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Not really sure what the source is for this photo, got it from
http://chamorrobible.org/images/photos/
gpw-20061021-NASA-S124-E-010006-black-space-Earth
-horizon-white-clouds-blue-water-International-Space-Station-20080611-large.jpg
“You’ve seen cats flushing toilets, Will Ferrell and his toddler/landlord, Filipino prisoners dancing, and hot babes hosting gadget shows. But wait, and we mean wait, until you’ve seen this!”
From Slate V
These would have to be my favorite worst FF extensions :
11.
Spyware Accelerator - Speeds spyware download and installation
8.
JS Crash - Prevents any page with Javascript from running by crashing the browser
5.
RandomTab - Moves tab order around randomly
4.
KidProtector - Replaces every single image with a picture of a bunny wearing a top hat
1.
Redirector - Any link you click is redirected to a random MySpace profile.
Now, the REAL evil would be #11 set to dowload #5, and #2 (sorry, you’re gonna have to click the link to find out what #2 is. . .I can’t totally steal this post.)
Read the full list here
http://www.bbspot.com/News/2006/03/top-11-worst-firefox-extensions.html
Okay, I’ve posted about a few controller or game system mods before, but some of these are really cool.
How about this giant working NES controler/coffee table?
http://ultra-awesome.blogspot.com/2008/05/nes-coffee-table-final-post-rah.html
Take off the glass, clear off the old coffee mugs, and you’re ready to play!
Or how about this ultra-portable NES that fits inside a custom shoe?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jewschool/1560478521/
Or how about this snappy-looking Alligator Xbox?
http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/xbox-360-gator
Take a look at these, and 22 others here
http://thehottestgadgets.com/2008/05/25-game-console-mods-00294
I present to you a very well done flash animation depicting an epic war between your desktop icons. Granted, it uses some older icons, but really, its a good piece of animation. Hope you all enjoy Icon War
Richard Howard is an antique enthusiast and a furniture restorer from Norfolk, England. He’s got a passion for old things, like old cars, his 1920s house (which his grandfather built), and his old telelvision set - the same Walnut-encased unit his father bought in 1957.
“”It was my family’s first TV”, Mr Howard said.
“My father was
walking past the store and was just taken by it. I think there were
cheaper ones available but he liked the way it looked like a piece of
furniture instead of just a big screen sitting in corner of the room.”
He has even kept and framed the receipt for the £113 purchase of the Bush Television Receiver.
“I
was away at boarding school at the time but I remember coming home and
being amazed. I think the first programme I saw on it was the Lone
Ranger.
“I have a lot of fond memories of Christmas time when the
whole family would gather round and watch it together. I could never
bear to throw it away it had too much value attached to it.”"
Mr. Howard can even continue to watch his television after a 200-pound revamp, including a converter so the classic unit can decode the new digital TV signal and display it in the correct format on the 1957-vintage television.
Photo, quotes, article from
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1025143/
Pictured-The-51-year-old-television-set-wired-digital-age.html
I knew that Google had an airplane (a few actually), but I never knew where they kept it. . .
“The bummer about owning 767s and G-Fives is you need somewhere to land
them, preferably close to your office so you don’t have blow hours
stuck in traffic with all the plebes. Thankfully, resourceful Google
has already solved that problem–by cutting a deal with NASA to
use the government’s private runway next door to the Silicon Valley
Googleplex. And now Google has made the deal even more convenient, by
signing a broader deal to rent 42 acres of NASA land for 40 years on
which to build a new Googleplex.”
$1.3 million for the runway, and $3.66 million for the 42 acres. Not bad.
http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/6/google_secures_nasa_land_and_767_runway_for_40_years
Check out this link if you want to know (and see) Google’s $15 million ex-Quantas 767, and some of the may locations its been over the past year or so. (Clickable map included.)
http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/6/where_in_the_world_are_larry_sergey_and_the_google_party_jet_
Read more about the Google Jet here
http://www.airlinepilotforums.com/archive/index.php/t-1441.html
“Flat screens for computers? They will soon be passe if the vision of Queen’s University computing professor Roel Vertegaal takes off outside the lab.
The Ontario school’s Human Media Laboratory is cooking up futuristic
computer screens on Coke cans that can receive RSS feeds and videos (as
seen above) and even on paper (as seen below) that blow away some of the other PC form factor improvements on the market or in the works”
Read more about this technology, and take a look at some photos showing what could be here
http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/28371
In case you haven’t noticed, Google has changed its favicon, the little box that shows up to the left of the address bar in Firefox and Safari (and somewhere in IE too, but I haven’t used it in so long, I forget where. . . . .).
For many people, this was quite a surprise, simply because Google isn’t in the habit of changing the design or layout of their pages or logos. They just don’t. Okay, so its just the little icon next to the adress bar. Its not that important in the grand scheme of things. So why the change?
From the official Google Blog :
“
You
may have noticed that Google has a new favicon, the small icon you see
in your browser next to the URL or in your bookmarks list. Some people
have wondered why we changed our favicon — after all, we hadn’t in 8.5
years(!). The reason is that we wanted to develop a set of icons that
would scale better to some new platforms like the iPhone and other
mobile devices. So the new favicon is one of those, but we’ve also
developed a group of logo-based icons that all hang together as a
unified set. Here’s the full set:”
And there it is. What I find really interesting is this block of favicons that didn’t make the cut, or were just ideas that were tried out. It’s no surprise to me how simple the final favicon is; Simple is quite often better, especially with such a small graphic.
Images and quote from the Official Google Blog,
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/one-fish-two-fish-red-fish-blue-fish.html
UPDATE : In some random browsing, I noticed that the Google “G” with the blue background is a lot like the Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/) favicon,
.
It was similar enough to make me wonder for a second why the page I was looking at was connected to Google. . . . Maybe Googles new favicon needs some more work after all? I also have to say that I wondered why the Google “g” was done in such a funny lower case font - compare it to the Guardian “g” and its backwards.
What I wonder is how favicons will be used in the future. I mean, on a iPhone screen, I’d think that favicons might soon be integrated in new bookmarks, so that you just look for the favicon instead of reading the text. I’m not sure what you’d do if a page didn’t have a favicon, or how you’d store them on the mobile device, but its a thought.
And now, if you’re still curious, here the Favicon for FLB (the little logo on the left before HTTP:// ) :
Its the small version of our homepage logo, 
