I saw a photo linking to this article on Imgur the other day via the NYT and I felt it was worth commenting on. Stated via the Imgur link, the Times predicted this way ahead of the curve (February 25, 2010!) – but, honestly to me…comparing a PC to a mobile device (currently) is much [...]
BBC reports that an accountant (of course) named Cary Walkin developed a fantasy turn-based RPG in Excel(!) over the course of 4 months while he was studying for his MBA in Toronto. “Sssssuuuuure he did” said his employer. The game, called Arena.xlsm, is developed using nothing but macros (the things that you invariably use to [...]
If you’re not aware, Google has made the news again, but not in the usual way – this time, people have called them out for hitting/killing a donkey in Botswana with one of their Google Street View cars. While finding oddities with Google’s mapping service is a regular occurrence, striking live (or dead) animals with [...]
On January 13th, an elderly person drove their Lincoln Town Car right into the Lincoln Park, Chicago Apple store. No “geniuses” were hurt in the making of this awesome news story. “The dark-colored sedan drove through the glass walls and made it about four or five feet inside, where it seemed to turn and rested [...]
As reported by Fox news via Der Spiegel, a driver in Germany was pulled over for speeding and the police discovered the guy may have a bad habit of being distracted while driving. The guy had a laptop PC, printer, a couple cell phones, a GPS and a power inverter to provide the juice for [...]
The Register reports that vandals broke into New York congressman Michael Grimm’s campaign office and installed Linux on the server and workstations. When asked for a comment, Grimm stated “This is an attack against a federal campaign office, which is an attack on our democracy as a whole. It’s an attack against what we stand [...]
Apple, who seems to be suing everyone they can, has focused on a grocery store in Poland, claiming copyright and/or trademark infringement. I kind of understand why, kinda – the supermarket chain owns the A.pl domain (“A.pl Internet SA” – get it? A.pl?), while the logo in question is part of the fresh24.pl site (a [...]
Well, keep on the lookout for this gizmo…called the “PowerPwn” – fitting, right? From ZDNet: The Power Pwn may look like an ordinary power strip, maybe with an included surge protector, but it’s far from it. Network administrators and IT staff in general need to be wary of this one: it can do much more [...]