Than The Veyron? →
Is this the next car from Bugatti? German website Motor Auto und Sport have posted a series of drawings which could be a car that will be more expensive, more powerful and faster than the Veyron. Going under the codename of ‘Project Lydia’ - named after Ettore Bugatti’s wife - the car will be designed for the track but still road legal. Motor Auto und Sport say that the car...
Walmart Cake →
Taken from this LiveJournal blog…
Walmart Employee: “Hello ‘dis Walmarts, how can I help you?”
Customer: ” I would like to order a cake for a going away party this week.”
Walmart Employee: “What you want on the cake?”
Customer: “Best Wishes Suzanne” and underneath that “We will miss you”.
Walmart Employee: “Dat...
Photo of kids on go kart hitching ride on truck in... →
From Street Use, via Zeraga’s Flickr pool. I’d love to know how she shot this amazing image.
In Perú from Huánuco to Tingo Maria, where the road from the Pacific coast across the Andes finds its way towards the Amazon lowlands. This is near the top of the last mountain pass. From there, soapbox rider can enjoy a vertical 1000 meters of gravity assisted ride. As these kids help stranded...
Using Shred to Wipe Hard Drives - DoD Uses It -... →
Hard drive encryption (and to a lesser extent, secure hard drive erasing) has been in the news regarding child pornography crossing the US border, government officials around the world erasing incriminating emails and other nefarious headlines.
The one that caught my eye was of a person crossing the border from Canada into the United States.
His laptop was searched in customs. Border Agents...
Apple to Standardise iTunes Music Prices... →
Apple has announced that within six months it will lower the prices it charges for music on its UK iTunes Store to match the already standardised pricing on iTunes across Europe in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland and Spain. This is an important step towards a pan-European marketplace...
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PSTAM.com: Behind the Scenes →
Over 300 people have suggested via Skribit that I chime in on what’s involved with maintaining, writing and developing for this blog. With this post I aim to cover every aspect of how I work and keep PaulStamatiou.com rolling. Some things might be common sense while others might make you wonder. Enjoy.
Workspace
As part of my 2008 new year’s resolution, I plan on maintaining a clutter free...
Asus details WiMax enabled Eee’s at CES 2008 →
As reported on by Engadget, Asus in conjunction with Sprint and Intel announced today that they are going to be releasing Eee PC’s with WiMax connectivity at the CES 2008 conference in Las Vegas, NV.
Also mentioned at the conference were plans to upgrade the Eee’s LCD screen with multiple sizes ranging from the current 7 ” to 8″ and 8.9″.
Windows XP will be an officially supported/shipped...
Hardware hacker reviews the One Laptop Per Child... →
Virtuoso hardware hacker Andrew “bunnie” Huang has posted a fantastic review of the One Laptop Per Child XO laptop, from a hardware engineer’s perspective. Bunnie is the founder of Chumby, a truly elegant hardware gizmo, and he (literally) takes apart the XO and showcases the excellent design choices that went into it.
If I were to make one general comment about the OLPC XO-1,...
*wanders over from links* →
*shuffles back*
Edit: FP? Me?! aww shucks!
The Most Hated Company In the PC Industry →
This Is How We Roll →
Babble columnist David Netto recommends the latest in must-have playsets for your precociously epicurean toddlers: the wooden sushi playset.
Thank god. Now, next time the kids head over to their sushi playdate, you don’t have to worry about them looking like unknowledgeable poseurs when someone asks them to please pass the roe. Can you imagine? No amount of virgin sake could ever help them live...
Helpful Tip: How to Select Text Vertically in MS... →
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been writing something or working on a project in Microsoft Word and it would have been helpful to be able to select text vertically. It never occurred to me that it was even possible to do such a thing! To my surprise, I learned that in fact you can select text vertically in Microsoft Word, thanks to an article over at the How-To Geek site.
All you have to do...
Buy: Indiana Jones LEGO Sets Now Available →
The Indiana Jones LEGO sets just went on sale, and I must say: I love Indiana Jones and LEGO! There I said it, the cat is out of the grocery bag. I know what you’re thinking — so do you! That is so rad, we should totally get together sometime and have a big ol’ Indiana Jones party and build LEGO sets at the same time. My favorite is the Last Crusade. Yeah I would totally do the...
Scientists to make cows fart like kangaroos →
Cow farts contain methane, a greenhouse gas. Kangaroo farts do not. So scientists in Australia are going to transfer intestinal bacteria of kangaroos into cattle and see what happens. According to the government of Queensland, almost 14% of all greenhouse gas emissions from Australia come from cow farts, so this seemingly silly idea could actually make a big difference. Link (Thanks,
Marilyn...
Rain of iguanas in Miami →
If you are in Miami, pop open your Charles Fort umbrellas before venturing into Bill Baggs park: it’s raining iguanas there. It was raining iguanas at Bill Baggs Thursday morning. There were a couple underneath buttonwood trees and a third beneath a sea grape. All were about 30 yards from the beach, in the coastal hammock. “We have found dozens on the bike path after a major cold...
Your Mom →
18 People Get Stuck Upside-Down On Roller Coaster →
18 people had the misfortune of spending 30 minutes upside-down when a roller coaster in a Chinese theme park came to a grinding halt in strong winds. All were rescued successfully rescued although 6 needed to be taken to hospital. [via]
Netflix and HD: a DRM disaster that costs you your... →
Davis sez,
I recently purchased a new HD monitor, but when I installed it, I lost the streaming capabilities on Netflix’s website. When I tried to troubleshoot the issue, I had to agree to let Netflix “reset my DRM” by destroying my Amazon.com files. After talking with Netflix’s technical support, I learned that the real issue had to do with the HD capabilities of my PC...
Motley Fool: litigation isn't a business model,... →
Alyce Lomax, an investment analyst for the financial site The Motley Fool, has written a smart little editorial arguing that lawsuits are not a sound business-strategy, and if that’s the best the RIAA can come up with, it’s time to short the stock of the record labels. As I’ve said before, a good sign of a dying industry that investors might want to avoid is when it would rather...
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December 2007
86 posts
Hello Kitty contact lenses →
Hello Kitty Hell posted this photo of a young lady modeling Hello Kitty contact lenses. Link