Mirus Res

Tuesday, February 28, 2006

A very funny parody of the Sonny Bravia bouncing ball commercial.

Kylie and her partner Remi Horder, 17, are of mixed race. Their mothers are both white and their fathers are black. They have twin baby girls. And the one-in-a-million, neat part is one twin is white, the other twin is black.

At a special keynote this morning, Apple introduces new Intel-based Mac minis, and the iPod boombox. Also introduced was a $99 leather case, with no access to the screen or control wheel. And this from a company that sells a $29 sock to carry your iPod in. Apple - funding their OS and Macintosh development by milking the iPod for all it's worth.

A college student in Boston has been receiving random, errant SMS messages from strangers around the country, because his email address at Verizon is Null@vtext.com

If you've ran out of gift ideas for your precious puppies, build them their own puppy monorail.

A spacewalking Russian cosmonaut is planning to hit a golf ball with a six-iron outside the International Space Station. The ball is expected to remain in orbit for three to four years, and travel up to 2.1 billion miles.

Cool...Mazda's MazdaSpeed 3 for 2007 will come with 250 hp from it's turbocharged 2.3-liter DISI direct-injection four-cylinder engine.

Police arrested a man who went to family restaurants and movie theaters and waited for boys in a bathroom stall. Investigators said he shuts off the water to the child-level urinal and puts a cup in the bottom. "He goes back and retrieves the cup and drinks the urine," Detective Ron Fithen said. Well...at least he's not a vampire.

Monday, February 27, 2006

Kristiue Larsen's before and after pictures of 9/11 New York landscape - awesome.

Fortune magazine's story of the birth of the Toyota Prius - overciming punishing deadlines, skeptical dealers, finicky batteries, and Toyota's risk-averse culture to bring a hybrid to market.

Robo Cop car: the Los Angeles Police department is experimenting with special cruisers that can drive around, processing up to 240 license plates a minute, alerting officers to stolen vehicles.

GE has invented super-non-stick plastic than can lead to a day when we have free-flowing honey jars and catsup bottles. No more pounding on the bottom of a bottle to get those last drops.

Bush has problems multitasking - crashing into a Scottish policeman when he tried to wave & speak while on a bicycle.

Good tips on how to reduce hard disk space under Mac OS X.

No more broken cups: A team of undergraduates at an Arizona university designed a ceramic mug that can fall 15 feet onto concrete pavement without breaking.

Better than someone blowing smoke rings: a beluga whale blowing bubble rings.