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Aside from Sweden’s embassy and Reuters’ news bureau, Telstra and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation have also established their own presence in the virtual world of Second Life.
And there’s more: Dell, Toyota, Adidas, IBM, and Intel, who all have built a base within the virtual world, “seeking to test its worthiness as a promotional and commercial [...]

While everyone’s all excited about the staggeringly wow-heavy possibilities with Microsoft’s latest version of its operating system, IntelliAdmin sat on the couch, gazed out the dormer window, and reminisced about those distant days when proto-Windows was still called “Interface Manager.”

Screen shot of the first Windows in 1985 (above) and a screengrab of Windows Vista (below). [...]

Just as when we had already settled with the idea of the Echo as a clever robot that gets a raging hard-on whenever it detects other hot, Echo-toting people nearby, here’s Andrew from the robot’s development team correcting our naughty mistake.
He says:
Echo is meant as a way to connect people with common interests for any [...]

In the UK, installing x-ray cameras on lampposts to spot armed bad guys is good. Installing x-ray cameras that can also see through clothes is…well, much better.
But not everybody seems to be very happy about it.
According to a leaked memo “detection of weapons and explosives will become easier” if the scheme drawn up by Home [...]

Yone Minagawa must be thankful of her lucky stars for the sudden death of Emma Faust Tillman of the United States. Because the good Lord summoned Tillman just days after she had been declared as the world’s oldest living person, forcing the old-people-hunters at the Guinness Book of World Records to readjust their sniper scopes, [...]

Another supposedly great web-based service surrendering to those crazy Nigerians and their kin. One look at the comment thread of all sorts of people who’ve have some bad eBay experience, this is a strong undeniable suit.
Just this past week I attempted to use eBay to auction off two notebook computers and quickly discovered that this [...]

The Gamespot Forum is currently on fire with gamers dredging their Gears of War-addled brains on how best to answer the profound, thought-provoking question: Xbox 360 or girlfriend, which would you choose?
Some offered groundbreaking pieces of wisdom, such as “you must be mentally ill if you choose electronic [sic] over a female” or “haven’t you [...]

Xu Wei Lun (Beatrice Xu), a well-known Taiwanese actress, has just passed away on Jan. 28, 2007 due to massive injuries she had sustained from a fatal car crash.
She once played in a cameo role as Ah Xun in the first Taiwanese version of Meteor Garden.

As an interesting aside, one fan noted that:
“In WeiLun’s new [...]

Hiroshi Sakaue is 85, but that didn’t stop him from performing on stage somewhere in Tokyo’s Okubo district to bust some rhymes. if you’re wondering what kind of stuff he’s capable of, here are sample lines from his true-to-life rap song called “”Kotsu Jigoku” (Traffic hell).
“Riding along the Koshu-Kaido road on my bike,”
“Insurance compensation worth [...]

Hakuo Yanagisawa, minister of health, labor and welfare, has been desperate for new Japanese babies that in a recent speech, he actually referred to women as “baby machines.”
According to several witnesses at the meeting, Yanagisawa used the metaphor in reference to the declining birth rate in a 30-minute speech on the future of pension, welfare [...]

This diamond-encrusted mouse, which comes so cheaply available from Pat Says Now for merely US$24,000, is the rich, decadent geek’s way of showing off the relative size of his penis.
If you also think the price tag’s incredible, it’s makers cross their hearts and swear the mouse really has 59 diamonds set on an 18k-carat white [...]

It is a salient character of our modern age that the producers of things we consume make their products easily disposable, making us a species driven by a “bigger-better-newer obsession.”
In San Francisco’s Artist in Residence program, artists are given “permission to dig through Bay Area residents’ trash to find beauty and create art.” And this [...]

As many active users or downloaders of exciting free movies, games and software via torrent find recently, fake torrents courtesy of the staunch defenders of overpriced software and media like the MPAA and the RIAA, are becoming such an RPITA (royal pain in the ass). It’s a great thing here’s Fenopy, and its Fakefinder, to [...]

EasyStill (yours for only $295) allows you to make your own hard liquor right in the comfort of your own home.

At last it is easy to make alcohol distillation a hobby. The actual distilling is as easy as making coffee!
EasyStill is a tabletop distillation unit. 4 liters of mash or wine are added and the [...]

Echo is a little robot that looks like your little daughter’s toy, which detects in real time other Echo-toting people nearby and alerts you if a possibly compatible human mate is within the vicinity.
Let me try to explain that again, by quoting this block from Robot Gossip:
The small robots can wiggle and probably talk [...]

Japanese professor Asaki Geino wants you to know that finding Mrs. Right could be as simple as taking a look at the shape of her pubic hair.
Asaki’s one of those fine gentlemen who genuinely hold this theory in their hearts that a woman’s bush determines her sexual characteristics.
His findings suggest that a woman whose bikini [...]

In the spirit of Eleksyon 2007, I would like to take advantage of this blog to offer my humble services to each and every political candidate, regardless of their political loyalties, who would like to get rid of the butterflies during this election season’s adrenaline-pumped campaign period. But more than this, I have also included [...]