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Reliant Land Speeder Races Aston Martin Cygnet
RELIANT Land Speeder races an Aston Martin Cygnet… and wins:
From Yampster in the Forums:
Posted: 3rd, July 2009 | In: Technology | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
China’s Intranet Internet Bans CNN And Digg
CHINA Telecom loosk to be blocking “unhealthy” content, popping up a green damn to stop the viewers seeing things like CNN and Digg. The message claims to be from “mommy and daddy“.
China is your family now.
On Danwei, readers react:
The notice asks you to enter a password if you want to see the “unhealthy” content, and says that it’s a notice from “mommy and daddy.”
Posted: 2nd, July 2009 | In: Technology | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Child Porn Hidden Amid Swiss Hip-Hop
CHILD Pornography and Swiss hip-hop. In the big list of all the world’s evils, these are two of the Top Five.
As the Independent reports:
Child pornography was downloaded from a Swiss hip-hop music website to around 2,300 computers in 78 countries, Swiss police said on Monday.
Jean-Christophe Sauterel, a police spokesman in the Vaud canton of Switzerland, said videos of minors engaged in sexual acts were hidden in a Swiss site where the principal content was “perfectly legal.”
Posted: 30th, June 2009 | In: Technology | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
IN the Anorak Forums, Yampster looks at the Aston Martin Cygnet, and weeps:
We’ve put up with a lot in this country since the war. We’ve seen the loss of the Empire, we’ve seen Sterling drop from it’s position as one of the world’s safest, most trusted currencies. We have seen our once proud Navy reduced to a couple of armed trawlers in the Straits of Hormuz.
Posted: 30th, June 2009 | In: Technology | Comments (5) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
The False Breast iPhone Application
THE iPhone false breast applications spans the gorge between reading about celebrities on your iPhone and actually sensing them.
If you can alter the contrast to make the breast more or less orange, then so much the better.
If the nipples can be tempered, the iPhone False Breast App. can work just as well for those celebrity males and their bulbous chests.
Posted: 25th, June 2009 | In: Technology | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Habitat Opens New Store In Iran By Twitter
HABITAT is like Ikea in wood. And the furniture store is on Twitter. But if any companies are looking to use social networks to reach their customers and attract new ones, this is pretty much a masterclass in how not to do it.
1. Open a Twitter account.
2. Twitter about the, er, riots in Iran.
3. Anyone found Maddie yet? If she’s still news, Twitter that too…
Posted: 22nd, June 2009 | In: Technology | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Japan Satellite Transmits Pictures As Crashes Into Moon
THE Japan Aerospace and Exploration Agency releases high-definition video from the Kaguya moon probe as it about to crash.
Did you see that? The naked woman…
JAXA via Pink Tentacle
Posted: 22nd, June 2009 | In: Technology | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Girl Electrocuted Using Twitter
Girl electrocuted using Twitter:
TWITTER is the greatest tool in the history of mankind ever. Iran will be saved by Twitter. Problem is that Twitter is one up for the grunt. But Twitter can be dangerous. Get this story of the girl who died Twittering:
A teenage girl was electrocuted after dropping her laptop into the bath as she twittered in the tub.
Police said they believed Maria Barbu, 17, had tried to plug in her laptop with wet hands after the battery died during a long session on social networking site Twitter as she took a soak at her home in Brasov, central Romania.
Posted: 19th, June 2009 | In: Technology | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Iranians Rely On Israeli Technology To Reach The Internet
IN Iran, what Andrew Sullivan calls facists and Old Mr Anorak calls humanity or communists or any other ists and isms that seek to control, the Israelis are speaheading the drive to freedom:
Fring, an Israeli social network toll, is workign for Iranians. Sky News:
The protesters have been using social networking sites like Twitter to communicate, which the Government says it has now blocked.
Yet, using tools like Fring and some ingenious other methods, Iranians are proving adept at circumventing the authorities’ electronic road blocks.
Still we have The One to protect and do the right thing for his country’s allies:
Posted: 18th, June 2009 | In: Technology | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
London University to offer a degree in Twitter. Essays just 140 charactars long!
Everyone in Iran uses it, BBC radio presenters bang on about it incessantly and mega celebs use it to throw crumbs to their adoring fans. Yep there seems no stopping the rise of Twitter.
Well soon you’ll be able to get a degree based around the microblogging sensation (BA Hons Twit IIi?) as City University - a fairly decent academic establishment according to my old UCCA handbook, is going to offer students course in Twitter Studies.
