photo: a wing and a prayer
I’ve been talking up the Pepper Pad and Nokia 770 a lot, and I’ve mentioned a moment of lust for the LifeDrive (despite my complaints against PDAs), but today I bought a Treo 650 (even though I had doubts).
My decision surprised me, but the following factors all weighed in its favor:
My cell phone contract expired. [...]
I got a slot car set for Christmas when I was about eight years old. I ran the cars until the contact pads wore out, then I pretty much gave up on them.
But Simon Jansen is just getting into the action, and he’s doing it at a time when compact and cheap electronics afford (potentially) [...]
WolframTones mixes hard science with social software in the form of a ringtone generator.
Each click on any of the 15 style buttons yields a “unique [note: not random] composition.” Why not random? The FAQs note:
Once WolframTones has picked a Rule to use, all the notes it will generate are in principle determined. But that doesn’t [...]
Though we imagine the Dutch to be a rather unexcitable lot, I did anyway, it turns out they have a history of getting rowdy at football games (yes, if this all happened back in the States I be calling it “soccer”). So it can’t be so much of a surprise that fans rioted again in [...]
