Aug
31
Gorenje Fridge Is Officially Made for iPod, As Lickable as the Touch Itself [Ifa 2008]
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Believe it or not, this beautiful Gorenje fridge is an official Apple-licensed Made for iPod refrigerator. And believe it or not, it’s not just a speaker and a dock glued to a glossy black fridge:…
Aug
31
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Aug
31
Google’s Strategy In Japan: Avoid Yahoo And Take Over The Mobile Web First
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Google may be the leader in the worldwide search engine market, but in Nippon, it has some catching up to do: In 2007, Yahoo Japan saw a whopping 76% of the nearly 350 billion search engine and portal-related pageviews registered in the country, clearly outperforming Google (second with 5.4%, according to Nielsen Japan). More [...]
Aug
31
Stunning Desert Canyon Flight Scares the Underpants Off Me [Airplanes]
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Once upon a time I wanted to be a fighter pilot, which is probably why I write so much about the biggest and baddest machines ever. My feeling then and now is that there’s nothing that can match the…
Aug
31
66% of Bloggers Don’t Run RSS Ads On Their Blog [POLL RESULTS]
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In our last ProBlogger Poll I asked readers whether they run RSS ads on their main blog. The results are in - 66% of you don’t run RSS ads on your blog.
What I find interesting is that 18 months ago I ran this same poll. The results were that 75% of readers didn’t run RSS [...]
Aug
31
LG X110 Feels Solid, Fast, Is Netbook with Capital N [IFA 2008 Hands-On]
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newVideoPlayer(”/lgnetbook_gizmodo.flv”, 520, 410,””); I groped and used the LG X110 netbook for some time here at IFA. As Mark pointed out, this is the first netbook where “net” actually means…
Aug
31
I snapped this photo of a passive millimeter wave scan machine set up in the main entrance hall at Denver International Airport on Friday evening. The machine was swiveling back and forth, searching people who didn’t even know they were being scanned. I’m sure some of the people scanned weren’t passengers; they were simply coming [...]
Aug
31
If FriendFeed displayed only video, it might look like Utagoe Live 100. The service lets you track live video streams from all of your friends on one screen. Tokyo-based Utagoe just launched it as a hub for broadcasting and watching multiple, free live video streams simultaneously (from sites like Qik, Ustream, Justin.tv etc.), video-based [...]
Aug
31
Utagoe Live 100 Unites Video Communication, Broadcasting and Simultaneous Display of 100 Live Streams
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If FriendFeed displayed only video, it might look like Utagoe Live 100. The service lets you track live video streams from all of your friends on one screen. Tokyo-based Utagoe just launched it as a hub for broadcasting and watching multiple, free live video streams simultaneously (from sites like Qik, Ustream, Justin.tv etc.), video-based [...]
Aug
31
Federal court blocks beef exporter from testing for mad cow disease
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The USDA tests 1% of cattle of mad cow disease. Kansas-based Creekstone Farms Premium Beef exporters wants to test 100% of its cattle for mad cow disease. But the Bush administration took Creekstone to court, and a US federal appeals court ruled that [...]
Aug
31
The History Of WordPress - You Wanted it and So You Got it
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After posting the ‘History of Blogging’ a month ago there were a few of you that asked about the ‘History of WordPress’, well here it is for you
Lets take a trip back into 2001…. ah 2001, some good times but one especially tragic time.
January 15th 2001 – Wikipedia was founded.
July 2nd 2001 – The first [...]
Aug
31
Akino Kondoh is a Japanese contemporary artist who makes neat black-and-white video art. This one is called Ladybirds’ Requiem. She uses pencil, pastel, and acrylic for the original illustrations, combines them on Photoshop, and then adds motion using After Effects. The music was created just for this piece by Toshiaki Chiku, former member of a [...]
Aug
31
Graham Linehan sez, “Geoffrey Perkins died yesterday. Terrible loss, but I think of interest to Boing Boing readers because of his importance in the ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ story…he produced the radio series, and after working with him on ‘Father Ted’, [...]
Aug
31
A golden age of firefighting was upon us in February, 1931, when Modern Mechanix magazine ran this article on Germany’s bizarre portable shower for firefigters:
IT’S a far cry from the old bucket brigade to modern fire-fighting efficiency. Even now the American fireman is [...]
Aug
31
Do you Make Money Online from non Blogging Sources? [POLL]
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Time for another ProBlogger poll - looking forward to hearing what you’ve got to say on this question:
Do you Make Money Online from non Blogging Sources?
Yes
No
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If your answer is yes - tell us what the source is in comments below.
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