HELIOLITH

One of the curses of modern day technology is the amount of time spent interacting with complex computer generated telephone routing systems. Clearly it must be cheaper to route and automatically place on hold thousands of callers each day than to listen to their ire and personally usher them forward to their destination. […]

Spent a lonnggg time this evening wrestling with mt.cfg (movable type configuration file) for hours & finally… I have success… thank you again to Elise at www.elise.com/mt/ and various google searches, forum threads on the error messages I was getting whilst trying to install Movable Type. The most important tidbit I discovered…

that held me […]

The BBC reports,: “Japanese 3G mobile owners can now pay with their phones instead of their wallets with a new service launched by wireless mobile network NTT DoCoMo.” Password protection built in, fingerprint lockout accessory optional. At least that’s how I read the article. Maybe it would fail less than the magnetic […]

For some reason, completely unclear to me, I have a fairly recent obsession for watches. I have restrained myself from buying one, since of course, I am practically broke. Nonetheless, Boing Boing posted 2 links to watches today, both of which I think are super-slick. There are 2 versions of the Earth watch […]

New Zealand Flower Stamps: “This is New Zealand Post’s first-ever ’scratch and smell’ stamp - a collector’s item and a pleasant sensory experience in one beautiful package.”
Yummy. Why don’t we do this?
Also “The World’s First Action Replay Stamps”
Does NZ have a gov’t innovation department?
Thanks again for the link from boing boing!

Leet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wow. 2 links in one. (read on before clicking above link)
The thing I really wanted to show you was wikipedia, a completely OPEN (ie. editable and user-synthesized) web encyclopedia. It’s pretty cool. Try doing a Wikipedia search on “capeoira” or even on one of your fancy linguistics terms. […]

Ever get annoyed as you were forced to register for a news source before gaining access to an article or whatever?
Here’s a convenient little website to bypass such snoopy forms.
www.bugmenot.com
or of course (and you must check this out) if you are from one of those sites that require registration, you must first register at […]

Check out this BBC story about how phone users “cuddle” their mobile phones… Which category do you fit into? 

Dear Lauren,
check this link for current online discussions of cosby (many relating to his recent controversial comments.  I got there simply typing “cosby” into the search engine at www.technorati.com.  The site I was telling you about.  Check their links on the left hand side of the page including… news talk, book talk, current events, and top […]

Wired News: Mexican Officials Get Chipped
eek.
sci-fi becomes reality
I want to see images of where & how it’s implanted…