Month: November 2005

Can you be too wired?

WORLD’S TOP 20 THINNEST BOOKS

20. FRENCH WAR HEROES – by Jacques Chirac

19. MORALITY – by Tom Delay

18. MY BEAUTY SECRETS – by Janet Reno

17. HOW TO BUILD YOUR OWN AIRPLANE – by John Denver

16. MY SUPER BOWL HIGHLIGHTS – by Dan Marino

15. THINGS I LOVE ABOUT BILL – by Hillary Clinton

14. MY LITTLE BOOK OF PERSONAL HYGIENE – by Osama Bin Laden

13. THINGS I CANNOT AFFORD – by Bill Gates

12. THINGS I WOULD NOT DO FOR MONEY – by Dennis Rodman

11. MY WILD YEARS – by Al Gore

10. WHY I LOVE SOUTH CAROLINA DURING PRIMARY SEASON – by John McCain

9. AMERICA’S MOST POPULAR LAWYERS

8. DETROIT: A Travel Guide

7. A COLLECTION of MOTIVATIONAL SPEECHES – by Dr. J. Kevorkian

6. STRATEGERY – by George W. Bush (with an intro by Will Ferrell)

5. GUIDE TO DATING ETIQUETTE – by Mike Tyson

4. SPOTTED OWL RECIPES – by the EPA

3. THE AMISH PHONE DIRECTORY

2. MY PLAN TO FIND THE REAL KILLERS – by O. J. Simpson

1. ABSTINENCE – by William Jefferson Clinton

You think $400 is too much for a new Xbox 360? Well perhaps you should know that you are actually getting a lot more hardware than you are paying for, $126 more to be exact. iSuppli, a well know Market researcher, have done a break down on the cost of all the components used by Microsoft and found that the cost per console is roughly $525.

Originally from osViews | osOpinion

Distributed computing experiment SETI@home will be switched off on December 15 as it becomes part of the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC). The BOINC site will allow boffins to build other volunteer computing projects in areas like molecular biology, high-energy physics, and climate change study.

Originally from My Digg News

Alice Says: While the world is going nuts on the Xbox 360, try going old school!

By David Johnston
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews

Fans of Atari everywhere should rejoice. The 2600 console, originally released in 1977, has been re-released so you can play all of your old favorites once again. The “new” console is called the “Flashback […]

Originally posted by David Johnston from Real Tech News – Independent Tech