Monday 8 December 2003

Rubber duckie keychain drives This is so cute: This Japanese company is selling glowing rubber duckie USB keychain drives. Capacity caps out at 16MB -- someone should make a 1GB version of this. That plays MIDI jingles. And has a fingerprint-reader-based encryption scheme. You would be the coolest kid in the Internet cafe when you plugged in your fingerprint-reading lightup singing duckie and used it to transfer your ssh keypair-halves to gain acess to your cage. Seriously. Link (via Gizmodo) [Boing Boing Blog] 11:06:58 AM    comment []  Google It!

Cold calls It seems that telemarketing companies in the US are feeling the pinch from the national do not call list. They are now moving into Europe. I have been on the receving end of several calls including one most recently from a woman with a very strong Indian accent who said she was calling from New York - interestingly my caller ID showed she was calling from a very long number than began with 091, but I' fairly certain she wasn't calling from Galway. Is this to be the new spam, that we are unable to get any work done because we have to keep answering the phone? 10:54:52 AM    comment []  Google It!

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