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The inflatable sauna. What do you mean, you haven’t got one?
Yours for just £69.99!
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A legendary video game… for all the wrong reasons
God, I really want to know the real story behind this one: new PC game Limbo of the Lost, which has been a bazillion years in development, is uncannily similar to pretty much every game ever made. And by similar I don’t mean “yeah yeah, this is just like Doom”. I mean “OMG that’s all…
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Because being a single mum with an autistic child isn’t hard enough
Being misanthropic isn’t fun, you know, and from time to time I do my very best to change my attitude. I read inspiring news stories about inspiring people doing inspiring things. I read sad stories about the sacrifices people make for others. I try to see the best in people, and take the Vonnegut attitude…
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Firefox 3 due later today
Will they manage to get a Guinness World Record for the most downloaded software in the world… ever!?
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Is this the future of magazine publishing? Probably not, but it’s still interesting
The Magazineer has put up an interesting post about MagCloud, a print-on-demand service designed specifically for magazines. The content available so far isn’t particularly inspiring, but the idea itself is quite interesting. But there’s still something about paper. It’s not just because screens suck to read on (they do, but that hasn’t kept us from…
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Scotland’s booze ban: ignoring the obvious answer
The Scottish Government’s plan to ban alcohol off-sales to the under-21s but still allow them to drink in pubs tacitly admits what the real problem is: sales to underage drinkers – a problem with an obvious and simple solution. As Hamish Macdonnell points out in The Scotsman: At the end of 2006, there were 17,234…
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Great technology needn’t be expensive
I’ve got one of these, and it’s brilliant: a bit of plastic that holds your mobile phone when it’s charging. Yours for five Euros. Buy two!
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Almost everybody pirates music. Most of them would pay for it
Interesting numbers from a British Music Rights-funded study of 14-to-24-year-olds’ music consumption: A full 95% said they’d copied music in some way or another at one time or another. And 80% would pay for a legal subscription-based music service that would allow them to discover, swap and recommend music. BMR’s Feargal Sharkey – yep, him…
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Hurry up and make this happen
Firms are still faffing about the Universal Power Adapter: In China, where 500 million cell phones were manufactured last year, the government has regulated that all cell phone chargers, including those imported, have a standard USB interface and output voltage, so consumers don’t need a new one with every new phone. Such regulations are unlikely…
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A tale of two ISPs
Last weekend, my ISP – Bulldog – wrote me a letter. Good news, they said. Now we’re owned by Pipex, we’re migrating all our services to Pipex ones. You’ll be getting 8MB broadband. Hurrah! Hurrah? Arse, more like. I’m currently on a 20MB service, not an 8MB one. I tried calling, but tech support and…