Month: October 2007

[The people using it aren't the ones buying it](http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/669-why-enterprise-software-sucks). I think this is a little bit true, but often you get the same problem even when people who'll…

[Electric powered roller skates](http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2007/10/24/ishoes-electric-roll.html). Feh, 15mph. Give me rocket skates any day.

[A remote control with a bigger dose of 'weird' than 'usable'](http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/10/the_tv_remote_control.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890). What I *really* want is a remote control like the one Superman has in his fortress of…

*Announcements*: The ALP releases an [OH&S policy](http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/24/2069031.htm). The coalition announces [$218m for defence skills](http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/24/2068720.htm). That was it. 31 days to go. Longest. Month. Ever.

[A camera that shoots 300 frames per second](http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/super-slo_mo/casios-exilim-cam-lets-you-shoot-300-frames-per-second-mythbusters+style-295491.php) Unfortunately it only does it in pretty low resolution, but it could be quite fun. But my real question is…

[Burning one million pounds](http://www.boingboing.net/2007/08/30/klf-burn-a-million-q.html). Yes, it's real. And yes, the K Foundation were very very strange.

[If you refrigerate an onion for 30 minutes you won't end up with stinging eyes when you cut it](http://lifehacker.com/software/macgyver-tip/refrigerate-onions-for-tear+free-chopping-313343.php). Brilliant, but perhaps a little too time consuming.

[The Library of Congress is looking in to how to preserve video games for the future](http://kotaku.com/gaming/feature/the-library-of-congress-loves-video-games-313328.php). Anyone who's tried to run old games on a modern PC knows…

[Benjamin Franklin](http://21stcenturycicero.wordpress.com/fraud/how-benjamin-franklin-made-new-england-prosperous/): >The Colonies would gladly have borne the little tax on tea and other matters had it not been the poverty caused by the bad influence of…

According to the advertising system, Facebook has around 1.5 million members in Australia, or over 7% of the population... (The US has 20m/6%, Canada 7.4m/22%, the UK 6.4m/10%…