Wednesday, February 18, 2009

18-Feb-2009 PM clippings

Enjoy:

Section 92A protestors arrange a public demostration at parliament and distribute an explanatory song to all NZ radio stations:
http://creativefreedom.org.nz/blackout.html#demonstration http://creativefreedom.org.nz/copywrong.html

Microsoft to try to push IE8 onto Vista and XP machines by March, and concerns that it may be optimised for the presentation of adverts:
http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=621

How to write a "Linux" virus. Looks like the desktop icon format used in KDE and GNOME (technically not Linux) is pretty vulnerable:
http://lwn.net/Articles/319072/

3D Printers now used to print out stop-frame animated characters for movies like Coraline. CAD/CAM convenience, old-school feel:
http://www.popphoto.com/popularphotographyfeatures/5720/the-technology-behind-coraline.html

Batteries with their own wrap-around solar panels to keep them trickle-charging on your desk. In daylight, anyway:
http://hackaday.com/2009/02/16/solar-batteries/

Ideas for a gadget that changes functionality depending on the way you hold it:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16617-gadget-reads-users-minds-from-their-grip.html

And finally. Many Sci-fi scenarios have humans battling it out with robots, but few do so with rock-paper-scissors like BERTI does:
http://technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=2148

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