Twitter chief Biz Stone has confirmed the microblogging site is to drop its “suggested users list”. The service gave new Twitter account holders ideas for people to follow but had attracted claims of bias. When new users sign up to the service, they are presented with a list of around 500 suggestions of accounts to […]
I’m not sure which is the worse, the CSI episode where they try to track an IP address by creating “a GUI interface using Visual Basic” or this. And while being on the subject of ridiculous Holywood interpretations of IT concepts, we invite you to post comments pointing to similar attrocities you’ve seen or heard […]
When I asked you guys to send us pictures of yourselves blowing into teapots, little did I know that this would become one of our most popular posts of all time. I still can’t believe that in less than 2 months, hundreds of thousands of people have flocked to us to see this. Sites from […]
Displayed in the lobby of Asus’s headquarters in Peitou, Taiwan, this recreation of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa was made using old PC motherboards. [Via [H] | Flickr (CC)]
FOX has just announced that the Joss Whedon series Dollhouse has gotten the mid-season axe. Though the show has received mixed reviews, it has a pretty devoted fan following, and I was rather fond of it myself. The real tragedy is that it was just getting good – or rather, it started getting really good […]
Produced by design consultancy corporation Maya, Trillions is a short film putting some perspective on the invisible but fast approaching challenges and opportunities in the pervasive computing age.
Two British politicians – both from the governing party – have clashed over the newly released Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Half of this story comes as no surprise. With the game inevitably (and almost certainly intentionally) attracting controversy over an optional scene where the player must pose as a terrorist during an airport […]
It’s no exaggeration to say that Twitter has been the most useful networking tool I’ve ever used. After months of toiling away on my blog and finding it very difficult to make connections with like-minded individuals, it was Twitter that actually linked me up with writers and geeks all across the globe. So, how I […]