Lego started selling their now world-famous bricks 60 years ago, and has a certain inherent geek appeal (after all, Lego bricks are kind of like 3D pixels, and you can be endlessly creative with them). This post shows what happens when computer geeks combine their love for Lego with their love for certain popular tech companies and their logos. Google’s fan base is obvious Photo by Cory Doctorow. — Photo by Antonio Manfredonio. — Photo by Keso S. — Photo by Keso S. Some Digg love Photo by Scott Fiddelke. — Via Digg. A GAIM guy Photo by Daan Vanden...
Emoji: if you've never heard of it, that because you're probably not a highly social 12-year-old Japanese girl, living in Japan. An emoticon standard that it widely used in the country, it was included in the iPhone 2.2 firmware on the Softbank network, but not for anyone else. Apparently tired of holding back all his visual LOLs, a hacker has figured out a simple tweak to enable these icons system-wide, no matter your carrier. Naturally, the message recipient has to have Emoji emoticons enabled as well to see anything other than unintelligible strings of Unicode, but if that doesn't scare...
Emoji: if you've never heard of it, that because you're probably not a highly social 12-year-old Japanese girl, living in Japan. An emoticon standard that it widely used in the country, it was included in the iPhone 2.2 firmware on the Softbank network, but not for anyone else. Apparently fed up with his lack of ability to graphically express his numerous LOLs, a hacker has figured out a simple tweak to enable these icons system-wide, no matter which carrier you're with. Naturally, to see anything other than unintelligible strings of Unicode the recipient's phone has to support Emoji emoticons,...
Section: Gaming News, Consoles, Xbox-360, Genres, 3D, Action, Adventure, Role-Playing Did you finish Fable 2 yet? Did you manage to sneak your way passed the game’s life ruining bugs and glitches? I managed to finish it twice with only one character stuck in infinite turmoil thanks to the “Abbot glitch”. But if you did manage to finish it, then a recent tease on the Lionhead blog should tickle your curiosity as it has ours: Normally, we don’t like to tease too much. You know, all this hype being generated by teasing the announcement that there will be an announcement in...
Japan is the epicenter of Zen, a concept with deep religious roots and a mandate for simplicity of appearance and lifestyle. But when it comes to native gadgetry, Zen is only skin-deep. Japanese cell phones are sleek on the outside, but once you open the clamshell, the interface is a complete mess. While American-made phones are leaning more and more towards simple interfaces and clean design, Japanese gadgets continue to be plagued with feature overload and nightmarish interfaces that are totally impractical. Maybe Zen is irredeemably uncool in Japan, like linsey-woolsey dresses and RAZRs in America. "In the west, we...
Update #9 Gazillion:PITTSBURGH (AP) - Pittsburgh police say a McCain campaign volunteer who said she was held down by a black man who cut the letter "B" in her face has changed her story.Police spokeswoman Diane Richard says investigators gave the 20-year-old woman a lie-detector test and are "looking at some inconsistencies" in her story.The student, Ashley Todd, of College Station, Texas, initially said a black man robbed her at knifepoint Wednesday night and then cut her cheek after seeing a McCain sticker on her car.Police say bank surveillance footage doesn't show her at an ATM where she says she...
I used an RSS bot for years, integrated with AIM and Gtalk, called Feedcrier. Alas, I could never get it to do exactly what I wanted, but it was close. In a nutshell, I wanted to load in a gazillion RSS feeds, and have new posts pop up whenever they were published. I have always hated the RSS reader model of consuming posts like so many Pez candies. However, I have started to gravitate toward the social reader model of Google Reader/Feedly, and Friendfeed. But those still feel like an RSS reader: a little box I stick my head into...
Ongoing: Rob Glaser, CEO of RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK), starts off the Q208 earnings call on a somber note: This is most turbulent macro-economic scene we have seen since our company was founded 14 years ago. We are seeing ripple effects of the economic slowdown...for us, specially advertising softness, and reduction in capital expenditure. We are better positioned to ride out this downturn, because of our balance sheet and cash. Music without limits, its news DRM free service: Launched June 30th and going well. Optimistic about our chances, but sober about competition with Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iTunes. We now see line-of-sight...
Ever wanted to dine with a former first lady tuned senator turned failed presidential candidate turned completely broke internet beggar?Now's your chance!“Summer is a time for simple pleasures: family vacations, baseball games, and dinner out under the stars. At least it is if you aren’t running for president!”The "Hillary For President" campaign (still?) just sent out that message in an email asking for more money to help pay down its $100 gazillion dollar debt. Each donation enters you in a raffle to win a dinner with none other than Hillz herself. If you win, you receive 2 round trip airline...
Most people who have worked with IT have at one time or another in their work life come across some amazingly strange practices or major oversights that in retrospect seem more or less insane. Here is a collection of crazy stories specifically about data centers and server rooms that we have filtered out from the gazillion of anecdotes at The Daily WTF: Server room entrance via the women’s bathroom When a company switched office floors but had to leave their on server room on their old floor, the solution was “simple”. Since they couldn’t walk through the offices of the...
