• 17 Vote!

    Come Fry With Me -- By: Mark Steyn

    The Corner (subscribe) | 11/30/2009 | Other

    In order to save the planet from global roasting, it seems entirely reasonable to ask Mr and Mrs Joe Peasant to submit to annual " carbon allowance " preventing them flying hither and yon and devastating the environment. As Dr Rajendra Pachauri, the chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, explains : Hotel guests should have their electricity monitored; hefty aviation taxes should be...
  • 12 Vote!

    Jack Dorsey’s Square Is (Almost) Open For Business

    TechCrunch (subscribe) | yesterday | Technology

    We've been tracking Twitter founder Jack Dorsey's Square since May when we first got the details on the new mobile phone payment service. Today the company unveiled its website for the first time, and they continue to test the product in private beta. Dorsey twittered that the site is live moments ago. The idea - let people quickly and easily accept physical credit card payments from their mobile...
  • 12 Vote!

    fring brings world’s first video calls to iPhone and iPod touch

    fring (subscribe) | yesterday | Technology

    And what a new year’s gift this is… the world’s first video calls over internet on the iPhone and iPod Touch! fringsters with iPhones and iPod Touch (and selected Nokia devices as announced last week) can now see all their family and friends on fring and Skype this Holiday Season! Right now iPhone and iPod touch users [...]
  • 11 Vote!

    US Secret Plane Uncovered [Airplanes]

    Gizmodo (subscribe) | yesterday | Politics

    Remember the secret plane spotted in Kandahar ? The one that looked like a Nazi stealth plane ? Well, it's been spotted again, but this time the picture is crystal clear, and it doesn't look like anything in the US arsenal. Stephen Trimble at Flight Global says that there's a possibility that it may have a canopy above the nose, which means it could be a very small manned plane instead of a UAV. He...
  • 15 Vote!

    Zeitgeist 2009: the collective consciousness

    The Official Google Blog (subscribe) | yesterday | Technology

    At Google we're all about curiosity, and clearly, so are all of you. Everyone, it seems, searches the web to fulfill that innate curiosity to find something of interest. Whether searching for the latest news, a popular holiday gift, a website you've heard about, the latest singing sensation, or the trailer to a blockbuster film, you come to the Google search box with something on your mind. And since...
  • 7 Vote!

    Eko: A Traffic Light Augmented by Progress Bars

    information aesthetics (subscribe) | yesterday | Politics

    The Ecological and Economical Traffic Light Concept [relogik.com] by Damjan Stankovic is a Red Dot Design 2009 Award winner and consists of a simple yet, potentially highly practical visualization concept for everyday traffic lights that could reduce pollution and promote safer driving. There might already be quite some traffic light time counters around today, but few focus on informing the car drivers...