This is what I built in my home and this video is my own work. Both the computer and the software is self made. The interface is inspired by the LCARS interface from Star Trek.
Shown in this video are:
– Agenda/Calendar
– Shopping list (Groceries)
– Rain radar
– Train departure times (because the train station is nearby)
– Library & Media player (connected to home cinema set)
– Internet browser
Why do you happen to be alive on this lush little planet with its warm sun and coconut trees? And at just the right time in the history of the universe? The surface of the molten earth has cooled, but it’s not too cold. And it’s not too hot; the sun hasn’t expanded enough to melt the Earth’s surface with its searing gas yet.
Even setting aside the issue of being here and now, the probability of random physical laws and events leading to this point is less than 1 out of 100,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, equivalent to winning every lottery there ever was.
An online retailer has a unique business plan: get a whole mess of complaints to rise up in Google pagerank. Tip: Make sure you research before you buy!
“Hello, My name is Stanley with DecorMyEyes.com,” the post began. “I just wanted to let you guys know that the more replies you people post, the more business and the more hits and sales I get. My goal is NEGATIVE advertisement.”
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We mailed a bunch of sensors on an epic journey to find out which shipping company is the most careful with your packages. Here’s what we found.
“Operation In Our Sites” Is what the Immigration and Customs office have called the seizures in the past. The strange thing is, they only seized the domains. No servers, hard drives, etc. were taken, so most of these sites are moving back up under new domain names. Some of the sites are torrent related, while others are sites who have been linked to counterfeit goods.
via Thanks MoPo forum member Kooziesan.
Nintendo takes laziness to a whole new level with games that can play themselves. And you thought games that included “hints” were bad.
In a move to help struggling gamers negotiate tricky parts of a game, Nintendo has started releasing games with a built-in auto-pilot mode. You’ll be able to “play” the latest game — Donkey Kong Country Returns — when it is released for the Wii on Sunday.
