Archive for November, 2006

Devil Terrorizes People on the Street

Friday, November 24th, 2006

Taken from the most controversial moments from the British hit comedy show, Balls of Steel, the annoying devil pranks everyday people on the street - Absolutely HILARIOUS video.

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Crazy Chemical Reactions with Water! HUGE EXPLOSIONS!!! (VIDEO)

Friday, November 24th, 2006

This is probably the coolest chemistry video that I have ever seen! “These next two are the dogs nuts of the periodic table”. Behold the power of rubidium and cesium!!!

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MTV Bans Faithless Video

Friday, November 24th, 2006

Director Greenhalgh: “War infects all our lives; recently it feels that this has increasingly become ‘our way of life’. It is rare to be given the opportunity to shoot a video that is deemed controversial. All I tried to do was make people think about the everyday life we live in our comfortable existences, and the contrast to that through war.”

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WWYDWFI? (What would you do with fifty iMacs?)

Friday, November 24th, 2006

In the fall of 2006, there were a bunch of Imacs in the old girl’s locker room of the middle school. Nobody wanted anything to do with them, and since there were enough of them, it seemed like there might be something interesting to do with them. Give your ideas for the iMacs fate.

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$99,999.99 iPod? Among other things …

Friday, November 24th, 2006

So naturally, every website has its flaw here and there, but today must be Amazon’s worst day. Not only do the servers crash three times, the website lags in account area, et cetera - But a $100,000 iPod is just incredible.

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Poverty is not an issue for the Christian Coalition. What would Jesus say?

Friday, November 24th, 2006

The Reverend elected to take over as president of the Christian Coalition of America said he will not assume the role because of differences in philosophy. He had hoped to focus on issues such as poverty and the environment, but the Christian Coalition board said, “These issues are fine, but they’re not our issues, that’s not our base.”

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Man gets patent for the WHEEL

Friday, November 24th, 2006

An Australian man has registered a patent for a “circular transportation facilitation device” - more commonly known as the wheel.

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Ruby on Rails 1.2 Release Candidate

Friday, November 24th, 2006

The Ruby on Rails 1.2 Release Candidate 1 is out now! Next to all sorts of cool new stuff within the framework, It also includes all the latest Prototype and script.aculo.us features (both Prototype 1.5.0_rc2 and script.aculo.us 1.7.0 beta 1 is part of it). So be sure to get a glimpse of the future right now… :)

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Apple ready to rock the phone world

Friday, November 24th, 2006

Renewed reports that Apple is to launch its long awaited iPhone in the first half of next year may prompt a lot of people to delay the purchase of their next phone.

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Congress unlocks US cellphones

Friday, November 24th, 2006

The US copyright office will permit mobile phone subscribers to unlock their phones, allowing them to be used by rival network providers. It’s a right that’s taken for granted in most of the GSM world, where there’s little operators can do to stop it.

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