Tuesday, October 4, 2005

Trouser Press Dropping Trou'. And now for something completely different...the cover of every single issue of Trouser Press Magazine from 1974 to 1984. I'm proud to say that I owned most of them. [Eye of the Goof] 11:23:45 PM

your wi-fi cyberpet Entering Your Own Nabaztaspace. Forget Furby, Nabaztag is a wifi cyberpet with form and function! So far as I know, the first attempt to market Hiroshi Ishii's Things That Think concept, and if you ask me, way cuter than Hiroshi's glass gas orbs ... Thanks to me, your friends and family will have a totally new way of keeping in touch: through the web, text messages, their phone or email%u2026 plenty of different ways to send you messages, music, MP3 files that I'll read out to you%u2026 or sing out, or even dance. Your friends will no longer be confined to the depths of your computer or phone: they'll come alive in your home, in the noble guise of a rabbit. [ NabaztaLand ] [TeledyN - :: have blog - will travel ::] 11:18:35 PM

Additional Thoughts, Mr.....Bali Hi Hula-Hula Kon-Tiki. Okay, just one more tiki-themed post and I'll quit for a while. Promise. I decided that Bali Hi's little alcove needed some decoration, so I went digging through the aforementioned pinball-flyer database and found this gorgeous promo for Chicago Coin's Hula-Hula pinball. A bit of searching turned up a mint copy at, you guessed it, Bill Kurtz's eBay store. Wish I'd known about it a couple of days ago. I could've picked it up last weekend. Anyway, it's bought and Bill's check is in the mail. It'll look great up on the wall next to Bali. Next up is this exquisitely-detailed, 1/18th-scale model of the Kon-Tiki. If any of youse are still wondering what to get me for Christmas... Thanks to Alaskan exoticat, Bearded Jon, for the Kon-Tiki link [Eye of the Goof] 11:14:32 PM

... Tomorrow is Wednesday. [The Cartoonist] 5:23:03 PM

Dell Offers an Open-Source PC Dell offers an open-source PC. Dimension E510n1 is geared for customers who want to use open-source software such as Linux. [CNET News.com] 11:19:57 AM

Not Only For Today But For All Time (EFC) The Advertisement. With many thanks to Jan. [The Cartoonist] 10:41:53 AM

Plasma Display Power Consumption Matsushita, Hitachi, Pioneer halve plasma display power consumption: report. Japanese electronics giants Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Hitachi Ltd. and Pioneer Corp. have jointly developed a plasma display panel that runs on half the power used by current models, a report said Tuesday. [Physics Org] 7:08:43 AM