Good lordy... I've just been reminded of certain audiophiles and their canvassing for bullshit 'products' that are clearly useless.

Prime example: a clock with an orange dot on it. I actually have a hard time believing anyone could be so credulous and stupid as to fall for such an obvious scam, which leaves the possibility that some of these top ' ( Read more... )

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http://uk.theinquirer.net/?article=40691

Oh dear. The freebies that come with the Independent are always jinxed and crap in some way ( Read more... )

What a fascinating site, showing how people envisaged the future:

Check out how a Frenchman imagined the year 2000 in the year 1910.

The internet is a little sick today! (Slow.) The following sites are useful resources concerning such things:

http://internettrafficreport.com/
http://internethealthreport.com/

Want a flying saucer.

Bush today (paraphrased): "Iran, stop meddling in Iraq".
Hmm... do we see the inherent double standard here? Can we miss it?

It's a shame the people behind the military occupation of Iraq happily ignore their own military's definition of insurgency (as opposed to resistance):

An insurgency differs from a resistance both in its political overtones ( Read more... )

I notice there are quite a few Panique au Village episodes on YouTube. Nice.

Some pretty clever image resizing technology.

Unrelatedly, Portable Apps looks nice.