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November 2007

14 posts

Amazon: Reinventing the Book → newsweek.com

Save you breath, Jeff, we’re a long way from replacing the humble paperback yet.

Nov 19, 2007
Coen brothers' No Country For Old Men beats Lions for Lambs at the UD box office despite opening on just 148 screens → kottke.org
Nov 19, 2007
Woman fined for kissing painting → news.bbc.co.uk

To be fair, take a look at the picture of the ‘painting’ in the article, it’s a blank, white canvass, that makes anyone doing their living room with a can of Dulux an artist.  What a pile of crap.

Nov 16, 2007
Blendie is a blender built by Kelly Dobson that only reacts to sound → kottke.org

You have to growl (make the sound of a blender) to get it to work, the pitch you growl at changes the speed.  I can see plenty of applications for this for kids and interactive products for people with poor motor skills.

Nov 15, 2007
Cat's daily routine baffles owner → news.bbc.co.uk

Some people will do anything for their pets it seems.

Nov 13, 2007
Man marries bitch to beat curse → news.bbc.co.uk

You have got to be kidding me, this is the 21st century we’re living in, right?

Nov 13, 2007
Rands In Repose: The Nerd Handbook → randsinrepose.com
Nov 12, 2007
A definite contender for the headline of the year → kottke.org
Nov 12, 2007
Top 87 Bad Predictions about the Future → 2spare.com

Never underestimate how dumb and narrow-minded our ancestors were, and the worrying thing is they’ll look back at us and find some stupid quotes like this too.

Nov 8, 2007
Spam One-liners photoset → flickr.com
Nov 8, 2007
UK chooses 'most ludicrous laws' → news.bbc.co.uk
Nov 7, 2007
Waxworks touched up after mobbing → news.bbc.co.uk

And they say men are bad, I don’t remember a female model being take off display because of fondling!

Nov 4, 2007
Devices Enforce Cellular Silence, Sweet but Illegal → nytimes.com

I’m kind of in two minds about this, there are times when I would like to have this ability, but I also realise that people need to be open for emergency calls.

Nov 4, 2007
Orkney beast 'similar to Nessie' → news.bbc.co.uk
Nov 3, 2007
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