Things added in March, 2004
Lefty phone.
Too stupid for words: Virgin Mobile unveils the left-handed Sony Ericsson LH-Z200 mobile phone.The number pad looks like ...
E-voting exposed.
"Felons and foreigners can, and do, own computer voting machine companies." So says environmental activist Lynn Landes, quoted in Kim Zetter's in-depth exposé detailing the many problems with e-voting.Zetter's investigation covers ...
Rochambault 2.0.
MR told me about this full-body improvement on Rochambault (or "Rock-Paper-Scissors," as most of the world outside the SF Bay Area calls it): Bear-Cowboy Ninja. You start back to back with your ...
L5 or bust!
I have to thank Cory Doctorow of Boing Boing for posting a link to the L5 Society web site, which features many gorgeous paintings of space stations taken, I think, ...
Gummi experiments.
There are some vaguely disturbing Gummi bear experiments happening on my desk right now.
Digital camera test suite.
More than you probably ever wanted to know about how to test digital cameras.And still more about digital imaging tests, from Edmund Optics.
Who Cares: The T-shirt
Dismayed by the lack of vendors offering "who cares what you think?" T-shirts, and emboldened by a suggestion from Bill Hangley himself, I decided to go into the T-shirt business. Here ...
Camera flash.
After you delete all the files from the SD card in a Kyocera Finecam SL-300R, they aren't completely gone. When you turn the camera on, the LCD briefly flashes the last picture ...