Sometimes I’m a loss for words.
Sixteen-year-old Ang Chuang Yang typed the SMS (short message service) message in 41.52 seconds, beating the previous record of 42.22 seconds set by American Ben Cook in July, according to Singapore Telecommunications, organisers of the competition.
“I’ll try for 39 seconds next year,” said Ang, adding that the trick to [...]

Despite the threat of fines the timid booth bunnies have returned to E3.

The booth babes had prowled the halls at the Los Angeles Convention Center, where E3 is held each year, in costumes meant to invoke various video game characters–costumes that in many cases were little more than bikinis.
Booth babes have been such an attraction [...]

From the “I’m sorry, I fail to understand how your failed business model is my problem” files… This story about DVD sniffing dogs makes me just about hork my dinner onto my keyboard.  They’ve actually trained dogs to smell polycarbonates.  How is this ok?
Kinda makes me thing twice about shipping anything through FedEX. Seriously, [...]

From the “could we please cure cancer now instead?” files… The Register, a noted technology rag has gone off on a tangent again. This time, they’re not verbally abusing other bloggers, but rather, explaining in excruciating detail the intricacies of the belly button.
I suppose the IT industry just isn’t running the ‘hot news‘ [...]

Food for the the nerd in all of us. George Lucas is about to release the Star Wars Trilogy (you know, the ones that didn’t suck) in their original format. Sans the extra wanking. Mind you this tripe will be included as an added feature. Not that this is any surprise as we all believe [...]