Charlie Brooker on the pseudoscience behind Brain Gym:
Confuse fantasy with reality and you might find yourself doing crazy things, like trying to wave hello to Ian Beale each time you see him on the telly, or buying homeopathic remedies - both of which are equally boneheaded pursuits.
Equally:
Look […]
CERN are being sued to stop using their new $8 billion Large Hadron Collider.
Walter L. Wagner and Luis Sancho contend that scientists at the European Center for Nuclear Research, or CERN, have played down the chances that the collider could produce, among other horrors, a tiny black hole, which, […]
Dominic Szablewski has created an interest new blogging software called Asaph Microblog that’s even more minimal than Tumblr. Watch his screencast to see how it works.
Of most interest to Nikon D3 owners, Sigma announces a fast standard prime lens with a HSM motor, filling a gap that Nikon has left wide open for years.
If it’s as good as Sigma’s 30mm f/1.4 lens for DX crop cameras, then this should be a big winner. I know I’d get one if I […]
Make your own stylish pinhole cameras that work with 35mm film. My favourite is the Peyote.
Waxy.org investigates the online life of Stephen Kazmierczak, the man who’s responsible for the recent NIU killings.
Adam Shepard reduced his life to a small bag, $25, and the clothes on his back to see if he could get a car, a furnished apartment, and $2500 in savings in a year.
To make his quest even more challenging, he decided not to use any of his previous contacts or mention […]
Could this be the first true iPhone killer? Although I’ve had bad experiences with Windows Mobile devices in the past, if Microsoft pulls it’s finger out on this one and creates a competitive operating system to OS X on the iPhone, this could be the one.
eBay plans to ban sellers giving buyers negative or neutral feedback from May. While I appreciate it’s reasoning that “many buyers would not leave negative comments for fear that sellers would retaliate”, sellers now have no public response to a buyer giving them unfair negative feedback, unless they get eBay involved.
The current system is flawed, […]
The proposition of a 16GB iPhone is very tempting indeed, but unfortunately it carries a price premium over the already expensive 8GB iPhone model of $100.
Microsoft proposed a hostile take-over of Yahoo! today. At $31 a share, that’s 62% over the closing price of Yahoo! shares on Thursday. It just seems like a very bad way to compete against Google, and they’re paying over the odds for what is a struggling company.
When you have grown adults showing this amount of ignorance, all you can do is laugh.
To stay inline with the rest of their price-plans, O2 is increasing the allowance of the cheapest £35 per-month tariff to 600 minutes and 500 text messages (up from 200 of each), and cutting the cost of the £55 down to £45 per-month.
They seem very good value now, especially as you get unlimited internet access […]
I’m back from a bit of a hiatus on Ejecutive, and from all writing and work in general after a particularly busy exam season. I’ll have a lot of posts planned, including a review of the Toshiba Qosmio G40 laptop with a (now defunct) HD-DVD writer, and a round-up on the new cameras and lenses […]
I think Sun knows that Java needs tighter integration with a specific database, like Microsoft’s .NET does with SQL Server, and bought MySQL. Perhaps even Java stored procedures in the future.
BAA is lifting its one-bag restriction to carry-on luggage tomorrow for UK airports.
You still can’t carry on more than 100ml of liquids in a single bottle though, but Muji sell very handy and squeezable 100ml bottles.
New version of Adium X, which has quite a few improvements. As I only use MSN, the biggest one for me is that they’ve fixed the bug that showed MSN display pictures in a very low resolution.
Free Flickr export plugin for Lightroom from Jeffery Friedl.
Photographs of adverts on the street that have been “vandalised” to look like the people in them have been decapitated.
ThinkGeek is selling an alarm clock that sends a donation to an organisation you don’t like every time you press the snooze button. This must be a joke, especially with this text at the bottom:
Really Fine Print: ThinkGeek reserves the right to take up to a 50% commision on all donations made […]