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Saturday, May 3, 2003 - "It seemed I collected something."

> Science/Tech

Drugs, porn and illegal migrant labour account for more than a tenth of the US economy, with marijuana producing 25%+ more revenue than maize and hardcore adult pornography is equalling box office takes at the nation's cinemas. Ain't America great? [Details]
It holds addresses, memos, to-do lists, dates, sketches and dates. It even tells the time, occasionally. [Details]
These have a 3km range - screw mobile phone networks. iwantoneofthose.com continues to live up to its name, with a new catalogue full of funky stuff. [Details]
Such as this charming little self-contained ecosystem in a glass biosphere. [Details]
Fancy being able to burn 1400mb on to a 700mb CD? Special Engrish press release, complete with lame cartoon. [Details]
Two-decade-old land speed record broken by a rocket sled carrying a missile. [Details]
> Geek

"The Genesis Project", from the excellent Acerbia blog. [Details]
Chewbacca confirmed to be in Star Wars Episode III, with Peter Mayhew reprising his former role. [Details]
Slashdotters are hypothesising about how Chewie and all these other characters could have been part of the prequels but not mention anything in Episodes 4-6. Some people were saying that perhaps Threepio is still secretly loyal to Anakin/Vader, or maybe Vader and Obi-Wan are actually united against the Empire. My favourite silly explanation is that Han Solo can't actually understand Wookie, and that the whole time Chewie is saying things like "Hey, I remember this guy Skywalker's dad" and Han is saying "er... yes, do go fix the rear stabilizer". Same goes for C-3PO not understanding R2-D2, who is madly beeping "Watch out Luke, Vader is your father!". [Discuss]
Talking of Star Wars... [Details]
This lovely little Mortal Kombat gem is doing the rounds by email, bizarrely. So I uploaded it, for a limited time only. [Download - 847KB]
The RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) are at it again, of course. This time they're sending hundreds of thousands of instant messages over KaZaA telling people that filesharing is illegal, and thereby undermining their own claims in court that such P2P programs are unlawful because they have no use other than sharing files. Duh. Slashdot readers are having a field day. [Details]
Apple's probably-evil US-only, Mac-only iTunes downloadable music store seems to have got off to a good start. [Details]
Filesharing is good for the film industry, anyway. It's undeniable. [Details]
Ever wondered how many football fields an Imperial Star Destroyer would cover, if a Borg Cube is really cubic, or how big the Death Stars each were compared to the Earth's moon, Luna? No, me neither really. [Details]
The things you read when you've been travelling the Distributed Republic of Blogistan for too long. [Details]
> Stuff

Chaos go Mu. Khaled said so. [Details]
What the Levis advert should have been like. [Destroy]
Ridiculously addictive little online tank game. [Destroy]
Unreal II demo released, if you can find it on the pretty but awful to navigate official site. Actually, skip that - you won't be able to. Here's a direct link. [Download - 153MB]
Do it. You now you want to. [Destroy]
President Dubya looked almost heroic when he landed on that US Navy carrier - though Condoleezza Rice just looked silly. A political stroke of genius (that could only have been improved by him jetting in in an F/A-18 Hornet fighter-bomber, as was the initial plan). [Details]
...unlike it was with Clinton's lot. [Details]
Saddam can't be dead! [Destroy]
Hey! Remember the ingenious Poke the Penguin? No? Oh... well anyway, now you can poke the bunny instead. Without the hilarity. Well, ok, this was probably just a feeble excuse to link Poke the Penguin again. [Details]
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Replies: 2 Comments

Some interesting links this week, rah.

Posted by Vitani on Tuesday, 06 April at 10:04 AM GMT.

Cheers Vit - what did you particularly like?

Posted by Stormcaller on Tuesday, 06 April at 05:26 PM GMT.