Entries Tagged as 'Electronics'

Peter Recommends LXXIV

Robots! On video!

1st Ave Machine - 1st Ave Pro.mov

(The real thing, not the crappy kid’s movie we never saw, just to be clear.) Their webpage is purdy.

And:

MoCo Loco - Shelflife & Titanic

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Peter Recommends LXX

These people are such greedy bastards. No wonder music sucks:

PC Pro - Warner chief threatens to scalp iTunes

A Warner Music executive has threatened to cut off Apple if Steve Jobs continues to refuse to give ground on iTunes Music Store pricing. Digital strategy chief Michael Nash said during a [...]

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TiVo Update

FOXnews - TiVo Fans Fear Recording Restrictions

SAN FRANCISCO — Many fans of digital video recorders made by TiVo Inc. (TIVO) are beginning to fear that Hollywood studios will one day reach into their set-top boxes to restrict the way they record and store movies and programs. Among the functions [...]

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Absolutely the Funniest Item of the Day CXXVI

Anyone following the iTunes 5.0 updates will get this.

Daring Fireball - The iTunes 5 Announcement From the Perspective of an Anthropomorphized Brushed Metal User Interface Theme

Tuesday, 7 September 2005, 9:30 AM Pacific A Lexus SC 430 convertible speeds down a sunny street in Cupertino. The top is down. Brushed Metal [...]

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A New Kind of Battery Blogging

Hilarious!

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Peter Recommends LVI

Indecision, indecision:

Makes me want to get a shuffle. Makes me want to get a new iPod.

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I Feel Your Pain, Man.

India Uncut - Dotvom

Hilarious!

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Peter Recommends LI

He’s pretty fired up. I’ll just quote his email.

WHY the F__K should the U.N. be the one “governing” the INTERNET? Jesus. Christ. CNET News - Will the U.N. run the Internet? O.M.G. China: “We feel that the public policy [...]

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Resolved!

Movable Type - Intermittent “500 Server Errors” in MT (RESOLVED)

UPDATE (Jul 7th, 2005 15:40 PST): The MT Engineering team has evaluated the new DBD::MySQL module and confirmed that the bug has been fixed. Affected Movable Type customers who have been upgraded to the latest version of the driver, either through cPanel or manual [...]

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Possessed By Demons, Assuredly.

So the blog seems to be basically working. One thing though: For some unknown and unwanted reason, comments have to be approved by me before they’ll be posted. This is really freaking irritated because I enjoy my commenters and their comments and I’d rather encourage them, rather than discourage them. I have [...]

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Peter Recommends XLV

Google Earth – Explore, Search and Discover

Want to know more about a specific location? Dive right in — Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the world’s geographic information at your fingertips.

He says, “Google took one of my absolute favorite things from Snow Crash and turned [...]

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On Craigslist

This is cute:

Times Online - Off-white sofabed, large, ugly: would suit prospective marriage partner, LA Notebook by Chris Ayres

$10 million for 18 employees and a couple servers.

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The Mind Boggles

I wonder if they’ll do it. They did the congestion charge in London, which every other city now wants to do, so they could, but think of the billboards, “Drive Half Price After 9PM!” and “A404 From £29!”

Times Online - Put your foot on the gas, Darling, and speed ahead to the future, by [...]

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Peter Recommends XXXIX

Microsoft releases pron.

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Peter Recommends XXXVII

You know you always wanted to see Steve Jobs in something other than a black turtleneck.

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