Updated If you had �150 to spend on a digital camera, what would you get? Must have macro mode, and 3MP, 3X Optical would be good. Image quality is the most important thing though. (sound would be nice, but in this price range i don't think you'll find it... eg SONY P-72 is about �175 minimum)

Thinking the Olympus C-350 / D-560 Review (to americans) would be a good one, only �152 from amazon (with free delivery). Other alternate's are Fuji A303 (�159). Dunno what else for that price... found this new camera, 3mp, 4x optical, video and sound, 1.8" tft, macro Kodak DX6340 �159 inc postage amazon what do you think?

mini film recommendations / reviews: hot chick comedy, with "rob schnieder" - the guy that's always in adam sandler filums. he get's swapped into a girls body, and a girl gets swapped into his body. it also stars a girl that's in scary movie 3. it had me LAUGHING A LOT, very very very funny. RECOMMENDED.

dumb and dumberer comedy "prequil" to the original dumb and dumber. does not star the original actors. it's VERY funny, about them at school and has loads of cool stuff (like a mini school bus). RECOMMENDED!

Elf christmas comedy romantic thing. a human lives with elves then goes to find his real parents. quite a good film, bits of it are funny, and it's quite a nice film. Santa's in it.

Wired News: Feel Free to Jack Into My IPod

Yahoo! News - Woman Knocked Unconscious While Shopping: "Paramedics called to the store found VanLester unconscious on top of a DVD player, surrounded by shoppers seemingly oblivious to her, said Mark O'Keefe, a spokesman for EVAC Ambulance. "

sundissential got a pretty cool "rave" tune going on. do they still call stuff like that rave? or is it called something else now?

Well, incase anyone's interested, i've setup php on my webserver. php.php is the info page if you wanna have a look. havva look if you want there's nothing to see yet, as i haven't got "gallery" working / configured yet as i'm having problems... but if you've got any bright ideas, please let me know :) UPDATE! AHA! I've got it working check it out! - If you wanna know what it does, you basically upload your pics, it automatically resizes them and creates all the web pages for it, you just add comments, and click rotate where necessary, it is SOOO good!! PS - You can not beat a bit of Messiah, "Thunderdome", and "There is no law" :) And if you can beat it, I'd like to know how, yes perhaps with some stakker humanoid remixes, but really, now you're just getting pedantic :)

Release all EPIA motherboards into Distribution Petition In more crazy news, there's a petition for VIA to release the EPIA boards that normally only get released to big companies. There's a project here where the guy uses a peltier, and water cooling, to cool an epia800. This things can be passively cooled with just a normal big heatsink, so I really wonder why they did this? this guy want's more innovation in the pc sector.

num1000remix wooo some crazy ass japanese rave flash funked up thing. 4mb roughly and needs sound, well doesn't need sound but is better with sound. oh and here's a big spam map [845k]. this place has nice background wallpapers if you want em. "master" and "slave" names for "primary" and "secondary" drives etc deemed unnaceptable!!!

BBC NEWS | World | South Asia | Fasting fakir flummoxes physicians Doctors and experts are baffled by an Indian hermit who claims not to have eaten or drunk anything for several decades - but is still in perfect health.

Free Driving Game - Cookie Barz Armored Car - heliATTACK 2 - todays exciting activity was spilling a ful mug of black coffee all over myself! sbemail techno you can download the tune at the end!.

while randomly searching for work related stuff, i found this here. Here is just one image that made me laugh out loud when I finally got it.

mini racing game, remember duckhunt? this used to come with the light gun that you could get for the sega master system. war on terror a bit like that helicoptor game, but crapper (harder too) and slightly comical. atomic badger racing (use space bar for nitro and mouse button for bombs)

Slashdot | MP3.com's Content to Be Destroyed "WCityMike writes "Vivendi Universal recently sold the MP3.com domain to CNet. However, they're not selling the approximately one million songs on the archive. (recorded by over 250,000 artists) Instead, they're simply destroying it as of December 3. MP3.com's founder and former CEO, Michael Robertson, is pleading with Vivendi to allow the Internet Archive to preserve the songs."

sweet ass g4 cube aquarium

00Apple - iMac New 20" iMAC!! �1749. (imac 15" from �999!!!) They still haven't realised the way to shift millions of iMacs is to get rid of the screen and sell them for less than the emac (�649), eg �499 would be a very good price for an entry level basic mac. they've released a dual 1.8GHz G5 as well (�1899)

Kazaa ads tell P2P users to speak up | CNET News.com "Imagine that, for the first time ever Kazaa has taken out print ads in popular magazines asking that you respect P2P users and quit treating them like pirates. There is a concept�NOT suing your fans."

pretty stupid flash thing, needs sound, and is better than other stupid flash things. (it's quite funny)

For those weirdo people out there who like to own rare apple stuff (namely matt) there's a rare 20th anniversary mac on ebay currently lots of money (�361) - more info. (personally i'd prefer one of these for much cheaper, or one of these MUCH cheaper.)

Updated my "IPEA Project" - mounted the switch and blue hard drive LED! It's also become my webserver! as it's small :) check it out at http://joshwaller.tk - it seems slightly faster - what do you reckon?

Chucking out some old computers the other day, we found a 386! with this "FPU chip" (Cyrix Fasmath Cx83D87-40GP from Nov 91/or 93 more info, better info?) add-on!! Looks like it was originally a bog-standard intel 386 40mhz computer, without the FPU, then later they may have added this chip to it... but what I want to know is: How could people have used computers so slow?!? I just don't get how it could be possible!

Wired News: Mac Supercomputer Joins Elite - Mac Supercomputer officially the 3rd fastest supercomputer, with 1,100 Dual 2GHz G5s. AMD at 6th place, with 1,408 Dual 2GHz Opterons.
UK Becomes Sixth Country to Implement EUCD "The UK, as of October 31, 2003, became the sixth nation to implement the laws required to comply with the European Union Copyright Directive with its Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 2003 legislation." Does this effect us in anyway?
Brazil moves to open source, "Citing economic as well as social reasons, Brazil's government is opting to move away from Windows, opting instead for Open Source (read: Linux) solutions. Interestingly, Microsoft's representative in Brazil decries this as a movement away from freedom and choice..." Hmmm Microsoft are weirdos! IBM also moving away from Windows.
HP to release Athlon64 machines today apparently. Tech Report reviews the Opteron 248 (2.2GHz) chip here.