The Register reports on a new sex toy that could be of limited use to some…..people….. : NSFW Our female readers are invited to imagine the folllowing scenario: It’s Monday, you’re at work, you’re bored, you’re thinking “how could I possibly spice up this trawl of the 2,000 weekend emails in my inbox?” when it [...]
Entries from October 29th, 2005
Compoboy – The Original Transformer
October 29th, 2005 · No Comments · Cool Geeky Stuff
Alen Yen’s Toybox has an article on an old skool robot that transforms into a stereo set (for those of you wondering, yes it IS a toy): Compoboy, Product of Popy. It’s not a Chogokin, however. It falls into the same grey area as the Kikou Gattai Dairruger XV. As a matter of fact, it [...]
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The Simpsons Ported To Arabic
October 21st, 2005 · No Comments · Middle East, TV
The Independent reports that the Simpsons has now been remade for Arabic TV: With Omar as Homer, and Badr substituted for Bart, The Simpsons is now playing on Arab television. But in order not to risk offending an Arab audience, the characters in Al Shamshoon, as the show is now called, have modified some of [...]
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Broadband Via Airships Tested
October 20th, 2005 · No Comments · Internet
In what is a romantic mix of 30s jetsetting and the modern internet, the BBC reports of tests of broadband via airships: The latest broadband delivery system has seen researchers looking to the skies to provide super-fast internet access via airships. Airships in the stratosphere beaming back broadband capable of speeds up to 120Mbps may [...]
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Cinema To Return To Saudi Arabia
October 20th, 2005 · No Comments · Middle East, Movies
The BBC reports of the first “cinema” (check article to see why I put quotes around the word) to open in Saudi Arabia for 20 years: The authorities in Saudi Arabia have given permission for the first cinema to open there in 20 years, but the only clients will be women and children. Foreign cartoons [...]
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Happy Birthday IMDB!
October 17th, 2005 · No Comments · Internet
Today IMDB is 15 years old: 15 years ago this week (Oct 17th, exactly) the Internet Movie Database, in essence, took shape. In those 15 years we have enjoyed the camaraderie and marveled at the efforts of hundreds of thousands of participants with the site. It is due to everyone’s hard work, attention to detail, [...]
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Get Your Own Airport Security Playset
October 16th, 2005 · No Comments · Humor
It seems that playmobil have released an airport security playset. The folks over at Concurring Opinions have written a review: I was a bit disappointed in the toy’s lack of realism. There was only one passenger to be screened. Where were the long lines? The passenger’s clothing wasn’t removable for strip searching. The passenger’s shoes [...]
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Daniel Craig To Play New James Bond
October 14th, 2005 · No Comments · Movies
The BBC reports of Daniel Craing being the newest actor to play the three numbers we all know so well, 007: Actor Daniel Craig has been confirmed as the new James Bond. The English star of gangster film Layer Cake, who arrived at a press conference in London by speedboat, will play a tougher, grittier [...]
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World Of Warcraft Contains Spyware!
October 14th, 2005 · 2 Comments · Security, Video Games
Some dude at rootkit.com has dome some reverse engineering on World of Warcraft and uncovered some disturbing finds: I recently performed a rather long reversing session on a piece of software written by Blizzard Entertainment, yes – the ones who made Warcraft, and World of Warcraft (which has 4.5 million+ players now, apparently). This software [...]
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Turn Your Floppy Drive Into An RC Car
October 14th, 2005 · No Comments · Hardware
Generation5 has a nice HOWTO on how to hack that old floppy drive you have lying around into an RC car: The idea for this project was born from an unfinished website which had some important details missing. In essence the idea of converting a floppy disk drive into a small vehicle which could be [...]
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