Selected Wisdoms

Tiscali buys Pipex broadband unit

Seeded on Mon Jul 23, 2007 5:04 PM EDT (BBC News)

UK internet firm Pipex has sold its broadband and phone business to Italian rival Tiscali for £210m ($426.6m).

business, phone, broadband, sold, david-hasselhoff, tiscali, pipex

New & Improved MagSafe Adapter Aims to Fix Fraying Problem

Seeded on Mon Jul 23, 2007 4:56 PM EDT (appledefects.com)

It appears that Apple has quietly released a new revision to the MagSafe adapter, shown on the right in the above image, featuring a more supportive brace around the magnetic plug.

technology, complaints, apple, unit, customer, support, macbook, magsafe, adaptor, mac-book

'$100 laptop' production begins

Seeded on Mon Jul 23, 2007 1:34 PM EDT (BBC News)

Five years after the concept was first proposed, the so-called $100 laptop is poised to go into mass production.

technology, production, cheap, bill-gates, laptop, bbc-news, 100-dollar

Woman faces charges for kissing painting

Seeded on Sun Jul 22, 2007 2:41 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)

A woman has been arrested on suspicion of kissing a painting by American artist Cy Twombly and smudging the bone-white canvas with her lipstick, French judicial officials said Saturday.

art, odd-news, contemporary-art, kissing

Could Google kill the cell phone industry?

Seeded on Sat Jul 21, 2007 11:18 AM EDT (CNET)

The government are auctioning the old 700MHz wireless spectrum. Google CEO Eric Schmidt announced that the company will participate in the Federal Communications Commission auction for the bandwidth.

google, technology, auction, mobile, wireless, government, cell-phone, cellphone, mobile-phone, telecommunication

Beijing moves ahead with weather experiment to disperse rain clouds

Seeded on Thu Jul 19, 2007 3:38 AM EDT (Yahoo! Sports)

The weathermen in Beijing are moving ahead with plans to fire rockets to disperse rain clouds, an experiment aimed at securing more sunshine during the 2008 Olympics.

sports, olympics, weather, rockets, rain, beijing, olympic-park, meteorology, summer-olympics-fantasy-beijing, dispersing-clouds

Pagans displeased with painting of donut-wielding Homer Simpson

Seeded on Wed Jul 18, 2007 7:25 PM EDT (Boing Boing)

Pagans are not happy about an enormous Homer Simpson painted near an ancient image.

odd-news, the-simpsons, boing-boing, homer-simpson, pagans, historic-symbols

Man Robs NH Bank Disguised As Tree

Seeded on Sun Jul 8, 2007 2:08 PM EDT (wbztv.com)

(WBZ) MANCHESTER, NH Police are looking for a man who attempted to disguise himself as a tree and rob a bank in Manchester, New Hampshire Saturday morning.

odd-news, new-hampshire, bank-robbery, nh-police, camoflague

Apple hints at .Mac updates

Seeded on Sun Jan 8, 2006 4:56 PM EST (Apple Insider)

Apple's .Mac account page warned members of expected downtime next Tuesday morning, at the same time Steve Jobs is giving his opening Keynote to the Macworld Expo. Could this mean an update for the .Mac service?

technology, apple, mac, osx, os-x, macworld, dot-mac