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Monday, December 31, 2007
Tokyo Traffic Control in pictures
Gizmodo has a few pics of the impressive traffic control centre in Tokyo, Japan. It's something right out of the movies! According to their post, "Cameras, helicopters, 17,000 vehicle detectors, as well as reports from both police and civilians, all contribute towards a harmonious transport system." Cool!
What is your video game of the year?
The BBC has asked a number of experts for their picks for video game of the year and with 4 of them weighing in there appears to be no clear cut winner. It just goes to show that our video game preferences are a varied as our book or movie choices, there will be big blockbusters but we all have our favorite genres. For me there are a couple of titles that stand out, one of which was not even mentioned on the BBC's list. I'd have to give the title to Guitar Hero III but Halo 3 and The Orange Box are not far behind... how about you?
Sunday, December 30, 2007
No iPod for you!
A little girl in Germantown, Md. got what she thought was an iPod for Christmas but instead opened the box to find a bizarre note. The note read "Reclaim your mind from the media shackles. Read a book and resurrect yourself. To claim your capitalistic garbage go to your nearest Apple Store." The manager of the Walmart store where the device was purchased told the girls father that another customer returned an iPod with a similar issue. MYFox Washington has the story.
Snowbank fetches Quebec man $3,550 on eBay
The Globe and Mail is reporting that Michel Levesque of Saint-Eustache, a town north of Montreal, has fetched $3,550 in an eBay auction for his "snowbank" that he set up as a joke after a pre-Christmas storm left the area buried in snow. Levesque does not know if the winning bidder, also from Quebec, will actually come through with the cash but has stated he will donate the money to a local youth organization if he gets paid. The Globe says "But since the pile was posted on Dec. 21, the prank snowballed."
Saturday, December 29, 2007
YouTubes big hits of 2007
YouTube used criteria such as the 'most shared, most discussed, top rated and general popularity" to determine it's list of clips that people were thinking and talking about most and released the results on Thursday. The most viewed clip " Battle at Kruger" was viewed more than 21 million times! Others include the Obama Girl video and Leave Britney Alone with 4 million and 14 million respectively. With classics like these, who needs TV? The Globe and Mail has more.
Google Zeitgeist 2007
Google has released the top search terms for 2007 in it's annual Zeitgeist. The top ten list depicts the fastest raising terms and the fastest falling terms from those popular in 2006. It never ceases to amaze me why terms like Facebook, YouTube, and Club Penguin make the list... isn't it easier just to add a dot com to the end of these in the address bar? or is it that people are actually searching for news or other stories about these sites? I guess I just don't get it... then again we all use search engines differently.
Friday, December 28, 2007
Netscape Navigator comes to an end
The BBC News is reporting that AOL will cease support of Netscape Navigator as of February 1, 2008. The browser once owned 90% of the web market, but numbers have dropped to just 0.6% in recent polls. "While internal groups within AOL have invested a great deal of time and energy in attempting to revive Netscape Navigator, these efforts have not been successful in gaining market share from Microsoft's Internet Explorer," said Tom Drapeau on the company's blog. It was certainly my choice of browser when I first found my way onto the net, but I abandoned it for Internet Explorer myself, only to abandon IE for Firefox.
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