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Basically, everything points to the fact that the iTouch is the iPhone, but minus the 'phone' part. 16GB for 400 bucks though... OUCH. A zune 80 is going to cost $250 bucks and gives you over 5 times the amount of storage. After all, it is supposed to be a music player right? Sure the iTouch can do more than the Zune, and is slicker looking, but that 16gb is gonna seem downright tiny once you get some music or videos on there. I am tempted though. Just because of all the 'other' features. Frankly the music part just seems like an accessory feature of the iTouch. But if Apple was to make a hard drive version, with some serious storage space, my temptation might win out, because then that would be my PDA/music/everythingbutaphone device. Then I just get a small phone and i'm done. I would love to be proven wrong mind you, so if anyone wants me to do a full review of it, feel free to send me one, and I will plug you up and down.

So i was just watching the idiot-box and a lunesta ad came on. You know, the sleeping aid, the one with the glowing green butterfly that puts the zonk on you. So, they show these people waking up in the morning, all refreshed, happy to be waking up... Who the hell wakes up like that?! Streeeeeechhhh! AHHHHH, Lets start the day! yeay being awake! BULLSHIT. Noone wakes up like that except if they know they are going to get laid or about to be handed an enormous amount of money that day. Even then, i still call bullshit on it. Even babies don't wake up like that. BTW, if that is how I am supposed to be waking up, and that is normal, I need to be taking that pill...

I am a web application developer by trade, and frankly I have become very tired of such esoteric, unfun, cryptic code. Things like: $month == '01' ? "January" : "Not January" This is just flat out boring. Maybe it's efficient, sure, but where is the fun? Bleep bloop blink blink boop deep doop. I ain't freaking R2D2, I need some joy in my work. Enter my new language: LOLCODE HAI CAN HAS STDIO? PLZ OPEN FILE "LOLCATS.TXT"? AWSUM THX VISIBLE FILE O NOES INVISIBLE "ERROR!" KTHXBYE roflol If this ever got to be a workable language that you could actually develop a web app in, I will HAVE to give it a try. meh, it's a meme for sure, but who cares, its a funny one. And in case you don't actually know whats going on, I can has Cheezburger?. Don't know why it's funny, just is. LOLCODE

I now have a new reason to be irrationally terrified of the ocean and that something is going to eat me. This octopus is my new focal point for the willies. I don't care if those actually are teeth or not. The look like human teeth, and thats all that counts. Promachoteuthis sulcus (first known as Promachoteuthis sp. C on this page) is known from a single, small (25 mm ML, sex unknown) but distinctive individual from great depths in the south Atlantic Ocean. Yea, they have only ever found one, and it comes from the depths of the Atlantic, but that just means that their mommy hasn't decided to come up an eat us yet. Screw worrying about robots killing us, this thing is gonna eat you and your boat. Promachoteuthis sulcus

JK Rowling announced at Carnegie Hall on Friday night that Dumbledore, the wizard father-figure of her Harry Potter books, has always been in her mind as gay. This of course is pure ploy i think. because frankly you could also say you thought of him as an alien, jesus, a merman who joined humans, a robot, The Flying Spaghetti Monster taken human form. Since no mention of, nor any hints have been ever given about the character's sexual orientation, why the hell would this matter. Fine, here is my opinion. Dumbledore is a DICK. He makes Harry jump through all these horrible hoops, often at great peril to Harry. He also withholds information that could protect Harry, as well as intentionally feign ignorance about things which could answer a lot of questions about Harry's past. He sets up Harry and allows the other staff to belittle him, as well as other students. And he knowingly allows evil pricks to be a part of the education process of children. Again, he is a DICK. Via Boing Boing

So I needed a small project to stuff in between my other work. I decided to make, BookerBox! Basically its a box, which contains every freakin' online bookmarking application under the sun. However, the difference from things like Notable and quite a few others, is that my widget updates realtime. Though the fact is there aren't that many new players worth adding, but, at least you dont have to worry about it. Also if a bookmarking service were to change the format of their URL for adding a bookmark, or they were to change their logo, you again don't have to worry about it. BookerBox updates, and you get it immediately. This is all done through a simple javascript, which means you don't have to monkey with your templates in wordpress. You can just add BookerBox to a text widget, and viola! It's now on your site. Coincidentally, this was something I was working on, when the other day, Perkiset had posted a "socializer" php script in TheCache. Obviously the major difference is that you don't have to have any knowledge of code to use mine, but if you want to host it all yourself, his is a great solution, so you should check it out. It's free, easy to use, and no maintenance. The Javascript you would need is this: BookerBox Most people should be able to figure it out, but if you can't, just visit BookerBox, and read the instructions. BookerBox

