Cell phone flask
No ever suspects the guy taking a swig out of his phone.
syncOtunes
syncOtunes
An application that lets you sync your iTunes library between computers.
Buy my stupid t-shirt!
The internet is an amazing place — you can come up with a stupid idea one night while you’re out and have someone halfway accross the world selling it for you the next. This is the shiny future that I could see when I watched Sandra Bullock order that pizza in The Net I introduce to you yet another t-shirt that no one will buy, Goth T-Shirt (Yellow). The next thing on tap are some bumper stickers, I just need to find someone who can draw a good manatee.
Breakthrough in solar photovoltaics
Breakthrough in solar photovoltaics
“Nanosolar claims that it has developed a commercial scale technology that can deliver solar electricity at 5 cents per kilowatt-hour.”
Flickr badge plugin for WordPress
This plugin allows you to display a flickr style badge (for a tag, user, user tag or group pool) on your WordPress site. It uses MagpieRSS to parse the RSS feed and display the images. The plugin can also cache the images locally and display image title tags. The plugin is configurable via an Options panel.
Update: the plugin page has moved here. (Jan 2nd, 2006)
Voodoo Knife Rack
Voodoo Knife Rack
Store your knives in somebody.
A Vernacular Web
A Vernacular Web – a different world
“In todays web blogs compensate for over precise search engines by delivering a constant stream of surprise links. It’s an interesting evolutionary paradox when you remember that old-school link collections were created to compensate, through human intervention, for the rough search engine results.”
A Scanner Darkly trailer
A Scanner Darkly trailer is out
The new movie by Richard Linklater uses the same technique he used for Waking Life and is based on a novel by Philip K. Dick.
Gay outrage over penguin sex test
Gay outrage over penguin sex test
“The males have been observed trying to mate with each other and trying to hatch offspring out of stones.”
Ajax: a new approach to web applications
Ajax: a new approach to web applications
“The name is shorthand for Asynchronous JavaScript + XML, and it represents a fundamental shift in what’s possible on the Web.”
Woz comes out swinging for Tiger pirate
Woz comes out swinging for Tiger pirate
Among other mac software notables, the Apple founder came out in support of the Canadian student who put a developer copy of Tiger online.
But I want a giant robot
Ever heard of Steel Battallion for Xbox? No? Probably has something to do with the $199 price-tag. Tavis found a copy of it for cheap at Toys R’ Us. The game has such a high cost because it comes with a massive 2-joystick, 40-button controller , complete with an eject button that has a flip-up lid. I will need to see it with my own eyes.