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Saturday, September 4, 2004 - "You are nothing without your robot car!"
Sorry for not posting any links last weekend - I was away all weekend, amongst other things paintballing, and forgot to organise someone to cover. Oh well, you get a bumper update today. Thanks to MC for some of these links - he's been emailing me quite a few interesting things over the last couple of weeks, but I've only just gotten round to looking at the all.
> Science/Tech

A star. In the sky! Who'd have thought of that? New York's latest potential WTC memorial. [Display]
A major new clean, renewable and abundant energy source within seven years? That'd be nice. It's a device using sunlight with titanium catalysts to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. [Details]
"Flying cars coming soon!" Yawn... [Details]
On the edge of Earthiness - rocky "super Earth" discovered. [Details]
Hamster-powered night lights - available in all good electronics stores. [Details]
I'm not sure if I'd actually choose to live in one of these space houses, but they're great in concept and are edging slowly towards being habitable and comfortable enough to be used on a real mission someday. [Details]
If this spectacular picture is the celestial equivalent of a geode, a hollow rock containing crystals in the inside, then how big was the hammer? [Details]
Bose, the audio equipment company, have been developing a revolutionary new vehicle suspension system which is sure to, er, rock the industry. [Details]
Plastic surgery can now make you more attractive. [Details]
Another blow for the space shuttle? [Details]
The above puns are mostly the responsibility of MC. Blame him!
> Geek

You wouldn't think the Internet is 35 years old, but it is. Then again, the World Wide Web is not quite 15 years old yet, and the population at large has only really caught on in the last eight years or so. [Details]
It's their own fault - they should have gotten Samuel L. Jackson to do an advert for them. Or am I thinking of that HSBC one with the British guy eating the Japanese eel soup stuff? Something to do with cultural sensitivity, anyway. [Details]
The trailer for "Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars" is up on Apple.com. [Download]
"Liberated" games, available legally for free to download and play. The list includes classics like "Doom", "Quake II" and "One Must Fall: 2097" as well as some more recent games such as "Tribes 2" and "Grand Theft Auto". [Details]
Personally I'd never buy an Apple computer, but the new iMac G5, with the whole machine contained in the flat LCD monitor, is rather sexy. [Details]
FAST TCP, developed by researchers at Cambridge University, Caltech and others, promises to speed up data transfer over high-bandwidth networks. [Details]
1,300,925,111,156,286,160,896 possible spellings - that's a lot of Viagra in your inbox. [Details]
Bringing the curiosity (and perversion) of the world to your belt buckle. [Details]
They're making official Swiss Army knives with USB drives now. Inevitable, but cool. [Details]
Fragging on the big screen at cinemas - surely the next step for gamers? [Details]
> Stuff

Not sure if I linked this when Weebl put it up a few weeks ago, but I like it. [Destroy]
Clever cloud images. [Details]
Poor panda. [Destroy]
Take that, Hasselhoff! Link from the ever-entertaining Popbitch. [Details]

Replies: 3 Comments

Shame Vit linked to liberatedgames.com in his last post. Otherwise a nice supply of read-worthy links. Rahness

Posted by Vitani on Tuesday, 07 September at 10:14 AM GMT.

And the farscape trailer.
Don't you read his posts??

Posted by Vitani on Tuesday, 07 September at 10:16 AM GMT.

Yeah, I do, but my lot of links were collected over a two week period. I added those two before he posted - I just didn't post them.
I guess I'm just too lazy to go back and check what links I have just before I post :)

Posted by Stormcaller on Wednesday, 08 September at 12:45 AM GMT.