“ The smell is bad. It does not travel far, but when you catch a whiff of the burnt flesh stench, it is quite nauseating. The thought that you have just inhaled some of those vaporized skin flakes, and they have settled on the bottom of your lungs, is the worst.
LKM's stuff
“ See that robot there? It’s burned by a laser-etch machine. On genyoowine human skin. Ohoho yes: that sent an icky feeling up your spine didn’t it? If it didn’t, then it should have. Try looking through the gallery, and then watch the video of a skin-etch in action, and that should do the trick…
“ But instead of getting the letters tattooed on his body with ink, Chase wanted to have his resolve memorialized in a far more striking fashion: carved into his body with a scalpel.
“ A federal judge in New York has ordered Google to turn over to Viacom a database linking users of YouTube, the Web’s largest video site by far, with every clip they have watched there.
Swisscom: We'll unlock your iPhone after 24 months
I asked Swisscom whether the iPhone would be unlockable. Here’s the important part of Swisscom Mobile Customer Care’s response:
The iPhone 3G press release says “When bought with a Swisscom pre- or postpaid contract, the use of iPhone 3G is limited to Swisscom SIM-cards.” Does this mean that Swisscom will not sell unlocked iPhones?Swisscom will sell the iPhone SIM-locked for 24months in both, pre- and postpaid, versions.
Does that mean that I can unlock the iPhone after 24 months?
yes
So you won’t be able to use your Swisscom iPhone with a foreign SIM card, but after two years, you will at least be able to give it to somebody who doesn’t use Swisscom.
“ It takes more than a big time PS3 exclusive like Metal Gear Solid 4 to beat Nintendo. Way more. While MGS4 did give Sony a bump in sales, it wasn’t enough, and the Wii outsold the PS3 in June. This is the seventh consecutive month that the Wii has come out on top in The Land of the Rising Sun.
“ This loss of process is likely very widespread throughout all technologies, it often results in the final evolved technology surviving, but we often forget how we got there. Evidence of this is in the anecdotes of how a modern designer or engineer tries to improve an ancient system, only to find out that the ancient system is vastly superior (W. McDonough often cites the black Bedouin tent as an example, and S. Lansing has a similar story from Balinese water and agricultural systems). Until a technology is mature and standardized, which our digital tech is only beginning to be, we will continue to lose a lot of information stored on these obsolescing systems like Indecks.
“ Humans have been attempting to send messages to the stars since … I’m going to say the early ’70s. I mean, theoretically some caveman could have yelled, “Hey! Stars! You suck!” a hundred thousand years ago, but he was an idiot.
Many people considered this nothing more than interstellar porn. Others objected to the fact that the man is the one waving his hand, presumably to give the woman time to bake the aliens a nice batch of muffins. (via The Long Now Blog » Blog Archive » Earth to aliens… were a bunch of dorks.
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