Konica Panoramic Cameras (at Lomography 3.0)

.Lomography 3.0~ / _ Konica Minolta photographic are no more, as of tomorrow / today (31st). There are some GREAT deals on their digital cameras, the Dimage Z5 (5mp, 12x optical zoom, proper anti-shake CCD, 2" screen, £199 or less!), the Z6 (6mp version around £206*), the Dynax/Maxxum 5D DSLR with proper anti-shake CCD, etc. Plus, these COOL, retro panorama disposable cameras have appeared on Lomography.com. Pretty cheap too, for serious panoramic photos :) Go back to film! :D

* more megapixels isn't always better than less megapixels! (aparently the Z6 is worse than the Z5)

Best of Digg

Solving Sudoku with SQL
Autistic or Just a Geek, take the test
33mhz Powerbook running as a webserver
42 really is the answer
freak accident, lake loses 3.5 billion gallons of water in 3 hrs
Camera + GPS + Google Maps

OMNIZERO.2 trounces at Robo-One - Engadget

OMNIZERO.2 trounces at Robo-One - Engadget - proper fighting robots. Video as well! (direct link to video of fighting robots here)

Digital Camera for Sale

Anyone know anyone wanting to buy a digital camera? £120 for a Casio Z120. Let me know!

london uses photo text messaging to beat grafitti, junk, burnt cars etc.

apple (beatles music label) sue Apple computer company for the third time.

SETI@Home in financial trouble!

Commercial support for SETI@Home has largely disappeared, and has largely run out of current funds. They need to raise $750,000 to keep running for another year. Without donations, the project will be forced to shut down.

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poooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh

pooh sticks real-world community game.

no way. that is frikkkin amazing.

norfolk news. mini.

Music Videos Scrambled Hackz

engadget - dude gets music videos, enters then all into a database, speaks into microphone, database finds the nearest match to what the guy said or sang, plays it back. cool video to watch featuring the legend MC Hammer.

portable urinal for long journeys

holds 1.25 gallons (gizmodo). i had this idea about 3 or more months ago, although my idea involved a container built into your pants that you could empty the next time you go to the loo. :)

Is it a cat? Is it a rat? Is it a kangaroo rat? You decide. After watching the video, it basically looks like the cat (and kittens) have adopted a small kangaroo rat.

Too much stuff?

"Unashamedly "disposable" cheap goods, you could argue, are turning us into traders rather than curators of our possessions. It is another victory for capitalism: we have internalised the unsentimental stock control of the modern retailer. Juliet Schor, an American economist and leading critic of the bargain boom, thinks this new form of ownership is less pleasurable than the old one. "The psychologically satisfying process of personalisation that occurs when products are acquired and retained, is truncated," she writes in a recent essay. "Attachment is briefer and there is the constant pain of divestiture [getting rid of things]." What individual possessions represent to us is, she says, "more externally driven" - by marketing and advertising - and "less under the control of the individual consumer"."

Interesting article over at BoingBoing. Original Guardian Article.

It makes you wonder where things are heading, if you can buy a brand new Dell laptop for £289 with DVDRW, etc (£336 for 15.4" widescreen), and a multi-region DVD player for £20, then what will happen to the second hand market, especially for cheap stuff like DVD players... (should I buy one with MPEG4/DIVX playback, or a free scart lead?)

Guinness Surger - Gizmodo

Guinness Surger - Gizmodo Watch the video here it's Very cool.

Laptop advice?

Dead laptop - please advise.

BMW 318 Traps Driver at 130mph on the A1

From Digg. BBC News article with link to radio interview. What to do if it happens to you. This comment explains the steering setup.

1998 BMW 318 Automatic - accellerator sticks, whilst on the A1, brakes burn out so car gets stuck at 130mph until he crashes into a roundabout. Walks away with a few scratches. Guy has spikey blonde hair.

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Cool three dimensional street artwork.

