Technology

The Anti-Smart Phone

by Whaleoil September 9, 2010

from Boing Boing John’s Phones sell no-frills mobile phones that send and receive calls and pretty much noth­ing else (though there’s a place to keep your pen). War­ren Ellis likens it to a phone from min­i­mal­ist Japan­ese housewares/clothing com­pany Muji. Finally a sep­a­rate unit with no frills and con­di­tions. A sim­lock free phone with large keys, […]

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Google Instant Search

by Whaleoil September 9, 2010

Google has released Google Instant. You can get a good idea of how it works from this video. Related Posts:Chris Carter try­ing to re-write his­to­ryFrench Mil­i­tary Vic­to­ries­For idiots who say we don’t need F.T.T.H. this is why they are idiot­sThat Google is some clever sh*tChrome vs. Spud Gun

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The Blackberry Burqa

by Whaleoil August 9, 2010

The UAE doesn’t need to ban Black­berry phones, they just need to make users of the phones use them with a Black­berry Burqa. New laws in Saudi Ara­bia and the United Arab Emi­rates will require that every Black­berry user dress their phone a minia­ture burqa and face veil. ‘The Black­berry burqa means that peo­ple can still […]

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Why I don’t want an iPhone

by Whaleoil August 4, 2010

I don’t want an iPhone. I like my Black­berry just fine, and now I will explain why I don’t want an iPhone, ever. Major Rea­son: Secu­rity – PIN, encoded mes­sag­ing and brows­ing. UAE to ban Black­berry email, web brows­ing and mes­sag­ing. Cit­ing national secu­rity con­cerns, the United Arab Emi­rates (UAE) has announced that it will […]

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The Eye-Borg

by Whaleoil July 1, 2010

Cool, enough to con­sider pok­ing pins in my eyes. When Cana­dian film­maker Rob Spence was a kid, he would peer through the bionic eye of his Six Mil­lion Dol­lar Man action fig­ure. After a shoot­ing acci­dent left him par­tially blind, he decided to cre­ate his own elec­tronic eye. Now he calls him­self Eyeborg.Spence’s bionic eye contains […]

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Wednesday Weapons — .50cal vs. iPhone 4 and iPad

by Whaleoil June 30, 2010

Rifle: Bar­rett M82A1 Round: .50 BMG 647gr M33 ball car­tridge Appar­ently Apple Care doesn’t cover .50cal bullet-holes. Related Posts:Jobs cuts iPad’s throatWhale­mo­bile LiveMildly inter­est­ing stuffi­Pad – Will it Blend?Tech Tues­day – More iPad Mockery

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Recommended Firefox Plugin

by Whaleoil June 21, 2010

from Boing Boing The Elec­tronic Fron­tier Foun­da­tion and The Onion Router (TOR) project have teamed up to release a new privacy-enhancing Fire­fox plu­gin called HTTPS Every­where. It was inspired by Google’s new encrypted search engine, and it ensures that when­ever you visit a site that accepts encrypted con­nec­tions, your browser switches into encrypted mode, hiding […]

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Wednesday Weapons — Mobile Artillery

by Whaleoil June 2, 2010

Artillery is often thought of as a blunt weapon, but with the devel­op­ment of smart rounds like Excal­ibur true pin­point accu­racy is becom­ing avail­able, chang­ing artillery from an area weapon to a sur­gi­cal weapon. One of the biggest prob­lems with artillery though is its sheer size and gen­eral lack of mobil­ity. In mod­ern war­fare it […]

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Should all music sharing be free?

by Whaleoil June 1, 2010

Mash­able has excerpts from their inter­view with Free soft­ware activist Richard Stall­man. Stall­man started the Free Soft­ware Foun­da­tion based on four prin­ci­ples. Infor­ma­tion, such as com­puter soft­ware, should be freely acces­si­ble. The infor­ma­tion should be free to mod­ify. The infor­ma­tion should be free to share with oth­ers. The infor­ma­tion should be free to change and […]

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Arial: It’s a little bit Bullshit

by Whaleoil May 22, 2010

I like fonts, I admit that I col­lect them. I like this video. Related Posts:No Related Posts

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Still want to ignore us

by Whaleoil May 8, 2010

Main­stream media think they can ignore Social Media and new media. Old com­pa­nies like…oh I don’t know…insurance companies…uhmmm…like Fidelity Life… think they can ignore blog­gers. They really should think again. Oh and teh fuddy dud­dies wo think the Rugby Union picked wrong…we’re talk­ing to you as well. Related Posts:Big Changes in the Medi­aMore con­fir­ma­tion of fra­cas at […]

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Roundabound

by Whaleoil May 8, 2010

There has been a big deal about Tom Tom using Darth Vader for direc­tions. Pinko and I used Darth on his Tom Tom at the last elec­tion. Any­way The Chive has a video about the record­ing ses­sions. Related Posts:Mon­day Mul­lets – Gin­ger and EvilAuck­land deputy mayor given 11am dead­line to quit

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Chrome vs. Spud Gun

by Whaleoil May 6, 2010

from Firearm Blog Sim­ply amaz­ing video. Related Posts:Google Instant SearchChris Carter try­ing to re-write his­to­ryFrench Mil­i­tary Vic­to­ries­For idiots who say we don’t need F.T.T.H. this is why they are idiot­sThat Google is some clever sh*t

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