I’m not sure why I haven’t seen or heard of this console before, but it sounds like eleventy hundred and thirty different kinds of awesome. Meet the Pandora, a gaming console handheld PC hybrid. According to the official website, the Pandora is
…fast enough to emulate many other systems, run a full desktop, access the internet via FireFox and play games such as Quake3.
If that doesn’t sound pretty darn cool, I don’t know what does! The machine is slightly bigger than a Nintendo DS, and the battery clocks in at around 10 hours. The good news, is that the Pandora is now in production! Expect to see it retail for around $330.
I read an article on the BBC site recently about Google limiting free news access to sites where you normally have to pay for content. The idea is to limit users to a maximum of 5 free articles per site for sites that participate in the First Click Free programme. After that, users will be redirected to register or pay. Apparently, Google is doing this because the newspaper industry is concerned that Google is benefiting unfairly from newspaper content. How so?
Some readers have discovered they can avoid paying subscription fees to newspaper websites by calling up their pages via Google. This is because Google searches frequently link directly to newspaper articles, bypassing some sites’ subscription systems.
So whose fault is it that users are able to access content for free that they shouldn’t be able to? Is it Google’s because they link directly to articles? Or is it the fault of the news sites for not getting their web developers to create their sites more securely? Have they heard about password control?
Dean Brougham decided that he wasn’t going to become shark food. He’s way too full of win for shark food, anyhow. Dean was attacked by a shark south of Adelaide, Australia. So how is Dean living to tell the tale? He punched the shark. In the face.
“I just started beating it, just trying to get rid of it, and then it let me go and then I was just straight towards the cliffs,” he said.
Bizarre, indeed, but at least the story has a happy ending. And a moral: when attacked by a shark, attack back. Sharks don’t like to have to fight for their supper.
This simply amazing homage to both Charlie Chaplin and The Matrix is a brilliant piece of work by a Russian actor’s group called “Bolshaya Raznitsa” (The Big Difference). Best part? Multiple Agent Smiths!
Everyone’s probably already seen this trailer by now, but I’m looking forward to this movie and hoping it really doesn’t suck. Is it just me, or does it seem like Pirates of the Caribbean…in PERSIA!! ?
If you need to ask, then you probably aren’t South African, and there’s not much more I can do to help. If you DO end up liking the song so much that you’ll be willing to listen to it for hours on end, day after day, then you can download the MP3 at the Steri Stumpie Ambassdor site.
[via Deems on Twitter, via Baldric's Blog, where you'll probably find more information than I'm willing to give!]
