October 2007
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Apple: 2 million copies of Leopard sold
Newest version of Apple’s operating system hits mark four days after its launch, company says. Apple said it sold more than 2 million copies of the latest version of its operating system, Mac OS X Leopard, since its release on Friday. Leopard introduces new features to Apple… (via sneaka’s shared items in Google Reader)
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“British Crime Survey statistics showed that the proportion of 16- to...”
– Cannabis use down since legal change | Society | The Guardian
Beer prices may rise
Small brewers from Australia to Oregon face the daunting prospect of tweaking their recipes or experimenting less with new brews thanks to a worldwide shortage of one key beer ingredient and rising prices for others. (via sneaka’s shared items in Google Reader)
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Customer appetite grows for Madtown Munchies
Madtown Munchies, which began last year as just an idea by a recent UW-Madison graduate, has grown into a real startup business, delivering grocery and novelty items and getting as many as 60 orders each night. (via sneaka’s shared items in Google Reader)
Mind Hacks: Sleep Deprivation Amplifies Negative...
New research shows that you’re much more likely to overreact to bad news or experiences when you haven’t gotten enough sleep, LiveScience reports. “While we predicted that the emotional centers of the brain would overreact after sleep deprivation, we didn’t predict they’d overreact as much as they did,” [researcher Matthew] Walker said. “They became more...
The Bubble Wonders Show
Madison Guy has added a photo to the pool:
The Hilldale Theater is being torn down to build another condo like Weston Place in the background. Hard to see what’s driving this project except the sheer momentum of the Madison real estate boom’s rapidly ebbing tide. Soon all that will be left of the theater is the marquee, which seems to say it all. The Bubble Wonders Show. Exactly....
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Flickr To Add Online Photo Editing Tools Via...
Flickr To Add Online Photo Editing Tools Via Picnik — Fotoflexer may be my personal favorite among the many online photo editing tools, but Flickr has chosen Seattle-based Picnik (profile) to handle the long requested photo editing feature for Flickr users.
Source: TechCrunch
Author: Michael Arrington
Link: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/19/flickr-to-add…
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Virgin Mary Art by Soasig Chamaillard
French artist Soasig Chamaillard created her artwork on the religious iconography of Virgin Mary. She said that she did it not to shock the public, but to delight them instead. Link - via Miniature Brainwave (via sneaka’s shared items in Google Reader)
Research: Science Proves MMOs Blow Your Time AND...
Just in case, you know. Didn’t know. A Syracuse University study, which involved taking 100 people and splitting them into four gaming groups, has found MMOs suck up waaaay more time than any other genre. Of the 100, 25 were given a copy of…Gauntlet: Dark Legacy on PS2. 25 were given Diablo II on PC. 25 were given tokens for the local arcade. And the final 25 were given subscriptions...
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“I would type FORWARD 50 and the turtle would move forward. When I gave the...”
– Forward 40: What Became of the LOGO Programming Language? on Wired Science
A Living Game Computer as Social Structure
Angelo Vermeulen is currently in residency at the Aesthetic Technologies Lab in Athens, Ohio to work on his latest project. Biomodd brings together ecology, game culture and installation art.
Inspired by the case modding scene, a custom computer is built as a form of expanded sculpture. Inside the case, excess heat of over-clocked processors is recycled by an elaborate living ecosystem. The...
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Ubuntu 7.10 “Gutsy Gibbon” is due out in just a few days and shipping with it is the Linux 2.6.22 kernel. One of the interesting additions to the Linux kernel since the 2.6.20-based Ubuntu 7.04 “Feisty Fawn” release has been the tickless kernel feature. If you hadn’t read out tickless kernel article from earlier this year, the tickless kernel feature (CONFIG_NO_HZ) is...
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The paradise of infinite music
Make that “Ever-receding paradise… .” “The Paradise of Infinite Storage” was the title of a panel at the “Pop [Music] and Policy” conference at McGill University in Montreal. Great title, so I downloaded it… . Princeton Professor Ed Felten was on the panel and wrote about it in his blog. The premise: The panel’s title referred to an interesting fact: sometime in the next...
The Great Chicken Escape (Or Not): Why 3,000...
Why did 3,000 chickens cross the road? Because the truck carrying them crashed! The Daily Mail has more on this brazen escape attempt (oh, wait - they’re chicken, so they just stand there waiting to be scooped back up).
Link - via Blue’s News (via sneaka’s shared items in Google Reader)
New Apps Enable Social Network Snubbing
beafpeat writes “Both The Boston Globe and NPR are reporting on new apps such as Enemybook and Snubster that parody the social networking phenomenon. ‘Tired of bogus online friendships… [the creators] hope to encourage people to undermine, or at least mock, the online social communities sites such as Facebook were designed to create.’” Relatedly News.com wonders, with...
Portal transformed into a Flash game
Filed under: PC, Puzzle
There are only two groups of people reading this: People who haven’t tried Portal yet, and people who have beaten it and desperately want more. (On the off, off chance you’ve only started Portal — what are you doing? Stop reading the internet and go play more!) For the rest of you though, you may be able to find a couple of minutes of diversion (or...
Best Gaki No Tsukai Ever: 24hr Punishment Game Now...
The following clips encapsulate what may be the pinnacle of the Japanese torture for laughs show: 24 Hours. One Gym. Four comedians. An army of torturers in black pleather suits. This is the 24hr Punishment. With subtitles. On TV. In Japan. Part One:
The entire rest of the series is availible but with embedding disabled. I’m linking below because you must see them not because I agree with...
Fast Food: Taco Bell Returns To Mexico After 15...
Taco Bell has plans to open stores in Mexico with the slogan, “Es Otra Cosa,” or “It’s Something Else.”
In addition to their regular fare, Mexican Taco Bell will serve American favorites such as ice cream and french fries. The “taco” will be called a “tacostada,” which is a play on the words “taco” and “tostada,”...
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Band releases album on "obsolete" 3.5" floppy disc
A UK band called Batch Totem has released a 74-minute album compressed down to fit on a 1.4MB, 3.5” floppy disk. Who need vinyl nostalgia?
“Trunkeret & Ikonisk” by Batch Totem (an alias for musician, Jonas Olesen) consists of 19 tracks, which are heavily compressed in the GSM 6.10 WAV format, at various bitrates. The album is on the Ristretto label, and can be bought...