The Logical Fallacies Index. Effectively a site which teaches you how to argue better.

VoiceWeaver. ‘Add Secure Voice Communications to Your Web Site, and Save Your Friends from Long-Distance Charges!’ Yep, another voice over IP application.

The iRiver iFP-599T [warning: Babel] MP3 player incorporates 1GB – yep gigabyte – of memory. That’s enough for, ooh for…well a lot of songs. A lot. It also features direct encoding for moving stuff onto the player and converting to MP3 on the fly. Looks good too! (OK, about 240 tracks and 28 hours playback from one 3 hour charge of the battery.)

9mmsfx.com – your source for theatrical contact lenses. ‘Our theatrical contact lenses are individually hand painted by the leading artist in the industry. Others are merely stamped by a machine or imported from outside the country.’

Yep, you can tell when it’s coming up to Xmas by the sound of Guinness world records flooding the airwaves. Another year, another book eh folks? Oh, it’s the longest dog ears in the world apparently. In case you were wondering. But seriously, did that Russian woman really have 69 kids? But how?

Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey. ‘#219: Consider the daffodil. And while you’re doing that, I’ll be over here, looking through your stuff.’

‘Next month Vienna will become the first major western European city where motorists can pay for parking simply by pushing buttons on their mobile phones.’ Terminator 4 – The Revenge of the Mobiles. It’s coming, it’s coming I tell you. They’re going to rule our lives….

As predicted by the Ferret back in April, the FastChat service – which turns your mobile phone into a walkie talkie – is starting to grab attention around the world. Aunty has just picked up on it and so have a number of American news services. It’s still in early development, reports of lag and variable sound quality are rife, but it’s still a very very cool application for GPRS network providers to sell. Watch it go! There are reports…

According to this report, top PC maker Dell is planning to expand into consumer electronics like TVs and stuff. ‘”The whole new ballgame is these worlds (computing and consumer electronics) converging, and that’s a world we’re comfortable in,” says CEO Michael Dell.’ Mmm, interesting move since it’s a little debatable whether Dell’s strength in ‘on demand’ distribution to businesses will translate effectively into competitive advantage for home electronics. And let’s not forget that it’s style that drives a lot of…

This has got to be the biggest and funkiest pinball machine of all time. The Southtyrol game weighs 2.6 tonnes, is 11 meters long and took a year to build. It features 16 audio speakers and 33 moving scenes. I suspect that you don’t play this monster so much as it plays you! Cool video clip here.

Nintendo really are pushing the GameBoy as an all round handheld device aren’t they? The latest news is that they’ve teamed up with Motorola to produce a wireless adapter which will let up to 5 players go head to head – or should that be heads to heads? – without cables. ‘The wireless adapter with the new Game Boy Advance software “Pokemon FireRed” and “Pokemon LeafGreen” will be launched in Japan first half of 2004.’ N-Gage? Pah!

The Japanese are working on some very clever digitized virtual maps which can be incorporated into things like car navigations systems and the like. These Map Cubes are super precise and the makers hope that one day they will be used in things like tourist guides and cool virtual maps for mobile phones.

The Nokia 7600. Funny shaped camera phone, which also plays MP3s. But with only 29MB of RAM and no expansion slot, it doesn’t remove breath from throat, does it? …and you think that they would have learned that people don’t like any keypad set up that makes it harder to dial a number or use SMS. 3650 anyone?

Rock-Ola, jukebox maker extraordinaire, has just launched the E-Rock jukebox. It’s a broadband connected, cash and credit card operated digital box which offers punters a choice of 130,000 songs. That kind of beats out yer average jukebox by a couple of songs or so, eh? ‘Rock-Ola’s new E-Rock features a 19″ glass touch screen monitor, dual amplifiers with dual seven band graphic equalisers, blasting out tunes with 900 watts of power.’ Now, where to put it in the living room?

At last a way for all the greens to get back at SUV owners – magnetic bird poo. Er…no, I’m not sure why anyone would want to do this either, but there you go. $4.00 to you. Even stranger is the fact that this is for sale on a ‘self defense’ site. Eh?