One of the coolest things I’ve seen announced this year so far is the Marvell SheevaPlug.
There are so many things about it that are impressive. It’s size, it’s 1.2 GHz processor, only drawing 5 watts, it’s open design, it’s low cost. At $99 for the development kit, that’s a pretty cool device. [...]
Archive for February, 2009
SheevaPlug Has So Much Potential In A Small Package
Locking The Front Door But Leaving The Back Open
Here is an amusing yet failing attempt at security available in the App Store called Spaghetti Pad. Here’s the description from the app developer:
Is somebody always looking over your shoulder, snooping on your iPhone? Sure, we know. That’s why we built Spaghetti Pad. It’s a semi-private notepad which obfuscates your notes so they’re more [...]
Super Soaker 50 Retro Revival
According to Gizmodo the original Super Soaker 50 is back! Apparently the only real change they made is the reservoir is no longer removable (the original screwed in). Perhaps that avoids the inevitable leaky gasket that caused problems in the original guns. That limited the pressure that you could build up in [...]
Firefox Has Crashed
Someday these may stop being amusing. Obviously not today. If you’ve got an alternate caption leave a comment.
[Via: icanhascheezburger.com]
UNIX Apocalypse
Apparently Unix time/POSIX time will hit a rather impressive 1234567890 in the next few days. What is even more interesting is that this is happening on Friday the 13th, 2009. You can find out when it will happen in your local time by running perl -e ‘print scalar localtime(1234567890),”\n”;’. Just another milestone [...]
YouTube Recommends
Thanks YouTube for that recommendation of assorted animals mating. I also enjoyed the horse sperm harvesting video.
Printable Stylesheets To Save The Environment
Printing is a really wasteful process. The obvious waste is paper, ink, and of course money. The less obvious waste is the carbon footprint of printers and making paper/ink.
The internet is a notorious waste of paper. One could argue there’s no need for printing online content since you could easily save it [...]
Apple Needs a 15″ Version Of The 17″ MacBook Pro
Dear Apple,
Your MacBook Pro lineup is just downright annoying. Your 17″ model (MB604LL/A) is absolutely awesome with it’s optional matte display which any sane person prefers over its eye torturing glossy cousin. The ability to add up to 8GB RAM is also far superior to the 4GB cap on the 15″ model. [...]
