Monthly Archives: August 2008

Revision3 Beta, Searching For The Next Internet Superstars

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

Revision3 has teamed up with Viddler for the launch of Revision3 Beta, where they will be searching for the next Internet Superstars. Do you have an online video show that you produce or host? Submit a promo (under 5 minutes long) to Revision3 and who knows, they might even decide to pickup your show and [...]

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Guitar Hero: On Tour Custom Controller

August 28th, 2008 | Posted in Gaming, Technology

Like many others, Eric Ruckman found that the DS controller add-on for Guitar Hero: On Tour left a bit to be desired but, unlike most folks, he didn’t just go back to playing on his console of choice — he actually went all out and pieced together a full-size rig out of a PS2 Guitar [...]

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Arrested: Failed to Return Library Books – Har!

August 27th, 2008 | Posted in Offbeat News

A woman has been arrested for failing to return two books to the Grafton [Wisconsin] Library. Heidi Dalibor was arrested after she failed to return the books, “Angels and Demons” and “White Oleander”, last year. “I said, what could they possibly do? They can’t arrest me for this… I was wrong,” Dalibor said. Dalibor did [...]

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Intel slips new Core 2 Duo “S” processors out the door

August 26th, 2008 | Posted in Technology

Not exactly many surprises here, but it looks like Intel used its big Developer Forum this week to finally, and quietly, get official with its tiny new Core 2 Duo “S” processor, which is the stock version of the processor used in laptops like the MacBook Air and Voodoo Envy 133. The new 45nm processors [...]

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Ganzbot reads Twitter feeds aloud

August 25th, 2008 | Posted in Offbeat News, Technology

We’ve seen methods for hooking house plants up with their own Twitter account, but there’s hardly anything more satisfying that building a robot to read back all those feeds you’re following. Ganzbot is a decidedly low-budget robot that relies on an Arduino Decima to control the head actions and a USB cable to receive up-to-date [...]

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ASUS kicks out four new XP-based Eee PCs for Taiwan

August 24th, 2008 | Posted in Technology

We know it’s been a tough few days since the last Eee PC launch, but ASUS has now thankfully come through with four more ever so slightly different models to feed your questionable appetite, this time for Taiwan. Those include the 1000HD XP, 904HD XP, 901 XP and 900 XP (16G), each of which, obviously, [...]

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