April 2008
54 posts
Engadget goes hands-on with a Psystar →
Filed under: Hardware, Hacks
Earlier this month, Psystar announced their intention to sell Leopard-ready, Core 2 Duo minitowers for $399US. The announcement drew a lot of attention,…
NYTimes.com hand-codes its HTML →
Khoi Vinh, the Design Director of NYTimes.com, explains that the Times’s much-vaunted cross-platform consistency is down to hand-coding their HTML with a text-editor, not using GUI tools like…
Black Eee PC 900 Spotted In The Wild →
yapyap on our forums has come across some photos on Flickr of a Black Eee PC 900. It looks really sleek, but also seems to be sporting the 4400mAh battery.
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Ubuntu Linux Usability Testing with Girlfriend →
Finally someone is doing Ubuntu Linux usability testing with a girlfriend. The new user was given a couple of common tasks over a default installation of Ubuntu. I hope, the Linux…
Ampersand →
Jonathan Hoefler: The many forms that a font’s ampersand can follow are generally informed by its historical context, the whims of its designer, and the demands of the type family that contains…
10 Tips for After You Install or Upgrade Ubuntu |... →
go offline!
readbag: if you have google gears installed, you can now go offline and take all your unread links with you to read them on the road.
Record-Breaking Mentos And Coke Explosions |... →
What’s Under the Eee PC 900’s Cover? →
For those interested in seeing the real insides of the Eee PC 900, check out this thread on VR Zone and this multi page article from bit-tech. Both provide a lot of photos and a lot of…
WatchLiveLeak.com - Golden Eagle Throws Goat off Cliff
Asus Eee 900 Battery Shenanigans →
Mark Wilson reports at Gizmodo that review units of the Eee 900 had higher-capacity batteries than the ones actually being shipped to customers. Bizarre.
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Flickr Find: Lilliputian iPhone unboxing →
Filed under: Flickr Find, iPhone
Like it or not, unboxing is a ritual for many Apple users, and when there’s a new product on the streets, Flickr is home to many Mac users’…
Mistranslations →
Middlesbrough cops, goons and clerks grab and... →
Security goons, store-clerks and police officers detained Flickr user “i didn’t mean to go to Stoke” for taking photos in the outdoor, pedestrianized area of Middlesbrough, UK:
Moments later as…
Robots made from sans-serif fonts →
Jonathon Yule’s Invdr features a lovely gallery of robots made from various sans-serif fonts. Link
(Thanks, Jake!)
Whoop! →
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Asus sent souped-up batteries to Eee 9"... →
Early adopters of Asus 9” Eee PC in Hong Kong are in a righteous fury over what appears to be a flat-out campaign of dishonesty and misinformation on the part of Asus in regards to the Eee’s battery…
Giant solar grid powers your whole neighborhood →
This solar grid in the Mohave desert utilizes thousands of mirrors called heliostats to focus solar energy on a boiler, where water is vaporized at over 1,000 degrees to create steam to…
ITV programmes now available on iTunes →
Enjoy the best in award-winning drama, comedy, entertainment and cult classics from ITV on the iTunes Store. UK customers can now download complete series of classic ITV shows like Cold Feet,…
Video: Stuntman Trashes James Bond's Aston Martin →
A Russian news channel has broadcast footage of the aftermath of one of James Bond’s Aston Martin that was trashed while filming the opening scene of Quantum of Solace.
The driver lost…
Middlesbrough cops, goons and clerks grab and... →
Security goons, store-clerks and police officers detained Flickr user “i didn’t mean to go to Stoke” for taking photos in the outdoor, pedestrianized area of Middlesbrough, UK:
Moments later as…
Week in the Woods: Final checklist; Leaving... →
Tomorrow I’m heading out to the woods to make an attempt to work on the internet using only solar power. It’s not going to be a full week as I’d planned, as I’ll probably be coming back…
Robots made from sans-serif fonts →
Jonathon Yule’s Invdr features a lovely gallery of robots made from various sans-serif fonts. Link
(Thanks, Jake!)
BBC - Sound Index →
Ubuntu 'reaping Linux dividend' →
Red Hat and Novell decided not to challenge Microsoft on desktop PCs. However, Canonical Ltd is getting ready to release a new version of Ubuntu on Thursday. According to Mark…
Eee PC 900 Reviews →
It looks like some of the big websites are getting their hands on Eee PC 900 devices and publishing some reviews. Here are some you can check out:
CNET UK: Eee PC 900
Stuff TV: Eee PC 900
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AG Lite - Issue 292 | quit smoking →
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thisisby.us - For One Year, by harrychong →
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Helpful Tip: How to Quickly Save an Image →
So you’re browsing the web and come across an image that you want to save to your computer. There are various ways that you can go about doing this. For example, in Opera you can hold…
Asus Eee PC gets bigger screen, drives →
EeePC, how you thrill with your sleek, cheap, haven’t-actually-bought-it-yet-but-will-I-promise mythos. If only you’d stop getting better, so I could convince myself that now is the time….
Solar cells built into windows could change power... →
The Queensland University of Technology in Australia in conjunction with Dyesol has developed an innovative solar cell technology that uses dye-infused, translucent solar cells and can be…
WatchSuper Mario Bros theme performed by an RC car on a row of liquid-filled bottles - Boing Boing
Techno →
Jug Hero @ Maker Faire →
Longing for a more collaborative play dynamic in music games, Kevin Lim and Shawna Hein came up with a new direction to take the genre - straight toward the land of jug band. Jug music…
An interview with Robin Wilson, the thoughtful... →
An interview with Robin Wilson, the thoughtful frontman of the Gin Blossoms. It’s very frustrating to me that most people don’t know [that the Gin Blossoms are still together]. We’re still very…
Engrish At Its Best →
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“There is a classic case in which the tenants of a large office building...”
– There is a classic case in which the tenants of a large office building complained about the increasingly poor elevator servic
Download of the day: Asus EEEPC Linux Software... →
Asus has launched an open-source project for its cheap ASUS Eee laptop PC . You can download SDK and start developing more applications. It is a collection of programming tools,…
HP’s Upline: Affordable Unlimited Online Storage →
Lately there have been all kinds of file storing and sharing services popping up. It was just several weeks ago that we wrote about Dropbox, and gave out 50 invites to readers (with…
Segway's new RMP! →
Here are some photo’s of Segway’s new RMP, debuting at RoboBusiness - there isn’t any information available about it at this time other than it “might” cost up to $50k…
Op-Chart: Making Money Hand Over Fist - The New... →
Flickr users can now upload video to their... →
Flickr users can now upload video to their accounts. I uploaded a video during the beta test but since I’m not a pro user, I can’t show it to anyone now that Flickr’s gone public with the video…
Coral reefs coming back from the dead →
Perceptive Travel reports that efforts to re-seed dying coral reefs are performing better than anyone dared hope. This is the best news I’ve had this season — I’ve been convinced that the reefs…