frigg commented on BlackBerry Bold (aka 9000) Officially Official, at 11:35 AM on May 12 The Blackberry 9000 (HAL 9000, anyone?) is such a cooler name than the "Bold." If it's ditching 9000, and with that leather back and all, I'm thinking "Blackberry (b)Old, pronounced be-old. more »

frigg commented on Vatican Buys Palm for $800 Million, at 11:09 AM on May 12 Thank God I'm Amish (Mennonite, actually), and therefore able to resist any Popely pressures to give up my beloved iPhone. more »

frigg commented on Pet-Proof Your AV Gear For Fun and Profit, at 9:03 AM on May 12 @johnnyabnormal: nice! more »

frigg commented on New iPhone Firmware Beta Has a 3G On/Off Switch: I Wish It Was Automatic, at 2:37 PM on May 11 I think they don't want to loose the control-freaky constituency. more »

frigg commented on Zeppelins Return to US, Slightly Less Flammable Now, at 2:30 PM on May 11 @Atsumi:"Sure, I'd spend $500 to ride in a giant penis." Never has a preposition been quite so discouraging. more »

frigg commented on Zeppelins Return to US, Slightly Less Flammable Now, at 2:17 PM on May 11 Apparently, there's some interest in using Zeppelins for mapping and live reconnaissance by strapping extremely high resolution cameras under their bellies and letting them float around like giant eyes in the sky. more »

frigg commented on Pleo Gets Thrashed at the Hands of a Battlebot, at 1:58 PM on May 11 @Mandatory_Field: Sure... more »

frigg commented on Pleo Gets Thrashed at the Hands of a Battlebot, at 9:55 AM on May 10 Maybe the Turing Test should be changed from the inability of a human to distinguish between a conversation with a machine and a conversation with a human, to the ability of a human to feel crummy when one machine slaughters another. more »

frigg commented on Pet-Proof Your AV Gear For Fun and Profit, at 9:39 AM on May 10 @johnnyabnormal: I forgot to say what the ultimate A/V pet deterrent is: Get your hands on the following noises... - Earthquake/avalanche - Thunder - Shotgun blast ... more »

frigg commented on Pet-Proof Your AV Gear For Fun and Profit, at 8:21 PM on May 9 @johnnyabnormal: Awesome! more »

frigg commented on Pet-Proof Your AV Gear For Fun and Profit, at 8:14 PM on May 9 Oddly and thankfully, my ex-cat preferred chewing up my cheapo cables rather than the good stuff (good stuff meaning Canare, not Monster or Pear /maintains some dignity). Also, my cat used to run across my mixing board, turning on and off phantom power, eq, and otherwise altering my musical landscapes with her sneaky little paws. more »

frigg commented on NASA Wants to Get You in Bed for $17,000, at 8:56 AM on May 9 If everyone who was in bed with NASA got $17,000, the agency would go broke. more »

frigg commented on BUILT Laptop Bag: Water-Resistant, But Not Bulletproof, at 8:15 AM on May 9 Compatible with Iron Man suits versions 1 AND 2? more »

frigg commented on John Mayer Pioneers the DoubleDouche (Two Bluetooth Headsets at Once), at 5:16 PM on May 8 The real scandal is the Digidesign Pro Control at the end of the vid, meaning he uses ProTools NOT Apple Logic to record his musics on. more »

frigg commented on DC Lawmaker Wants Cop Guns to Have Mini FPS Cameras, at 2:09 PM on May 8 If cops get cameras on guns, it's a slippery slope to photographers getting guns on cameras. more »

frigg commented on Steampunk Going Mainstream?, at 12:53 PM on May 8 @edosan: Just as The New York Observer is secretly "The New Yorker Observer," so too is Newsweek Lastweek at the NYTimes. more »

frigg commented on Giz Caption Contest: What in the Hell is Going on Here?, at 12:38 PM on May 8 Ballmer asked his Vista team to develop an iPhone killer for their next project. more »

frigg commented on Charred Hard Drive from Space Shuttle Columbia Recovered (Best Data Rescue Ever?), at 12:29 PM on May 8 @Wison: "Why don't they make the shuttle out of the same material they make the drive?" Interestingly, hard drives and space flight are almost exactly the same age, both around 50 (Sputnick 1= 1957; IBM 350 = 1956). But in 50 years of space flight, humans launched only around 5000 objects into orbit. more »