stuff i find on the internet

Friday, December 17, 2004

A Singular Christmas

This season, as a present to friends worldwide, our system listened to as much Christmas music as it could handle. When it was done it synthesized these sixteen new timeless classics.

Please enjoy "A Singular Christmas."


Neat! Don't get me wrong, this doesn't sound good, but it's still neat...

Thursday, December 09, 2004

Samsung to build tallest building




South Korea's Samsung Corporation has won the contract to build the world's tallest building, the Burj Tower in Dubai.

The concrete and steel tower will be part of an $8bn(£4.2bn) 500-acre project in the United Arab Emirates.

Workers have already started to clear the ground for the 800-metre high, 160-floor skyscraper and it should be completed by November 2008.


Construction work on the Burj tower will begin in January, and when completed it will be taller than the world's current highest building, Taiwan's 509-metre TFC 101 building.


So in 2008 mankind will build the first 1/2 mile tall building. Any guesses as to when the first 1 mile tall building be built?

$8 billion is a lot of eggs to be putting in a single basket.

Tuesday, December 07, 2004

The iPod flash?

An iPod with no display? Isn't 99% of the ipods percieved value is in its easy to use UI? Then again, how do i use my current 256mb flash player? I just put one long list of songs on it and listen to it while in the gym. start, stop, forward, backward, volume up and volume down are really all i need. The only thing i use the little back lit screen for is to check my battery life, and for that, all you would really need is an little LED that goes on when the battery gets down to say 20%. So yeah, it could work.

Now if apple wanted to seriously shake things up, they woudl update the ipod software so you could plug your full sized ipod into your ipod flash and copy over songs.

Monday, December 06, 2004

Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer for Bluetooth



The bluetooth mouse i've been waiting for is finally here.