Interesting, but did we really need a study to tell us that celebrities are Narcissistic?
Oh, and this robot thinks we taste like bacon – I thought we did taste like bacon. Isn’t that why some cannibals call us longpigs?
This is just alarming, but Renault can make their F1 engines sing all sorts of tunes.
Clearly very little silliness coming to mind at the moment – could be because I’m busy working though.
As a slight improvement over the app which lets you colour all our folders differently, here’s an app which lets you label them.
Vista will come with technology which makes it possible to have secondary screens or mini-devices attached to your PC – and here are the laptops which will have them.
A robot which can stand up, or walk on all fours. Clever.
A screen which can show three different pictures depending where you’re standing.
Look out Germany! There’s a huge bug out to get you.
Remember kids, don’t smoke and lecture.
The headline says it well, "All you need is Ubuntu." Although I’m running Fedora at home…
Well, I’ve finished Darkstar One, the space shooty tradey game from Ascaron.
I’ve always had a soft-spot for this genre (and I refuse to call it a Space Sim as some do, I’ll continue to refer to it as a shooty tradey thing until a really good label is created) ever since playing Elite on my old CPC 6128. I remember the astonishment at realising that not only was the galaxy in Elite huge, but that there was more than one of them (5 if memory serves). As such I really wanted to like this game, Freelancer was a brilliant game, albeit a bit too limited.
Ever since Elite this genre has struggled, the problem seems to have been compromising the huge galactic sandbox with the needs to deliver a strong narrative. (i.e. the plot always seems to spoil it.) Without a story the missions quickly become repetitive and with a story you lose the beautiful freedom that flying about in space should have. Freelancer did an admirable job of making an entertaining sandbox space to play around in, with sufficient politics to make it interesting – but clearly the game couldn’t have sustained interest for long without a plot. Darkstar one is a very clear illustration of this, the missions rapidly become repetitive, however where Freelancer’s plot allowed for imaginative scripted missions, Darkstar one fails to break out of the "Kill this man", "find this item" monotony.
The idea of upgrading the ship – clearly coming from the world of RPG – looked like it was going to provide some interest, but sadly fell a little flat. Especially as the upgrades stopped the moment the game was completed. There also wasn’t enough depth in the idea to warrant replaying, picking different features of the ship to upgrade simply didn’t lead to dramatic enough differences to warrant trying again with a different style.
All in all Darkstar one was nothing special, a workaday addition to a genre in need of a lot more imagination.
I’ve been totally upstaged by EnglishRussia.com still, never mind – when there are entries like this to be going around. (I don’t think Ellie would go for this as a wedding dress, still it would save a fortune.)
Plus, some people seem to have been reading a lot into the Lysistrata. Colombian women ban sex until men give up their guns.
Lovely – someone’s created a page to randomly generate the kind of file names that cameras give picture by default – and then search Google for them. The result? Random pictures people have taken.
Peace protest? Devious morale sapping terrorist? Or just cold troopers – you decide.
AA man starts car using a Dog.
What the hell does this thing do? Anyone?
Someone took a bunch of future-predicting nerds seriously, and this is what they ended up saying.
Scottish MPs almost see some porn. Hardly newsworthy, but it makes a good headline if nothing else.
Children are growing up faster than ever, it seems this one was impatient to get their first car.
Such a marvelously simple idea, although it’s been done before I’m sure. Great if you own a tablet PC.
Ellie’s right, this is just plain weird – choose your dream cabinet for the country.
Hmm.. Beer vs. Lots of other stuff, entertaining – but what a waste.
A parable for modern life, courtesy of Banksy. I’m thinking Banksy’s more than one person by now.
Detonating your apartment using insect spray. Extremely foolish.
Genius – plus it’ll get all those geeks talking to people. (Not that I’ve ever actually met a recalcitrant geek, I’m probably the closest I’ve come to that stereotype.)
There’s so many daft things on NewLaunches today that I’m just going to have to list them:
Whew!
Finally, a singing toilet roll holder not enough? How about one with an iPod dock so you can listen to all your favourite tunes while on the loo.
Hypo-allergenic cats, specially bred for allergy sufferers. It’s just a shame they’re so expensive. I think I mentioned these before.
Members of a cattle society "concerned and upset" that a "young woman" stripped off during a party in a cattle-shed. Upset? Concerned? It’s not upsetting to my mind, but hey – I’m not a cattle farmer.
Microsoft Office roundtable is possibly the coolest thing you can have in a conference room. I know that’s a limited field, but still.
Now this really is first class.
Stunning new idea – an umbrella which repels water. Okay, so it’s cleverer than that, it is quick drying too!
How fast? Now the chase car is a 350Z, which is pretty fast – so just watch the bugatti disappear.
Ooohh.. I like this – the BBC publishes ten things they’ve learnt each week. You learn on average 1.4 things every day.
Short on content today – low batteries being drained even lower by work (urgh!) Must get dream job with piles of money being heaped at my feet.
To be distributed to the needy, natch.
It’s like Yahoo answers (which by all accounts, rocks) but it’s microsoft. I like it.
Fontalicious – better fonts available free or sharewarey.
Magic fish eggs.
Ah that special kind of nutter – the boy scout (radioactive version).
Environmental ethics in armament. Hmmm… Warheads that produce less noise pollution?
New to me – the encyclopedia of programming languages. Check out the family tree.
`Tis international talk like a pirate day – an’ here`s a handy tranlator fer them o’ ye lackin’ in sea dog skills.
Here`s a pretty good theory on why Paris Hilton be famous. ‘t makes sense, an’ ’tis all Web 2.0y.
Hackin’ Votin’ machines be ridiculous now – nay only can Monkeys do ‘t, but ye can do ‘t wi’ a standard key bought from almost anywhere.
OOhh.. Screens which can act as solar panels – ’tis only a matter o’ time before they’s everywhere.
Some student tries t’ join th’ terracotta army – he`d ben better off ship an’ sailin’ th’ se’en seas I think.
Everyone else is doing it 
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