Monthly Archives: August 2003

general August 27, 2003 posted by

Pink and soaring

Flying Pig offers a large range of animated paper models for you to cut out and make. A sort of origami meccano. Cut out, glue, assemble. Very cool!

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general August 27, 2003 posted by

Ground control to Major Tom

A Malaysian airline, AirAsia, is claiming to be the first in the world to offer ticket booking via SMS. Er..the bad news is that it takes eight text messages to complete a booking, but hey it’s a start.

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general August 27, 2003 posted by

Brain swap

‘Moving your identity into a new, younger human body will make you young again! Brain Transplantation made it possible. We can preserve your identity by moving you brain into new body. See what we can do for you… ‘ Arf!

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general August 27, 2003 posted by

Pixel truths

A very nice article by Bob Atkins at Photo.Net which shows that the current obsessive focus on simple pixel count to judge digital camera quality is not as useful as people think. His point is that the correlation between sensor size and the lens used is also a very important factor to take into account when choosing a digicam. He compares three 3 megapixel cameras (Nikon, Canon and Minolta) to provide an example. Worth reading if you’re in the market…

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general August 27, 2003 posted by

Food glorious food

Like Food? Then you might want to take a look at the free Recipe Manager program. It lets you store recipes and gives you data on the nutritional value of recipes too. All it really needs now is a more flexible recipe import feature.

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general August 26, 2003 posted by

Reader Rabbit

Auntie reports on a new e-book prototype from HP. It looks quite swish, with page turning graphics etc, but why not have it as a folding unit to make it more compact and book like?

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general August 26, 2003 posted by

Fancy a meet?

Meetup.com ‘…is a free service that organizes local gatherings about anything, anywhere.’ Fascinating combination of the on and offline world!

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general August 26, 2003 posted by

Death of science (fiction)

Hmm, here’s an interesting little essay which, amongst other things, argues that ‘in the coming century innovation in science and technology will come to a near standstill and will cease driving cultural change’. It’s well written, if a little techie towards the end.

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general August 22, 2003 posted by

Gurgle grabber

Er…this Baby Translator [warning: slow loading translation] promises to let anxious parents know just what their precious little one is saying as they scream at 4 o’clock in the morning. Listen folks, you don’t need to spend 16,000 yen to know that it means one of two things – FEED ME! or CHANGE ME! [via gizmodo] Sheesh!

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general August 22, 2003 posted by

Grrrrrowl…

Who said a leopard never changes its spots? Or how to chintzy up your PC in 4 easy steps. First find your synthetic leopard.

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general August 22, 2003 posted by

Four years and counting

Unintended Consequences: Four Years under the DCMA. A fairly detailed look by the EFF at the main impact of the battle to protect intellectual property using the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Commerce Inc. doesn’t really come out of this looking very good. Subtitle? Lawyer Marketing.

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general August 22, 2003 posted by

Sbower

Digital Waterguns. ‘Welcome to my digital watergun museum. The largest water gun museum on the internet.’ [via metafilter]

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general August 22, 2003 posted by

Sounds cool

Tom Parker’s Boosteroo Headphone Amplifier & Splitter will ‘boost the volume of any portable audio device that uses a headphone jack in stereo without distortion.’ Interestingly enough it also promises to double the battery life of most portable audio players, and will allow up to 3 people to share the same sound source. $24.95 retail. It’s also being touted as a great gizmo for motorbike riders, and – get this – apparently some U2 pilots have been using it to…

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general August 22, 2003 posted by

Coconuts to power

The Gasifier converts wood chips, coconut shells, corn cobs and stuff into electricity. Well actually not electricity directly, but gas which can be turned into electrical power. What’s new is that Community Power Corp hopes to introduce a home version sometime soon. Hmmm, not convinced.

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