SXSW (that’s South by Southwest) is going on. SXSW is a huge media festival, for lack of a better term. It’s tons of indie bands, movie makers, and media types (a growing number of which are Web media types) gathering in Austin to be… well.. corporately sponsored. But, they do draw an incredible amount of […]
Check out the interface on this! CeBIT ’06: Asus R2H Keyboard Interface – Gizmodo
I don’t know why, but this made me laugh this morning. Requires sound and low expectations. [ via Wired:Table of Malcontents]
“Kevin O’Connor of University College Dublin and his colleagues heated polystyrene foam, the generic name for Styrofoam, to convert it to styrene oil. […] the scientists fed this styrene oil to the soil bacteria Pseudomonas putida, which converted it into biodegradable plastic known as PHA (polyhydroxyalkanoates).” It’s about time because 2.3 million tons of polystyrene […]
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A criminal justice professor at Grand Rapids Community College has resigned after showing a video in class of a man having sex with a pig, students and a faculty representative said. Ah, home. Grand Rapids, that is. Not GRCC or video-making facilities of such repute. Link
I’m not big on this AJAX-y, Web 2.0, pre-bubble 2.0 crap, but I have to admit, Coastr is a pretty clever twist. Think social bookmarking (ala Flickr) crossed with Beer Advocate, plus a better web-designer. While Coastr isn’t likely to replace BA or RateBeer anytime soon, it’s a nifty little experiment. I’ve tossed a few […]
You know, like any decent OS would let you do. (I’m looking at you, too, Apple.) First, install this (This is the link I used a no nasties for over a month). XP SP2 only. This replaces a DLL that essentially locks you out from changing the Windows UI. Yeah, it’s stupid, but at least […]
Email + Dance Dance Revolution = dancing through your email? Note to the Washington Department of Health. Please visit One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052 (link to map) and inspect the cafeterias and common areas of the buildings on this campus as an apparent outbreak of some as-yet-unknown contaminant is affecting thousands of workers at […]
That would explain the damn lag! As one of the new million subscribers since the last report came out, can we get some new servers? Notice that WoW captured 1 million new subscribers in under 3 months? Those are some impressive numbers. Link
Was there any doubt? StoryVideo Ray Nagin should be fun to listen to for the next couple days.