Benny Ling’s Bling

YouTube – Edge by Mobigame – Iphone Game.

MUST BUY!!!

It seems that every day there are new USB devices. Some are cool and some are not. I think that anyone that even has a little bit of geek in them will appreciate any of these. Some have practical uses and some are just fun, but all twenty of these gadgets are awesome.

via More Than Just Novelties: 20 Useful USB Gadgets That Don’t Suck | AMOG – Alpha Males of the Group.

Digital Photo Frames, I have been told, completely suck.

A USB Pen/MP3 player?! You’ve got to be kidding me!

USB Chess? WTF.

USB Basketball game? WTF.

USB fridge? Uhuh – because you can cool all your beverages with 5V.

Heh – interesting read anyways.

The Real WTF is that they didn’t include a USB Vacuum Cleaner with a title like that…

YouTube – CARTS OF DARKNESS (Excerpt #3).

The aptly named service is called DisposableWebPage and is completely free. What it does is that it creates an instant wiki for you to edit, share and perhaps collaborate with your friends. This also means you reap all the benefits of a wiki system with rich text editing and collaboration built directly into the system – plus you have version control so you can easily revert back to previous forms if something goes wrong.

via How To Create A Disposable Webpage | MakeUseOf.com.

Disposable Web Pages?

Whatever will they think of next… Disposable computers? Disposable humans?

Now that the year has come to a close, let’s take a look at what I thought were the best movies of 2008. These are the little and big gems that you looked at on the theater marquee and thought, “I wonder if this is awesome?” This list will hopefully answer that question. These are the movies that made me want to walk out of the theater and kiss the first old person I ran into.

via El Guapo’s Top Ten Kick Ass Movies Of 2008! – Movie News – Latest Movie Reviews and trailers.

For the record, I’ve seen:

Quantum of Solace (#7)

Wall•E (#3)

Iron Man (#2)

3 out of 10? Not bad, considering that 3 or more are fairly recent.

But we’re clearly now at a point where the financial problems of the world will have a big impact on where web technology is headed. Indeed, it looks like we’ve arrived at one of those giant inflexion points – where one web era is usurped by another.

via What’s Next After Web 2.0 – ReadWriteWeb.

What’s next after Web 2.0?

From Digg:

Why, Web 1.0, of course. It is the recession, after all…

Or, perhaps:

They skip any logical sequence (3.0) and go for the bane of the computer world, irrational letters and numbers.

Here we come web 3.402GTxL!

Heh. Digg rules.

Pascal’s Wager (or Pascal’s Gambit) is a suggestion posed by the French philosopher Blaise Pascal that even though the existence of God cannot be determined through reason, a person should “wager” as though God exists, because so living has potentially everything to gain, and in theory nothing to lose.

via Pascal’s Wager – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Yet another Wiki link that makes for interesting reading indeed.

Just in time for the new year, Lake Superior State University has delivered on its decades-old tradition of publishing a “List of Words Banished from the Queen’s English for Mis-Use, Over-Use and General Uselessness.” The annual, jocular list began in 1976, with words and phrases like “meaningful” (which lost all of its meaningfulness at the time) and “call for resignation” as a publicity stunt to promote the university’s existence. Since then it has grown into a crowdsourced list of the latest clichés to have been birthed from pop culture, and even text speech made this list of words we “<3″ to hate for 2009.

via University publishes 15 words we <3 to hate for 2009.

Some examples:

go green
carbon footprint
maverick
game changer
iconic
wall street
main street

As usual, hit up the read link for more. I’m actually surprised that rick roll isn’t on that list…

As reported in the Dev Team IRC channel, Vodafone works. 3 works. (now just need Telstra + Optus/Virgin to be tested)

via iPhone 3G unlock – yellowsn0w is out! – MacTalk Forums.

See original source here.

AFAIK – all Australian telcos who support the iPhone work. This includes Telstra, Optus/Virgin, Vodafone, and 3.

I’m still deciding… Do I really need my iPhone AS A PHONE when I go overseas?

It can function perfectly otherwise… Just needs Wi-Fi for data (which is admittedly scarce where I am going), but otherwise, it’s a small iPod.

It’s 2009, folks, so we figured we’d start it off with a bang (and about a gazillion comments in this post). George, a proud member of the USMC, is pondering what to do about a new smartphone, and given that your New Year’s resolution was undoubtedly to ditch your dumbphone in favor of a more sophisticated model, you’ll probably be interested as well.

via Ask Engadget: Best current smartphone for under $200? – Engadget.

Requirements? WiFi, camera (with flash if possible), touchscreen. Must be under $200 with 2-year contract.

No consensus as yet – but the Nokia E71 has been volunteered.

Semper Fi.

Free—it’s my favourite* word. It’s probably the most popular word found in advertising to get you to buy something. But has free ever really meant free? The catch is usually that you have to buy something in order to get something else free. Or maybe you have to agree to give up your personal information, forever dooming you to junk mail, to get that free hotel stay in Vegas.

via The finer points of finding free images | Creative Notes | Macworld.

As a blogger, I’m constantly on the look out for free images that I can use in posts, to show other people, or just cause they’re free.

Sure, places like iStockPhoto.com are great – but really, it’s the internet. You can probably find most of those images for free somewhere else anyway.

For those of you after icons (for programs, etc) look no further than ICONLook (again, pun fully intended).

* edited to prevent Australian spelling shenanigans. Damn US blogs…