Toasty, USB Stylee

Tokyo Times updates us on the latest in USB powered footware and leaves me wondering why...

IBM demand more free pie...

More free pie demanded from free pie shop

Lithium Fireworks

The chaps at Gizmodo found this lovely video whereupon laptop batteries are filmed doing that exploding thing. Now, I'm going out to buy a class D fire extinguisher.

Cheap HD-DVD for PC...

It looks like the XBox 360's external HD-DVD drive accessory works on a PC (and a Mac, though not for HD-DVD due to the lack of a player). UneasySilence does the dirty work and for £129, PC owners may want to consider it. (Via Gizmodo)

Are Iiyama back?

I used to love Iiyama monitors; great pricing, great specs. But over time they ended up as a solid second on my list, price not great, specs average for the price. Well that may change with their new 19" wide screen (Engadget) which boast a tasty dual DVI+HDCP and DSub inputs and a roughly translated price of $300... I'll be keeping my eye out to see what price this lands for in the UK.

Paging Willy Wonka!

ifoAppleStore reports that the Apple Regent Street store has a new glass elevator and a weekend planned for the unveil. As my local Apple store, I look forward to getting trapped in it for I'm a born early adopter.

Google Earth - with old maps

Google Earth now has a set of overlayable maps. It's not really 4D till Google start stacking the previous versions of their high resolution photographs in time order, but it's a nice selection of maps and a useful way to present them.

Tim Bray on OSS Java

Tim Bray gives us the nitty gritty of the GPLing of Java

Ars Technica kill a new iPod Shuffle

Ars Technica do the review of the new iPod Shuffle by stomping on it, throwing it from third floor windows, dropping it in beer and seeing how it survives. It does, but eventually succumbs to being run over by a car.

GPL Java....

GPL Java, but not as Stallman will like it.

Which is good, as I can carry on using it. The Classpath Exception is the giant condom on the code, allowing for safe GPL usage by basically nailing the virality of the GPL in a dynamically linked environment.

But the first idiots who fork it 'just cos they can' should be hunted down and beaten with cluesticks, big cluesticks.

And hussah for it being GPL v2; who needs GPL v3 with it's anti-DRM agenda embedded in it?

Fitt's Flaw

Seems Joystiq found a funky flaw with the Nintendo Wii's cursor, in that it has a life off screen where you won't see it, leading to a bit of dissonance as you waggle to find it. (via Digg)

That "Apple" wifi hack...

WiFiNetnews brings us the news that the Ellich/Maynor hack applies to Windows too and that Ellich and Maynor in this case behaved like whiter than white hats. Good work chaps.

4 seconds of er...

Oh my, 18 months to get four seconds of reverb and clonks... yeah, thats the Microsoft brand, reverby clonking. (Via Digg)

Speed and ajax....

Speed and ajax; no, not a dodgy offering from a retailer of illegalities, but SpeedTest.net the most Ajaxy, Flashy broadband speed tester you'll come across today.

Something going awry with the Zune launch?

Who can tell but it ain't going to go with a RocketBoom if this Dear Bill letter is anything to go by. (via Techmeme)

It's Symbolic you know...

Engadget report on the end of the Symbol/PalmOS relationship. My Palm relationship ended with the Treo 650 and Palm aren't getting me back with their current road map. Symbol were one of those companies you liked to see applying Palm's tech in an industrial situation... and now they won't be.

Unhappy Samba Campers

The Samba chaps express their unhappiness in no uncertain terms to the Novell-Microsoft "We'll warm the lube first" agreement. (Via /.)

PS3 Explicit Video

See the nice people strip a PS3 and go ooh at the big ass fan.

Vista RTbootsale "ships"

Already there's a slight crack for Vista. So, hows that user irritactivation working out for you Microsoft?

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