Twitter rich115's Recently Played TracksA Slovak man trapped in his car under an avalanche freed himself by drinking 60 bottles of beer and urinating on the snow to melt it.
Rescue teams found Richard Kral drunk and staggering along a mountain path four days after his Audi car was buried in the Slovak Tatra mountains.
Via Ananova.
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What’s the difference between a Gmail security bug, and an Outlook security bug. Enough time to create an exploit for the 80% of people that don’t patch quickly. The reason, Gmail, being centralised, fixed the exploit over night. If you use Gmail, your accounts been fixed. Did you notice? Probably not, because it was done [...]
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The funny thing is, someone took a photo.
More at Instant Blitz Copy Fight Project.
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Scoble. What? Can you explain what you mean?
I too was trying to figure out Bill Gates “communist” remarks (see Boing Boing, who is having a bit of fun with that meme) but then I saw this article and it all made sense.
Gates mentioned that there “are some new modern-day sort of communists who want to [...]
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Anthony Hicks today announced that “Aussie Blogs update tracker and web ring are now closed permanently”.
The web ring is available to anyone who would like to take ownership, however you must have a track record of at least 3 years blogging to prove you’re going to keep it and running in the long term. You [...]
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It started as a hobby, a little way for me to test how blogging might work in Australia. See what I could generate. Once started it turned into an obsession, then a requirement, every day I don’t post something to Gadget Lounge I feel guilty. Well, in some ways I’m being paid back by the [...]
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Kitta has, what I consider, the best set of predictions for the year.
Apple releases key chain iPods. They hold 20 songs and have a torch light feature.
McDonalds markets McWater as ‘fat free’ and a ‘chemical free alternative to coke’.
McDonalds also re-vamp Ronald, his clown suit is replaced with gym wear and he tells the kiddies [...]
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For those of you that read my blog on a regular basis (hi Mum), you might have noticed my deep addiction to Flickr. I first saw Flickr when the meme started earlier in 2004. Back then the flash application and chat tool looked interesting but not compelling.
What I didn’t realise until recently was just how [...]
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