Monday, October 30, 2006

greenmyapple.org

Green my apple"We love Apple. Apple knows more about "clean" design than anybody, right? So why do Macs, iPods, iBooks and the rest of their product range contain hazardous substances that other companies have abandoned? A cutting edge company shouldn't be cutting lives short by exposing children in China and India to dangerous chemicals. That's why we Apple fans need to demand a new, cool product: a greener Apple." watch their ad here.

Sunday, October 29, 2006

Portable Atari Jaguar

Ben Heck has taken apart an Atari Jaguar, and made it into a portable console with built in joypad, screen, and stereo speakers. He says the 64bit console has a 32-bit bus, and is not a 64-bit machine as Atari were claiming at the time...

Thursday, October 26, 2006

I escaped from the Dungeon of Stinkygoat! - I killed Stickofjoy the cockatrice, Cannonstar the leprechaun, Fuseball the nymph, Aureo1e the leprechaun, Dudewhoisrandom the leprechaun, Quinling the leprechaun, Duke Otterland the leprechaun, Stereotypist the orc, Hirosama the goblin and Alarm Fil the floating eye. - I looted a Figurine of Hukkax, a Figurine of Matt303, the Dagger of Postcardstohell, a Figurine of Dhau, the Sword of Nicolyrezk, the Crown of the Stony 1, the Crown of Lezek, the Shield of Deanoc, the Sceptre of Sack , the Armour of Zagreb2, the Sceptre of Nerfboy, the Sword of 4zumanga and 194 gold pieces.

Play it here - my score was 544.

Scott Adams has his voice back...

If you read the Dilbert blog, then you might know that Scott Adams lost his voice 18 months ago and hasn't been able to speak since (except in a public speaking context), well he's got his voice back through ryhme!

More links: NZ Herald. Boing Boing.

Wednesday, October 25, 2006

AMD and ATI become one. Germany requires Internet License!

AMD and ATI are now one, and if you go to ati.com you end up at ati.amd.com.

Some worrying news from Germany: Germany brings in TV license fees for the internet -

"And, just to really rub salt into the wound, the follow up of shock troops comes with the realisation that you’ll be charged this license fee no matter what you use your internet device for! Yep, that means you business users, who never surf the net, have net access for information and email only, you get charged. Likewise, home users in the ex-Eastern Germany, who are just unwrapping the latest 486DX2, are going to be hit with the charge too." more details at the inquirer.

Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Firefox 2

Download here. It seems good so far.

Does it remember your open windows like Opera?
Yes it can pick up where you left off just change it in tools>options>main and change "when firefox starts" from "show my homepage" to "show my windows and tabs from last..."

Friday, October 20, 2006

If you like Darkplace, and IT Crowd

then you might like Man to Man with Dean Learner (played by Moss from the IT Crowd), and the makers of Darkplace. The spoof chat show (sounds like 'Knowing me, knowing you, with Alan Partridge') is hosted by a millionaire playboy, and guests are played by co-creator Matthew Holness. It's on tonight at 11.05pm on C4.

Thursday, October 19, 2006

Rover History in Video Form

1959 (to 2000) - Mini (Montage?), Mini (Spike Milligan), Advert (1988)
1977 - (Leyland) Rover 3500
1980 - Austin Rover Mini Metro (Batman Spoof)
1984? - Austin Rover (Metro, Maestro etc) Feat. Noel Edmunds.
1986 - Rover 800
1995 - Rover 400
2000 - Rover 25
2001 - Rover MG ZR (MG version of 25)
2003? - MG Rover internal press video (includes two TV ads, one for MG Rover, one for MG ZR (25) and MG ZS (45), also features MG ZT (75), City Rover, SV-R etc).

Other stuff:
Rover 200 / 25 / Streetwise / MG ZR Story.
MG Z Cars on Top Gear (25 ZR, 45 ZS 180, 75 ZT).
Top Gear reviews the new City Rover.

Tuesday, October 10, 2006