Month: September 2005

David Pescovitz:

Chicago artist Taylor Hokanson constructed a massive computer keyboard that you type on with a sledgehammer. Temporary Services, the art group behind the amazing Prisoners’ Inventions project from a few years ago, is exhibiting the Sledgehammer Keyboard at their Chicago experimental art/culture space Mess Hall on Saturday and Sunday. Temporary Services member Salem Collo-Julin says: “Users will be able to try it out for the first time this coming weekend during a street fair that’s happening outside of Mess Hall. You slam your message into the keys, and your message is projected into our space.”
Link to Taylor Hokanson’s site, Link to Mess Hall

Originally posted by David Pescovitz from Boing Boing

David Pescovitz:

Team Xboxopensource hacked together an Apple ][ emulator for the PSP. (Only works on PSP firmware 1.50. Don’t upgrade. If you did, MAKE: Blog points to a downgrader. Link) Time to bust out those classic Karateka chops!

Link
Originally posted by David Pescovitz from Boing Boing

Currently there are 2 Major Players in the Satellite Radio Market. The current players are XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio. Below is a comparison to help you decide which one to buy for your car, boat, or home.

Originally from My Digg News

Apple has updated its line of Mac Mini computers. The new models have slightly faster processors, with the cheapest Mini now featuring a 1.33Ghz G4 (previously a 1.24Ghz) and the expensive models receiving a speed bump from a 1.42Ghz G4 to a 1.5Ghz G4. The higher-end models also recieve dual-layer DVD burning and improved Bluetooh and Airport Extreme. Graphics-wise, the Mini sees a doubling of RAM. And the harddrives are (finally) upgraded to normal 5400rpm models, instead of the rather sloppy 4200rpm models.

Originally from OSNews

Filed under: Cult of Mac

Wil Shipley, of Delicious Monster, feels it is about time that we as Mac users rise up and say, ‘We do NOT have herpes.’ Wait, that’s not quite right…

Ah, he thinks that we should be touting the fact that there are no known viruses for Mac OS X instead of focusing on the fact that sooner or later there will be one, and he is thinking about putting his money where his mouth is. The proposed rules for this ‘contest’ are that you prove to Wil that someone running a variant of OS X 10.0 (fully patched) was infected with a virus that exploits a flaw in the OS (not a Word macro) before September 20, 2005 and Wil pays you $500. If no one collects then Macs rule, or something.

The genius of this challenge is that the cut off point is in the past, so this won’t encourage folks to create a virus for 500 bucks.
 

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Originally posted by Scott McNulty from The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)