We know you. You’re the dude that turns up your bass when you are in your car so we all have to suffer at the red lights. Skull Candy’s Skullcrushers headphones have a mini-sub woofer packed into it so that you can destroy your hearing without giving us road rage. The phones have a frequency response of 20 to 20K Hz and an impedance of 32ohm with a sensitivity of 99db. They also have both a 3.5mm stereo plug and 6.3mm adapter, and a cord length of 1.5m. Not to mention that they look cool. Find the Skullcrushers for $69.95....
When Victoria’s Secret model Karolina Kurkova walked down the catwalk, people started wondering: where is her bellybutton? The newspapers call it the "riddle of the £2.5m beauty". The beauty in question is Czech supermodel Karolina Kurkova. The riddle is her non-existent belly button. Its absence was noticed this week when the 24-year-old graced a US catwalk for lingerie giant Victoria Secret. While most of us have an "outie" or an "innie", Ms Kurkova has a smooth indentation (although sometimes a tummy button is airbrushed onto her photos in post-production). Otherwise known as a navel, the belly button is the rounded,...
Well... maybe. It depends exactly how rickety Berkeley's Memorial Stadium is, and how quickly the delayed construction on a new retrofitted stadium might begin at the school. But the way things look now, the quake-wary regents are poised to rent Candlestick to the tune of $1.5M. And the city, not to mention poor Candlestick, could really use that cash. [SF Gate]...
As more and more people move their work data onto their mobile phones, a company called Trust Digital has raised another $14.5 million to help manage that process. The Lean, Va. company’s software simplifies the process of authenticating phones, encrypting data and more across multiple smartphones. Chief executive Nick Magliato says some of his company’s biggest customers are government and health care agencies. Big players like Microsoft and Research in Motion have similar software for their Windows Mobile and BlackBerry devices, respectively, but Magliato says his software is the only one to offer these services across multiple companies’ devices. Obviously,...
Why do spammers keep on spamming in spite of miserable response rates? The answer is that because even though the vast majority of people ignore spam, or filter it out completely, there are those few suckers who actually order products via unsolicited emails and end up making spam profitable for the slime who do it. As a result of the naivety of the few, the rest of us are forced to suffer — because, let’s face it, even the best spam filters aren’t 100% effective, especially for high volume email users that get hundreds of legit messages daily. According to...
