Interesting Things

While decluttering and sorting through the mountains of print-outs and magazines on my desk, I found a newspapepr article I’d set top one side. There’s nothing surprising in its content, but many people still don’t realise how much information about that is available on the internet.

Special investigation: It took just one hour for internet experts to find out almost every private detail of this woman’s life

(I’ve added the link here so I can throw away the newspapepr article!)

I do love this video – and can’t believe that Ellen was made to apologise to Apple for it.

Apple need to quickly develop a corporate sense of humour as things like this, and the response to their recently lost iPhone, can only show them in a bad light.

An experimental project to make a natural spider in Flash, combining math and graphics. Very impressive.

My ”star find” of this year has to be this game by experimental programmer, Petri Purho.  Created as part of his “done-in-under-a-week” experiment, the five level Crayon Physics is his tenth game and a prototype for the forth-coming Crayon Physics Deluxe (see video below).

After promising myself a new PC for a long, long time, I finally bit the bullet today and opted for a new HP Pavilion Elite PC. So far, so good. I’ll have a play around with it before I use it to get down to the nitty gritty of work. With an Intel Core 2 Quad processor and 3 GB of RAM, its a major step up from my last PC (an AOpen-based XC Cube I built myself) and should handle the newer, more process intensive, applications with ease. Fingers crossed.

This is a great take on the Web 2.0 craze – just about sums it all up. Great!

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Just posting these links for my own benefit. Time to dust off the Beetle and price up new parts.

• Just Air Cooled
• Mid America Motorworks
• Machine 7 Autos
• Volksmania
• Big Boys Toys
• VW Heritage Parts Centre