Current news items regarding technology, tech companies, the Internet, the government, etc.
Southwest has unveiled a ‘greener’ Boeing 733-700 airplane that will serve as a test for potentially fleet-wide changes. The plane uses: recyclable carpet, lighter seat covers, lighter life vest pouches and seat foam .
The weight reduction is about 5lbs per seat and about 500lbs total for a savings of 9500 gallons of fuel per year. Well done Southwest.
Wal-Mart is getting in on the in-home tech service business a la Best Buy’s Geek Squad or the dead Circuit City FireDog service. Expect the service to start up in time for this year’s shopping season.
Have you been “Rickrolled” yet?
1980s pop star Rick Astley is now making headlines again after years in obscurity thanks to millions of Web surfers being Rickrolled by pranksters. Webmasters and bloggers are purposely redirecting unsuspecting Internet users to a video of Astley performing his hit “Never Gonna Give You Upâ€.
How does a Rickroll work? It’s basically a bait and switch. Let’s say I make a link that says Sexy Paris Hilton Video and you click on it. Instead of actually seeing Paris Hilton, you’d be directed to a Rick Astley music video. That’s a “Rick Roll”.
Tuesday YouTube decided to get in on the joke. Several links on the YouTube homepage purposely “Rick Rolled” users. Why? Tuesday just happened to be April Fools’ Day. …
Wanna see some photos of the Google Jets that they just parked at Moffett Field up in the Mountain View/Sunnyvale area? A friend of GfG, who is a fantastic photographer, just posted some of his very own pictures up on his blog. The pic you see is just a small sampling. Head over and check out his write-up and the rest of the pics.
Were you computing in the 90s? Then you’ll remember the flying toasters screensaver. If you missed it, then rejoice because it’s back. The folks at Uneasy Silence have released a clone of this most famous of screensavers, for both Windows and OS X users.
By the way, the whole flying toasters thing even got popular enough that you can get a Flying Toaster t-shirt and even a coffee mug! What’s crazier is that there are still copies of After Dark’s original set of screen saver programs for sale (for Win95/98/ME) and at really ridiculous prices too.
via MethodShop.
TopGolf is not a virtual range or anything like that; it just uses golf balls embedded with RFID chips to track your distance and accuracy. You just need to hit it into of the 10 ‘scoring zones’. TopGolf is also a game – you score points based on those factors. If you’re in England, there are already a bunch of TopGolf gamecentres, as they are called. In the US, the only location is currently in Washington, DC. Stay tuned for locations in Dallas and Chicago this year.
Architechtronics, a home technology manufacturer, announces the upgrade of FIDOH, for a quick, easy method of accessing home automation systems made by HAI, Aegis, and OnQ LeGrand. With FIDOH, simply right click the icon in the systems tray and have instant access your automation systems . Double click the icon and view the status of security, temperatures, humidity, etc.
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