Month: October 2006
Schoolboy humour courtesy of stock spammers: the exploding ARSS
Thanks to The Register (who else) for this gem of schoolboy toilet humour courtesy of those annoying stock spammers we're all too painfully aware of: There's too many jokes in there, of varying degrees of puerility. They write themselves: "Get…
Reuters to open a news bureau in Second Life
Reuters is the latest company clamouring to be a part of the Second Life virtual world (some say parallel universe), with an announcement that it will begin publishing text, phono and video news from the real world within Second Life…
uTube.com manufacturing company website shut down after inundation with misdirected visitors
A fairly small Ohio-based manufacturing company, the Univeral Tube & Rollform Equipment Corporation, has seen visits to its website utube.com increase rapidly over the past week or so, as news broke of the Google/YouTube merger. They'd already been getting a…
First set of generic dot mobi domain names to be auctioned
The first set of generic domain names under the new .mobi top-level domain is due to be auctioned off on 27th October at the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East domain conference, Hollywood. Unlike the free-for-all first-come first-served system used for previous TLDs, certain…
Sneaky Changes in Vista Licence Agreement
There are a few dedicated souls who actually read through the EULAs (End User Licensing Agreement) that pop up when you install a new piece of software but most of us simply click the I Agree button, life’s too…
Freeundelete Recovery Utility, Freeware
Sooner or later it will happen to you and you will delete a file, intentionally or by accident, then some time regret it. You might be lucky and it will still be in the Recycle Bin, but most of…
How to play Space Invaders – with your brain
Over at top bloke's blog Brandish, you can find out how to give your hands a rest and exercise your brain – to play Space Invaders. Yes, a team of researchers has poured its energies into developing a brain-to-computer…
YouTube Video of the Day – Fool shoots hornet nest.
What happens when you give a fool a gun and show them the location of a troublesome hornets nest? Predicatbly, the answer lies in pain and sorrow. Mof Gimmers…
Vodafone launches new call plans and advice for small businesses
Sky has a new show TV show under the name of The Big Idea, claimed to be the UK's largest-ever search to discover the next great British invention or business idea (with the winner pocketing £100,000 to carry it…
17th October is UK's 'One Day in History' blog day
Tomorrow is "One Day in History" day, set up by the National Trust, which will allow anyone in Britain with access to the Internet to record a short piece of blog-style text with their reflections on how history has…