Author: Gary Cutlack
eBay Nutcase of the Week: DJ/The Shamen man Mr C flogging his entire record collection for £75k
DJ Mr C, AKA the bleach-haired proto-Eminem out of early-90s dancey/ravey band The Shamen, is flogging his entire remaining record collection – with a starting price of £75,000.
Here’s what your £75k gets you, along with an interesting look into the personal life of Mr C himself…
Energy & Efficiency, episode 10
By simply making a few changes to how we live our daily lives, it’s possible to save energy – and therefore also money and the world.
In a system I’m calling the Modern Energy Efficient Lifestyle (2.0) I shall outline two simple techniques designed to get mankind more in synch with the planet and therefore assure the survival of both man and environment. Here’s how.
To summarise – go to bed at 4.30pm tonight…
The Mintpass Mintpad internet, notepad, writing, watching, digital camera, media THING
The global gadget development arms race to see who can fit the most stuff into the smallest, whitest box has taken a dramatic turn today, thanks to this clever little everything-in-one miniature… digital… wi-fi… thing.
You can write on it, browse the internet on it, listen to music on it, take photos on it, watch films on it and, most importantly of all, get it out of your very smallest pocket and impress people with it by showing them all of the above. It all happens on a fairly minuscule 2.86″ touch screen, mind…
International Space Station astronauts indulging in urine-drinking party tonight
You wouldn’t think people would ever be pleased to hear they can start drinking their own urine – but the astronauts on the International Space Station are currently over the moon about it.
“There will be dancing later,” Mission Control said, after ISS commander Mike Fincke told Earth that the the orbiting station’s faulty urine processor – which filter space wee, condensation and SWEAT and turns it into lovely drinking water – was finally fixed.
This raises two important questions – how do you dance in zero gravity? And before…
Idiotic juror asks her Facebook friends to vote guilty/not guilty in child kidnapping case
“I don’t know which way to go, so I’m holding a poll” a female juror wrote in a vote application on her Facebook page when she couldn’t make her mind up about a court case she was part of.
The unnamed juror failed to set any sort of privacy options on her plea for help, meaning the entire Facebook-using portion of the internet was capable of viewing her confused cry for help…
DO NOT BUY A PLAYSTATION3 JUST YET – Sony's planning a price cut in March 2009
Here’s an amusing little faux pas to add to the 2.4MB, 124-page-long document I carry around with me at all times on a memory stick documenting all of Sony’s errors regarding PS3.
At a recent employee meet, the company apparently told its staff that PS3 would start to be “more competitive in price” from March of 2009, telling everyone the expensive Blu-ray console will be a little more affordable next Easter – and damaging sales from now until then, we’d imagine, as credit-crunched gamers beneath the fuel poverty line hold out for a price cut.
The report also revealed that Uncharted 2 would be shown to the world and that LittleBigPlanet would be announced for PSP, both in March ’09…
Medion brings 1TB of storage to the budget end of the market with its AKOYA P7300D
The MEDION AKOYA P7300D is a bit of a beast. It packs in a 2.33GHz Intel Q8200 Core 2 Quad processor, Windows Vista Home Premium 64bit edition, a more-than-even-Vista-needs 4GB of DDR II SDRAM RAM and a 1TB hard drive.
Those BIG, MACHO NUMBERS are made to look even bigger by the AKOYA’s relatively tiny price of just £499.99. It’ll only be available at budget imported German baked beans shifter Aldi, appropriately enough, where it launches on November 27…
Decide if it's worth getting out of bed or not today with the Oregon Scientific Weather Box
The Oregon Scientific Weather Box claims to be the thinnest-ever weather station, which will be a LIFESAVER, if, by some trillion-to-one chance, you’ve always been frustrated by the thickness of existing weather station options.
It is in contact with the outside world via radio, so you’ll always know what the weather is out there in the world – plus it regularly checks…
ATTENTION AMERICANS: Monty Python launches official YouTube Channel
Monty Python’s Flying Circus, the only television programme the United Kingdon has ever produced, is now yours to freely watch and link to from your blogs via an official YouTube Channel – with the remaining Pythons saying “we want you to click on the links, buy our movies & TV shows and soften our pain and disgust at being ripped off all these years.”
24 clips are currently up there for endless playback, including stuff from the movies, live performances and modern interviews with the depressingly old-looking stars. Here’s one from the Life of Brian, seeing as we’re allowed to now and it’s Friday.
There’s something in it for them – each clip comes complete with an embedded Amazon link…
Google launches SearchWiki – you may now customise your search results
Hot from giving up on Lively, Google’s now invented another thing we’re not sure we’ll ever need or use – SearchWiki.
It’s designed to let browsers customise their Google search results, so if you’re currently logged into your Gmail/Google account you’ll be able to organise findings as you wish. Which means shuffling about entries and moving lower results higher up the rankings, helping you use Google like more of an extension of your fat and lazy old brain than ever before…
