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Got a few million burning a hole in your wallet? Here are a few suggestions for wasting it: A million-dollar ice cream cone (and you can’t even eat it!); two million dollar rims (what, they don’t even spin?); and a million-dollar laptop (it doesn’t say what speed it is, dammit).
But you’ve got to admit, she has balls.
I found a bunch of perfect desktop background images for my Linux machine today, via Boing Boing: pictures of milk droplets falling into coffee, taken with an extremely high-speed camera.
Once again, truth proves to be stranger than fiction.
“It is a rare day indeed we come across a piece of technology that so utterly fails at its intended purpose,” opines CNET editor Jasmine France, “but American electronics manufacturer Coby has managed to produce just such a device […] we were a bit surprised at the atrocity of this digital audio player.” Editor’s rating: …
After having a cell phone with the same company for nearly five years, I called last month to shut it down. We don’t use it enough to justify the cost. I was told that it would have to remain active for the remainder of my billing period, which was nearly at the end of the …
I’ve posted several things already today, and had planned to leave the blog alone until tomorrow, but this one is just too juicy to pass up. Since I’ve already mentioned the Paris Hilton story a few times, I figured it was okay to continue following it. From this page: She says she was depressed after …
I’ve enjoyed David Brin’s science fiction works, ever since I picked up a copy of Startide Rising in the early eighties. (It’s still one of my favorite SF books.) When I saw on Boing Boing that there was an interview with him that was published a few days ago, I had to read it immediately. …
This is an amusing video, apparently from a children’s television show in Japan. I’ve always loved the kind of Rube Goldberg devices that it shows. This one, on the other hand, is simply weird. Though rather amusing, in an I-don’t-quite-get-it kind of way.