Monthly Archives: February 2008

Hot or Not: Estonia laptop edition

February 29th, 2008 | Posted in Offbeat News, Technology

Get this: an Estonian newspaper has teamed up with HP to find the country’s most unsightly laptop, and while the one pictured above hasn’t been deemed the victor (yet), it definitely looks to have been on the wrong end of a Russian Roulette accident. Apparently, the contestants have already been selected, and users can surf [...]

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Gregory Pike’s Dog, Cat & Rat, Living in Harmony

February 27th, 2008 | Posted in Offbeat News

Gregory Pike has managed the impossible, a dog, cat and rat living in harmony.

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Digg Town Hall

February 27th, 2008 | Posted in Technology

Digg had their first in a series of live Digg Town Hall events on Monday, February 25th at 6pm PST/9pm EST. Tune into the live stream from the Digg HQ hosted by Digg CEO Jay Adelson and Digg founder Kevin Rose.

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New MacBook Pro More Powerful, Has Multitouch Trackpad

February 27th, 2008 | Posted in Technology

More powerful versions of the MacBook Pro have been released today with up to 2.6GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Penryn processors, and the MacBook Air’s trackpad, which allows for multi-touch gestures. The 2.5 and 2.6GHz models come with a new NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT with 512MB of GDDR3 RAM. The MacBook has also been upgraded, [...]

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Wall-E GameCube mod melts our hearts

February 22nd, 2008 | Posted in Art, Offbeat News, Technology

This is the most heartwarming GameCube mod that I have ever seen. The Wall-E GameCube mod was inspired by the character in Disney’s upcoming film (titled Wall-E, of all things), and hours upon hours of TLC were clearly poured into this concoction. We know you’re eager for more angles of those eyes, so hit up [...]

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Nvidia’s GeForce 9600 GT

February 21st, 2008 | Posted in Gaming, Technology

It’s been a long time coming, but it looks like the GPU industry finally figured out the fact that most consumers don’t want to blow a couple grand on an SLI setup, they just want to play Crysis debt-free. The new GeForce 9600 GT from NVIDIA is an answer to those prayers, offering solid performance [...]

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