It is my birthday next month and want a Furby Gurdy, it is available on eBay.

Tags: weird

I saw this on Boing Boing, David Van Tieghem’s excellent street percussion video Ear To The Ground filmed in New York.

Tags: percussion, music

Medis Technologies have just announced the first commercially available fuel cells for consumer electronics.

Their 24-7 Power Pack provides up to 30 hours talktime on an iPhone (I should image with 3G turned off!) and up to 80 hours playtime for an iPod.

Some great pictures on this website (part English, part Chinese) of Windows getting a Blue Screen Of Death during the Olympics opening ceremony.   The website also points out that Bill Gates was there to see his doppelganger explode.

Tags: Microsoft, Windows, olympics

This video of mobile phone users using the microwave energy from mobile phones to pop kernels of corn is pretty scary - fake?

The Register has some footage of the Google Street View camera car getting nailed for illegal parking in London.

Today is the 9th annual System Administrator Appreciation Day.

Take time to go down to your IT department and hug the unsung hero of your organisation.

You might get an unexpected reaction though as they probably won’t be used to much human contact (or sunlight….or fresh air).

Tags: sysadmin

I blogged a couple of weeks ago about the satnav with the voice of K.I.T.T from the eighties cult TV series Knight Rider.

Crave UK now has video footage of the unit and it looks amazing.

I’ve just read this excellent article on the Glomar Explorer, a ship built by the US in the height of the Cold War to recover Soviet submarines for intelligence purposes.

Tags: ColdWar