Betanews reports of a promotional video made with Bill Gate & Napoleon Dynamite: Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has long used spoof videos to break the ice before his keynotes, and PDC 2005 was no exception. In ‘Bill Gates Goes to College’ the richest man in the world joins Napoleon Dynamite to fix computers at his [...]
Entries from September 19th, 2005
Beauty Products Made From Skin Of Executed Chinese Prisoners
September 14th, 2005 · No Comments · Freedom & Democracy, Math & Science
A very disturbing story pops up on the Guardian about executed chinese prisoners being used for beauty products: A Chinese cosmetics company is using skin harvested from the corpses of executed convicts to develop beauty products for sale in Europe, an investigation by the Guardian has discovered. Agents for the firm have told would-be customers [...]
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iPod Generation Going Deaf?
September 14th, 2005 · No Comments · Apple, Mobiles & Gadgets
Arstechnica & Wired.com both report of a new phenomena that devices such as the iPod could be making us all deaf: Researchers fear the growing popularity of portable music players and other items that attach directly to the ears — including cell phones — is contributing to hearing loss in younger people. “It’s a different [...]
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Interview With An Exorcist – Part 7
September 14th, 2005 · 2 Comments · Paranormal
After posting part one, part two, part three, part four and part five here is the 7th part in the exorcism series (I can’t find part 6): Interview No. 7 Location: Ghubayrah, Riyaadh Date: 22/6/88 Name: Muhammad ibn Sa `iyyid ad-Dawsaree Age: 55 Place of Birth: al-Aflaaj (Qaseem), Saudi Arabia Education: Qur’anic studies in masjids. [...]
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More Money Than Sense
September 13th, 2005 · No Comments · Business, Middle East
The Economist has an interesting article that sums up the current oil boom in the gulf: WITH the price of oil rolling past $60 a barrel, where is the producers’ windfall falling? Some of it is going on useful things like roads and schools and paying off debts, some gets recycled, flowing back to energy-thirsty [...]
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What’s The Idea Behind ROKR?
September 13th, 2005 · No Comments · Apple, Audio, Mobiles & Gadgets, Telephony
CoolTechZone has an interesting analysis on why Apple developed the ROKR the way it is and made it not so great: The answer to that question is strategy. There was nothing wrong with the creative cells of the designers at Apple; ROKR is simply Jobs taking a calculated risk. He doesn’t want a cell phone [...]
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Rich Dude To Rebuild Seven Wonders Of The World In Dubai
September 13th, 2005 · 1 Comment · Business, Middle East
CNN reports of yet another total waste of money being spent in Dubai: DUBAI (Reuters) — The Gulf emirate of Dubai will build a city of life-size replicas of seven wonders of the world at an estimated cost of $1.5 billion to house offices, shops and flats, a developer has said. The Falcon City of [...]
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New Krell Boheamoth To Be Released
September 13th, 2005 · No Comments · Audio, Mobiles & Gadgets
Engadget reports of a new Krell monster to be released that’s capable of pushing out 11,500 watts: Next time we upgrade the audio in our home theater setup, we’ll be sure to consider Krell’s HEAT system. With no less than 16 separate speakers pumping out 11,500 watts of 7.1 sound, this one should definitely rock [...]
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iPod Nano Review
September 12th, 2005 · 3 Comments · Apple, Mobiles & Gadgets
Anandtech has a very thorough review (including stress test) of the new iPod Nano: The iPod nano is clearly intended to be Apple’s new best-selling iPod product, as the iPod mini used to hold that title but no longer exists. And honestly, given all of the improvements that the iPod nano has seen over the [...]
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Use Your Cell Phone To Phone With Skype
September 11th, 2005 · No Comments · Mobiles & Gadgets, Telephony
Phoneyworld.com reports of a new usb gadget that allows you to use your mobile phone with Skype: IP based voice chat is nothing new. In fact the release of Google talk brought the issue back into the limelight with arguments over which IM (Instant Messenger) was best suited or offered the best voice chatting over [...]
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