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Gizmodo - Robot iPod Dock-on-Wheels

Reason #gazillion to get hardwood floors.

I’m starting to think I need to get the Lego NXT thing, especially if the asian girl is included:

Business Week - Lego Takes Tech Over the Top: The famous Danish toymaker takes its Technics line into the future with Mindstorms NXT computerized, motorized robots

I mean, damn.

Maybe I can convince the guys and we can have robot wars in the office.

This is interesting, up until it quotes Wonkette:

I mean Jesus Christ, wtf has TIME become.

Ars Technica - iPods at war

The quote he refers to is immediately followed by:

DiePilot, for one, isn’t convinced by the argument. “Speaking for myself, movies and games haven’t really shaped my reactions to traumatic events like bombs going off or rounds getting traded. I don’t act in real life like I do in a virtual world, because 1up mushrooms are scarce resources out here.”

Hehehehe

COO-KEEES!!

Barry’s Farm vintage fit - Monster Laptop Sleeve

He says it’s his next laptop case. I think I’ll have to hold him to that.

ign.com - Wii Your Way to Health: Nintendo reportedly developing diet software for the Wii.

Just as the DS was the answer for the lazy brain, Wii may be the answer for the lazy body. A report from Bloomberg today made mention of a new form of “game” in development at Nintendo: Wii-based diet software.

The Bloomberg report, issued following recent strong performance of Nintendo’s Japanese stock, made mention of the new software in passing. Nintendo is developing diet-related and other forms of software for the Wii, the report said.

I’ll assume this is intended primarily for the American market (just in time, eh P-G?), not the Japanese one.

He wants to web2.0-ify me.

He’s been at me for months. What do we think?

Update:

Sorry, I forgot the link. Peter reminded me when he got home. Otherwise you don’t get the joke.

He was also trying to tantalize me with some design ideas featured at the bottom of here, and here, and here.

The length of the Wiki on Calvin and Hobbes is truly proportional to its greatness as a comic strip.

This is very useful:

If else - Selecting a british dictionary for OSX

The only annoyance is that, by default, by default, you get the American English dictionary. As much as I like America, I’ve never been able to accept their idiosyncrasies when it comes to spelling. I can’t quite bring myself to -ize and I still spell colour with a u.

If you want to switch the dictionary to British English, hit CMD + shift + colon. Voila, you can -ise to your heart’s content.

Since I know at least one of my Anglosphere-of-the-Proper-Spelling readers is a new Mac user.

Quoth Peter:

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Gizmodo - The Litter Robot Turns Cat Litter Into Easter Eggs

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RC2 was wondering:

Where is the West’s propaganda war?

Herald Sun - Israel hacks into Hezbollah TV

ISRAEL today hacked into the television station of Hezbollah, emblazoning images on the screen showing pictures of corpses and claiming the Shiite militant group’s leader Hassan Nasrallah was a liar.

One of the images shown on Al-Manar television portrayed the body of a fighter lying face-down, wearing khaki trousers with a text beneath in Arabic reading: “This is the photograph of a body of a member of Hezbollah’s special forces”.

“Nasrallah lies: it is not us that is hiding our losses,” continued the text, which appeared during the evening news and stayed on the screen for several minutes.

A photograph of Nasrallah himself also appeared with the legend: “member of Hezbollah: watch out”.

Another photograph of corpses was framed by the words: “there are a large number of corpses like this on the ground and Nasrallah is hiding this truth”.

Israel also hacked into FM radio stations and instead of normal programs a two-minute recording was repeatedly broadcast.

“Hassan sent men to fight the Israeli army, an army of steel, without preparing them. Stop listening to patriotic hymns for a moment, reflect and bring your feet back to the ground,” said the Arabic message.

Quoth Peter:

Hah!

Except the last line:

Israel has used a variety of technological weapons to wage a psychological war in Lebanon, also sending text messages to mobile phones and voice messages saying their war was against Hezbollah and not the Lebanese people.

That’s not psychological warfare, for crying out loud.

Gizmodo - Desktop Candy Claw Machine

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