Category: Linklog

Presenting 30 Boxes, an online calender app. I call foul on this right away, it should be called 28 Boxes as it only shows 4 weeks at a time… I dunno, it just seems a little pointless.

The technical aspects of broadcasting Super Bowl XL in HD. ABC will incorporate both the NEP Supershooter HD rigs from Sunday Night Football on ESPN and Monday Night Football on ABC, several Sony slo-mo cameras, a Panasonic camera for the ESPN SkyCam as well as a proverbial ton of Canon lenses.

Punxsutawney Phil, The Seer of Seers, Sage of Sages, Prognosticator of Prognosticators and Weather Prophet Extraordinary saw his shadow today, meaning it’s an extra 6 weeks of winter. No surprise really… He sees his shadow more often than not, meanwhile the Georgia Groundhog predicts an early spring… Just like last year, in your face Punxsutawney Phil!

US would defend Israel against Iran. “U.S. President George W. Bush vowed on Wednesday the United States will rise to Israel’s defense if needed against Iran and denounced Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for “menacing talk” against Israel.” Any excuse huh?

The Windows XP on a Mac contest. The prize is currently sitting at $9686, but little do they know that BestBuy have sewn it up…

Windows Internet Explorer 7 Beta is now publically available. A big step forward from IE6, but yet it’s still lacking in some places… [via]

Lisa Loeb in a thong. Now there’s a set of words I never thought I’d ever commit to writing…

The Nominees for the 78th Annual Academy Awards. Brokeback Mountain leads the list with 8 nominations. Crash, Good Night, and Good Luck and Memoirs of a Geisha get 6 each.

A new provision tucked into the Patriot Act bill now before Congress would allow authorities to haul demonstrators at any “special event of national significance” away to jail on felony charges if they are caught breaching a security perimeter. So I’ll quote the first amendment, the holy grail of the Bill of Rights… “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” Kinda means next to nothing now…

Chantelle Houghton, a fake celebrity, has won the UK’s Celebrity Big Brother. Of course, I’m sure she’ll be a celebrity now and get her 15 minutes worth just for simply being a celebrity…

Apple have added South Park and a couple of other Comedy Central programs to the iTMS. Not only that, but they have The A-Team too, how sweet?

Scotland get handed the footballing equivalent of Mission Impossible in the Euro 2008 qualifying draw. Looks like two from France, Italy and Ukraine…

Nintendo announces the DS Lite. Nintendo President Satoru Iwata today announced Nintendo DS Lite, a slimmer version of the best-selling Nintendo DS.

It’s a done deal, Disney buys Pixar in a deal worth $7.4 billion. As part of the deal, Steve Jobs will become a board member of Disney, and John Lasseter, the highly respected creative director at Pixar who had previously worked for Disney, will rejoin the House of Mouse as chief creative officer for the company’s combined animated studios and will also help oversee the design for new attractions at Disney theme parks.

Indiana Pacers Ron Artest has been traded to the Sacramento Kings in exchange for Peja Stojakovic. It’s unofficial right now, but the Kings must be rubbing their hands with glee at the thought of Artest. Peja, meanwhile, gets to fill the shoes of Reggie Miller…