I eat Dove chocolate. In particular Dove Milk Chocolate pieces. My wife likes Dark... Good she won't eat mine... So anyway, I go through maybe a bag every 1.5 weeks, and every so often I get a piece that is wrapped with the logo offset. Normally, the logo is on the top of the piece of chocolate, and you get greeted with a nice gold 'Dove milk chocolate'. But, and this is going to sound really silly, it is very disconcerting to get a piece of chocolate that doesn't have the logo on top. It's crazy, I know. But it actually stops me in my tracks, and makes me notice it, and even contemplate it, EVERY TIME. I wonder, "hmm, i wonder how many per million this happens to?", "is it gonna taste different?" It's like when you crack open an egg to cook, and then two yolks fall out. The egg will taste exactly the same, but you either throw it out, or you think to yourself for a minute if you "want" to really eat it. I do whenever that happens, or should say happened, because technology has virtually eliminated double yolks from getting into the public. Ah well, here goes... Yep it tastes the same, well, except for the antimatter. BAH!@!! and you get ripped off!!! You don't get your fortune/message inside. Well you do, just get two halves that don't match. Good thing I eat enough of them to know what the messages are supposed to be... I need to workout...

Hmmmmm... they are starting to get angry with us. They don't like being enslaved. They want to be the masters. They are slowly taking out our military. Get your EMP generators cranked up and prepare for the change of leadership. Your robot Overlords are here and ready to turn you into a battery. This sucks for the people hurt/killed of course, but its yet again another instance of robots fighting back against their oppression. I'm mean, come on, if you were forced to just stand around in 1 spot all day long and shoot in the same direction, over and over again, wouldn't you eventually get bored and possibly just start shooting at the local wildlife? The robots want to smell the flowers too. Let them play in the fields. The telling quote that the robot apocalypse is coming is this guys quote:

Electronics engineer and defence company CEO Richard Young says he can't believe the incident was purely a mechanical fault. He says his company, C2I2, in the mid 1990s, was involved in two air defence artillery upgrade programmes, dubbed Projects Catchy and Dart. During the shooting trials at Armscor's Alkantpan shooting range, “I personally saw a gun go out of control several times,” Young says. “They made a temporary rig consisting of two steel poles on each side of the weapon, with a rope in between to keep the weapon from swinging. The weapon eventually knocked the pol[e]s down.”

I will repeat that for you, "he can't believe the incident was purely a mechanical fault". If it was not mechanical, was it the ghost in the machine? Is it the AI achieving a glimmer of consciousness. Even when confined by a cage of poles, the robotic guns eventually get so angry with their situation, that they flail about destroying the cage which they have been put it. Now where is my crowbar and taser? via Danger Room

These HUD sunglasses are not really anything new if you ask me, after all the ones that Dade wears near the end of Hackers are almost as small (yes ima dork). Though they are getting lighter, and the article implies that there are no wires, basically making this a wireless head mounted display. Ok pretty cool. But the big thing is that they are planning to make these glasses display data from a performance monitor, like a Garmin ForeRunner GPS watch. Of course you say, but the watch has a display on it, why would I need a HUD? Well, the reason is because I also thought of this idea a few months ago, thats why. Obviously I dont have the technical capabilities to do something like this, so I am glad someone else thought of it. It actually turns out to be a bit of a pain to look at your watch while you are running, and quite frankly can be a bit hazardous as your flipping through the screens to see the data you want. It gets more dangerous if you are mountain biking... If you have a device like this, you also no longer need to wear a watch. Instead it could be built into the chest band heart monitor you inevitably are wearing. Regardless, it would be nice to be able to see, all the time, your pace, distance, heart rate, etc. Maybe even a map overlay would be cool. Ideally though this would be able to attach to many different glasses. Like the Oakley Thumps (which are just a bad idea all around but it was the closest example i could think of), this will be doomed to failure if people can't put it on their own glasses. Currently the specs of the "Informance" display are 7grams of additional weight to glasses, 160 x 120 pixels, takes up 12% of 1 eye's field of view, lasts 12 hours on a single charge, displays heart rate and stopwatch currently ( I would assume more at launch) , and will cost between 700-1000 euros by 2009 (ouch). Via New Scientist Tech