Just a quick blurb to mention that the trailer for the new Wachowski Brothers flick, V For Vendetta is out. For those of you not in the know, this is a remake of the popular comic. The plot ouline is as follows: In a story where Germany won a future World War and Great Britain [...]
Entries from July 23rd, 2005
Top 10 Web Fads
July 22nd, 2005 · 1 Comment · Internet
CNET.com has written a summary of the top 10 Web fads: Internet phenomena. Memes. Grist for the e-mail forwarding mill. Whatever you call them, Web fads are entertaining, unintended consequences of life on the World Wide Web. Once the masses could put anything online easily, they turned up weird fetishes, hilarious parody, jaw-dropping narcissism, and [...]
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Pay Per Click Speculation On The Rise
July 21st, 2005 · No Comments · Google, Internet
It seems that people are now registering domains just to put adwords on them, sorta like betting on horses: The number of web sites being opened purely to publish pay-per-click advertising links from the likes of Google Inc and Yahoo Inc is rocketing, according to VeriSign Inc, which runs the .com and .net domain names. [...]
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Build Your Own RiscOS Driven Laptop
July 20th, 2005 · No Comments · Hardware
It seems that some Acorn freak who has too much free time has created his own RiscOS driven laptop: This is my first attempt to a solution for the missing mobility issue in the Acorn Scene. Whether you like it or not, remains open. Believe me building a DIY Laptop was not my first intention. [...]
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James Doohan (Scotty From Star Trek) Dies
July 20th, 2005 · 1 Comment · TV
In a sad piece of news it seem that James Doohan (Scotty of Star Trek fame) has died today: LOS ANGELES, California (AP) — James Doohan, the burly chief engineer of the Starship Enterprise in the original “Star Trek” TV series and motion pictures who responded to the apocryphal command “Beam me up, Scotty,” died [...]
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Google Moon Now Online
July 20th, 2005 · No Comments · Google
Finally, it has arrived. You can now check out your house on the euhm… moon: In honor of the first manned Moon landing, which took place on July 20, 1969, we’ve added some NASA imagery to the Google Maps interface to help you pay your own visit to our celestial neighbor. Happy lunar surfing. More [...]
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Teach Your Bayesian Filter To Play Chess
July 20th, 2005 · No Comments · Coding & Web Development, Cool Geeky Stuff
Someone with a lot of imagination has made a cool hack in which he trained a Bayesian filter to analyze old chess games and from that play chess! An excerpt: Many people these days depend on Bayesian filters to protect them from the ever present email scourge that is spam. Unlike older technologies, these programs’ [...]
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How Do Computers Work – A Trip To The Past
July 19th, 2005 · No Comments · Hardware
In a wonderful piece of kitsch someone has scanned a “How Do Computers Work” book from 1970 an put the scans on a web page. An example of the chapters: Inside Cover Title Page What Are Computers? How Computers Developed Different Designs Data Processing The Main Parts Of A Computer Combining The Parts The Computer [...]
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Sick Of Spyware? Throw Away Your PC
July 19th, 2005 · No Comments · Hardware, Privacy
It seems that some people who are technically incompetent, have money to burn or a mixture of the two have found a new solution to spyware. Throw away your PC and get a new one (annoying registration required, use Bugmenot to get around it): SAN FRANCISCO, July 15 – Add personal computers to the list [...]
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Study Shows That One Third Of Studies Are Bullshit
July 14th, 2005 · No Comments · Math & Science
You can’t believe anything! CNN reports that one third of all studies are inaccurate to say the least: CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) — New research highlights a frustrating fact about science: What was good for you yesterday frequently will turn out to be not so great tomorrow. The sobering conclusion came in a review of major [...]
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