Indonesia Lost World With PICS!

Pictures of the new species found in Indonesia. (Background: They found a hidden "lost" world with 100s of new species) Pretty amazing! There's some good pictures at the national geographic site, but MSN seem to have even more photos... including this cute, cool looking hedgehog thing!



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Me waffling...

If you're interested, I've written a long waffley post about "the death of film" and people's views on film versus digital cameras.

IBM Unveils 4 - 6 GHz Power6 Processor

This sounds very nice - but expensive - and it almost sounds like a shame that IBM and Apple couldn't work together. (Slightly related) The XBOX 360 makes me wonder why Microsoft don't release an awesomely powerful MS PC based on the XBOX360 insides... that would be a funny switch over, Apple switch to Intel, the Windows PC world then switches over to IBM Power6, and Dell switch to AMD... the computer world goes topsy turvy, but you can still open JPEGs!

"Bucking a trend in the chip industry, IBM Corp. said Tuesday its upcoming Power6 microprocessor for servers will run at unprecedented speeds while keeping a lid on power requirements and heat."

read more | digg story (some interesting comments here)

Intel, Apple and the IT Crowd (all via digg)

Intel Game, apparently Apple are abusing Intel, Why Apple really switched to Intel (in favour of PowerPC), and you can now watch the 3rd episode of The IT Crowd*.

* Although I just tried and it wouldn't work for me. Maybe I'll have more luck later.

Opera 9.0 TP2 is out - looks sweet

Opera 9.0 TP 2 supports bittorrent, widgets, and the ability to block content (similar to firefox ad-block), better css support, and many more

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Firefox 2.0 Alpha 1 Comes Out Friday!

The Mozilla Organization is set to release a public version of Firefox 2.0 Alpha 1 for public testing this Friday! (will it support bittorrent I wonder?)

read more | digg story

Looking for your soul mate?

I've always been of the opinion that yes there is a perfect person out there for you, ie the right person for you is out there, but it doesn't mean they're perfect (because nobody is). Normally seeing Dr. Phil (just the name alone annoys me!) makes me turn away, but for some reason I was reading this, and it's turned out quite interesting:

"What's a soul mate? It's just a term somebody made up, and with it comes some pretty mystical expectations. I've long believed that if you're looking for that perfect partner you're making a big mistake. If you can find an 80 percent fit and hope that you'll grow together on the other 20 percent, you'll find happiness a lot quicker. You wait for a 100 percent partner and you're going to be looking a long time, maybe forever. But if you're okay on the core issues -- children, careers, division of labor, religion, handling in-laws -- then you jump in and handle the other things as they come along." Read it here.

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Lego is on the case...

modern worship

Queensgate on the BBC:
hillsongs meet at the dominion theatre, tottenham court road. Queensgate have a new building, which is news to me.

5 things Steve Jobs (apple) has mislead us about. opinion here.

ps - second episode of IT crowd can now be watched here.

Boing Boing: One-quarter of LA's air pollution: made in China

This is funny for a lot of different reasons. America, the number one pollution generator in the World, is complaining that 25% of pollution in LA is from China! Boing Boing: One-quarter of LA's air pollution: made in China

digg, technorati, delicious

anybody fancy explaining them all, or finding out what they're all about, how to use them, how to get traffic from them to your site?

http://www.digg.com/ - "Digg is a technology news website that employs non-hierarchical editorial control. With digg, users submit stories for review, but rather than allowing an editor to decide which stories go on the homepage, the users do."

http://www.technorati.com/ - uses keywords/tags - "Technorati is the authority on what's going on in the world of weblogs."

http://del.icio.us/ - uses tags. keeps your links for you (if you have an account). looks a bit badly designed.

and have you noticed the "bookmark this on del.icio.us" (eg) / "Submit to Digg" / "Technorati Tags" (eg) on blogs?

geekpatrol.ca: Geekbench Comparison

geekpatrol.ca: Geekbench Comparison - they have written a cross platform benchmark program and tested on pretty much all CPUs (including new Mac Intels, Mac G4, Mac G5, Quad G5, AMD64, Intel etc, although it is missing the Dual Core AMD64, and Dual Core Pentium 4)

Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP

Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP - Windows XP Power toys are really good - for example, one of them "Image Resizer" will resize an image, or a group of selected images, all you need to do is select the image(s) right click, and it's there as a menu option, you can choose to resize to a preset size or a custom size. Especially useful if you want to upload and get 50 digital photos printed for free!

Boing Boing: Drunken gluttons order and eat 100-patty hamburger

Boing Boing: Drunken gluttons order and eat 100-patty hamburger. At "In-N-Out" you can order burgers with as many "pattys" (the meat bit) as you want. These people ordered 100 and then ate the burger!

Look who's back, back again

Apparently, Time are back, bought from the liquidators, Time UK Factory Ltd : : About Us. Scary stuff.

Boing Boing: Music video tells story of Atari's E.T. game debacle

Boing Boing: Music video tells story of Atari's E.T. game debacle. It looks like it's Atari day today, because here's some Atari inspired art (work-safe-ish, cartoon nudity)

Welcome to Llamasoft

Welcome to Llamasoft - Jeff Minter's updated his website, creator of classics such as Llamatron (ST/Amiga), Tempest 2000 (Atari Jaguar) and inventor of the virtual light machine (now featured/copied in iTunes, Winamp*, Windows Media Player) - his latest VLM, Neon, now features in the XBOX 360.

* "I was at a computer show in the US and one of the guys from Nullsoft (winamp) came up to me and apologised for "borrowing" the techniques I'd used on the Jaguar VLM for their own visualisations" link.

BBC NEWS | Business | The world according to Google

BBC NEWS | Business | The world according to Google: "In the 18 months since its stock market flotation, Google has been transformed from a company that prided itself on being simple and effective, into a multi-headed high tech beast which wants to get involved in everything." - Watch this 29 minute documentary online.

Backup your hard drive, automatically

Automatically backup your hard drive data Guide here. Hard Drives dying is fairly common (happened to my laptop hard drive over christmas), so make sure you have a backup somewhere (on a seperate HD, CD, DVD, Internet etc).

(PS - Posts now have title's displayed! early design, another old design, ooh and here's the original from 2002, 2003, and 2004) )