Archive for December, 2006



Sucks to be in Australia

It is now illegal for you guys to hyperlink to copyrighted material.
Also of note: “EFA also points out that singing “Happy Birthday” in public would be a criminal offence, as it would be an unauthorised performance of a copyright song. Likewise, using your mobile phone to record a public performance for your own use would […]

OpenMoko

A standards compliant linux smartphone - the Neo1973 - is based on the completely open OpenMoko platform.

Further press available at Wired and Cellphone Beat.

Dimensional craziness

This is a pretty awesome description of all the dimensions up until the 10th.
The tenth dimension - it’s a micro-site for a book and in flash but it is worth it!
(thanks to notnotabouthim for the link)

Movable furniture

Now if only it was remote controlled.

Crank and The Departed

A week ago, in a fit of escapism, I went to see two movies in a row: Crank and The Departed. Which I will review very briefly…
The Departed
This follows two undercover agents, Matt Daemon (bad guy playing good) and Leonardo de Caprio (good guy playing bad). It’s pretty awesome, and quite brutal. A longish movie, […]

ROFL best joke ever!

Man, this is great, almost like the alphabet vs. justice: the best blond joke ever

Neverwinter Nights 2 re-assessment

I still hold that NWN2 was a bad release, and had many bugs, not least of which was being unable to install the game! However, I managed to get around that by getting a registry file from a NWN2 forum member, which let me then run the update program, which as it turns it fixes […]

Diaspora - Greg Egan

Diaspora is probably the hardest Scifi novel I’ve ever read. Not that it was overly difficult to read, even when it is dealing with sub-atomic physics and theoretical higher dimensional physics. It was hard, as in dealing with scientific theories and having a pretty strong grounding in existing particle physics (at least at the time […]