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 -> Why doesn't GM sell crack?
Somewhat dated, but an excerpt inspired by Moore's Downsize This!
688 views | 26 Apr 2003 |
 -> DVD-copying nears legal showdown
21 Studios' DVD Copy Plus allows a DVD to be copied onto CDs and its newest product, DVD X Copy, allows a DVD to be copied onto a DVD. Each costs $99.99, and DVD X Copy has sold 100,000 units since its release. Hollywood has sued. Interesting!
569 views | 25 Apr 2003 |
 -> As though SARS itself were not enough..
Now we have a computer version of it, a worm much like Klez.
538 views | 24 Apr 2003 |
 -> Thank you Saddam. Oil is cheaper
Atlanta motorists pay the least at $1.34 per gallon. San Francisco pay the most at $2.07. Per barrel prices have fallen from US$ 34.93 a barrel on March 17 to almost 30 now.
547 views | 23 Apr 2003 |
 -> Next president of Iraq
Fox executives Monday unveiled their latest reality-TV venture, Appointed By America, a new series in which contestants vie for the top spot in Iraq's post-war government.
12,215 views | 23 Apr 2003 |
 -> $10,000 reward to anyone who can get me a job!
A sign of our times? A real message on the wildly popular Craigslist.
549 views | 23 Apr 2003 |
 -> Germans to write and publish a book in 12 hours!
Forty German authors are hoping to set a new world record by conceiving, writing and printing a book in 12 hours.
11,718 views | 23 Apr 2003 |
 -> It's all about money, kids!
Bodo Schaefer, a German writer of self-help and management books, has come to Seoul to promote a new book for children, "Kira, Who Struck It Rich at 12." Because "money is not taught in schools".
695 views | 23 Apr 2003 |
 -> Text messaging and SARS
Launched by Sunday Communications, the service allows subscribers with SMS-enabled phones to identify the "contaminated" buildings within a kilometer of their calling location.
616 views | 22 Apr 2003 |
 -> A neat, neat find: a free anti-spam tool
Cloudmark's SpamNet has problems. Mailshell and SpamInspector are not free. But now you have an option -- it works and is free!
57,114 views | 22 Apr 2003 |
 -> Internet numbers dwindling?
Pew Internet Project tracking data show a flattening of the overall growth of the Internet population since late 2001. Internet penetration rates have hovered between 57% and 61% since October 2001. Clearly, this isn't about Korea & Japan..
33,731 views | 20 Apr 2003 |
 -> Obscure patents
Delphion's gallery of some fairly whacky patents!
13,378 views | 19 Apr 2003 |
 -> The tall, tall towers!
Bionic Towers in Shanghai -- set to be the tallest towers in the world at 1,228 metres in height (roughly 300 storeys). It will accommodate 100,000 people and 368 elevators at speed of up to 10 m/s. Currently Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) a
662 views | 18 Apr 2003 |
 -> Concorde no more
Concorde, the world's first supersonic passenger jet, will be grounded in the autumn after a plunge in passenger numbers and a string of high-profile technical glitches.
624 views | 18 Apr 2003 |
 -> A review of Windows XP
An interesting review of Windows XP (the sarcasm not to be taken to heart because it comes from a strongly pro-Linux website)
625 views | 17 Apr 2003 |
 -> SARS virus found!
Scientists have confirmed the identity of the virus which causes SARS. In experiments conducted at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, Netherlands, scientists infected monkeys with the coronavirus and found that the animals developed the same symptoms that h
656 views | 17 Apr 2003 |
 -> Hello World!
The eponymous program that any programmer begins learning a programming language with. In almost all the languaged you can imagine!
204,606 views | 16 Apr 2003 |
 -> Human cloning flawed
Human cloning may never be possible because of a quirk of biology.
822 views | 16 Apr 2003 |
 -> All the Bush you'll ever need
A huge compilation of Photoshop-meets-Bush
1,340 views | 16 Apr 2003 |
 -> The game of REAL intelligence
Have computers, in the form of Deep Blue for example, come close to matching the kind of real intelligence used by humans in playing strategy games? Here is a new game played on the standard chess board, but with new rules, that proves otherwise!
660 views | 16 Apr 2003 |
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