This video of Conan’s visit to Intel headquarters is an oldie, but is still very funny. Enjoy.
Bill Gates’ Last Day At Microsoft Video
Bill Gates, as announced before, will stop working full time at Microsoft. At this years CES show he showed a video of what his life would be after Microsoft. It’s nice to see that for a man at his position, he still has a great sense of humor. My favorite part:
“Microsoft Bob – his idea”
Innovative Designs And Devices
Smashing Magazine posted a very appealing collection called “Innovative Designs And Devices”. Most are very beautiful gadgets/hi-tech toys that do not exist yet, others are interpretations of existing products. (via Digg)
If Your Hard Drive Has Ants, Don’t Spray It
ComputerWorld posted a short article detailing some of the most genuine way people have found to destroy their storage devices. I liked this one:
A British scientist was fed up with the way his hard drive was squeaking, so he drilled a hole through the casing and poured oil into the mechanics. The squeaking stopped, and so did the hard drive.
(via Slashdot)
More Alarm Clocks? No Way!
Another list of alarm clocks is out now to satisfy my endless fascination with the way people choose to wake themselves up. Number 9 (“You Snooze You Lose”) is by far the funniest one. Its description is as follows:
The SnūzNLūz alarm clock connects to your bank account via Wi-Fi and automatically transfers your money to a predetermined charity you hate.
(via Digg)
User Experience Of The Future
Yesterday I complained that the modern desktop hasn’t advanced very much. Today I kind of got my answer. Smashing Magazine posted a list named “User Experience Of The Future” which is a pretty cool collection of current advances in display and user interaction with computers. (via Digg)
Jeff Dunham Videos
Jeff Dunham is by far the best ventreliquist I’ve ever seen perform. Not only he has a range of characters that are all hilarious, his act is also simply very funny because it’s well thought and conducted. Here are two of his shows (both around 1 hour):
25 Baffling Toys
Just a quickie today: 25 baffling toys from around the world (some of them are really worrying) (via Digg)
Google Announces Open Handset Alliance
There has always been speculation that Google is developing a mobile phone (a gPhone, as most articles called it), but Google always does things differently. This time announcing the Open Handset Alliance, which is a bunch of companies that develop an open, Linux-based hardware and software platform with an open API. The platform is called Android.
There’s not much to see yet (specifically, there isn’t any phone based on Android yet) but there are two nice short videos. One is Introducing Android, which shows the team that developed it (including Andy Rubin, who you can read about in this New York Times article). The second video is called If I had a magic phone where you can see cute kids telling us what they expect from a magic phone.
Today’s link-a-palooza
- Paper art by Peter Callesen – very cool
- BitTorrent to be pimped by Nobel prize winning economical theory
- Which companies own the car industry – apparently you need a map to know who really makes your car
