Archive for May, 2007

The machine war begins with lawnmowers?

Not exactly terminator material, but it seems that a robotic lawnmower in Denmark has killed its operator. The lawnmower is a commercial lawnmower meant to replace the large riding lawnmowers used by lawn care professionals. I can’t say I’ve ever heard of it before, but it looks pretty cool. The lawnmower is controlled by a [ READ MORE ]

Internet Trolls are evil tricksters

I found this essay on the Internet troll over at drewspeak. It’s a complete analysis and commentary on the practice of trolling. If you haven’t encountered the trolls, then you really haven’t spent much time on message boards, or at least don’t bother reading the comments sections of some of the bigger blogs. Trolls are [ READ MORE ]

Declaring Email Bankruptcy

43folders.com has an interesting piece on dealing with email overload. Many of us who work in the IT world (or for that matter are simply active online) have way too much email to deal with. Many of the emails I get are skimmed and ignored. And if I can’t ignore them, then often the lower [ READ MORE ]

Microsoft Surface Computer

A few months ago, I posted a video of a computer interface concept that allowed you to navigate and control the computer using nothing but the screen. It seemed to me, that a multi touch interface was going to be the future of computers. It looks like Microsoft thought so too. They recently announced a [ READ MORE ]

LoLCode, a programming language for random cats with captions

If you aren’t into programming you probably won’t get this. In fact, if you haven’t encountered the exciting and superbly stupid Internet fad of posting captions on pictures of other peoples cats, you probably still won’t get this even if you are into programming. LolCode is a new(theoretical) programming language based on Anil Dash’s LoLCat grammar [ READ MORE ]

Pac-Man Skelton found!

For all of you retro gamers out there. If you ever wondered about Pac-Man’s anatomy. Here it is, the Pac-Man skeleton. If you have a ghost problem in your house, this should scare them away. All you need to do is place this prominently in your home, with some cherries(remember Pac-Man has to eat the [ READ MORE ]

Cell Phones scrambling Nissan Key fobs

I seems that if you own a Nissan Altima or the Infiniti G35, you need to keep the key away from your cell phone. Close proximity to the phone, when it is receiving a call, can scramble the electronic code used by the key fob. Once the key code is scrambled, you can no longer [ READ MORE ]

Air Powered cars

A company in India is starting to mass produce the first air powered car. Rather than run on electricity, gasoline, or hydrogen, this car runs on compressed air. It will go up to 68 miles per hour, and has a range or about 125 miles on a single tank. You can refuel it anywhere you [ READ MORE ]

Do you get sky miles from this, or just sky pounds?

On par with the scariest swing in the world from China, comes the dinner in the sky from Belgium. They strap you and your dinner guests into a table attached to a crane. Then the crane lifts you up into the sky to have dinner. That is if you don’t get sick from fear of [ READ MORE ]

Amazing Houses PhotoBlog

Found this photoblog of strange and off beat looking houses from around the world. I’m not sure if it is, but this picture looks a lot like a house out at the beach where I live. The house is somewhat famous for being “hurricane proof.” So it’s possible. Check out the page for a lot of [ READ MORE ]