Archive for December, 2005
I assume the movie version of Pong is a joke, but German tech magazine Heise Online as well as ign.com report that a Pac-Man movie is in the making. Crystal Sky Pictures has a movie version of Catstlevania and Tekken in the making.
Pac-Man
Pac-Man is a new film adaptation of the video
game that is known throughout [...]
MSNBC features a Business Week Online report on Intel and the changes the company is making.
For a while now, I have been wondering about the corporate culture at Intel (I have friends working there) and the company always struck me as the anti-thesis of a high-tech company (gourmet food at Google, the cubicle culture at [...]
Somebody at ExtremeTech thinks so… Pretty much everything in the article is wrong. Nice job.
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1906401,00.asp
Do you have a Gmail address? If so, raise your hand. Ah, good, there are a few. Now, do you use your Gmail account as your primary account to actually send and receive mail? Riiigghhht, most of you put your hands [...]
Star Wars and Lego. If I were a geek, I would probably enjoy this one…
Technorati Tags: starwars, lego, bricks
The New York Times today features one of the gazillion end-of-2005-best-of-lists. This one is by David Pogue. I really didn’t see much of interest in the list (memory cards with USB build in, flip phones with buttons on the outside etc.). However, I really liked the first sentence:
10 Greatest Gadget Ideas of the Year – [...]
A family in Hawaii claims that they found meat in their iPod package instead of, well, an iPod. I smell scam – either by the family or by some worker at the local Walmart where they bought the product (why do people buy iPods at Walmart?).
ABC News: iPod Replaced With Meat
Surprised he was, and so [...]
Somebody please explain this to me. Jeremy Hermanns was on Alask Airlines Flight #536 which experienced de-pressurization at 30k feet. He, (and all others on board), survived and wrote a blog post about it. Then he gets flamed for it. Read the comments. They get vicious very quickly. Why?
Here are some of the comments:
So let [...]
The American Family Association is not happy with NBC’s upcoming series “The Book of Daniel.” While wrapped in the language of network-media-makes-a-mockery-of-religion, it is really about this – neatly packaged at the end of the petition, with that last sentence set off for maximum effect because this is what gets AFA members pumped up against [...]
Blowjob for tranport… no comment:
Transit strike: Give me head.. I’ll drive you where you need to go – m – 29
Reply to: pers-119423120@craigslist.org
Date: 2005-12-20, 5:53AM EST
Yeah that’s right.. I’m a blatent opportunist and I’m not shy about it. I’m near Flushing Forest Hills. No guys.email me with a pic, your contact info, and your location/destination. [...]
A freshmen girl at the University of Western Ontario stripped. Big scandal. Link is not work-safe!
University of Western Ontario Striptease PhotosThe University of Western Ontario is investigating an incident in which a female first-year student performed a full striptease and lap dance in October for several males in a residence bedroom, with graphic photos soon [...]
Other Stories We Liked- Using Twitter Lists to Judge Influence
- To be free we need to break free of web 2.0 thinking
- What Happened on Northwest Flight 188?
- Guardian column on the danger of “self-help” copyright rules
- Microsoft attempts a reboot with launch of Windows 7 operating system
- Shatner to Appear in Next "Star Trek"?
- Apple - Magic Mouse - The world’s first Multi-Touch mouse.
- Airline Fee Nightmare: How a $120 Flight Could Cost $1500
- WebGL slips into Chrome, too, for 3D Web
- A Windows to Help You Forget [Personal Technology]
