Entries Tagged as 'Electronics'
Humanity, Thou Art Again Good In Mine Eyes
Where’s My Cell Phone.com:
Curtsy:
Vanderleun - Bookmark “Where’s My &*%&! Cellphone?” Now!
This may be the single most humane page on the Internet.
I’ll friggin say.
Categories: Electronics
Anchor Darts
SFGate:
If you are having trouble getting email to or from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, or the Middle East, it’s probably because a badly dropped ship anchor has damaged an undersea Internet provisioning telecom cable in the Mediterranean, disrupting Internet service throughout India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, and the Middle East. The cable, belonging to […]
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Testing, Testing, iPhone 4, 5, 6
Well, He’s Done It
Peter bought an iPhone.
He’s been on about it since the damned thing came out, but last week he discovered that, due to a happy error in his spreadsheet, he had more money than he thought. So he kept saying, “Should I buy an iPhone? Should I buy an iPhone?” So there we stood in […]
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My Ruling on Cell Phones on Planes
Since you were desperate to know.
The Telegraph - Ban in-flight mobiles
Here are some words to chill the blood: “I’m on a plane. I said, I’m on a plane. A plane. Yes! To Tenerife. Ten-er-ife.” As we report today, a technical breakthrough means that airlines may soon allow passengers to use […]
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I’m Sure He’s Turned His Brightness Down
Hilarious:
Tim Blair - STOP THEM DOZERS
I like the tree frog on the wall. I wonder if it’s one of the psychedelic ones.
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I Love Big Industry
Reuters - Boeing unveils 787 Dreamliner amid order flurry
Boeing Co. (BA.N: Quote, Profile, Research) unveiled its lightweight, carbon-composite 787 Dreamliner on Sunday in front of 15,000 cheering employees, customers and suppliers, capping a weekend of hype and a flurry of orders for the new fuel-efficient plane. The elaborate unveiling ceremony, […]
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Peter Recommends CCXI
Apparently someone’s invented perpetual energy. Now I’ll never get my horse.
Steorn - Orbo
Our Claim Orbo produces free, clean and constant energy - that is our claim. By free we mean that the energy produced is done so without recourse to external source. By clean we mean that during operation […]
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Absolutely the Funniest Item of the Day CCXXXVII
Upside-Down-Ternet
My neighbours are stealing my wireless internet access. I could encrypt it or alternately I could have fun.
Friggin’ brilliant. Click for explanation and pics. Peter heard about this ages ago but forgot to tell me, so some of you may have seen it. Still, friggin brilliant.
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Peter Recommends CCIV
Peter likes the future. I like horses.
Fortune Magazine - The smartest (or the nuttiest) futurist on Earth Ray Kurzweil is a legendary inventor with a history of mind-blowing ideas. Now he’s onto something even bigger. If he’s right, the future will be a lot weirder and brighter than you think.
(Fortune Magazine) — If […]
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Absolutely the Funniest Item of the Day CCXXXI
Metro.co.uk - Boy jailed over clock change mix-up
Read the story. Look at the photo caption.
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My Life With Comcast
This is hilarious. Hilarious.
The Times - Ladies! I have nothing to declare but my genius, by Gerard Baker
I am a new man this week. In the long twilight struggle to rescue the last vestiges of my credibility as a husband and father I am freshly armed with a most potent, perhaps life-altering, weapon. […]
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Those Fascists!
They’ve banned Wikipedia in China! Ooh that’s going too far.
Brett McS sent this to me this morning: Great Firewall of China - Test any website and see real-time if it’s censored in China!
Sure I’m banned, and that’s something to be proud of, but how could they ban Wiki?!
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Absolutely the Funniest Item of the Day CCLIII
Zing! (<– click this link!)
SFW. Requires audio.
Which reminded me I hadn’t shown Peter this (from CDR Salamander late last month):
Which nearly killed him. He’s sent it off to his senior colleagues. Who all made their money at Microsoft. Incidently.
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Why Does Comcast Suuuuuuuuuuuuck So Badly
I’m back on the stolen internet for a spell. Whether or not I’ll ever be online again is up in the air. Sure everything will be fine, they say, till a week later when it all blows up and then it turns out everything was done SO badly it can’t be made right […]
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