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Joshua Kinberg, of the Bikes Against Bush project, was arrested the day before the New York RNC protest march. He writes to let us know that the case has been effectively dropped. https://gizmodo.com/joshua-kinberg-and-bikes-against-bush-9427 After 5 months, my case was finally dismissed on January 20, 2005 — the same day George W. Bush was inaugurated for…
I’ve been accused of making the earth move in the bedroom a few times, and someday I’ll have someone in there with me to witness it. Never have I caused the ceiling to fall, though, so I probably won’t have need of the BEX-1 Earthquake Shelter Bed, which can flip up its headboard to protect…
Although the market for Wi-Fi add-in cards for PocketPCs is decreasing as more and more vendors add Wi-Fi from the factory, seeing a 802.11g part from Linksys is still very welcome. PocketNow reviews the CompactFlash connectivity card and it’s as fast as you would expect it to be compared to 802.11b, although it had some…
There’s a new, all-silver version of the slim-line Playstation 2 according to a catalog from UK retailer Argos. Will it see the light of the Holy American Sun? In America, I mean? I’d say the outlook is likely, but there’s no official word from Sony as of yet, since the catalog leak was likely a…
After reading the product introduction of this desk-top chopstick sterilizer, I don’t think I’ll ever eat anything with wooden utensils again. I don’t know what “hair stoma” is, but I don’t think I want it all over my sashimi. In fact, after reading all of the ways bamboo can kill me, I think I’ll be…
Some might call a man who catalogs images and appearances of women in spacesuits—along with personal critiques of the quality and believability of the costumes—some sort of nerdy pervert. And since he’s also got a separate page with pictures of women in scuba gear, I would tend to agree. Nevertheless, his fetishes intersect cleanly with…
Gibson first mentioned their intentions to build a digital guitar with a built-in Ethernet port two years ago, but it looks like it’s finally about to become available. The new Les Paul will have a traditional 1/4-inch plug, but also be able to transmit sound via Gibson’s new MaGIC “digital transport technology,” which should work…
I don’t know what to think about the rumor that the fifth-generation iPod will have an all-aluminum case to match the G5 PowerMac and the Powerbook lines. I suppose it’s possible, but the white is so iconic that I’d think they’d be loathe to leave it behind, not to mention the total nightmare it would…
The Super Pocket Famicom has to violate some Nintendo copyright or patent or something—I think that’s why I love it. The handheld unit is just $80 at Lik-Sang, but accepts full-sized Famicom cartridges (which was known as the NES here). The only bummer is that I’m pretty sure that the NES and the Famicom cartridges…
Trusted Reviews plays around with the JVC Mini Note, an ultra-portable notebook that manages to include a built-in DVD drive (rare in the ‘tiny and light’ category). There’s quite a few shortcomings—crap keyboard, relatively small hard drive, anemic 256MB RAM stock—but overall it looks as if it has a bit of a glow about it,…
When a product is backordered until April after launching in December, that’s usually a sign of two things: the product is going to be pretty good, and that people are just a step away from flinging their own filth at each other. But congratulations to Booq Bags, whose Vyper XS molded ballistic nylon laptop sleeve…
Here’s another portable video player ready for your OEM reselling, this one from a company called G. Credit. The CT-PMP800A is of the “more is more” school of players, with an 8-inch screen (bigger than even the current size winner, the DVX-POD). With a 2.5-inch hard drive slot, “you may enjoy the network multimedia on…
Kensington hopes that you’ll be willing to carry not only a smallish pocket-sized wireless mouse, but also a larger smooshy clip-over shell that will turn it into a comfortable, ergonomic mouse when you’ve got room to swing your elbows and really get into some mousin’. It seems a lot like carrying two mice to me,…
Big ballers The Times Online have nonchalantly dropped the news that Google is planning on launching its own Voice-over-IP service in the UK—and presumably the world. While most of the article is about VoIP and Google itself, The Times speculates that Google’s recent advertisement to hire a “global backbone network” can only lead to the…
We’ve been nominated in the ‘best computers or technology weblog’ category for the 2005 Bloggies, the annual community choice awards for our internet’s weblogs. We’re in good company, as every one of the other four nominees in our category is a daily read, so losing out to any of them would be a pleasure. That…
Assuming one isn’t on fire, nothing beats heated clothing. And while heated jacket systems for motorcycles (like those from Gerbing) have been around for a while, they don’t do you much good in a blizzard, unless you want to try to pop wheelies in a 6-foot whiteout (although they should hook up to snowmobiles just…
With New York about to snuggled under a blanket of 14 to 21 inches of snow, it’s time to consider something we should have purchased instead of two sixers of Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale and box of crackers: a snowblower. In this, the 80th anniversary of Canadian Arthur Sicard’s invention, the handy device has become…
It’s a shame that Siemens is pulling out of the mobile phone business just before they end up releasing one of their coolest phones, the Blackberry-capable SK65. There’s a review of the unit on BlackBerryForums and it looks great—a couple of minor issues, like a smallish screen and occasionally bogged down application start times, but…
The PetsMobility PetCell is only a concept for now, but the patent-pending collar could be great—if you don’t mind spending a lot of extra cash on your pets. The idea is simple: it’s a cell phone and GPS unit on a collar, with its own private number. Using caller ID, it automatically picks up when…
This is how Photochoppers rolled in the olden days: Put hood on Atari; take a screenshot; develop film; paint edits on prints with watercolor; invent scanning device to transfer image into digital 16 color file that spanned 200 floppy discs; upload to BBS over 300 baud modem, giving yourself enough ratio to download ever phreaker…