Facebook — in another move to bring themselves down top MySpace’s level — has added Facebook Movies and Music. I’ve recently deleted my Facebook account so I can’t login and really experience these new additions. You can view the main Music page by going to http://www.facebook.com/Music. This should be another blow to record companies as they are no longer needed as middle men between bands and fans.
One positive thing is that the music does not automatically play when you visit the page causing you to frantically search for the Stop button or your speakers volume knob. We hate you MySpace…. we hate you as much as one web site could hate another.
… from Venture Beat
Nikkei’s english news website, Tech-On, gathered some engineers in a room and gave them a MacBook Air to take apart. What did they find?
The engineers all came to the same conclusion; the MacBook Air is badly designed and would cost too much to produce (meaning that there are better ways to do the job cheaper).
No news here. Apple doesn’t make good technology, they make good commercials, something most of us have always known.
I’m a bit surprised by the arrogance of some of these so called engineers. I’m not a PRO Apple Fan Boy (even if I do own a MacBook Pro), but a sentence like this one makes me mad: “I can’t find anything that is technically superior. We can make the same computer at a lower cost”
We can only assume the author is so upset because he paid an extra $1,000 for his laptop, because it is white.
… from Akihabara, News?
Panasonic has just released a new bicycle for those that are too lazy to peddle. Utilizing an electric motor and Lithium Ion battery technology the Flat Road EB1 insures you’re place in hipsterness. Go buy one now and fool everyone, including yourself, into believing that you are at the forefront of tech and exercising trends.
… from Akihabara News
The FDA has commissioned the National Research Council of the National Academies of Science to study if further study is needed into determining whether all these wireless waves we have bouncing around are good for our bodies.
From the article:
Although the Food and Drug Administration plays no role in approving wireless technology, it does get involved if that technology is ever shown to present a health risk to consumers.
So you must be wondering if they’ve found out anything. Well it comes down to this. They’re pretty sure it’s all gravy for anything but heavy exposure. If you have heavy exposure then your brain will slowly melt. That’s ok… we enjoy the free “simple heating” our cells get and applaud the government for providing us all with free heat.
… from Ars Technica
Want a .me domain name? Don’t worry, it will be available soon thanks to Montenegro’s MeNet. I don’t know why but someone out there got the crazy idea that people will want a .me domain name.
From the article:
According to a post found on Jothan Frake’s blog and Dutch Telecom (subscription required), the ccTLD .me will now be run by a join [sic] operation between Afilias, Godaddy and Montenegro’s MeNet.
The .me domain name is the country-code for Montenegro, but has obvious commercial appeal. The country had issued a public invitation to bid, which according to Frakes received 3 bids : Neustar, Verisign Registry Services and the winning bidders.
Domain name ideas are probably racing through your head right now. Love.me or Fuck.me for dating sites. Give.me for whatever. Endless possibilities. You better get out your pocket book because all these domain names and more will already be reserved and auctioned off to the highest bidder [Ed. probably, almost certain]. We wonder what the citizens of Montenegro think of all this. To all the Montenegroens out there, what do you think?
More TLDs:
… from Domain Name News
Microsoft let us know how all our lives really are in their hands again this weekend. It appers YACU (Yet another corrupt update) is making its rounds on Microsoft’s automatic update service. We figure after two or three more of these MS will begin testing the updates before they force them all upon us.
From the article:
Forum and bulletin boards are full of comments from users who are incandescent with rage after getting a mysterious error code 80073712.
… from The INQUIRER
Just in time for valentines day we have 10 new Swarovski MPlayers from iRiver. No word on pricing, but you can expect it to be more than they’re worth. Walt Disney is probably rolling over in his grave. That’s right, Walt Disney wasn’t frozen (thanks Snopes!). Mod -2 Off Topic.
… from Akihabara News
So you have the rims that still spin after you’ve stopped? Wow… those are sooo 2006.
Take a look at the PimpStar(s?). While the rims spin from driving they can display text, graphics, and any number of designs using a microprocessor and LEDs in each wheel. The LED technology is not new and has been used in countless other annoying items. Take a look at the video for a full demonstration.
The video is missing something though. The scene where he takes the picture, anyways. They forgot to show him pulling the flash card. Turn on his laptop. Import the picture. Resize. Crop. And then finally import the picture into the software provided by PimpStar.
Oh… and did we mention the rims start at $12,000. Don’t worry, that’s with tires.
… from Neatorama
David Lynch — writer of Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, and other movies nobody understands but him — feels sorry for people who watch films on their “fucking telephone”.
Keeping in step with todays Apple-bashing we bring you David Lynch. Watching movies on airplanes on the back of the seat in front of you is bad enough. Watching them on the your cellphone, well, that should be a capital offense.
People who watch movies on their cell phone:
… from Cult of Mac
Ever see those stupid clocks that tell the time, seemingly in mid-air? Ya, you know, the one you were given as a gift but have no use for. You hook this thing up to your computer and put in a phrase and then just turn it on and wave like a coked-up celeb at an awards show. Taking advantage of something called persistence of vision allows this $0.49 piece of plastic and LEDs project your letters into mid-air. The only possible use for this thing is if you live alone and need to signal for more toilet paper to passersby. But that only works if you take your laptop into the crapper with you — which me do! We still don’t want one…
from … Everything USB