AP Quotes Blogger In Discussing Bloggers Quoting AP; Hilarity Ensues

The ongoing ridiculous situation brewing between bloggers and the Associated Press has now taken a turn towards the enjoyably hilarious. We had already mentioned the fact that, despite the AP’s complaints that bloggers quoting less than 100 words were violating fair use, the AP had a long history of quoting more than 100 words from [...]

Google Trips Over

This is totally pointless, but I wasn’t aware that this was actually possible until today.
Google Trips Over
If it looks normal for you then I guess it didn’t work.

To-Do List temporary tattoos

TO-DO TATTOO
The perfect solution for your shoddy short-term memory. Link

Treehoo and save the planet

Came across this interesting site called Treehoo.com. Nothing innovative in the site design or content, but the concept is nice. Should appeal to a lot of us who want to contribute back to the environment.
The site intends to give most of its profit to planting trees. Users can then easily help to save the planet [...]

This Is What One-Hit Wonders Look Like

The Dexys Midnight Runners as pictured on the saddest iTunes store list. [Your Monkey Called]

The open source alternative

It’s good to see the BBC covering open source software

Hilarious: The Powerbook Prank: He wanted a Powerbook. We gave him a P-P-P-P…

This is an absolutely hilarious read about a prank on an ebay scammer! Not sure how old the story is, but once I started reading it, I couldn’t stop. A must read when you have 10-15 mins to spare.
The PowerBook Prank

The Powerbook Prank

Part 1:
Building the P-P-P-Powerbook

Part 2:
Sending it off

Part 3:
Getting through customs

Part 4:
The scammer responds

The [...]

Robot Spiders, Dragonflies, Snakes to Aid Soldiers in War Zones

As if warfare weren’t already creepy enough, BAE Systems, a British defense company, has released a promotional video of robotic spiders, dragonflies and snakes it is developing to aid soldiers in combat zones. The robotic creatures are being funded by a $38 million contract with the U.S. Army that is part of a massive, and [...]

The OS X desktop as music video

A digital filmmaker named Dennis Liu has made an amazing video for The Bird And The Bee’s lovely song “Again & Again”. The set? His Mac desktop. You sort of have to see it for yourself to understand; luckily, Dennis has dropped it on YouTube so that the world can see it in low-res glory:

Innovative, [...]

10,000 years from now - from 1922

The February 12, 1922 Ogden Standard-Examiner (Ogden, UT) published this page, speculating on the world in 10,000 years. The article depicts future cities floating high in the air, several miles above the earth and humans propelled through space via “electro-magnetism”. And of course, the “jet pack”.
The piece is a shortened article by Hugo Gernsback with [...]