This “Virgin Mary USB Flash drive” is just ridiculous. “Plug her in and ‘she comes to life, her red LED heart starts to beat — in passive state slowly, quicker whilst connecting or saving data’ [...]“ Thanks, but I’ll take a USB Rocket Launcher instead. (Oh darn, it looks like it’s Windows-only.)
Archive of entries posted on November 2007
Forget “Black Friday,” start watching “Cyber Monday”
“Cyber Monday” is apparently the new name for the Monday after Thanksgiving, when workers return to the office and start Christmas shoping online from their work computers. It’s apparently growing in importance, as the traditional “Black Friday” (when stores supposedly “climb into the black,” or start making a profit for their fiscal year) loses ground. [...]
“Phoenix hijacks Windows boot with instant-on”
My first computer was a used TI-99/4a, given to me as a gift on my twelfth birthday, just after Texas Instruments abandoned it. It was a wonderful little device, despite the quickly-outgrown 16K of memory. One of the best things about it (besides the hardware speech synthesizer module that I got with it) was that [...]
“Buffy mastermind returns with new TV series”
I always got an odd look when I told people that I enjoyed watching the Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series. Something along the lines of “you’d admit to that, voluntarily?” I also really enjoyed the Firefly series, and the Serenity movie that capped it off. So I was interested to read about creator Joss [...]
“Hardcore Dalek builders plan galactic domination”
Exterminate! EXTERMINATE!
“Mayor Resigns, Claims Abduction By Satan Worshippers”
Abduction and brain-washing by a Satanic cult… it’s all just too eighties for me.
“Well, It IS The Home of the Creation Museum, After All”
“The Kentucky legislature holds hearings on global warming, and forgets to invite any actual scientists.” Un-freakin’-believable.
“Japanese “melody roads” play tunes as you drive over them”
When I was a child, one of our family’s vacations required driving through Nashville, Tennessee. That was the first place I encountered grooved pavement; my mother said to be quiet and listen, because the road was singing to us (which earned her about three minutes of golden near-silence from myself and my two sisters). It [...]
CygWin Woes
After trying for a couple days to get the Squid http proxy software installed on my office CygWin system (to bypass the hotel’s blocking system, so that I can get a secure connection over their open wireless system), I’ve given up on it. I don’t know of any way to have the office machine download [...]
“Who else is laughing at the music industry?”
“Freelance technology journalist” Don Reisinger has an interesting article here: As music downloading (and dare I say illegal downloading) continues to rise, these music companies bury their heads in the sand and blow policy out the other end. Instead of understanding customers and realizing that what we want is readily available music without DRM, Warner [...]