Where have you been - UK edition

Hey, did josh post something about countries he'd been to? Here's the England, Wales and Scotland edition. link

Apple officially declares the end of the iMac G5

"With immediate effect, the following product and it's relate configurations are "End of Life" (EOL) and no further orders can be taken," Apple explains. PowerMac G5 is still around - until they announce new Intel versions I guess...

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I really like this

This is a map of all the places I've visited:


create your own visited countries map
or vertaling Duits Nederlands

Link

VEOH started as a site to host home movies but now hosts free legal video downloads - old movies, music etc. Currently in Beta.

Link

GP2X is a mobile device designed for game console emulation.

Microsoft Origami - Whats the Point?

Microsoft have invented this "new" thing called Origami - it's like a Tablet PC only without the keyboard (Think Atari Stylus, 1991), and it's smaller. But not as small as an Apple Newton (1993).

What is Origami, here's what they look like, and here's another one with specs.

They feature a 7" screen, and to be honest, I don't really give a crap. I'm just posting this because it's technology related, it's something new, but really I don't see any point in them. The TabletPC wasn't especially successful, and was MORE useful than an "Origami", because it could be a normal laptop too with a keyboard, these new Origami things, would you buy one? I know that no, you wouldn't actually buy one, but would anyone buy one? They have GPRS available to them, so could be used as car-sat-nav systems BUT so can any cheap mobile phone with the right kit for MUCH cheaper.

It's like a product but without the reason. We all know why we have a toaster for example. Perhaps if you wanted to watch DVDs in your car on the 7" screen? Can you think of uses for the Origami that can't be done by something else, cheaper / better?

"Industry observers note that Microsoft appears to be breaking considerable pricing ground with Origami, but they note that it's still unclear what the specific use of Origami will be, or which, if any, existing devices it will replace. There is some thought that its initial incarnation might appeal primarily to gadget aficionados, rather than mainstream consumers." more blurb, background info, etc.

joshwaller.co.uk blog: Kit Kat Chunky Peanut Butter

have you tried: Kit Kat Chunky Peanut Butter

"Always good to see wallpaper scrapers being used where they belong… in the kitchen."

eggs bacon chips and beans. the blog, which became the book*, which became the bbc news article. * the book was also stacked right next to this book in one store.

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Biological imaging algorithm found to solve Sudoku puzzles.

All of them.

CD-WOW Offer?

Did the CD-WOW offer work for you Phil? I hasn't worked for me.

I drew this pig:
Click to view my test results

A Brief History of Handheld Video Games - Engadget

A Brief History of Handheld Video Games - Engadget Features the Atari Lynx. Sweet.

10 Ways Dick Cheney can Kill You

old now, but funny. background

YouTube - Real Life Simpsons Intro

YouTube - Real Life Simpsons Intro - This is cool.

Boing Boing: Long-lost Penn and Teller videogame for download

Boing Boing: Long-lost Penn and Teller videogame for download: "The most infamous part was 'Desert Bus,' a 'VeriSimulator' in which you drive a bus across the straight Nevada desert for eight hours in real-time. Then you drive it home. Also, I'd read the bus veers to the right, so you can't just leave the joypad propped up. The rumor was that if you won the game, you got one point."

Internet Explorer 7: Beta 2 Preview

Don't install IE7 Beta2 - it's rubbish. It doesn't even display (some) webpages properly. Tabbed browsing in it is crap, and it's just generally very crappy. IE6, Opera, Firefox, and Flock are way better. If you did / do install it, here's the uninstall instructions. You'll need them. Internet Explorer 7: Beta 2 Preview

Apple - Mac mini

Apple - Mac mini - now with added intel dual core or single core pentium m. The previous Mac Mini used the old G4 chip - which was crap compared to everything newer (G5, AMD, Intel etc) - so the upgrade is pretty significant, especially as the Pentium M based chips ABSOLUTELY ROCK. £449 for 1.5ghz Single Core / £599 for 1.66ghz Dual Core.