Archive for November, 2006

Wii Classic Controller vs. classic SNES controller

Thursday, November 30th, 2006

Old school? New school? We love it all man. Click on for a bunch of high-res Wii Classic Controller shots, as compared to the Classic SNES Controller. It’s actually both bigger and smaller than we thought it’d be, if that makes sense.

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Extremely rare, some people can TASTE with their ears

Friday, November 24th, 2006

“A rarer few, said Julia Simner, a cognitive neuropsychologist at the University of Edinburgh, involuntarily “taste” words when they hear them. In a study, “The Taste of Words on the Tip of the Tongue,” published in the journal Nature today, Dr. Simner reported finding only 10 such people in Europe and the United States.”

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Decrypting Hitler’s Home Movies With New Technology

Friday, November 24th, 2006

The technology allows the dialogue to be dubbed on to the silent films, many of them made by Eva Braun at Hitler’s mountain retreat, the Berghof. With the new soundtrack, Hitler can be heard encouraging young children towards a life in the military, criticising even his closest henchmen and flirting with Braun.

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Seen on Google Map: A ‘Star’ over Amsterdam!!

Friday, November 24th, 2006

I was just playing with Google Eargh, and found this. What kind of artifact is this?

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Wardriving Using A Ubuntu Notebook With Garmin Etrex, Kismet, And GPSDrive

Friday, November 24th, 2006

“This tutorial is about wardriving using GPS. It explains how to install Garmin Etrex on Ubuntu and how to configure it. It also shows how to use Garmin with GPSDrive and how to convert the data to an xml file which can be imported by Google Earth.” This is awesome, a must see for any wardriver!

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PS3 broken straight out of the box - Video

Friday, November 24th, 2006

Punch Jump received their 20 GB Playstation 3 only to discover it has a malfunctioning disc feeder. The sound that the Playstation 3 makes while attempting with absolute futility to consume the disc is what really makes this video pop.

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Prime Minister Stunning declaration: Quebec is a Nation ‘within Canada’

Friday, November 24th, 2006

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper stunned Parliament on Wednesday by introducing a motion recognizing the French-speaking province of Quebec as a nation within Canada — a moved aimed at pre-empting Quebec’s separatist party which intends to do the same

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The iPod killer could be a Penguin

Friday, November 24th, 2006

A new Linux based MP3 player is an open source computer in your pocket.

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Wii controller slips, strap snaps during tennis game (video).

Friday, November 24th, 2006

We hadn’t owned the console for even a day yet.

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Very Few Hooked On PodCasts

Friday, November 24th, 2006

The number of US internet users who have experimented with downloading a podcast continues to grow but few remain hooked, research suggests.

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