Linux PC the size of a USB stick
Raspberry Pi Foundation: Provisional specification: 700MHz ARM11 128MB of SDRAM OpenGL ES 2.0 1080p30 H.264 high-profile decode Composite and HDMI video output USB 2.0 SD/MMC/SDIO memory card slot General-purpose I/O Open software (Ubuntu, Iceweasel, KOffice, Python) </p> Find a terminal with a keyboard and the place is yours. via. Slashdot...
Atari SD Drive Replaces Floppy Drive
A Little Atari 810 Disk Drive - rossum's posterous: Overwhelmed by a recent wave of nostalgia from playing Zork for the first time in 30 years I have built a working model of an Atari 810 that uses 8Gig microSD cards instead of 5 1/4 inch floppies to emulate up...
Copyright laws prevents release of historic jazz recordings
No logic to this. New creations should assume Creative Commons by default and if you want copyright, then you'd have to spend some cash on it. 1930s an audio engineer named William Savory (above) made a lot of high-quality recordings of live jazz performances of Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Benny...
Wikipedia meets their fundraising goal: $16 million
Network World reports that Wikipedia has successfully reached their $16 million funding requirement for 2011. Looks like Jimmy's face on the front page has done some good after all. I must agree. Advertising does not belong in Wikipedia: Commerce is fine. Advertising is not evil. But it doesn't belong here....
FreshDirect Donates 72,000 Pounds After Snow Storm
FreshDirect Donates 72,000 Pounds After Snow Storm: Our friends at FreshDirect donated approximately 72,000 pounds of food to City Harvest this week after Monday’s snowstorm brought business to a halt on the east coast! Attached are shots from this morning’s 1,000 pound drop off at Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen in...
Chopsticks in Japan
My Life in Japan...WOW: Japanese Person asks a foreigner, "Can you eat with chop sticks?"</p> 1. Incorrect answer by a foreigner: "Yes I can" 2. Correct answer by a foreigner: "Can you eat with a fork?"
Don't brag about your child's drawing talent
If you are a senseless douchebag having no love or sympathy to the kids, checkout this "I AM BETTER than your kids" website. Maddox is behind this senseless commentary, demeaning and scorning child's art work by grading it from A to F — is this your type of thing? I've...