Well, except that the course is called an Information, Communication and Society MSc and it focuses on teaching graduates to learn how to use digital materials such as social networking sites as effective comms tools.
According to PR Week - the course will begin in September and is aimed at political campaigners, PR professionals, marketers and tech analysts.
It’ll be the most popular course in history if each essay is limited to 140 charactars…
Posted: 18th, June 2009 | In: Technology | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
iPorn Girls Flash The iPhone Apple
AT the Apple Worldwide Developer’s Conference in San Francisco, the “iPorn Girls” turn up to advance the notion that whatever you do with technology it will one day be used to deliver porn to men who like playing with pocket-sized gadgets.
Here are the press released photos, for those of you who missed it…
Slightly NSFW
Posted: 17th, June 2009 | In: Technology | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
UK Government Moves To Tax Internet Use
THE Internet is fantastic. You’re looking at it. The Government wants to control it. To own it. Now see if you can link these two stories.
Villagers in rural Lancashire have become so sick of their poor internet connection they have decided to wire up their own homes. Armed with a fibre cable, a digger and a technician, the residents of Wray village and Wennington have managed to connect a farmhouse to broadband.
Now see if you can make the link between that and this:
Every Briton with a fixed-line phone will pay a “small levy” of 50p per month to pay for faster net access.
The national fund created by the levy will be used to ensure most Britons get access to future net technologies.
Posted: 17th, June 2009 | In: Technology | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
How To Make A Russian Jet From Cigarettes
IN Anorak’s masterclass today, readers learn how to make a Russian Jet fighter from a cigarette box.
Old Mr Anorak once dispatched me to Cuba, approaching from Cancun. The plane was Russian. The seat fell backwards and remained supine throughout the flight. The overhead fan when touched lighted collapsed. The onboard staff laughed and then went “Whoooooh” when the plane fell and rose repeatedly.
When we landed, there was three-hour wait in the airport while a crowbar was retrieved to prise open the hold.
Anyhow, enjoy. Pass the smokes:
Posted: 14th, June 2009 | In: Photojournalism, Technology | Comments (3) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
A Sexy Advert For The Sexiest Chair In The World
THE Divided Salli saddle chair seat is the sexiest, greatest chairiest chair ever, in the history of the world.
“See how the genitals make use of the gap.”
See the advert and wonder:
Posted: 13th, June 2009 | In: Technology | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Scientists Build Inflatable Tower That Reaches Edge Of Space
IN New Scientist, news of an inflatable tower that “could carry people to the edge of space without the need for a rocket”.
It’s the ultimate inflatable toy and “could be completed much sooner than a cable-based space elevator”.
Posted: 9th, June 2009 | In: Technology | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
South Korean Babies Trained To Attack The North With Robot Cars
WHEN North Korea attacks, South Koreans will strap their children to the Bomo - the world first Robot Baby Carriage - and sent them onto battle.
Says the battle brief:
The smart Bomo which tends the baby at the vicinity of the mother gives pleasure and comfort to the baby, and gives the tired young mother and father a moment of leisurely time to enjoy a cup of coffee.
Posted: 4th, June 2009 | In: Technology | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Pedistate To Sedate Young People
CANCEL the Phenogran, the all-lettuce diet, the wee snort of Malibu and the priest’s lesson – the PediSedate is here, and it’s the last word in child sedation:
Posted: 21st, May 2009 | In: Technology | Comments (4) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
New .tel Means The End Of Phone Numbers
DOT TEl - .tel - will not make you more popular, your p1enis bigger (you too, girls), your Viagra more potent and enable you to construct Twitter messages in 140 characters exactly and instantly. .tel will, however, save you having to remember anyone’s phone number.
It also means businesses get an ID that namechecks the business.
Play the video and be changed:
Posted: 13th, May 2009 | In: Technology | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Prince Charles Shuns Japanese Toilet Pillow
IN Japan, more than two shakes is the first steps in a record breaking w*nk. So there’s the “Angels Knee Pillow” to get you more in touch with your toilet.
Posted: 13th, May 2009 | In: Photojournalism, Technology | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
The Top 10 Best Hubble Space Images
IF the astronauts onboard The Atlantis achieve their aim of upgrading the Hubble Space Telescope, “it will extend humanity’s vision yet farther out in space and back in time - to an era when the first stars and galaxies were lighting up a dark universe.”
We will see wonders. Anorak presents the 10 Best Hubble Images Of Space:
Posted: 12th, May 2009 | In: Photojournalism, Technology | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
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